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by Izkata 3009 days ago
> As a layman in these matters I still don't fully understand how some people classify machine learning algorithms as non-deterministic...

Some algorithms start with random numbers for the model and converge towards a better model. After the model is generated the input->output will be deterministic, but since the model generation is non-deterministic the algorithm overall is considered non-deterministic.