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Why Andrew Ng only initializes weights according to a normal distribution?

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I have taken his deep learning specialization. I haven't seen him initialize weights according to uniform distribution yet, as I am in the middle of the second course. Is there a specific reason?

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  1. 2026-09-15 13:38 · r/learnmachinelearning
    Why Andrew Ng only initializes weights according to a normal distribution?

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