tf.compat.v1.variables_initializer

Returns an Op that initializes a list of variables.

Compat aliases for migration

See Migration guide for more details.

tf.compat.v1.initializers.variables

Migrate to TF2

In TF2, variables are initialized immediately when they are created. There is no longer a need to run variable initializers before using them.

Description

Used in the notebooks

After you launch the graph in a session, you can run the returned Op to initialize all the variables in var_list. This Op runs all the initializers of the variables in var_list in parallel.

Calling initialize_variables() is equivalent to passing the list of initializers to Group().

If var_list is empty, however, the function still returns an Op that can be run. That Op just has no effect.

var_list List of Variable objects to initialize.
name Optional name for the returned operation.

An Op that run the initializers of all the specified variables.