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efficaxtoday at 2:33 PM1 replyview on HN

well sure, but i mean realistically speaking, we cannot step debug an llm's output to find out what happened given the way we currently execute inference


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embedding-shapetoday at 4:42 PM

Depends on who "we" are, what you're talking about is a thing for inference providers doing batched inference and similar stuff. If you run one inference requests locally, you can actually step-by-step debug LLM output, just there is a ton of steps. But there is nothing "inherently random" or non-deterministic involved here, just optimization strategies for the large inference servers that makes it "impossible".