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* Perhaps `enable_deterministic_execution` should take no arguments, and instead a `disable_deterministic_execution` function should be added. Should be consistent with other functions which we can also change, such as `enable_tensor_float_32_execution`.
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* Sessions are nondeterminism and making them determinism requires having the executor run ops in a consistent order. It is probably not worth making sessions deterministic.
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* If performant, we could potentially have determinism be enabled by default, but not raising an error for nondeterministic ops.
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## Apendix
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### Existing environmental variables
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There are currently two environment variables in TensorFlow to enable deterministic op functionality.
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The first environment variable is `TF_CUDNN_DETERMINISTIC`. When set to `'true'` or `'1'`, this,
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* makes the selection of cuDNN convolution algorithms deterministic,
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* selects deterministic gradient algorithms for `tf.nn.conv*d` and `tf.keras.layers.Conv*D`,
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* selects deterministic gradient algorithms for `tf.nn.max_pool*d` and `tf.keras.layers.MaxPool*D`, and
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* selects a deterministic gradient algorithm for `tf.nn.ctc_loss`.
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The second environment variable is `TF_DETERMINISTIC_OPS`. This supercedes and replaces `TF_CUDNN_DETERMINISTIC` by first implementing the same functionality, but then it also (when set to `'true'` or `'1'`),
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* selects deterministic gradient kernels for `tf.nn.bias_add` and the many Keras layers that apply a bias,
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* selects a deterministic algorithm for XLA reductions on GPU, and
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* selects a deterministic gradient algorithm for `tf.image.resize` with `method=ResizeMethod.BILINEAR` and `tf.keras.layers.UpSampling2D` with `interpolation='bilinear'`
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Calling `tf.config.enable_deterministic_execution(True)` will be equivalent to setting `TF_DETERMINISTIC_OPS` to `'true'` or `'1'` plus the additional functionality described in this RFC.
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The two environment variables will be first deprecated and then removed.

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