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For K-12 Students · Deep Net Playground

Deep Net Playground for a control group

Built for k-12 students learning it in middle or high school. Watch the idea come alive with plain-language steps and everyday examples — perfect for projects and homework. Simulate a control group live below — adjust the inputs and watch it respond, right in your browser.

Neural Net

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Neural Network PlaygroundLive

2-layer MLP · live backprop

Controls

Presets

Hidden neurons

Learning rate

Speed1×

A tiny multilayer perceptron trained by real backpropagation. The background shows its learned decision boundary; dots are the training data, colored by true class.

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Data Inspector

Epoch0

Loss0.0000

Architecture2→8→1

Governing equation

a = tanh (W_{1} x + b_{1}), \overset{y}{^} = σ (W_{2} a + b_{2}), L = 0.0000

Reading this result: With 8 hidden units the net bends the boundary into curves — more units capture finer shapes like the spiral, but too many can overfit.

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Gradient Descent

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Gradient Descent StudioLive

optimization on a loss landscape

Controls

Watch gradient descent (with momentum) roll downhill on different loss landscapes. Too high a learning rate overshoots.

Presets

Learning rate

Momentum

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Data Inspector

Surfaceripple

Step0/200

Optimizermomentum GD

Governing equation

x_{k + 1} = x_{k} - η \nabla f (x_{k}), η = 3

Reading this result: A learning rate of 3 is well matched to the curvature here: steps are large enough to make progress yet small enough to avoid overshoot, giving a smooth, roughly quadratic descent toward the minimum.

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Frequently asked questions

Is this good for k-12 students?: Yes — this version of "Deep Net Playground for a control group" is framed for k-12 students learning it in middle or high school. Watch the idea come alive with plain-language steps and everyday examples — perfect for projects and homework.
Do I need to install anything?: No. It runs in any modern browser, free, with no account required.