Implement Vanilla RNN for palindrome prediction (Assignment 2 Part 3)

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Implements a from-scratch Vanilla RNN to predict the last digit of palindrome sequences, as specified in Assignment2.pdf.

Changes

vanilla_rnn.py - Vanilla RNN implementation

• Manual parameter initialization: Wxh, Whh, Why, bh, by with small random weights (0.01 std)
• Forward pass iterates through sequence with standard RNN cell: h_t = tanh(x_t @ Wxh + h_{t-1} @ Whh + bh)
• Output layer applied to final hidden state only

train.py - Training loop completion

• Model instantiation with hyperparameters from config
• CrossEntropyLoss + Adam optimizer
• Standard training loop: forward → loss → backward → clip gradients → step
• Accuracy tracking and logging every 10 steps

.gitignore - Repository cleanup

• Exclude Python cache files, virtual environments, IDE files, OS artifacts

Model Performance

Achieves 100% accuracy on palindrome prediction after ~1000 steps (sequence length 10, 128 hidden units).

Original prompt

按照Part 3文件夹里的Assignment2.pdf，完成各个task

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