diff --git a/acto/post_process/post_diff_test.py b/acto/post_process/post_diff_test.py
index eef5e43530..4ad6c1aa61 100644
--- a/acto/post_process/post_diff_test.py
+++ b/acto/post_process/post_diff_test.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import argparse
+import difflib
 import glob
 import hashlib
 import json
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@
 import threading
 import time
 from copy import deepcopy
-from typing import Dict, List, Optional
+from typing import Optional
 
 import pandas as pd
 import pydantic
@@ -33,22 +34,21 @@
 from acto.serialization import ActoEncoder
 from acto.snapshot import Snapshot
 from acto.trial import Step
-from acto.utils import add_acto_label, get_thread_logger
-from acto.utils.error_handler import handle_excepthook, thread_excepthook
+from acto.utils import add_acto_label, error_handler, get_thread_logger
 
 
 class DiffTestResult(pydantic.BaseModel):
     """The result of a diff test
     It contains the input digest, the snapshot, the original trial and generation,
         and the time spent on each step
-        The oracle result is separated from this dataclass, so that it can easily recomputed
-        after changing the oracle
+        The oracle result is separated from this dataclass,
+        so that it can easily recomputed after changing the oracle
     """
 
     input_digest: str
     snapshot: Snapshot
-    originals: list[Dict]
-    time: Dict
+    originals: list[dict]
+    time: dict
 
     @classmethod
     def from_file(cls, file_path: str) -> "DiffTestResult":
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ class AdditionalRunner:
 
     def __init__(
         self,
-        context: Dict,
+        context: dict,
         deploy: Deploy,
         workdir: str,
         cluster: base.KubernetesEngine,
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ class DeployRunner:
     def __init__(
         self,
         workqueue: multiprocessing.Queue,
-        context: Dict,
+        context: dict,
         deploy: Deploy,
         workdir: str,
         cluster: base.KubernetesEngine,
@@ -517,6 +517,81 @@ def run(self):
             generation += 1
 
 
+def compute_common_regex(paths: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+    """Compute the common regex from the list of paths"""
+    common_regex: set[str] = set()
+    sorted_paths = sorted(paths)
+    curr_regex = None
+    for i in range(len(sorted_paths)):
+        if curr_regex is None or not re.match(curr_regex, sorted_paths[i]):
+            # if we do not have enough items to look ahead, then we give up
+            if i + 2 >= len(sorted_paths):
+                common_regex.add("^" + re.escape(sorted_paths[i]) + "$")
+                continue
+
+            path = sorted_paths[i]
+            next_path = sorted_paths[i + 1]
+            next_next_path = sorted_paths[i + 2]
+
+            # if the resource type is different, then we give up to avoid
+            # a wildcard regex
+            if (
+                path.startswith("root")
+                and next_path.startswith("root")
+                and next_next_path.startswith("root")
+            ):
+                resource_type = re.findall(r"root\['(.*?)'\]", path)[0]
+                next_resource_type = re.findall(r"root\['(.*?)'\]", next_path)[
+                    0
+                ]
+                next_next_resource_type = re.findall(
+                    r"root\['(.*?)'\]", next_next_path
+                )[0]
+                if (
+                    resource_type != next_resource_type
+                    or next_resource_type != next_next_resource_type
+                ):
+                    common_regex.add("^" + re.escape(path) + "$")
+                    continue
+
+            # Look ahead to find a regex candidate
+            # Construct the regex candidate using the difflib
+            matched_blocks = difflib.SequenceMatcher(
+                None,
+                path,
+                next_path,
+            ).get_matching_blocks()
+            regex_candidate = r""
+            for block in matched_blocks:
+                print(block)
+                if block.a == 0 and block.b == 0:
+                    regex_candidate += r"^"
+                elif block.size != 0:
+                    # we may have duplicate wild card here,
+                    # but it is fine because two consequence wild cards is
+                    # equivalent to one wild card
+                    regex_candidate += r".*"
+
+                if block.size <= 3:
+                    # prevent accidental single character match in random string
+                    continue
+                regex_candidate += re.escape(
+                    path[block.a : block.a + block.size]
+                )
+            regex_candidate += r"$"
+
+            # Check if the regex candidate is valid for the third item
+            # if matched, then we have a valid regex
+            # if not, then we give up finding a common regex for the current
+            # item
+            if re.match(regex_candidate, next_next_path):
+                common_regex.add(regex_candidate)
+                curr_regex = regex_candidate
+            else:
+                common_regex.add(path)
+    return list(common_regex)
+
+
 class PostDiffTest(PostProcessor):
     """Post diff test class for Acto"""
 
@@ -566,7 +641,7 @@ def __init__(
             ],
         )
 
