Initialization

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Initialization may refer to:

• Booting, a process that starts computer operating systems
• Initialism, an abbreviation formed using the initial letters of words or word parts
• In computing, formatting a storage medium like a hard disk or memory. Also, making sure a device is available to the operating system.
• Initialization (programming)
• Weight initialization, the setting of initial values of trainable parameters in a neural network.

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