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I have a matrix factorization and I'm wondering how I should initialize its weights and biases.

When getting prediction (recommendation), after computing a dot product and adding bias I want to use sigmoid function on that to get value from 0 to 1.

But when introducing a sigmoid here I also introduce a possibile vanishing/exploding gradient problem. For that I think that weights can be initialized with xavier function. But what aboud biases? Should I just use uniform distribution from (-0.01, 0.01) for example?

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For matrix factorization I usually see it being initialized by a uniform distribution from [0, 1) like in this (pytorch) or a truncated normal with mean=0.0 and std=1.0 as in this (tensorflow).

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