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sweezyjeezytoday at 1:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

You could make an LLM deterministic if you really wanted to without a big loss in performance (fix random seeds, make MoE batching deterministic). That would not fix hallucinations.

I don't think using deterministic / stochastic as a diagnostic is accurate here - I think that what we're really talking is about some sort of fundamental 'instability' of LLMs a la chaos theory.


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rs186today at 1:43 PM

We talk about "probability" here because the topic is hallucination, not getting different answers each time you ask the same question. Maybe you could make the output deterministic but does not help with the hallucination problem at all.

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ajuctoday at 1:48 PM

Yeah deterministic LLMs just hallucinate the same way every time.