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		oofbey 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DeepSeek v4 Nobody does it because it’s expensive. If you remove the requirement for perfect reproducibility you open the door to lots of optimizations. Most people prefer faster cheaper results over perfect reproducibility. When the model is intrinsically statistical the value of perfect reproducibility is … limited.

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orbital-decay 11 days ago [–]

Yeah, of course. Making it cheap/compatible with heavy batching is exactly what they did, that's what I mean. ("with minimal performance overhead")

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