Github user mengxr commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/6139#discussion_r30306082
--- Diff: python/pyspark/ml/param/_shared_params_code_gen.py ---
@@ -115,7 +118,7 @@ def get$Name(self):
("outputCol", "output column name", None),
("numFeatures", "number of features", None),
("checkpointInterval", "checkpoint interval (>= 1)", None),
- ("seed", "random seed", None),
+ ("seed", "random seed", "random.randint(0, sys.maxsize)"),
--- End diff --
I agree that setting the default seed to 42 globally is quite funny. But I
think it is nice to have a fixed seed for each component, so it is easy to
reproduce the result. For example, could you send the seed based on the hash
value of the class name?
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