diff --git a/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/data.py b/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/data.py
index a244fa2..dccaf84 100644
--- a/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/data.py	
+++ b/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/data.py	
@@ -13,12 +13,13 @@ from pycocotools.coco import COCO
 class CocoDataset(data.Dataset):
     """COCO Custom Dataset compatible with torch.utils.data.DataLoader."""
     def __init__(self, root, json, vocab, transform=None):
-        """
+        """Set the path for images, captions and vocabulary wrapper.
+        
         Args:
             root: image directory.
             json: coco annotation file path.
             vocab: vocabulary wrapper.
-            transform: transformer for image.
+            transform: image transformer 
         """
         self.root = root
         self.coco = COCO(json)
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ class CocoDataset(data.Dataset):
         self.transform = transform
 
     def __getitem__(self, index):
-        """This function should return one data pair(image and caption)."""
+        """Returns one data pair (image and caption)."""
         coco = self.coco
         vocab = self.vocab
         ann_id = self.ids[index]
@@ -53,12 +54,13 @@ class CocoDataset(data.Dataset):
 
     
 def collate_fn(data):
-    """Build mini-batch tensors from a list of (image, caption) tuples.
+    """Creates mini-batch tensors from the list of tuples (image, caption).
+    
     Args:
-        data: list of (image, caption) tuple. 
+        data: list of tuple (image, caption). 
             - image: torch tensor of shape (3, 256, 256).
             - caption: torch tensor of shape (?); variable length.
-        
+            
     Returns:
         images: torch tensor of shape (batch_size, 3, 256, 256).
         targets: torch tensor of shape (batch_size, padded_length).
@@ -68,10 +70,10 @@ def collate_fn(data):
     data.sort(key=lambda x: len(x[1]), reverse=True)
     images, captions = zip(*data)
     
-    # Merge images (convert tuple of 3D tensor to 4D tensor)
+    # Merge images (from tuple of 3D tensor to 4D tensor)
     images = torch.stack(images, 0)
     
-    # Merget captions (convert tuple of 1D tensor to 2D tensor)
+    # Merge captions (from tuple of 1D tensor to 2D tensor)
     lengths = [len(cap) for cap in captions]
     targets = torch.zeros(len(captions), max(lengths)).long()
     for i, cap in enumerate(captions):
@@ -80,18 +82,18 @@ def collate_fn(data):
     return images, targets, lengths
 
 
-def get_loader(root, json, vocab, transform, batch_size=100, shuffle=True, num_workers=2):
+def get_data_loader(root, json, vocab, transform, batch_size, shuffle, num_workers):
     """Returns torch.utils.data.DataLoader for custom coco dataset."""
-    # COCO custom dataset
+    # COCO dataset
     coco = CocoDataset(root=root,
                        json=json,
                        vocab = vocab,
                        transform=transform)
     
-    # Data loader
+    # Data loader for COCO dataset
     data_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(dataset=coco, 
                                               batch_size=batch_size,
-                                              shuffle=True,
+                                              shuffle=shuffle,
                                               num_workers=num_workers,
                                               collate_fn=collate_fn)
     return data_loader
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diff --git a/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/model.py b/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/model.py
index fcef106..6e31514 100644
--- a/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/model.py	
+++ b/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/model.py	
@@ -7,43 +7,44 @@ from torch.autograd import Variable
 
 class EncoderCNN(nn.Module):
     def __init__(self, embed_size):
-        """Load pretrained ResNet-152 and replace top fc layer."""
+        """Loads the pretrained ResNet-152 and replace top fc layer."""
         super(EncoderCNN, self).__init__()
         self.resnet = models.resnet152(pretrained=True)
-        # For efficient memory usage.
         for param in self.resnet.parameters():
             param.requires_grad = False
         self.resnet.fc = nn.Linear(self.resnet.fc.in_features, embed_size)
+        self.bn = nn.BatchNorm1d(embed_size, momentum=0.01)
         self.init_weights()
-    
+        
     def init_weights(self):
-        self.resnet.fc.weight.data.uniform_(-0.1, 0.1)
+        """Initialize weights."""
+        self.resnet.fc.weight.data.normal_(0.0, 0.02)
         self.resnet.fc.bias.data.fill_(0)
         
