Context MNIST is a subset of a larger set available from NIST (it's copied from http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/) Content The MNIST database of handwritten digits has a training set of 60,000 examples, and a test set of 10,000 examples. . Four files are available: - 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) How to read See [sample MNIST reader][1] Acknowledgements * Yann LeCun, Courant Institute, NYU * Corinna Cortes, Google Labs, New York * Christopher J.C. Burges, Microsoft Research, Redmond Inspiration Many methods have been tested with this training set and test set (see http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/ for more details) [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/hojjatk/read-mnist-dataset