MNIST-dataset-in-different-formats

Just a MNIST dataset in different formats

THE MNIST DATABASE of handwritten digits

Yann LeCun, Courant Institute, NYU
Corinna Cortes, Google Labs, New York
Christopher J.C. Burges, Microsoft Research, Redmond

Dataset can be downloaded at http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/

For classification error % results introduced in literature please refer to

1. http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/
2. http://rodrigob.github.io/are_we_there_yet/build/classification_datasets_results.html#4d4e495354

For examples and practical results:

1) https://www.kaggle.com/c/digit-recognizer

Data folder:

1) Original dataset - Original MNIST dataset in binary format(not compressed)
        http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/
2) CSV format - MNIST IN CSV fromat
        http://pjreddie.com/projects/mnist-in-csv/
3) Matlab format - MNIST IN Matlab .mat fromat
        http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Using_the_MNIST_Dataset
        also not conventional .mat can be found here http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~roweis/data.html

Convert to some specialized formats:

1)lmdb (default) or leveldb formats used in Caffe library
https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/blob/master/examples/mnist/convert_mnist_data.cpp

How to load MNIST in X language:

in R: 
  https://gist.github.com/brendano/39760
in Python:
        1. https://github.com/sorki/python-mnist
        
        2. using sklearn.datasets.fetch_mldata                      
        http://scikit-learn.org/stable/datasets/#downloading-datasets-from-the-mldata-org-repository
        
        3. Also you can convert MNIST to csv and read .csv file in python.
in C++:
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8286668/how-to-read-mnist-data-in-c
  https://compvisionlab.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/c-code-for-reading-mnist-data-set/
in Java:
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8286668/how-to-read-mnist-data-in-c
in F#:
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19370314/reading-the-mnist-dataset-using-f
  
  

Visualization of MNIST:

1. t-sne http://lvdmaaten.github.io/tsne/ http://lvdmaaten.github.io/tsne/examples/mnist_tsne.jpg
2. http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-10-Visualizing-MNIST/

Additional data:

1. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/twiki/bin/view.cgi/Public/MnistVariations
2. http://leon.bottou.org/projects/infimnist

Sources of inspiration:

1. https://github.com/grfiv/MNIST
2. https://github.com/siddharth-agrawal/Softmax-Regression
3. http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/MatlabForSciencePaper.html

To look at:

https://github.com/grfiv/MNIST/blob/master/MNIST.pdf
https://github.com/yburda/iwae
https://github.com/vsvinayak/mnist-helper

https://github.com/sugyan/tensorflow-mnist

https://github.com/jliemansifry/mnist-fun

projects that work with MNIST
https://github.com/AnonymousWombat/BinaryConnect