SemiAnalysis(@SemiAnalysis_):Floating point math is not associative! And many of the highest performance kernels split the workload among SMs and accumulate partial results in a nondeterministic order. Many AI labs just accept this, or pay a huge performance penalty for determinism. DeepSeek decided to do neither. (1/4) 🧵

2026.05.07 21:00

Floating point math is not associative! And many of the highest performance kernels split the workload among SMs and accumulate partial results in a nondeterministic order. Many AI labs just accept this, or pay a huge performance penalty for determinism. DeepSeek decided to do neither. (1/4) 🧵

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