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Writing CNNs from Scratch in PyTorch

Updated on August 5, 2025
πŸ‘ Writing CNNs from Scratch in PyTorch

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If using GPU, the model needs to be moved to the device, otherwise the training will fail because the model will stay on CPU while the images are labels are later on move to the GPU device (images.to(device), labels.to(device)):

model = ConvNeuralNet(num_classes) model = model.to(device) # Add this line to move model to GPU/CPU

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