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A comment on Biological Function Emerges from Unsupervised Learning on 250M Protein Sequences. Parent comment

Re:Biological Function Emerges from Unsupervised Learning on... by vanattab on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @04:52PM (#19791835)
Is it not possible to use the same seed and random number generator to reproduce the results accurately?
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Re:Biological Function Emerges from Unsupervised Learning on... by visarga on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @04:44AM (#19795488)
You got to be careful. RNG is being used to initialise the layers but also for mini-batch selection. They are usually different RNG's.
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