Results not reproducible with Keras and TensorFlow in Python

Question

I have the problem, that I am not able to reproduce my results with Keras and ThensorFlow.

It seems like recently there has been a workaround published on the Keras

Answer 1

I had exactly the same problem and managed to solve it by closing and restarting the tensorflow session every time I run the model. In your case it should look like this:

#START A NEW TF SESSION
np.random.seed(0)
tf.set_random_seed(0)
sess = tf.Session(graph=tf.get_default_graph())
K.set_session(sess)

embedding_vecor_length = 32
neurons = 91
epochs = 1
model = Sequential()
model.add(Embedding(top_words, embedding_vecor_length, input_length=max_review_length))
model.add(LSTM(neurons))
model.add(Dense(1, activation='sigmoid'))
model.compile(loss='mean_squared_logarithmic_error', optimizer='adam', metrics=['accuracy'])
print(model.summary())
model.fit(X_train, y_train, epochs=epochs, batch_size=64)
# Final evaluation of the model
scores = model.evaluate(X_test, y_test, verbose=0)
print("Accuracy: %.2f%%" % (scores[1]*100))

#CLOSE TF SESSION
K.clear_session()

I ran the following code and had reproducible results using GPU and tensorflow backend:

print datetime.now()
for i in range(10):
    np.random.seed(0)
    tf.set_random_seed(0)
    sess = tf.Session(graph=tf.get_default_graph())
    K.set_session(sess)

    n_classes = 3
    n_epochs = 20
    batch_size = 128

    task = Input(shape = x.shape[1:])
    h = Dense(100, activation='relu', name='shared')(task)
    h1= Dense(100, activation='relu', name='single1')(h)
    output1 = Dense(n_classes, activation='softmax')(h1)

    model = Model(task, output1)
    model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer='Adam')
    model.fit(x_train, y_train_onehot, batch_size = batch_size, epochs=n_epochs, verbose=0)
print(model.evaluate(x=x_test, y=y_test_onehot, batch_size=batch_size, verbose=0))
K.clear_session()

And obtained this output:

2017-10-23 11:27:14.494482
0.489712882132
0.489712893813
0.489712892765
0.489712854426
0.489712882132
0.489712864011
0.486303713004
0.489712903398
0.489712892765
0.489712903398

What I understood is that if you don't close your tf session (you are doing it by running in a new kernel) you keep sampling the same "seeded" distribution.