Re:The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization
by mgraczyk on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @03:14PM
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This is only ideally true. From the perspective of the user of a large closed LLM, this isn't quite right because of non-associativity, experiments, unversioned changes, etc.
It's best to assume that the relationship between input and output of an LLM is not deterministic, similar to something like using a Google search API.
Re:The Bitter Lesson is coming for Tokenization
by rar00 on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @08:36AM
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yep, even with greedy sampling and fixed system state, numerical instability is sufficient to make output sequences diverge when processing the same exact input
It's best to assume that the relationship between input and output of an LLM is not deterministic, similar to something like using a Google search API.