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exe34yesterday at 12:18 PM2 repliesview on HN

What does deterministic mean to you?


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layer8yesterday at 12:54 PM

In this context, it means being able to deterministically predict properties of the output based on properties of the input. That is, you don’t treat each distinct input as a unicorn, but instead consider properties of the input, and you want to know useful properties of the output. With LLMs, you can only do that statistically at best, but not deterministically, in the sense of being able to know that whenever the input has property A then the output will always have property B.

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tsimionescuyesterday at 2:38 PM

I think they mean having some useful predicates P, Q such that for any input i and for any output o that the LLM can generate from that input, P(i) => Q(o).

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