This is a C implementation of the neural network for handwriting recognition outlined in the free online book by Michael Nielsen.
It was written as a learning exercise, and is essentially a port of Michael's Python implementation.
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Install the GNU Scientic library, GCC, G++
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Download the training data:
wget http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz
wget http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz- Unzip the data into ./dat:
gunzip -c train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz > dat/train-images-idx3-ubyte
gunzip -c train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz > dat/train-labels-idx1-ubyte-
Build using cmake eg. from the project directory:
cd buildcmake ..make
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Run from the project folder:
- Tests with
./tests - Train the network with
./run
- Tests with
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Read the book!