modules/weights.py

import torch.nn as nn

def _init_weights_bert(module, std=0.02):
    """
        Huggingface transformer weight initialization,
        most commonly for bert initialization
    """
    if isinstance(module, nn.Linear):
        # Slightly different from the TF version which uses truncated_normal for initialization
        # cf https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/5617
        module.weight.data.normal_(mean=0.0, std=std)
        if module.bias is not None:
            module.bias.data.zero_()
    elif isinstance(module, nn.Embedding):
        module.weight.data.normal_(mean=0.0, std=std)
        if module.padding_idx is not None:
            module.weight.data[module.padding_idx].zero_()
    elif isinstance(module, nn.LayerNorm):
        module.bias.data.zero_()
        module.weight.data.fill_(1.0)