Have create_param() set the broadcast pattern #715
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This PR makes create_param() set the broadcast pattern when creating a shared variable. We assume our network parameters never change shape, so we can at least fix the broadcast pattern (shared variables don't allow setting a fixed shape). This saves some headaches when users have a DenseLayer of 1 unit and try to do something fancy with the output (as here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lasagne-users/MQfjYI-tV2I/pf-z_NnyBQAJ), since now Theano can infer that the output is broadcastable on the last axis.