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Re:GPT-5 by holoduke on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:07PM (#44830380)
They are deterministic. Random seeding makes them not. But thats a feature.
Re:GPT-5 by localhost on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:32PM (#44830647)
even with t=0 they are stochastic. e.g., non associative nature of floating point operations
Re:GPT-5 by int_19h on Thursday August 07, 2025 @07:32PM (#44831687)
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.
Re:GPT-5 by xienze on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:20PM (#44830504)
Doesn’t changing even one word in your prompt affect the output?
Re:GPT-5 by balder1991 on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:34AM (#44833442)
Yes, and completely unpredictably.