     def forward(self, images):
-        """Extract image feature vectors."""
+        """Extracts the image feature vectors."""
         features = self.resnet(images)
+        features = self.bn(features)
         return features
     
     
 class DecoderRNN(nn.Module):
     def __init__(self, embed_size, hidden_size, vocab_size, num_layers):
-        """Set hyper-parameters and build layers."""
+        """Set the hyper-parameters and build the layers."""
         super(DecoderRNN, self).__init__()
-        self.embed_size = embed_size
-        self.hidden_size = hidden_size
-        self.vocab_size = vocab_size
         self.embed = nn.Embedding(vocab_size, embed_size)
-        self.lstm = nn.LSTM(embed_size, hidden_size, num_layers)
+        self.lstm = nn.LSTM(embed_size, hidden_size, num_layers, batch_first=True)
         self.linear = nn.Linear(hidden_size, vocab_size)
+        self.init_weights()
     
     def init_weights(self):
+        """Initialize weights."""
         self.embed.weight.data.uniform_(-0.1, 0.1)
-        self.linear.weigth.data.uniform_(-0.1, 0.1)
+        self.linear.weight.data.uniform_(-0.1, 0.1)
         self.linear.bias.data.fill_(0)
         
     def forward(self, features, captions, lengths):
-        """Decode image feature vectors and generate caption."""
+        """Decodes image feature vectors and generates captions."""
         embeddings = self.embed(captions)
         embeddings = torch.cat((features.unsqueeze(1), embeddings), 1)
         packed = pack_padded_sequence(embeddings, lengths, batch_first=True) 
@@ -51,14 +52,15 @@ class DecoderRNN(nn.Module):
         outputs = self.linear(hiddens[0])
         return outputs
     
-    def sample(self, feature, state):
-        """Sample a caption for given a image feature."""
+    def sample(self, features, states):
+        """Samples captions for given image features."""
         sampled_ids = []
-        input = feature.unsqueeze(1)
+        inputs = features.unsqueeze(1)
         for i in range(20):
-            hidden, state = self.lstm(input, state)                  # (1, 1, hidden_size)
-            output = self.linear(hidden.view(-1, self.hidden_size))  # (1, vocab_size)
-            predicted = output.max(1)[1]
+            hiddens, states = self.lstm(inputs, states)                # (batch_size, 1, hidden_size)
+            outputs = self.linear(hiddens.unsqueeze())  # (batch_size, vocab_size)
+            predicted = outputs.max(1)[1]
             sampled_ids.append(predicted)
-            input = self.embed(predicted)
+            inputs = self.embed(predicted)
+        sampled_ids = torch.cat(sampled_ids, 1)   # (batch_size, 20)
         return sampled_ids
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diff --git a/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/resize.py b/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/resize.py
index da1cd99..02a0974 100644
--- a/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/resize.py	
+++ b/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/resize.py	
@@ -1,34 +1,34 @@
 from PIL import Image
+from configuration import Config
 import os
 
 
 def resize_image(image, size):
-    """Resizes an image to the given size."""
+    """Resizes the image to the given size."""
     return image.resize(size, Image.ANTIALIAS)
 
 def resize_images(image_dir, output_dir, size):
-    """Resizes the images in the image_dir and save into the output_dir."""
+    """Resizes the images in 'image_dir' and save them in 'output_dir'."""
     if not os.path.exists(output_dir):
         os.makedirs(output_dir)
-
     images = os.listdir(image_dir)
     num_images = len(images)
     for i, image in enumerate(images):
         with open(os.path.join(image_dir, image), 'r+b') as f:
             with Image.open(f) as img:
                 img = resize_image(img, size)
-                img.save(
-                    os.path.join(output_dir, image), img.format)
+                img.save(os.path.join(output_dir, image), img.format)
         if i % 100 == 0:
-            print ('[%d/%d] Resized the images and saved into %s.' 
+            print ('[%d/%d] Resized the images and saved them in %s.' 
                    %(i, num_images, output_dir)) 
             
 def main():
+    config = Config()
     splits = ['train', 'val']
     for split in splits:
-        image_dir = './data/%s2014/' %split
-        output_dir = './data/%s2014resized' %split
-        resize_images(image_dir, output_dir, (256, 256))
+        image_dir = os.path.join(config.image_path, '%s2014/' %split)
+        output_dir = os.path.join(config.image_path, '%s2014resized' %split)
+        resize_images(image_dir, output_dir, (config.image_size, config.image_size))
         
