Experiments in Visualizing Machine Learning Architecture

To best present this material, I broke the network down in order to introduce one step at a time.

Similarly, this version glows to highlight which parameters are learnable.

I designed this in Figma, using a few plugins for the grid, arrows, and glowing effects.

• https://figmaelements.com/plugins/draw-connector/

Here’s a rough draft I made in the CleanShot editor tool.

This makes learning the structure more intuitive for beginners, and faster for experienced researchers. Win-win.

I received great feedback on this design in a graduate class at UIUC, and I hope to continue innovating on better ways to communicate technical information.