Which standard deviation for model averaging?

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Say I have a machine learning model and for robustness of results, I initialize it with three different random seeds, train each initialization to convergence and report the average performance of those three initializations. Now my question: for calculating the standard deviation of the model performances, do I use the population std or the sample std?

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