-        self.unique_inputs: Dict[
+        self.unique_inputs: dict[
             str, pd.DataFrame
         ] = {}  # input digest -> group of steps
         groups = self.df.groupby("input_digest")
@@ -605,7 +680,7 @@ def post_process(self, workdir: str, num_workers: int = 1):
         for unique_input_group in self.unique_inputs.values():
             workqueue.put(unique_input_group)
 
-        runners: List[DeployRunner] = []
+        runners: list[DeployRunner] = []
         for i in range(num_workers):
             runner = DeployRunner(
                 workqueue,
@@ -635,13 +710,36 @@ def check(self, workdir: str, num_workers: int = 1):
         )
         trial_dirs = glob.glob(os.path.join(workdir, "trial-*"))
 
+        with open(self.config.seed_custom_resource, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            seed_cr = json.load(f)
+            seed_input_digest = hashlib.md5(
+                json.dumps(seed_cr, sort_keys=True).encode("utf-8")
+            ).hexdigest()
+
         workqueue: multiprocessing.Queue = multiprocessing.Queue()
         for trial_dir in trial_dirs:
             for diff_test_result_path in glob.glob(
                 os.path.join(trial_dir, "difftest-*.json")
             ):
+                # 1. Populate the workqueue
                 workqueue.put(diff_test_result_path)
 
+                # 2. Find the seed test result and compute the common regex
+                diff_test_result = DiffTestResult.from_file(
+                    diff_test_result_path
+                )
+                if diff_test_result.input_digest == seed_input_digest:
+                    diff_skip_regex = self.__get_diff_paths(diff_test_result)
+                    logger.info(
+                        "Seed input digest: %s, diff_skip_regex: %s",
+                        seed_input_digest,
+                        diff_skip_regex,
+                    )
+                    if self.config.diff_ignore_fields is None:
+                        self.config.diff_ignore_fields = diff_skip_regex
+                    else:
+                        self.config.diff_ignore_fields.extend(diff_skip_regex)
+
         processes = []
         for i in range(num_workers):
             p = multiprocessing.Process(
@@ -822,6 +920,87 @@ def check_diff_test_step(
                 to_state=diff_test_result.snapshot.system_state,
             )
 
+    def __get_diff_paths(self, diff_test_result: DiffTestResult) -> list[str]:
+        """Get the diff paths from a diff test result
+        Algorithm:
+            Iterate on the original trials, in principle they should be the same
+            If they are not, the diffs should be the indeterministic fields
+            to be skipped when doing the comparison.
+            Naively, we can just append all the indeterministic fields and return
+            them, however, there are cases where the field path itself is not
+            deterministic (e.g. the name of the secret could be randomly generated)
+            To handle this randomness in the name, we can use the first two
+            original trials to compare the system state to get the initial
+            regex for skipping.
+            If we do not have random names, the subsequent trials should not
+            have additional indeterministic fields.
+
+            Then, we keep iterating on the rest of the original results, and
+            check if we have additional indeterministic fields. If we do, we
+            collect them and try to figure out the proper regex to skip them.
+
+        Args:
+            diff_test_result (DiffTestResult): The diff test result
+
+        Returns:
+            list[str]: The list of diff paths
+        """
+
+        initial_regex: set[str] = set()
+        indeterministic_regex: set[str] = set()
+        first_step = True
+        for original in diff_test_result.originals:
+            trial = original["trial"]
+            gen = original["gen"]
+            trial_basename = os.path.basename(trial)
+            original_result = self.trial_to_steps[trial_basename].steps[
+                str(gen)
+            ]
+            diff_result = self.check_diff_test_step(
+                diff_test_result, original_result, self.config
+            )
+
+            if diff_result is not None:
+                for diff_category, diff in diff_result.diff.items():
+                    if diff_category == "dictionary_item_removed":
+                        removed_items: list[str] = diff
+                        for removed_item in removed_items:
+                            removed_item = re.escape(removed_item)
+                            if first_step:
+                                initial_regex.add(removed_item)
+                            else:
+                                indeterministic_regex.add(removed_item)
+                    elif diff_category == "dictionary_item_added":
+                        added_items: list[str] = diff
+                        for added_item in added_items:
+                            added_item = re.escape(added_item)
+                            if first_step:
+                                initial_regex.add(added_item)
+                            else:
+                                indeterministic_regex.add(added_item)
+                    elif diff_category == "values_changed":
+                        changed_items: dict[str, dict] = diff
+                        for changed_item in changed_items.keys():
+                            changed_item = re.escape(changed_item)
+                            if first_step:
+                                initial_regex.add(changed_item)
+                            else:
+                                indeterministic_regex.add(changed_item)
+                    elif diff_category == "type_changes":
+                        type_changes: dict[str, dict] = diff
+                        for type_change in type_changes.keys():
+                            type_change = re.escape(type_change)
+                            if first_step:
+                                initial_regex.add(type_change)
+                            else:
+                                indeterministic_regex.add(type_change)
+                first_step = False
+
+        # Handle the case where the name is not deterministic
+        common_regex = compute_common_regex(list(indeterministic_regex))
+
+        return list(initial_regex) + common_regex
+
 
