Researchers have found that even seemingly random events, like the roll of a die, are governed by fundamental laws of physics. Their work provides further evidence for a long-held belief that the universe is fundamentally deterministic, even if it appears chaotic.
In essence, the study reinforces that the Boltzmann distribution isn't just *a* way to model randomness, it's *the* way to model truly independent random systems.
In essence, the study reinforces that the Boltzmann distribution isn't just *a* way to model randomness, it's *the* way to model truly independent random systems.
This blog post explains the causes of nondeterminism in LLM inference, arguing that it's not simply due to floating-point non-associativity and concurrency, but rather a lack of batch invariance in kernels. It details how to achieve batch invariance in RMSNorm, matrix multiplication, and attention, and presents experimental results demonstrating deterministic completions and the benefits for on-policy RL.
