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Note: This is a mirror of the official fast.ai notebook for the DSNet Study Group, please refer the official course repo for the latest notebooks.
import torch
Why you need a good init
To understand why initialization is important in a neural net, we'll focus on the basic operation you have there: matrix multiplications. So let's just take a vector x
, and a matrix a
initiliazed randomly, then multiply them 100 times (as if we had 100 layers).