tf.keras.initializers.GlorotNormal

The Glorot normal initializer, also called Xavier normal initializer.

Inherits From: VarianceScaling

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Main aliases

tf.initializers.GlorotNormal, tf.initializers.glorot_normal, tf.keras.initializers.glorot_normal

tf.keras.initializers.GlorotNormal(
    seed=None
)

Initializers allow you to pre-specify an initialization strategy, encoded in the Initializer object, without knowing the shape and dtype of the variable being initialized.

Draws samples from a truncated normal distribution centered on 0 with stddev = sqrt(2 / (fan_in + fan_out)) where fan_in is the number of input units in the weight tensor and fan_out is the number of output units in the weight tensor.

Examples:

def make_variables(k, initializer):
  return (tf.Variable(initializer(shape=[k, k], dtype=tf.float32)),
          tf.Variable(initializer(shape=[k, k, k], dtype=tf.float32)))
v1, v2 = make_variables(3, tf.initializers.GlorotNormal())
v1
<tf.Variable ... shape=(3, 3) ...
v2
<tf.Variable ... shape=(3, 3, 3) ...
make_variables(4, tf.initializers.RandomNormal())
(<tf.Variable ... shape=(4, 4) dtype=float32...
 <tf.Variable ... shape=(4, 4, 4) dtype=float32...

Args
seed	A Python integer. Used to create random seeds. See tf.random.set_seed for behavior.

References:

Glorot et al., 2010 (pdf)

Methods

from_config

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@classmethod
from_config(
    config
)

Instantiates an initializer from a configuration dictionary.

Example:

initializer = RandomUniform(-1, 1)
config = initializer.get_config()
initializer = RandomUniform.from_config(config)

Args
config	A Python dictionary. It will typically be the output of get_config.

Returns
An Initializer instance.

get_config

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get_config()

Returns the configuration of the initializer as a JSON-serializable dict.

Returns
A JSON-serializable Python dict.

__call__

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__call__(
    shape, dtype=tf.dtypes.float32
)

Returns a tensor object initialized as specified by the initializer.

Args
shape	Shape of the tensor.
dtype	Optional dtype of the tensor. Only floating point types are supported.

Raises
ValueError	If the dtype is not floating point