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Comment by ResearchAtPlay

Ehm, no! The same prompt does not always lead to the same output.

Have you ever tried to achieve consistently deterministic output from an LLM? I have, and it's not easy.

That means output differs between machines and architectures. Running inference on CPU vs GPU also affects output. Even running the same prompt twice in a row on the same machine can lead to different outputs because a prompt that was partially stored in the kv cache will result in different output than an uncached prompt.

LLM output is very much not deterministic!

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