Analysis examines why LLMs tend to pick 7 when asked for a number between 1 and 10

A viral tweet claimed LLMs pick 7 due to gradient descent, but a new analysis argues the math behind the bias is more nuanced than that explanation suggests.

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2026-10-30 15:30 · Towards Data Science
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