Reproducibility issue in Guided Topic Modeling

[henrique-back]

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Desribe the bug

Hi,
I'm running a topic model and passing a seed_topic_list. This helps me generate more meaningful topics, but I cannot reproduce the model.
UMAP's random_state is fixed. This doesn't happen when seed_topic_list is not passed, so I assume it's related to this parameter.
I wonder why this happens and if it's intrinsic to the method. I couldn't find related info, so I'd appreciate some insight into this.
Best,

BERTopic Version

0.16.4

[MaartenGr]

Hmmm, that's interesting since I cannot seem to find how adding seed_topic_list would result in randomness... Could you share a reproducible example for me to test out?