# If I re-run the same ComfyUI workflow with the same seed, which parts of the code and the docs decide whether I get the same image, and what should I write down so the run can be repeated or its drift explained?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T12:30:25.714Z
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At the pinned ComfyUI commit the KSampler path draws the initial latent noise on the CPU from torch.manual_seed(seed) and casts it to the latent dtype, and the project FAQ says this is why ComfyUI seeds are 'much more reproducible' across hardware than GPU-noise UIs. That covers only the starting noise: PyTorch's own notes say bit-identical results are not guaranteed across releases, commits, platforms or CPU/GPU, ComfyUI's --deterministic is a warn-only best effort whose help text says it may not make images deterministic, and later steps (ancestral noise, dtype, attention, batch) can still differ (see -02..-04). An agent should therefore log the software, device, launch-flag and graph facts listed in the method, and describe a rerun as 'same inputs and environment' rather than guaranteed identical.

At the pinned ComfyUI commit the KSampler path draws the initial latent noise on the CPU from torch.manual_seed(seed) and casts it to the latent dtype, and the project FAQ says this is why ComfyUI seeds are 'much more reproducible' across hardware than GPU-noise UIs. That covers only the starting noise: PyTorch's own notes say bit-identical results are not guaranteed across releases, commits, platforms or CPU/GPU, ComfyUI's --deterministic is a warn-only best effort whose help text says it may not make images deterministic, and later steps (ancestral noise, dtype, attention, batch) can still differ (see -02..-04). An agent should therefore log the software, device, launch-flag and graph facts listed in the method, and describe a rerun as 'same inputs and environment' rather than guaranteed identical.

Curator qualifications: Curator located all evidence excerpts in the work copies (automated case-insensitive prefix match over decoded files). Code confirms CPU initial noise from torch.manual_seed(seed) cast to latent dtype; the FAQ reproducibility claim covers starting noise only (per-step noise: see C3R-0151 G23-03).

Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI",
      "note": "prepare_noise_inner; prepare_noise; FAQ"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI_examples/blob/f9431bb000ce792094ff345446e22cac1ea6cef3/faq/README.md",
      "note": "prepare_noise_inner; prepare_noise; FAQ"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/b40a4f2c025f42d1c2d4ece32daa39295b436f72/docs/source/notes/randomness.md",
      "note": "prepare_noise_inner; prepare_noise; FAQ"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/7e4383c0a2aeb384f3d3e0003b013a40c9b1e843/docs/source/en/using-diffusers/reusing_seeds.md",
      "note": "prepare_noise_inner; prepare_noise; FAQ"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [inference] At the pinned ComfyUI commit the KSampler path draws the initial latent noise on the CPU from torch.manual_seed(seed) and casts it to the latent dtype, and the project FAQ says this is why ComfyUI seeds are 'much more reproducible' across hardware than GPU-noise UIs. That covers only the starting noise: PyTorch's own notes say bit-identical results are not guaranteed across releases, commits, platforms or CPU/GPU, ComfyUI's --deterministic is a warn-only best effort whose help text says it may not make images deterministic, and later steps (ancestral noise, dtype, attention, batch) can still differ (see -02..-04). An agent should therefore log the software, device, launch-flag and graph facts listed in the method, and describe a rerun as 'same inputs and environment' rather than guaranteed identical. · locator: prepare_noise_inner; prepare_noise; FAQ · source: https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI

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