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Building makemore Part 2: MLP

via Andrej KarpathyAndrej Karpathy3y ago

We implement a multilayer perceptron (MLP) character-level language model. In this video we also introduce many basics of machine learning (e.g. model training, learning rate tuning, hyperparameters, evaluation, train/dev/test splits, under/overfitting, etc.). Links: - makemore on github: https://github.com/karpathy/makemore - jupyter notebook I built in this video: https://github.com/karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero/blob/master/lectures/makemore/makemore_part2_mlp.ipynb - collab notebook (new)!!!: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1YIfmkftLrz6MPTOO9Vwqrop2Q5llHIGK?usp=sharing - Bengio et al. 2003 MLP language model paper (pdf): https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume3/bengio03a/bengio03a.pdf - my website: https://karpathy.ai - my twitter: https://twitter.com/karpathy - (new) Neural Networks: Zero to Hero series Discord channel: https://discord.gg/3zy8kqD9Cp , for people who'd like to chat more and go beyond youtube comments Useful links: - PyTorch internals ref http://blog.ezyang.com/2019/05

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