How to set initial weights in MLPClassifier?

Question

I cannot find a way to set the initial weights of the neural network, could someone tell me how please? I am using python package sklearn.neural_network.MLPClassifier.

Answer 1

multilayer_perceptron.py initializes the weights based on the nonlinear function used for hidden layers. If you want to try a different initialization, you can take a look at the function _init_coef here and modify as you desire.