diff --git a/prototorch/core/initializers.py b/prototorch/core/initializers.py
index b361f35..da0341d 100644
--- a/prototorch/core/initializers.py
+++ b/prototorch/core/initializers.py
@@ -205,10 +205,7 @@ class AbstractLabelsInitializer(ABC):
 
 
 class LabelsInitializer(AbstractLabelsInitializer):
-    """Generate labels with `self.distribution`."""
-    def __init__(self, override_labels: list = []):
-        self.override_labels = override_labels
-
+    """Generate labels from `distribution`."""
     def generate(self, distribution: Union[dict, list, tuple]):
         distribution = parse_distribution(distribution)
         labels = []
@@ -218,25 +215,79 @@ class LabelsInitializer(AbstractLabelsInitializer):
         return labels
 
 
-# Reasonings
-class AbstractReasoningsInitializer(ABC):
-    """Abstract class for all reasonings initializers."""
-    @abstractmethod
-    def generate(self, distribution: Union[dict, list, tuple]):
-        ...
-
-
-class PurePositiveReasoningsInitializer(AbstractReasoningsInitializer):
-    """Generate labels with `self.distribution`."""
+class OneHotLabelsInitializer(LabelsInitializer):
+    """Generate one-hot-encoded labels from `distribution`."""
     def generate(self, distribution: Union[dict, list, tuple]):
         distribution = parse_distribution(distribution)
         num_classes = len(distribution.keys())
+        # this breaks if class labels are not [0,...,nclasses]
+        labels = torch.eye(num_classes)[super().generate(distribution)]
+        return labels
+
+
+# Reasonings
+class AbstractReasoningsInitializer(ABC):
+    """Abstract class for all reasonings initializers."""
+    def __init__(self, components_first=True):
+        self.components_first = components_first
+
+    def compute_shape(self, distribution):
+        distribution = parse_distribution(distribution)
         num_components = sum(distribution.values())
-        assert num_classes == num_components
-        reasonings = torch.stack(
-            [torch.eye(num_classes),
-             torch.zeros(num_classes, num_classes)],
-            dim=0)
+        num_classes = len(distribution.keys())
+        return (num_components, num_classes, 2)
+
+    def generate_end_hook(self, reasonings):
+        if not self.components_first:
+            reasonings = reasonings.permute(2, 1, 0)
+        return reasonings
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def generate(self, distribution: Union[dict, list, tuple]):
+        ...
+        return generate_end_hook(...)
+
+
+class ZerosReasoningsInitializer(AbstractReasoningsInitializer):
+    """Reasonings are all initialized with zeros."""
+    def generate(self, distribution: Union[dict, list, tuple]):
+        shape = self.compute_shape(distribution)
+        reasonings = torch.zeros(*shape)
+        reasonings = self.generate_end_hook(reasonings)
+        return reasonings
+
+
+class OnesReasoningsInitializer(AbstractReasoningsInitializer):
+    """Reasonings are all initialized with ones."""
+    def generate(self, distribution: Union[dict, list, tuple]):
+        shape = self.compute_shape(distribution)
+        reasonings = torch.ones(*shape)
+        reasonings = self.generate_end_hook(reasonings)
+        return reasonings
+
+
+class RandomReasoningsInitializer(AbstractReasoningsInitializer):
+    """Reasonings are randomly initialized."""
+    def __init__(self, minimum=0.4, maximum=0.6, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(**kwargs)
+        self.minimum = minimum
+        self.maximum = maximum
+
+    def generate(self, distribution: Union[dict, list, tuple]):
+        shape = self.compute_shape(distribution)
+        reasonings = torch.ones(*shape).uniform_(self.minimum, self.maximum)
+        reasonings = self.generate_end_hook(reasonings)
+        return reasonings
+
+
+class PurePositiveReasoningsInitializer(AbstractReasoningsInitializer):
+    """Each component reasons positively for exactly one class."""
+    def generate(self, distribution: Union[dict, list, tuple]):
+        num_components, num_classes, _ = self.compute_shape(distribution)
+        A = OneHotLabelsInitializer().generate(distribution)
+        B = torch.zeros(num_components, num_classes)
+        reasonings = torch.stack([A, B]).permute(2, 1, 0)
+        reasonings = self.generate_end_hook(reasonings)
         return reasonings
 
 
@@ -251,4 +302,13 @@ SCI = SelectionCompInitializer
 MCI = MeanCompInitializer
 SSCI = StratifiedSelectionCompInitializer
 SMCI = StratifiedMeanCompInitializer
+
+# Aliases - Labels
+LI = LabelsInitializer
+OHLI = OneHotLabelsInitializer
+
+# Aliases - Reasonings
+ZRI = ZerosReasoningsInitializer
+ORI = OnesReasoningsInitializer
+RRI = RandomReasoningsInitializer
 PPRI = PurePositiveReasoningsInitializer