The Forward Pass, End to End

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

Everything so far, once, on real numbers. A batch goes in, two hidden layers and a head act on it, and predictions come out. This is the whole of what a trained model does when it is used. No gradient exists yet, nothing is being learned, and the loss at the end is only a number you read.

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โ–ถ The Forward Pass, End to End
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