Nrthugu

I am kind of confused here about using random_state and shuffle together. I want to split the data without shuffling it. It seems to me that when I set shuffle to False it doesn't matter what is the number I choose for random_state, I have the same output (the splits are the same for random_state 42 or 2, 7, 17, etc). Why?

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.25,random_state=42,shuffle=False )

But if shuffle is True, I have different outputs (splits) for different random_states which makes sense.

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.25,random_state=42)

If you set shuffle to False, train_test_split just reads in your data in its original order. Therefore the parameter random_state is completely ignored.

Example:

X = [k for k in range(0, 50)] # create array with numbers ranging from 0 to 49

y = X # just for testing

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.25, random_state=42, shuffle=False)



print(X_train) // prints [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36]

As soon as you set shuffle to True, random_state is used as seed for the random number generator. As a result, your data set gets randomly split into train and test set.

Example with random_state=42:

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.25, random_state=42, shuffle=True)



print(X_train) // prints [8, 3, 6, 41, 46, 47, 15, 9, 16, 24, 34, 31, 0, 44, 27, 33, 5, 29, 11, 36, 1, 21, 2, 43, 35, 23, 40, 10, 22, 18, 49, 20, 7, 42, 14, 28, 38]

Example with random_state=44:

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.25, random_state=44, shuffle=True)



print(X_train) // prints [13, 11, 2, 12, 34, 41, 30, 16, 39, 28, 24, 8, 18, 9, 4, 10, 0, 19, 21, 29, 14, 1, 48, 38, 7, 43, 25, 22, 23, 42, 46, 49, 32, 3, 45, 35, 20]