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AI Research 1: Backprop from scratch

Your own autodiff, proved correct by tests, then one honest ablation.

Your own autodiff, proved correct by tests, then one honest ablation. Free resources, your code in a public repo, and real work confirmed by people. Part of the Varsity Curriculum: AI Research.

Part of: AI Research · Proves for: Engineers, PG

1 required outcomes6 weeksCredential on completion

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How this is verified: 4 are confirmed by people who saw the work.

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Learn Deep Learning Core (AI Engineering Phase 3)

Prerequisite (optional here): the AI Engineering phase this builds on.

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2 milestones

  1. 1Do the phase's lessons in public
  2. 2Build a tiny deep learning framework
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Write backpropagation from scratch, with tests

Research step 1.

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2 milestones

  1. 1Build autodiff and prove it with tests
  2. 2Run one ablation and write it up

Resources for this path

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Free video course and notebooks (MIT License): backprop and language models built by hand.

Free official tutorials.