logoalt Hacker News

mrobyesterday at 3:29 PM1 replyview on HN

>Floating point matrix calculations are non-deterministic.

This is not inherent to floating-point math. That actual (true) claim in the article is that different hardware and different hardware configurations produce different results. But deterministic inference is possible, e.g. llama.cpp on CPU is deterministic by default.


Replies

shaknayesterday at 8:50 PM

Right... That's why I added "matrix" in there. Because we don't have matrix operations in software, but in hardware.