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yomismoaquiyesterday at 11:37 AM1 replyview on HN

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"But why aren’t LLM inference engines deterministic? One common hypothesis is that some combination of floating-point non-associativity and concurrent execution leads to nondeterminism based on which concurrent core finishes first."

From https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...


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qeternityyesterday at 6:15 PM

Yes, lots of things can create indeterminism. But nothing is inherent.