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Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
84/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
python, pytorch
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Open the Quickstart page and inspect the “Optimizing the Model Parameters” section. Update the displayed backpropagation code order to match the issue, then verify that the tutorial shows the requested sequence.

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Description

There is the following issue on this page: https://docs.pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/basics/quickstart_tutorial.html

In the Section "Optimizing the Model Parameters", the backpropagation code order should be

    # Backpropagation
    _**optimizer.zero_grad()**_
    loss.backward()
    optimizer.step()
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