apeforest commented on a change in pull request #13276: enabling test_dropout
after fixing flaky issue
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/13276#discussion_r233957855
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File path: src/operator/nn/dropout-inl.h
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@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ class DropoutOp {
static void BernoulliGenerate(common::random::RandGenerator<cpu, DType> gen,
int n, double p, int* r) {
typename RandGenerator<xpu, DType>::Impl genImpl(&gen, 1);
- const int seed = 17 + genImpl.rand() % 4096; //
NOLINT(runtime/threadsafe_fn)
+ const int seed = 17 + abs(genImpl.rand() % 4096);
const int nthr = engine::OpenMP::Get()->GetRecommendedOMPThreadCount();
#pragma omp parallel num_threads(nthr)
Review comment:
Can you give more hint on why adding an abs function fixed the flakiness of
the test?
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