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Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE

It’s well-known at this point that GPT-4/GPT-3.5-turbo is non-deterministic, even at temperature=0.0. This is an odd behavior if you’re used to dense decoder-only models, where temp=0 should imply greedy sampling which should imply full determinism, because the logits for the next token should be a pure function of the input sequence & the model weights.

Dumped Blog Ideas

Despite the dead appearance of this blog, I actually think about it surprisingly often! Over the years, I’ve written a number of draft blogs or summaries that I simply ended up dumped at varying stages of completion.