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MNIST handwritten digit database, Yann LeCun, Corinna Cortes and Chris Burges

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It is a good database for people who want to try learning techniques and pattern recognition methods on real-world data while spending minimal efforts on preprocessing and formatting. Four files are available on this site: train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz: training set images (9912422 bytes) train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz: training set labels (28881 bytes) t10k-images-idx3-ubyte.gz: test set images (1648877 bytes) t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz: test set labels (4542 bytes) please note that your browser may uncompress these files without telling you. If the files you downloaded have a larger size than the above, they have been uncompressed by your browser. Simply rename them to remove the .gz extension. Some people have asked me "my application can't open your image files". These files are not in any standard image format. You have to write your own (very simple) program to read them. The file format is described at the bottom of this page. The original black and white (bilevel) images from NIS

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