Animation shows how an MLP’s first-layer weights change while learning MNIST
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-07-22
An animation visualizes how the layer-0 weights of an MLP evolve while learning MNIST.
- The post is from someone using the time between jobs to learn AI from the ground up.
- The visual experiment shows the internal weight dynamics during training rather than just the final result.
- It’s a small but concrete educational artifact for understanding how neural networks change during optimization.
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