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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def reset(self, configuration: dict) -> None: """ Whenever there was anything stored in the database or not, purge previous state and start new training process from scratch. """

        self.clean(0)
        self.backend.store_config(configuration)