LeNet's recipe was conv, pool, conv, pool, dense. VGG's building block was a few 3×3 convolutions followed by a pool. Here you run a tiny network made of one VGG-style block (two 3×3 convolutions, then a pool) and a dense head, end to end, on a grayscale image.
The network, in order:
k1 holds filters, each a 3×3 grid, and b1 holds one bias per filter. Each filter slides over the image with no padding and stride 1. At every position, multiply each pixel by the filter value sitting on top of it, then add the nine products and the bias. That gives feature maps. Apply ReLU.k2 holds filters, with biases b2. Each filter spans the full depth of its input, so it is a list of grids of 3×3, one grid per Conv 1 map. At every position, add up the products over all maps, then add the bias. That gives feature maps. Apply ReLU.w has one row of weights per class and b one bias per class. Class scores .Task: write cnn_forward(image, k1, b1, k2, b2, w, b) returning the list of class scores (no softmax), each rounded to 4 decimal places.
The image is a list of rows of numbers. Every test passes an image large enough to survive both convolutions and the pool, and a w whose rows match the flattened length.