Vectorized Forward and Backward Pass in a Simple Neural Network

Created in May 01, 2026

2026   ·   math   neural-networks   machine-learning   ·   tutorials

This notebook verctorizes the derivations in my previous post, for a simple neural network. Vecotization significantly boosts performance, since NN calculations are heavily parallel, which is why GPUs are heavily utilized in ML.



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