def _variable_with_weight_decay(name, shape, stddev, wd):
  """Helper to create an initialized Variable with weight decay.

  Note that the Variable is initialized with a truncated normal distribution.
  A weight decay is added only if one is specified.

  Args:
    name: name of the variable
    shape: list of ints
    stddev: standard deviation of a truncated Gaussian
    wd: add L2Loss weight decay multiplied by this float. If None, weight
        decay is not added for this Variable.

  Returns:
    Variable Tensor
  """
  dtype = tf.float16 if FLAGS.use_fp16 else tf.float32
  var = _variable_on_cpu(
      name,
      shape,
      tf.truncated_normal_initializer(stddev=stddev, dtype=dtype))
  if wd is not None:
    weight_decay = tf.multiply(tf.nn.l2_loss(var), wd, name='weight_loss')
    tf.add_to_collection('losses', weight_decay)
  return var