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Weight Initialization
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Xavier (Glorot) initialization sets weight variance to
Var
(
W
)
=
2/
(
n
in
+
n
out
)
. What problem does this solve?
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A.
It breaks symmetry by ensuring all neurons in each layer learn maximally different feature representations from the very first training step
B.
It transforms the non-convex loss landscape into a locally convex region near the initialization point, enabling gradient descent convergence
C.
It guarantees convergence to a global minimum
D.
It preserves the variance of activations across layers during both forward and backward passes, preventing signal explosion or vanishing
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