Hello,
If I am going to submit my work to a CS conference, and also make my Python code available publicly, is it absolutely necessary that I set seed in my Python code?
I ran an experiment, but I realized that I forgot to set seed. Will my publication be rejected at the conference because the seed is not set?
Thank you....
Setting and stating the seed is vital for reproduction of your research. I would put the seed on your second powerpoint slide and say that this was omitted from your submitted paper.
Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
So if I didn't set the seed in my original experiment, is it highly likely that my paper will be NOT accepted at a CS conference? I can't really re-run my experiment because we are currently out of budget.
Thank you,
You do not have to rerun the experiment. A referee or a researcher or other reader will want to. They cannot do so precisely without the seed which you apparently forgot to set. What is the default seed? 0000? 1234? 3141? Send an email with a corrigendum immediately to the conference organisers stating the randomiser was not seeded, so the run can never be exactly replicated. As it is a conference paper and not a journal paper, they may let you get away with this corrigendum.
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