[FLINK-2321] The seed for the SVM classifier is currently static

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.10.0
• Component/s: Library / Machine Learning
• Labels: ML
• Assignee: Theodore Vasiloudis
• Reporter: Theodore Vasiloudis
• Created: 06/Jul/15 13:44
• Updated: 24/Feb/16 13:24
• Resolved: 09/Sep/15 08:23

Description

The seed for the SVM algorithm in FlinkML has a default value of 0, meaning that if it's not set, we always have the same seed when running the algorithm.

What should happen instead is that if the seed is not set, it should be a random number.