🧠 NeuralNetwork

A work-in-progress C++ neural network library designed for building, training, and evaluating deep learning models. This project focuses on creating a high-performance, modular implementation perfect for research and experimentation.

✨ Key Features

• 🚀 Modern C++: Built with C++17 for optimal performance and clean code
• 🔧 Modular Architecture: Easily extensible design for adding custom network architectures as well as custom activations
• ⚡ Neural Network Components: Complete support for sub-networks, activation functions, loss computations, and more
• 📦 CMake Ready: Seamless build system integration
• 🎯 Research Focused: Designed with experimentation and learning in mind
• 🧠 Integrated Visualizer:
  • Full Live Network: Real-time display of all layers, neurons, and activations for a complete live view of the model
  • Status Only: Lightweight view showing just the current network status, ideal for fast debugging or monitoring
• 💾 Parameter Persistence: Save and load trained model parameters for reuse, testing, or deployment
• ⚙️ GPU Support: Leverages CUDA for accelerated training and inference on compatible NVIDIA GPUs, boosting performance for large-scale models
• 💻 Flexible Device Support: Simple to switch between CPU and GPU for training and inference

🏗️ Quick Start

Prerequisites

• 🛠️ C++17-compatible compiler (GCC 7+, Clang 5+, MSVC 2017+)
• 📋 CMake 3.28 or later

🔨 Build Instructions

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/dredstone1/NeuralNetwork.git

# Navigate to project directory
cd NeuralNetwork

# Create and enter build directory
mkdir build && cd build

# Configure and build
cmake ..
make

📁 Project Structure

NeuralNetwork/
├── 📂 src/         # Core library implementation
├── 📂 include/     # Public API headers
├── 📂 resources/   # Static assets
├── 📂 tests/       # Unit tests and validation
├── 📄 CMakeLists.txt
└── 📖 README.md

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are more than welcome! Whether you're fixing bugs, adding features, or improving documentation:

• 🐛 Open issues for bugs or feature requests
• 🔀 Submit pull requests with your improvements
• 💡 Share ideas and suggestions
• 📖 Help improve documentation

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for complete details.

👨‍💻 Author

dredstone1 - GitHub Profile

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