The document discusses backpropagation in neural networks. It begins by introducing computational graphs and how they can be used to efficiently calculate gradients in neural networks using the chain rule. It then explains how to perform backpropagation for different common layer types like multiply, ReLU, sigmoid and affine layers by propagating gradients backward through the computational graph. Code implementations are provided for various layer types like activation functions and affine/softmax layers to demonstrate backpropagation in practice.