Life & fun · February 22, 2025
Japanese City Name Generator – Using a Simple 3-Layer MLP
I trained and deployed my first model: a Japanese city name generator using just a 3-layer MLP under the hood. It runs in the browser fully locally on the onnx runtime. Trained on <2,000 real Japanese city names, what's interesting is that on this simple task the simple MLP performed better than more complex models which tended to overfit and generate existing names.
Japanese City Name Generator – Using a Simple 3-Layer MLP launched on February 22, 2025 with 26 votes, #643 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
This tool generates fictional Japanese city names using a simple three-layer neural network trained on fewer than 2,000 real Japanese city names. The model runs locally in users' browsers via ONNX runtime without requiring external servers. Notably, the simpler architecture outperformed more complex models, which tended to merely reproduce existing names rather than creating new ones. It's designed for anyone needing generated Japanese place names for creative projects.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Endlessly generate completely new Japanese city names. Powered by a 40K parameter MLP.
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