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Large ML models tend to be uncorrectably non-deterministic simply from doing lots of floating point math in parallel. Addition and multiplication of floats is neither commutative nor associative - you may get different results depending on the order in which you add/multiply numbers.


Addition and multiplication of floats are commutative.




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