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handwritten-digit-classifier

Inspired by the 3Blue1Brown neural network series, this is an implementation of a neural network that tries to classify Handwritten Digits.

The neural network makes use of the MNIST dataset. Training is done by iterating over the entire dataset for 5 epochs, calculating losses for each epoch and performing gradient descent backpropagation.

The network manages to achieve an average testing accuracy of 91% (the best accuracy I've seen in all my testing was 93%). Constructing a similar network structure with same parameters achieves 97% when using Tensorflow, which is quite a lot and something that I look forward to achieving with my own implementation. Here's how both implementations perform on the MNIST testing dataset:

nn-performance


Building the program requires CMake.

# clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/a-r-r-o-w/handwritten-digit-classifier-in-c
cd handwritten-digit-classifier-in-c

# build the binaries
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

The binaries should be created in the build/ directory and can be executed to replicate the results mentioned above.

./matrix-test
./mnist-test
./handwritten-digit-classifier

Note: ./mnist-test requires that the terminal supports ANSI Escape Codes. If your terminal does support it, the output may look something like:

mnist-test.png

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