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colah/Conv-Nets-Series
A series of blog posts on convolutional neural networks and their generalizations.
A repo containing the source material (markdown + diagrams) for Christopher Olah's blog posts on convolutional neural networks, covering the basics through group-equivariant generalizations. This is the backing store for the colah.github.io posts, not a library or framework — there is no runnable code here.
The diagrams are exceptionally well-made and frequently cited — the visual explanations of convolution, pooling, and network-in-network architectures are clearer than most textbooks. The third post ventures into group theory and geometric generalizations of convnets, which was ahead of its time for accessible ML writing. The content has held up well as foundational reading even years later.
Last touched in 2017 and has no runnable code, notebooks, or exercises — it is purely static prose and images. Nothing here covers attention, transformers, or anything post-2017, so it stops well before the field moved on. The repo itself is vestigial; the actual posts live on the blog and the markdown here offers nothing extra for someone who already has a browser.