NN-From-Scratch Project

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Issue Title

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Building Neural Network from scratch and training it using MNIST Dataset. #629

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Info about the Related Issue

What's the goal of the project?
Building a neural network FROM SCRATCH (no Tensorflow/Pytorch, just numpy & math). Will use MNIST Dataset to train the NN.

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Name

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Advait Joshi

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https://github.com/TheUsefulNerd

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[email protected]

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GSSoC-2024-extd

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*Closes: #629 *

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I have implemented a simple 2-layer Neural Network from scratch using numy and pandas only. This project is mainly to get a hold on the math and intuition behind the neural networks.

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How Has This Been Tested?

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Tested it using the test dataset.

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