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…er initialization. See pdf page 251 in https://proceedings.mlr.press/v9/glorot10a/glorot10a.pdf. As set before, the bias may be initialized to a large negative value, leading to a negative input to Relu. This prevents any training, as all derivatives are zero after
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…er initialization. See pdf page 251 in https://proceedings.mlr.press/v9/glorot10a/glorot10a.pdf. As set before, the bias may be initialized to a large negative value, leading to a negative input to Relu. This prevents any training, as all derivatives are zero afterward.
See downstream issue here: pytorch/benchmark#1927