 def main():
     """Main entry point."""
@@ -834,8 +1013,8 @@ def main():
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     # Register custom exception hook
-    sys.excepthook = handle_excepthook
-    threading.excepthook = thread_excepthook
+    sys.excepthook = error_handler.handle_excepthook
+    threading.excepthook = error_handler.thread_excepthook
 
     log_filename = "check.log" if args.checkonly else "test.log"
     os.makedirs(args.workdir_path, exist_ok=True)
diff --git a/acto/post_process/post_diff_test_test.py b/acto/post_process/post_diff_test_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0494a611b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/acto/post_process/post_diff_test_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+import unittest
+
+from acto.post_process.post_diff_test import compute_common_regex
+
+
+class TestPostDiffTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Test PostDiffTest"""
+
+    def test_compute_common_regex_prefix(self):
+        """Test computing common regex"""
+        testdata = [
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdb']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pda']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdc']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdd']",
+        ]
+        self.assertCountEqual(
+            compute_common_regex(testdata),
+            ["^root\\['pod_disruption_budget'\\]\\['test\\-cluster\\-pd.*$"],
+        )
+
+    def test_compute_common_regex_suffix(self):
+        """Test computing common regex"""
+        testdata = [
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pda']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdb']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdc']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdd']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['name']",
+        ]
+        self.assertCountEqual(
+            compute_common_regex(testdata),
+            [
+                "^root\\['pod_disruption_budget'\\]"
+                "\\['test\\-cluster\\-pd.*'\\]\\['metadata'\\]\\['name'\\]$"
+            ],
+        )
+
+    def test_compute_common_regex_different_resources(self):
+        """Test computing common regex"""
+        testdata = [
+            "root['secret']['my-secret']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdb']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdc']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdd']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['namespace']",
+        ]
+        self.assertCountEqual(
+            compute_common_regex(testdata),
+            [
+                "^root\\['pod_disruption_budget'\\]"
+                "\\['test\\-cluster\\-pde'\\]\\['metadata'\\]\\['namespace'\\]$",
+                "^root\\['secret'\\]\\['my\\-secret'\\]$",
+                "^root\\['pod_disruption_budget'\\]"
+                "\\['test\\-cluster\\-pd.*'\\]\\['metadata'\\]\\['name'\\]$",
+            ],
+        )
+
+    def test_compute_common_regex_secret(self):
+        """Test computing common regex"""
+        testdata = [
+            "root['secret']['my-secret-vczvds']",
+            "root['secret']['my-secret-adsfas']",
+            "root['secret']['my-secret-sfdsdf']",
+        ]
+        self.assertCountEqual(
+            compute_common_regex(testdata),
+            ["^root\\['secret'\\]\\['my\\-secret\\-.*.*.*$"],
+        )
+
+    def test_compute_common_regex_complex(self):
+        """Test computing common regex"""
+        testdata = [
+            "root['secret']['my-secret-vczvds']",
+            "root['secret']['my-secret-adsfas']",
+            "root['secret']['my-secret-bbbdfs']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdb']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdc']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pdd']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['name']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['namespace']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['namespace']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['namespace']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['namespace']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['namespace']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['namespace']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['namespace']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['namespace']",
+            "root['pod_disruption_budget']['test-cluster-pde']['metadata']['namespace']",
+        ]
+        self.assertCountEqual(
+            compute_common_regex(testdata),
+            [
+                "^root\\['secret'\\]\\['my\\-secret\\-.*.*.*$",
+                "^root\\['pod_disruption_budget'\\]"
+                "\\['test\\-cluster\\-pd.*'\\]\\['metadata'\\]\\['name'\\]$",
+                "^root\\['pod_disruption_budget'\\]"
+                "\\['test\\-cluster\\-pde'\\]\\['metadata'\\]\\['namespace'\\]$",
+            ],
+        )
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/acto/post_process/post_process.py b/acto/post_process/post_process.py
index df6daa92db..c0a7f89ca9 100644
--- a/acto/post_process/post_process.py
+++ b/acto/post_process/post_process.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """Post process the testrun results"""
+
 import glob
 import json
 import os