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What does this implement/fix? Explain your changes.

As far as I understand it, the fact that fit is idempotent means that repeated calls to fit with the same data doesn't change the estimator.

The contributing guide was a bit unclear about this.

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Also, it would make more sense to me if those 2 facts were in the Fitting section rather than were they currently are:

  • fit doesn't care about previous calls
  • fit is idempotent

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amueller commented Oct 5, 2018

unless random_state=None in which case it will use the global random state and therefore have side-effects, or random_state=ARandomStateObject in which case this object will be consumed. But random_state=seed will mean the results are identical.

Btw, it would be great if you could add tests to the common tests that explicitly test for this, as it has come up twice at least.

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amueller commented Oct 5, 2018

Even stronger, est.fit(Anything).fit(X) needs to be equivalent to est.fit(X)

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amueller commented Oct 5, 2018

btw the mutation of the random state stuff should go into the glossary and probably also into the dev guide. It's pretty subtle and I don't think it's written down somewhere.

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NicolasHug commented Oct 5, 2018 •
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Even stronger, est.fit(Anything).fit(X) needs to be equivalent to est.fit(X)

Yes this actually covers all cases and I think this is what was intended initially.

After all it's not as much about idempotence than it is about some kind of 'statelessness'. I'll update the doc and submit tests in another PR.

mutation of the random state stuff should go into the glossary

You mean updating this? It's pretty clearn IMHO, and it mentions the fact that fit may have different results when not set to an int

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amueller commented Oct 5, 2018

Oh this looks actually great. I guess I didn't realize all of the detail @jnothman put into the glossary ;) You should link to it, though.

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amueller commented Oct 5, 2018

See #12267 and #10978 for examples of failing tests

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Here is a complement to document the exception when warm_start=True. Other than that, LGTM.

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jnothman commented Oct 8, 2018

Thanks, @NicolasHug!

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The contributing guide was a bit unclear about this.

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#### What does this implement/fix? Explain your changes.

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The contributing guide was a bit unclear about this.

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As far as I understand it, the fact that `fit` is idempotent means that repeated calls to `fit` with the same data doesn't change the estimator.

The contributing guide was a bit unclear about this.

#### Any other comments?


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The contributing guide was a bit unclear about this.

#### Any other comments?


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