On Nov 1, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Sean Owen wrote: > RandomUtils.setTestSeed() (or something like that) makes all the RNGs > deterministic -- well if they are using RandomUtils.
I see it in use in at least one place. > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: >> I'm working on https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-857. Each time >> I run it, I get different answers for SGD for the confusion matrix, which is >> presumably due to the randomness built in. However, is there a way to set >> the seed so one can reproduce results for actually testing the code? >> >> Thanks, >> Grant