alt Hacker NewsThere is a parameter in LLMs called temperature that controls creativity/randomness. If you set it to 0 it makes the model deterministic. I think some LLMs expose this as a tunable parameter.
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jihadjihad • today at 5:19 PM
> If you set it to 0 it makes the model deterministic.
No, it doesn't. It can help make the model more deterministic, but it does not guarantee it.
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The study used a temperature of 0.01.
> "Thirteen food photographs were each submitted 495–561 times to four LLM vision APIs (GPT-5.4, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview) using an identical structured prompt adapted from the iAPS automated insulin delivery system (26,904 total queries, temperature 0.01)"