Training networks with Tensorflow • /r/MachineLearning

Ok /r/MachineLearning, I've exhausted my resources and I'm looking for assistance. I'm attempting to train a VGG style network and I'm having issues with layers dropping to 0. I collect summary stats for each layer -- conv, pool, affine -- and monitor stats while training. Layer weights drop to 0 within the first 200 mini batches. If you have any tips or suggestions, I'd really like to hear it. The link below contains code snippets and a more complete description of the problem.