# What's the default initialization methods for layers?

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**Created:** [May 17, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/whats-the-default-initialization-methods-for-layers/3157 "2017-05-17T13:40:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![SimonW](https://discuss.pytorch.org/user_avatar/discuss.pytorch.org/simonw/32/1702_2.png) [@SimonW](https://discuss.pytorch.org/u/SimonW)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2018, 10:40am UTC](https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/whats-the-default-initialization-methods-for-layers/3157/17 "2018-07-14T10:40:39Z")

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no, they are from respective well-established published papers actually. e.g., linear init is from “Efficient Backprop”, LeCun’99.

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