From 05fd955067a88662f3e19119d24d31cdaf9d73cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Starbeamrainbowlabs Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:02:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README: note about RANDSEED --- README.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3778391..adb29d3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -170,7 +170,9 @@ ARGS | Optional. Any additional arguments to pass to the python program. > It is strongly advised that all filepaths do **NOT** contain spaces. -**Making predictions:** Set `PATH_CHECKPOINT` to point to a checkpoint file to make predictions with an existing model that you trained earlier instead of training a new one. Data is pulled from the given dataset, same as during training. The first `PREDICT_COUNT` items in the dataset are picked to make a prediction. +**Making predictions:** Set `PATH_CHECKPOINT` to point to a checkpoint file to make predictions with an existing model that you trained earlier instead of training a new one. Data is pulled from the given dataset, same as during training. The first `PREDICT_COUNT` items in the dataset are picked to make a prediction. + +**`RANDSEED`:** The experiment runs in the series in the conference paper (see above!) uses `RANDSEED=QPnwyRZbLJBaTS7pjo4JZcl8vy9yv1D0SCpbS6olD5cmy` > [!NOTE] > The dataset pipeline is naturally non-deterministic with respect to the order in which samples are read. Ensuring the ordering of samples is not mangled is only possible when making predictions, and requires a number of environment variables to be set: