In order for a grf forest to produce the same results on different machines, in addition to the sameseed argument, it also needs the same num.threads argument, as pointed out in the online reference
Therefore, in order to ensure consistent results, we provide the following recommendations.
Make sure arguments seed and num.threads are the same across platforms
Round data to 8 significant digits)
Since this sometimes comes up (#1262) it would be good to also state this in the R documentation for the seed argument.
(making results independent of num.threads would be ideal and straight-forward to do - #1263, but unfortunately, it would be a breaking change, changing results for people who expect the old behavior, and so for now it's reasonable to just keep it this way).
In order for a grf forest to produce the same results on different machines, in addition to the same
seedargument, it also needs the samenum.threadsargument, as pointed out in the online referenceSince this sometimes comes up (#1262) it would be good to also state this in the R documentation for the
seedargument.(making results independent of
num.threadswould be ideal and straight-forward to do - #1263, but unfortunately, it would be a breaking change, changing results for people who expect the old behavior, and so for now it's reasonable to just keep it this way).