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> The core technology of an LLM is sampling from a distribution so there is literally no way to make it deterministically robust (only probabilistically).

An LLM mostly deterministically (except parallel processing nondeterminism that can be mitigated) produces a probability distribution that can be sampled deterministically: just take the highest probability token or use beam search.

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I think people on here tend to somewhat fixate on the determinism issue. Even with a deterministic LLM - stabilising the floating point arithmetic, and choosing from the distribution by a fixed method, or just save the random seeds - there is still a kind of a chaotic unpredictability that can exist between its inputs and outputs. However maybe that is a price that needs to be paid to get creativity.

Deterministic yes, robust deterministic no. The most likely conjunction is not always the best nor representative of what the model is considering unless its certainty is high.

I think determinism has nothing to do with it. If you mean sensitivity to word ordering and such, it's a generalization failure.

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