The Embedding Layer's Gradient

How a network computes, why gradients vanish, and what makes depth trainable

Every layer so far sent its gradient backwards through a transpose. The layer that starts most real models does not, and the reason is that it never multiplied anything going forward either.

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โ–ถ The Embedding Layer's Gradient
โ† The Backward Pass Through a Whole NetworkReverse Mode vs Forward Mode โ†’