Computation Graphs

Multivariate calculus from first principles

One data structure organizes everything from the last two lessons: the computation graph. Every arithmetic operation in a model (add, multiply, matmul, activation) becomes a node in a directed graph. This graph is how PyTorch, JAX, and TensorFlow compute gradients automatically.

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▶ Computation Graphs
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