Seed of Random Number Generators

[dellannadavide]

Hi, first of all, thank you for the excellent work you do.

When experimenting for scientific research purposes, it is good practice to specify seeds for random number generators. This allows to support exact results replicability. I could not find the option to specify the seed of the random generators in the current library, for example when initializing the population.

I was wondering if I am missing something or if this is a potential enhancement of the current library.

Thank you.

[PierD86]

I am here for the same reason, Thank you

[ekerazha]

@ahmedfgad Is there a way to set a seed/random_state ?

[keechang-choi]

I found that we can fix the global random seed by setting two random seeds, numpy and python. (pygad codes use both of the random functions)

import numpy as np
import random

np.random.seed(x)
random.seed(x)

[ahmedfgad]

@ekerazha @dellannadavide @keechang-choi @PierD86

This is supported in PyGAD 2.18.0. Thanks for your suggestions.