AI engineering glossary · Prompt context engineering
What is seed parameter?
Seed parameter: An option in some APIs to fix the random number seed used in sampling, so repeated identical requests give the same or very similar output. It helps debugging and testing but does not guarantee identical results across model updates.
Seed parameter: an example
Run the same prompt twice with seed=42 and compare outputs when investigating a regression.
Related terms
More Prompt context engineering terms
- Self-ask
- Self-consistency
- Self-refine
- Skeleton-of-Thought
- Sliding window history
- Stateless API
- Step-back prompting
- Stop sequence
Where you learn it
Seed parameter is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.