karpathy

Andrej Joined Apr 2010 231,318 followers View on GitHub

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142

AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically

Python 99,734
343

The simplest, fastest repository for training/finetuning medium-sized GPTs.

Python 64,601
392

The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy.

Python 60,421
876

LLM101n: Let's build a Storyteller

37,473
1,187

LLM training in simple, raw C/CUDA

Cuda 31,422
1,578

LLM Council works together to answer your hardest questions

Python 26,374
1,679

Neural Networks: Zero to Hero

Jupyter Notebook 25,435
1,719

A minimal PyTorch re-implementation of the OpenAI GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) training

Python 25,014
2,310

Inference Llama 2 in one file of pure C

C 20,260
2,537

A tiny scalar-valued autograd engine and a neural net library on top of it with PyTorch-like API

Jupyter Notebook 18,809
4,548

Multi-layer Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTM, GRU, RNN) for character-level language models in Torch

Lua 12,133
4,974

Deep Learning in Javascript. Train Convolutional Neural Networks (or ordinary ones) in your browser.

JavaScript 11,217
5,100

Minimal, clean code for the Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) algorithm commonly used in LLM tokenization.

Python 11,024
10,935

Web interface for browsing, search and filtering recent arxiv submissions

Python 5,805
11,301

Video+code lecture on building nanoGPT from scratch

Python 5,631
11,370

Efficient Image Captioning code in Torch, runs on GPU

Jupyter Notebook 5,603
11,569

NeuralTalk is a Python+numpy project for learning Multimodal Recurrent Neural Networks that describe images with sentences.

Python 5,512
12,678 Python 5,095
14,370

An autoregressive character-level language model for making more things

Python 4,545
17,009

Quick illustration of how one can easily read books together with LLMs. It's great and I highly recommend it.

Python 3,902
27,181

Render any git repo into a single static HTML page for humans or LLMs

Python 2,498
33,311

A research tool for visually exploring Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook data. This is not a report, a paper, or a serious economic publication — it is a development tool...

HTML 2,043
34,518

my blog

CSS 1,973
35,157

Pure Python from-scratch zero-dependency implementation of Bitcoin for educational purposes

Jupyter Notebook 1,939
39,843

arxiv-sanity lite: tag arxiv papers of interest get recommendations of similar papers in a nice UI using SVMs over tfidf feature vectors based on paper abstracts.

Python 1,720
45,821

Reinforcement Learning Agents in Javascript (Dynamic Programming, Temporal Difference, Deep Q-Learning, Stochastic/Deterministic Policy Gradients)

HTML 1,494
57,030

Notebooks and various random fun

Jupyter Notebook 1,186
57,190

Automatically collect and visualize usage statistics in Ubuntu/OSX environments.

Python 1,182
66,877

Deep Recurrent Neural Networks and LSTMs in Javascript. More generally also arbitrary expression graphs with automatic differentiation.

HTML 989
71,368

Normalizing flows in PyTorch. Current intended use is education not production.

Jupyter Notebook 922
72,106

Implementation of t-SNE visualization algorithm in Javascript.

JavaScript 912
82,330

Reproducing Yann LeCun 1989 paper "Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition", to my knowledge the earliest real-world application of a neural net trained with backpropagation.

Jupyter Notebook 792
90,550

Random notes on papers, likely a short-term repo.

715
90,785

Support Vector Machine in Javascript (SMO algorithm, supports arbitrary kernels) + GUI demo

JavaScript 713
93,515

Analyzing Hacker News discussions from a decade ago in hindsight with LLMs

Python 690
97,329

VQVAEs, GumbelSoftmaxes and friends

Jupyter Notebook 660
106,747

MADE (Masked Autoencoder Density Estimation) implementation in PyTorch

Python 597
119,456

The missing tiktoken training code

Rust 528
120,935

Automating research publications discovery and analysis. For example, ever wish your computer could automatically open papers that are most similar to a paper at an arbitrary url? How about...

Python 521
154,102

Aspires to help the influx of bioRxiv / medRxiv papers on COVID-19

Python 396
160,868

Find people you should follow on Twitter based on who the people you follow follow

Python 377
173,546

Random Forest implementation for JavaScript. Supports arbitrary weak learners. Includes interactive demo.

JavaScript 346
204,615

An Academic Papers Management and Discovery System

Python 286
244,162

A Random Forest implementation for MATLAB. Supports arbitrary weak learners that you can define.

MATLAB 232
281,858

root repo

195
289,277

Scripts that generate .html to more easily see NIPS papers

Python 189
309,783

nice and effective super simple calorie counter web app

HTML 174
344,664

A lightweight/pretty visualizer for recent work on a git code base in multiple branches. Helps stay up to date with teams working on one git repo in many branches.

HTML 153
352,306

tensorflow reinforcement learning agents for OpenAI gym environments

Python 149
433,704

Game making library for using Canvas element

JavaScript 115
439,933

A wrapper for LibSVM that lets you train SVM's directly on Eigen library matrices in C++

C++ 113
503,948

A set of tools/pages that help explore academic literature

95
508,050

useful scripts to work with Twitter + Python. Requires the tweepy library.

Python 94
516,703

C++ convenience class to communicate with a Matlab instance. Send matrices back and forth, execute arbitrary Matlab commands, or drop into interactive Matlab session right in the middle of your...

C++ 92

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  2. Jupyter Notebook 55.3k stars, 11% · 8 repos
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  5. JavaScript 13.3k stars, 3% · 5 repos
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