The initial conditions of neural networks are almost always chosen randomly or pseudo-randomly. Data sets are sometimes, although not always, presented with ra

The initial conditions of neural networks are almost always chosen randomly or pseudo-randomly. Data sets are sometimes, although not always, presented with random sample order or selection. Either way, the randomness in initial conditions means the solution found is one of many different solutions that could have been found, and depending on the problem, different initial conditions can result in very different solutions even on the same data.