Plans for support of a random number generation API?

[adonath]

Many of the the libraries such as numpy, torch, jax etc. have support for random number generation. Typically in their own namespace, or exposed via a Generator API. Are there any plans to extend the API standard for random number generation using arrays? I am aware this poses a lot of challenges in terms of reproducibility across multiple implementations, but maybe this has been discussed in the past already and has been discarded for not being in scope?

[honno]

See #431 for some interesting convo on the subject. We concluded with

Given lack of ecosystem agreement, we are not likely to forge a path forward for standardizing a PRNG API in the array API specification at this time. [...] We can reopen/revisit if and when we have greater community consensus.

I'll close this issue, but please do feel free to continue the conversation on #431.

[rgommers]

I'd add that we will probably try to build an implementation soon for SciPy's usage (since we need it in quite a few places) that exposes a uniform API and works with NumPy, PyTorch, CuPy and JAX at least.

[adonath]

Great thanks, @rgommers and @honno!

[NeilGirdhar]

Is there any update on random number generation available somewhere?