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[tune] Add documentation for reproducible runs (setting seeds) #18849

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Why are these changes needed?

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Closes #13616

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these seeds can be then set with ``np.random.seed()``. We don't offer an
interface to do this in the searcher classes as setting a random seed
globally could have side effects. For instance, it could influence the
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We actually do that in HEBO, Dragonfly

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In HEBO this is well documented, in Dragonfly I can't find it?

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It's just been added in a recent PR

config={
"seed": tune.randint(0, 1000)
},
search_alg=tune.suggest.BasicVariantGenerator(),
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This is not for this PR, but we should add a way to set local seed for BasicVariantGenerator

@krfricke krfricke merged commit 9b0d804 into ray-project:master Sep 24, 2021
@krfricke krfricke deleted the docs/tune-seed branch September 24, 2021 09:57
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[tune] Why does some search algos have random seed argument while others algo/schedulers does not?
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