examples
Source
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github-repository - URL: https://github.com/karpathy/examples
- Discovery source: https://github.com/karpathy/examples
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- Last changed: 2026-05-15
Classification
- Primary category: LLM training and inference systems
- Corpus source note: 2026-05-15-karpathy-public-corpus
- Project taxonomy: karpathy-project-taxonomy
- Idea map: karpathy-idea-map
- Topic hub: karpathy-public-work
Summary
PyTorch Examples A repository showcasing examples of using $1 - MNIST Convnets - Word level Language Modeling using LSTM RNNs - Training Imagenet Classifiers with Residual Networks - Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) - Variational Auto-Encoders - Superresolution using an efficient sub-pixel convolutional neural network - Hogwild training of shared ConvNets across multiple processes on MNIST - Training a CartPole to balance in OpenAI Gym with actor-critic - Natural Language Inference (SNLI) with GloVe vectors, LSTMs, and torchtext - Time sequence prediction - create an LSTM to learn Sine waves Additionally,…
What This Teaches
- How modern LLM training or inference can be reduced to compact, inspectable systems.
- Useful as a reference for building mental models of GPT-style models without hiding behind framework scale.
Why It Matters
This is high-priority for Vipin because it connects directly to LLM systems, evaluation, and research implementation judgment.
Repository Snapshot
- Full name:
karpathy/examples - Default branch:
master - HEAD:
f9820471d615d848c14661b2d582417ca3aee8a3 - Stars at crawl: 136
- Forks at crawl: 44
- File count: 65
- README path:
README.md - License path:
LICENSE - Created: 2018-05-16T20:45:57Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T13:20:55Z
- Pushed: 2018-05-15T08:25:43Z
Top-Level Structure
fast_neural_style: 17word_language_model: 10super_resolution: 6reinforcement_learning: 4snli: 4vae: 4[root]: 3dcgan: 3imagenet: 3mnist: 3mnist_hogwild: 3time_sequence_prediction: 3
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