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 The initialization is also important to the result, but it's a parameter of the `fit` and `fit_transform` function.
 
-- `init`: the initialization of the lower dimensional embedding. One of `"pca"` or `"random"`, or a user-provided numpy ndarray with the shape (N, 2). Default to `"random"`.
+- `init`: the initialization of the lower dimensional embedding. One of `"pca"` or `"random"`, or a user-provided numpy ndarray with the shape (N, 2). Default to `"pca"`.
 
 Other parameters include: