Phase 7 · Deep Learning Foundations
ProjectsDigit Classifier (MNIST)
Part of the AI Engineer Roadmap.
Summary
The 'hello world' of deep learning: classify handwritten digits — a small, fast project that exercises the full PyTorch/TensorFlow training loop end to end.
How to Learn This
- 1Build and train a small feedforward or CNN model on MNIST from scratch.
- 2Plot training/validation loss curves to check for overfitting.
- 3Push accuracy above 98% and explain what architecture changes got you there.
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