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
diff --git a/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/train.py b/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/train.py
index d97976d..611ac92 100644
--- a/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/train.py	
+++ b/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/train.py	
@@ -1,72 +1,84 @@
-from data import get_loader 
+from data import get_data_loader 
 from vocab import Vocabulary
+from configuration import Config
 from model import EncoderCNN, DecoderRNN 
 from torch.autograd import Variable 
 from torch.nn.utils.rnn import pack_padded_sequence
 import torch
-import torch.nn as nn 
-import numpy as np 
+import torch.nn as nn
 import torchvision.transforms as T 
+import numpy as np 
 import pickle 
+import os
 
-# Hyper Parameters
-num_epochs = 1
-batch_size = 32
-embed_size = 256
-hidden_size = 512
-crop_size = 224
-num_layers = 1
-learning_rate = 0.001
-train_image_path = './data/train2014resized/'
-train_json_path = './data/annotations/captions_train2014.json'
 
-# Image Preprocessing
-transform = T.Compose([
-    T.RandomCrop(crop_size),
-    T.RandomHorizontalFlip(), 
-    T.ToTensor(), 
-    T.Normalize(mean=(0.5, 0.5, 0.5), std=(0.5, 0.5, 0.5))])
+def main():
+    # Configuration for hyper-parameters
+    config = Config()
+    
+    # Image preprocessing
+    transform = T.Compose([
+        T.Scale(config.image_size),     # no resize
+        T.RandomCrop(config.crop_size),
+        T.RandomHorizontalFlip(), 
+        T.ToTensor(), 
+        T.Normalize((0.5, 0.5, 0.5), (0.5, 0.5, 0.5))])
 
-# Load Vocabulary Wrapper
-with open('./data/vocab.pkl', 'rb') as f:
+    # Load vocabulary wrapper
+    with open(os.path.join(config.vocab_path, 'vocab.pkl'), 'rb') as f:
         vocab = pickle.load(f)
-        
-# Build Dataset Loader
-train_loader = get_loader(train_image_path, train_json_path, vocab, transform, 
-                          batch_size=batch_size, shuffle=True, num_workers=2) 
-total_step = len(train_loader)
 
-# Build Models
-encoder = EncoderCNN(embed_size)
-decoder = DecoderRNN(embed_size, hidden_size, len(vocab), num_layers)
-encoder.cuda()
-decoder.cuda()
-        
-# Loss and Optimizer
-criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
-params = list(decoder.parameters()) + list(encoder.resnet.fc.parameters())
-optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(params, lr=learning_rate)
+    # Build data loader
+    image_path = os.path.join(config.image_path, 'train2014')
+    json_path = os.path.join(config.caption_path, 'captions_train2014.json')
+    train_loader = get_data_loader(image_path, json_path, vocab, 
+                                   transform, config.batch_size,
+                                   shuffle=True, num_workers=config.num_threads) 
+    total_step = len(train_loader)
 
-# Train the Decoder
-for epoch in range(num_epochs):
-    for i, (images, captions, lengths) in enumerate(train_loader):
-        # Set mini-batch dataset
-        images = Variable(images).cuda()
-        captions = Variable(captions).cuda()
-        targets = pack_padded_sequence(captions, lengths, batch_first=True)[0]
-        
-        # Forward, Backward and Optimize
-        decoder.zero_grad()
-        features = encoder(images)
-        outputs = decoder(features, captions, lengths)
-        loss = criterion(outputs, targets)
-        loss.backward()
-        optimizer.step()
-        
-        if i % 100 == 0:
-            print('Epoch [%d/%d], Step [%d/%d], Loss: %.4f, Perplexity: %5.4f'
-                  %(epoch, num_epochs, i, total_step, loss.data[0], np.exp(loss.data[0])))    
+    # Build Models
+    encoder = EncoderCNN(config.embed_size)
+    decoder = DecoderRNN(config.embed_size, config.hidden_size, 
+                         len(vocab), config.num_layers)
+    encoder.cuda()
+    decoder.cuda()
 
