mnist(path)
Load the MNIST data set (LeCun, Bottou, Bengio, & Haffner, 1998).
path
: str. Path to directory which either stores file or otherwise file will be downloaded and extracted there. Filenames are train-images-idx3-ubyte
, train-labels-idx1-ubyte
, t10k-images-idx3-ubyte
, t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte
.Tuple of np.ndarray’s (x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test)
.
LeCun, Y., Bottou, L., Bengio, Y., & Haffner, P. (1998). Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition. Proceedings of the IEEE, 86(11), 2278–2324.