Building a Bigram Language Model From Scratch

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Learn to build a bigram language model from scratch using a tiny neural network and understand probabilities and negative log-likelihood

intermediate Published 25 Jun 2026
Action Steps
  1. Build a bigram language model using a tiny neural network
  2. Calculate probabilities of word sequences
  3. Apply negative log-likelihood to evaluate model performance
  4. Generate new names using the trained model
  5. Compare model performance with different architectures
Who Needs to Know This

NLP engineers and data scientists can benefit from this article to improve their language modeling skills and apply them to real-world problems

Key Insight

💡 Bigram language models can be used to generate new text based on probability distributions

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Learn to build a bigram language model from scratch using a tiny neural network and understand probabilities and negative log-likelihood

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