Deep learning· 2013
On the importance of initialization and momentum in deep learning
On the reading lists
- #414 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #46 in Deep learning (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Demonstrated carefully initialized networks trained with momentum could rival sophisticated second-order methods.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2013 (from OpenAlex)
- Citations
- 5,434 citations, as counted by
Semantic Scholar (non-commercial licence) - Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.374 · computed rank 414 · consensus 0.43, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.558 (2010s · deep-learning), awards 0, existing lists 0.5. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0), and
Semantic Scholar (used under its non-commercial API licence). Each count names its source. See the method.