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alightsoulyesterday at 9:14 AM1 replyview on HN

Do AI labs even keep track of seeds? They don't even keep the checkpoints most of the time.


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eruyesterday at 11:15 PM

It's moot in practice, because there's additional sources of randomness from executing in parallel.

Though in principle saving random seeds is a lot less hassle than keeping entire checkpoints around: your random seeds would fit on a floppy disk or even a tweet. The checkpoint is basically as big as the model.