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LLM eval reproducibility issues traced to batching and silent routing

Reproducibility issues in LLM evaluations have been identified, stemming not from sampling parameters like temperature, but from underlying inference engine behavior and provider routing. Specifically, floating-point variations in batch processing and silent routing to different model versions caused inconsistent evaluation scores. The solutions involved dedicating specific serving configurations with pinned batch sizes and eager execution modes, alongside implementing robust logging to track the exact model and provider serving each request. AI

IMPACT Highlights the critical need for robust infrastructure and logging to ensure reliable LLM evaluation, impacting model deployment and quality assurance.

RANK_REASON The item details a technical research finding about LLM evaluation reproducibility. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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LLM eval reproducibility issues traced to batching and silent routing

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 (CA) · Marcus Chen ·

    temperature=0 didn't make our LLM evals reproducible

    <p><strong>TL;DR: We set <code>temperature=0</code> and <code>seed=42</code> and still got different eval scores on the same 800-prompt suite across runs. The cause wasn't the sampler. It was batch-dependent floating point in the inference engine plus silent provider routing. We …