what's differnence of "restart" and "rerun" when using neutural network to predic

sharonxi1205

I have encounter a problem, i am using "Nuetural Network" to do prediction and trying different combination of activation function. I have set the randomseed=7. so that every restart of the model generate the same result as following.

 

 

 

But if it is not restart but rerun in the same window using "rerun" not "restart", then the result is different every time. so i wonder what cause the random result.?

 

 

 

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Phil_Kay

Okay, so just to clarify this is an example with Big Class:

Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp" );
Neural(
	Y( :weight ),
	X( :age, :sex, :height ),
	Informative Missing( 0 ),
	Validation Method( "Holdback", 0.3333 ),
	Set Random Seed( 7 ),
	Fit( NTanH( 3 ) ),
	Fit( NTanH( 3 ) )
);

This is what you get if you repeat "Go" from the neural net model launch dialog. We have set a random seed of 7 but the two models are different. If we "redo" this analysis we get exactly the same result for the two models.

Yes, I can see that you would not expect that.

With neural nets there is a random nature to the fitting. Setting the random seed ensures that this random behaviour can be reproduced. However, there is still a randomisation between instances of the model launch. You can see that this randomisation is also reproduced by setting the random seed.

Is this is a problem. Do you need repeat instances of the model fit in the same dialog to be exactly the same. I can't imagine why that would be helpful?

Regards,

Phil