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geysersamlast Tuesday at 8:29 PM1 replyview on HN

The LLMs are deterministic but they only return a probability distribution over following tokens. The tokens the user sees in the response are selected by some typically stochastic sampling procedure.


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danielmarkbrucelast Tuesday at 10:28 PM

Assuming decent data, it won't be stochastic sampling for many math operations/input combinations. When people suggest LLMs with tokenization could learn math, they aren't suggesting a small undertrained model trained on crappy data.

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