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If you’re using a model from a provider (not one that you’re hosting locally), greedy decoding via temperature = 0 does not guarantee determinism. A temperature of 0 doesn’t result in the same responses every time, in part due to floating-point precision and in part to to lack of batch invariance [1]

[1] https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...

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