Re:GPT-5
by holoduke on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:07PM
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They are deterministic. Random seeding makes them not. But thats a feature.
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even with t=0 they are stochastic. e.g., non associative nature of floating point operations
That is an artifact of implementation. You can absolutely implement it using strict FP. But even if not, any given implementation will still do things in a specific order which can be documented. And then if you're running quantized (including KV cache), there's a lot less floating point involved.
Doesn’t changing even one word in your prompt affect the output?
Re:GPT-5
by balder1991 on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:34AM
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Yes, and completely unpredictably.