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layout: datasets title: MNIST Dataset description: The MNIST database of handwritten digits. link: mnist

The MNIST database of handwritten digits, available from this page, has a training set of 60,000 examples, and a test set of 10,000 examples. It is a subset of a larger set available from NIST. The digits have been size-normalized and centered in a fixed-size image.

Home Page: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/

Download Size: 11.06 MiB

Files

1. train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz: training set images (9912422 bytes)
2. train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz: training set labels (28881 bytes)
3. t10k-images-idx3-ubyte.gz: test set images (1648877 bytes)
4. t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz: test set labels (4542 bytes)

Split:

Split	Examples
train	60,000
test	10,000