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| license: cc-by-sa-3.0 |
| task_categories: [] |
| tags: |
| - image |
| - mnist |
| pretty_name: MNIST Handwritten Digits |
| --- |
| |
| # Info |
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| Balanced subsample of the classic MNIST handwritten digits dataset (LeCun, Cortes, |
| Burges), for use with the [AUTOENCODIX](https://github.com/jan-forest/autoencodix_package) |
| `Imagix` tutorial. |
|
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| ## Contents |
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| - **2000 images**, 200 per digit (digits 0-9), 28x28 grayscale PNG, drawn from the |
| MNIST training split. |
| - `mnist_images.zip`: image files, named `mnist_<digit>_<index>.png`. |
| - `mnist_mappings.txt`: tab-separated annotation file, columns `sample_ids`, |
| `img_paths`, `label` (digit class, 0-9). |
|
|
| ## Loading |
|
|
| ```python |
| from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download |
| import zipfile |
| |
| mapping_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id="autoencodix/mnist", repo_type="dataset", filename="mnist_mappings.txt") |
| zip_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id="autoencodix/mnist", repo_type="dataset", filename="mnist_images.zip") |
| |
| with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path) as zf: |
| zf.extractall("data/images/") |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## License |
|
|
| **CC BY-SA 3.0.** Original MNIST dataset by Yann LeCun, Corinna Cortes, and |
| Christopher J.C. Burges, derived from NIST, licensed under |
| [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). |
| See [http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/](http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/) for details. |
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