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How does an LLM perform addition?


How does an LLM perform addition?


  👤 neximo64 Accepted Answer ✓
It doesn’t it comes up with probabilistic options almost in a Bayesian sense, and the highest probability one is chosen. This is why its not great at it since its restricted to discrete outputs.

👤 nothrowaways
Or subtraction?