I believe the conclusion of that thread was that using KenLM makes Moses
deterministic. 

On 10/26/11 11:34, Germán Sanchis Trilles wrote:
> Hi Hieu,
>
> thanks for your answer. I guess that, in case the search is not
> completely deterministic, I will be better off by modifying the -osgx
> option so that it will output all the info I need. I was trying to
> avoid that, but it seems there will be no other option.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Germán
>
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Hieu Hoang wrote:
>
>> hi german
>>
>> I don't think decoding is guaranteed to give the same results in 2
>> consecutive runs,
>> for the same model and input. This email thread was discussing this
>> issue
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.nlp.moses.user/4327/focus=4341
>> However, I'm not sure how much different 2 runs can be.
>>
>> You might wanna talk to Christian Buck who I think is trying to bash
>> the search graph
>> output into something more useful
>>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.nlp.moses.user/4374/
>>
>> On 24/10/2011 23:05, Germán Sanchis Trilles wrote:
>>       Hello list,
>>
>>       I was trying to output a search graph with both the single
>> model scores and
>>       the transition value. While the single model scores are
>> produced by the
>>       option -osgx, the transition value is only present when using
>> the option
>>       -osgx. Since I am not doing this myself, I thought that the
>> best choice
>>       would be to output both files by rerunning Moses (since they
>> seem to be
>>       exclusive) and then merge both into a single file. However, I
>> found a
>>       problem when doing so, which is that both files do not have the
>> same number
>>       of lines (and hence I assume that the original search-graphs
>> did not have
>>       the same amount of edges. So I would have two questions, I guess:
>>
>>       - Why is there information produced by -osg that is not present
>> when
>>       specifying -osgx?
>>       - Why are -osg and -osgx exclusive? Is this really the desired
>> behaviour?
>>       - Finally, if the same moses.ini is specified with the same
>> models, why are
>>       the search graphs not identical? Are there random
>> initialisations (or
>>       something similar) that account for this behaviour?
>>
>>       the command lines used when observing these results were pretty
>> simple,
>>       i.e. moses -f <moses.ini> -i <file> [-osg|-osgx]
>>
>>       Thanks in advance for your answer,
>>
>>       best regards,
>>
>>       Germán Sanchis-Trilles
>>
>>
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