-# Save the Model
-torch.save(decoder, 'decoder.pkl')
-torch.save(encoder, 'encoder.pkl')
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+    # Loss and Optimizer
+    criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
+    params = list(decoder.parameters()) + list(encoder.resnet.fc.parameters())
+    optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(params, lr=config.learning_rate)
+
+    # Train the Models
+    for epoch in range(config.num_epochs):
+        for i, (images, captions, lengths) in enumerate(train_loader):
+            
+            # Set mini-batch dataset
+            images = Variable(images).cuda()
+            captions = Variable(captions).cuda()
+            targets = pack_padded_sequence(captions, lengths, batch_first=True)[0]
+
+            # Forward, Backward and Optimize
+            decoder.zero_grad()
+            encoder.zero_grad()
+            features = encoder(images)
+            outputs = decoder(features, captions, lengths)
+            loss = criterion(outputs, targets)
+            loss.backward()
+            optimizer.step()
+
+            # Print log info
+            if i % config.log_step == 0:
+                print('Epoch [%d/%d], Step [%d/%d], Loss: %.4f, Perplexity: %5.4f'
+                      %(epoch, config.num_epochs, i, total_step, 
+                        loss.data[0], np.exp(loss.data[0]))) 
+                
+            # Save the Model
+            if (i+1) % config.save_step == 0:
+                torch.save(decoder.state_dict(), 
+                           os.path.join(config.model_path, 
+                                        'decoder-%d-%d.pkl' %(epoch+1, i+1)))
+                torch.save(encoder.state_dict(), 
+                           os.path.join(config.model_path, 
+                                        'encoder-%d-%d.pkl' %(epoch+1, i+1)))
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
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diff --git a/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/vocab.py b/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/vocab.py
index 78c16f2..198d511 100644
--- a/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/vocab.py	
+++ b/tutorials/09 - Image Captioning/vocab.py	
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-# Create a vocabulary wrapper
 import nltk
 import pickle
+import os
+from configuration import Config
 from collections import Counter
 from pycocotools.coco import COCO
 
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ class Vocabulary(object):
         return len(self.word2idx)
 
 def build_vocab(json, threshold):
-    """Build a simple vocabulary wrapper."""
+    """Builds a simple vocabulary wrapper."""
     coco = COCO(json)
     counter = Counter()
     ids = coco.anns.keys()
@@ -37,29 +38,31 @@ def build_vocab(json, threshold):
         counter.update(tokens)
         
         if i % 1000 == 0:
-            print("[%d/%d] tokenized the captions." %(i, len(ids)))
-        
-    # Discard if the occurrence of the word is less than min_word_cnt.
+            print("[%d/%d] Tokenized the captions." %(i, len(ids)))
+    
+    # If the word frequency is less than 'threshold', then the word is discarded.
     words = [word for word, cnt in counter.items() if cnt >= threshold]
 
-    # Create a vocab wrapper and add some special tokens.
+    # Creates a vocab wrapper and add some special tokens.
     vocab = Vocabulary()
     vocab.add_word('<pad>') 
     vocab.add_word('<start>') 
     vocab.add_word('<end>') 
     vocab.add_word('<unk>') 
     
-    # Add words to the vocabulary.
+    # Adds the words to the vocabulary.
     for i, word in enumerate(words):
         vocab.add_word(word)
     return vocab
 
 def main():
-    vocab = build_vocab(json='./data/annotations/captions_train2014.json',
-                         threshold=4)
-    with open('./data/vocab.pkl', 'wb') as f:
+    config = Config()
+    vocab = build_vocab(json=os.path.join(config.caption_path, 'captions_train2014.json'),
+                        threshold=config.word_count_threshold)
+    vocab_path = os.path.join(config.vocab_path, 'vocab.pkl')
+    with open(vocab_path, 'wb') as f:
         pickle.dump(vocab, f, pickle.HIGHEST_PROTOCOL)
-    print("Saved vocabulary file to ", './data/vocab.pkl')
+    print("Saved the vocabulary wrapper to ", vocab_path)
     
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()
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