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Random State

The random_state argument in scikit-learn algorithms makes results reproducible by controlling the shuffling of data before splitting or training models. Without random_state, results will be different each time due to random shuffling. Specifying random_state sets the seed for the pseudo-random number generator, ensuring splits or algorithms will be the same across multiple runs. It is preferred for unsupervised algorithms like k-means clustering and tree-based methods like decision trees and random forests.

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Random State

The random_state argument in scikit-learn algorithms makes results reproducible by controlling the shuffling of data before splitting or training models. Without random_state, results will be different each time due to random shuffling. Specifying random_state sets the seed for the pseudo-random number generator, ensuring splits or algorithms will be the same across multiple runs. It is preferred for unsupervised algorithms like k-means clustering and tree-based methods like decision trees and random forests.

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Random State

In Sklearn’s Train Test Split or any other Algorithm, you will find an argument called ‘random_state’.

Its function is to make the results reproducible.

Sklearn’s train_test_split splits arrays or matrices into random train and test subsets. When you run

the algorithm without specifying a random_state, you will get a different result every time, this is an

expected behaviour. Random State controls the shuffling applied to the data before applying the split

In unsupervised algorithms like KMeans, or Tree Based/Ensemble methods like DT/RF, using

random_state is preferred to get reproducible results. All these algorithms will give different results

on every run without random_state.

Train Test Split Example:

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BF8ML1XK6GX_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.33, random_state=42)

KMeans Random State Example:

kmeans = KMeans(n_clusters=2, random_state=0)


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Decision Tree and Random Forest Example:

clf = tree.DecisionTreeClassifier(random_state=0)

clf = RandomForestClassifier(random_state=0)

Similarly, you can check every algorithm’s documentation here to see where to enter random_state.

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