diff --git a/clip/model.py b/clip/model.py
index cbfc09c..f2c998a 100644
--- a/clip/model.py
+++ b/clip/model.py
@@ -289,6 +289,37 @@ class CLIP(nn.Module):
         self.text_projection = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(transformer_width, embed_dim))
         self.logit_scale = nn.Parameter(torch.ones([]))
 
+        self.initialize_parameters()
+
+    def initialize_parameters(self):
+        nn.init.normal_(self.token_embedding.weight, std=0.02)
+        nn.init.normal_(self.positional_embedding, std=0.01)
+
+        if isinstance(self.visual, ModifiedResNet):
+            if self.visual.attnpool is not None:
+                std = self.visual.attnpool.c_proj.in_features ** -0.5
+                nn.init.normal_(self.visual.attnpool.q_proj.weight, std=std)
+                nn.init.normal_(self.visual.attnpool.k_proj.weight, std=std)
+                nn.init.normal_(self.visual.attnpool.v_proj.weight, std=std)
+                nn.init.normal_(self.visual.attnpool.c_proj.weight, std=std)
+
+            for resnet_block in [self.visual.layer1, self.visual.layer2, self.visual.layer3, self.visual.layer4]:
+                for name, param in resnet_block.named_parameters():
+                    if name.endswith("bn3.weight"):
+                        nn.init.zeros_(param)
+
+        proj_std = (self.transformer.width ** -0.5) * ((2 * self.transformer.layers) ** -0.5)
+        attn_std = self.transformer.width ** -0.5
+        fc_std = (2 * self.transformer.width) ** -0.5
+        for block in self.transformer.resblocks:
+            nn.init.normal_(block.attn.in_proj_weight, std=attn_std)
+            nn.init.normal_(block.attn.out_proj.weight, std=proj_std)
+            nn.init.normal_(block.mlp.c_fc.weight, std=fc_std)
+            nn.init.normal_(block.mlp.c_proj.weight, std=proj_std)
+
+        if self.text_projection is not None:
+            nn.init.normal_(self.text_projection, std=self.transformer.width ** -0.5)
+
     def build_attention_mask(self):
         # lazily create causal attention mask, with full attention between the vision tokens
         # pytorch uses additive attention mask; fill with -inf