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Xavier Initialization

121 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

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Xavier Initialization, or Glorot Initialization, is an initialization scheme for neural networks. Biases are initialized be 0 and the weights Wᵢⱼ at each layer are initialized as:

Wᵢⱼ ∼U[-(√(6))/(√(fanᵢₙ + fanₒᵤₜ)), (√(6))/(√(fanᵢₙ + fanₒᵤₜ))]

Where U is a uniform distribution and fanᵢₙ is the size of the previous layer (number of columns in W) and fanₒᵤₜ is the size of the current layer.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Transfer Learning19
Image Classification16
General Classification15
Object Detection14
object-detection13
Classification11
GPU10
image-classification10
Data Augmentation6
Deep Learning6
Object6
Semantic Segmentation6
Quantization5
Specificity5
CPU4
Face Recognition4
Autonomous Driving3
Diagnostic3
Diversity3
Face Verification3

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Xavier Initialization: 2014 to 2025, peak 22 22 0 2014: 1 paper 2014 2015: 0 papers 2015 2016: 5 papers 2016 2017: 8 papers 2017 2018: 18 papers 2018 2019: 15 papers 2019 2020: 22 papers 2020 2021: 20 papers 2021 2022: 9 papers 2022 2023: 6 papers 2023 2024: 11 papers 2024 2025: 6 papers 2025
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