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Added a '-seed' option to sample.lua to allow for an identical rerun.…
turbotas Mar 2, 2018
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documented -seed flag
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Expand Up @@ -57,3 +57,4 @@ The sampling script `sample.lua` accepts the following command-line flags:
- `-gpu`: The ID of the GPU to use (zero-indexed). Default is 0. Set this to -1 to run in CPU-only mode.
- `-gpu_backend`: The GPU backend to use; either `cuda` or `opencl`. Default is `cuda`.
- `-verbose`: By default just the sampled text is printed to the console. Set this to 1 to also print some diagnostic information.
- `-seed`: Default is 0. Set this to a non-zero value to seed the torch RNG with a specific value. Omit flag or set as zero to randomly seed the RNG(!). Seeding the RNG allows for reproductible output over multiple runs of sample.lua given the same parameters and checkpoint. Honours the -verbose flag.
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Expand Up @@ -13,12 +13,23 @@ cmd:option('-temperature', 1)
cmd:option('-gpu', 0)
cmd:option('-gpu_backend', 'cuda')
cmd:option('-verbose', 0)
cmd:option('-seed', 0)
local opt = cmd:parse(arg)


local checkpoint = torch.load(opt.checkpoint)
local model = checkpoint.model

if opt.seed == 0 then
opt.seed = torch.random()
end
torch.manualSeed(opt.seed)
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Might be simpler to force a manual seed only if -seed argument is set:

if <flag set>:
  torch.manualSeed(...)
end

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I agree that this code looks odd. The reason I did this is to make sure that if you see some output that you would like to see again, and if you had the verbose flag set to report the seed, you can re-run by then including the seed - even if you didn't originally set the seed flag. So the code always sets a seed - using your provided value if you set one and a random number if you didn't (or specified zero!). I thought this was clever ;-)

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Ah okay that makes sense.


local msg
msg = string.format('Random number seed: %d', opt.seed)
if opt.verbose == 1 then print(msg) end


local msg
if opt.gpu >= 0 and opt.gpu_backend == 'cuda' then
require 'cutorch'
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