random_state parameter in classification models
问题 Can someone explain why does the random_state parameter affects the model so much? I have a RandomForestClassifier model and want to set the random_state (for reproducibility pourpouses), but depending on the value I use I get very different values on my overall evaluation metric (F1 score) For example, I tried to fit the same model with 100 different random_state values and after the training ad testing the smallest F1 was 0.64516129 and the largest 0.808823529). That is a huge difference.