Neural Network Vignettes

Click Here for four vignettes on building and training neural networks
Author

George I. Hagstrom

Published

April 24, 2026

Hello class,

I’ve uploaded 4 videos with coding vignettes on how to train neural networks using Pytorch, Pytorch Lightning, and google colab notebooks. I created a basic neural network and trained it to classify images of clothing items from the FashionMNIST dataset. The live notebook had some issues saving/crashing, so apologies I switched to the ‘official’ notebook halfway in.

Code:

To follow along in code:

Videos: