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Life & fun · October 18, 2024

I wrote an autodiff in C++ and implemented LeNet with it

I wrote an autodiff in C++ and implemented LeNet with it launched on October 18, 2024 with 36 votes, #723 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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This project is an automatic differentiation library written in C++ with a LeNet neural network implementation demonstrating its capabilities. It is designed for developers interested in understanding how autodiff systems work and how to build neural networks from scratch. The implementation shows practical application of gradient computation, making it useful for educational purposes or as a foundation for machine learning experimentation in C++.

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