The source code for this tutorial lives at[book/recognize_digits](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/tree/develop/02.recognize_digits). For instructions on getting started with Paddle, please refer to [installation instructions](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/blob/develop/README.md#running-the-book).
The source code for this tutorial locates in[book/recognize_digits](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/tree/develop/02.recognize_digits). For instructions on getting started with Paddle, please refer to [installation instructions](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/blob/develop/README.md#running-the-book).
## Introduction
When one learns to program, the first task is usually to write a program that prints "Hello World!". In Machine Learning or Deep Learning, a similar task is to train a model to recognize hand-written digits using the dataset [MNIST](http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/). Handwriting recognition is a classic image classification problem. The problem is relatively easy and MNIST is a complete dataset. As a simple Computer Vision dataset, MNIST contains images of handwritten digits and their corresponding labels (Fig. 1). The input image is a $28\times28$ matrix, and the label is one of the digits from $0$ to $9$. All images are normalized, meaning that they are both rescaled and centered.
When one learns to program, the first task is usually to write a program that prints "Hello World!". In Machine Learning or Deep Learning, an equivalent task is to train a model to recognize hand-written digits using the [MNIST](http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/) dataset. Handwriting recognition is a classic image classification problem. The problem is relatively easy and MNIST is a complete dataset. As a simple Computer Vision dataset, MNIST contains images of handwritten digits and their corresponding labels (Fig. 1). The input image is a $28\times28$ matrix, and the label is one of the digits from $0$ to $9$. All images are normalized, meaning that they are both rescaled and centered.
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The MNIST dataset is from the [NIST](https://www.nist.gov/srd/nist-special-database-19) Special Database 3 (SD-3) and the Special Database 1 (SD-1). The SD-3 is labeled by the staff of the U.S. Census Bureau, while SD-1 is labeled by high school students. Therefore the SD-3 is cleaner and easier to recognize than the SD-1 dataset. Yann LeCun et al. used half of the samples from each of SD-1 and SD-3 to create the MNIST training set of 60,000 samples and test set of 10,000 samples. 250 annotators labeled the training set, thus guaranteed that there wasn't a complete overlap of annotators of training set and test set.
MNIST has been the tester of many image recognition technologies, including single layer linear classifier, Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Multilayer CNN LeNet\[[1](#references)\], K-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) \[[2](#references)\], Support Vector Machine (SVM) \[[3](#references)\], Neural Networks \[[4-7](#references)\], Boosting \[[8](#references)\] and preprocessing methods like distortion removal, noise removal, and blurring. Among these algorithms, the *Convolutional Neural Network* (CNN) has achieved a series of impressive results in Image Classification tasks, including VGGNet, GoogLeNet, and ResNet (See [Image Classification](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/tree/develop/03.image_classification) tutorial).
The MNIST dataset has been used for evaluating many image recognition algorithms such as a single layer linear classifier, Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Multilayer CNN LeNet\[[1](#references)\], K-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) \[[2](#references)\], Support Vector Machine (SVM) \[[3](#references)\], Neural Networks \[[4-7](#references)\], Boosting \[[8](#references)\] and preprocessing methods like distortion removal, noise removal, and blurring. Among these algorithms, the *Convolutional Neural Network* (CNN) has achieved a series of impressive results in Image Classification tasks, including VGGNet, GoogLeNet, and ResNet (See [Image Classification](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/tree/develop/03.image_classification) tutorial).
In this tutorial, we start with a simple **softmax** regression model and go on with MLP and CNN. Readers will see how these methods improve the recognition accuracy step-by-step.
The source code for this tutorial lives at [book/recognize_digits](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/tree/develop/02.recognize_digits). For instructions on getting started with Paddle, please refer to [installation instructions](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/blob/develop/README.md#running-the-book).
The source code for this tutorial locates in [book/recognize_digits](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/tree/develop/02.recognize_digits). For instructions on getting started with Paddle, please refer to [installation instructions](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/blob/develop/README.md#running-the-book).
## Introduction
When one learns to program, the first task is usually to write a program that prints "Hello World!". In Machine Learning or Deep Learning, a similar task is to train a model to recognize hand-written digits using the dataset [MNIST](http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/). Handwriting recognition is a classic image classification problem. The problem is relatively easy and MNIST is a complete dataset. As a simple Computer Vision dataset, MNIST contains images of handwritten digits and their corresponding labels (Fig. 1). The input image is a $28\times28$ matrix, and the label is one of the digits from $0$ to $9$. All images are normalized, meaning that they are both rescaled and centered.
When one learns to program, the first task is usually to write a program that prints "Hello World!". In Machine Learning or Deep Learning, an equivalent task is to train a model to recognize hand-written digits using the [MNIST](http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/) dataset. Handwriting recognition is a classic image classification problem. The problem is relatively easy and MNIST is a complete dataset. As a simple Computer Vision dataset, MNIST contains images of handwritten digits and their corresponding labels (Fig. 1). The input image is a $28\times28$ matrix, and the label is one of the digits from $0$ to $9$. All images are normalized, meaning that they are both rescaled and centered.
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The MNIST dataset is from the [NIST](https://www.nist.gov/srd/nist-special-database-19) Special Database 3 (SD-3) and the Special Database 1 (SD-1). The SD-3 is labeled by the staff of the U.S. Census Bureau, while SD-1 is labeled by high school students. Therefore the SD-3 is cleaner and easier to recognize than the SD-1 dataset. Yann LeCun et al. used half of the samples from each of SD-1 and SD-3 to create the MNIST training set of 60,000 samples and test set of 10,000 samples. 250 annotators labeled the training set, thus guaranteed that there wasn't a complete overlap of annotators of training set and test set.
MNIST has been the tester of many image recognition technologies, including single layer linear classifier, Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Multilayer CNN LeNet\[[1](#references)\], K-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) \[[2](#references)\], Support Vector Machine (SVM) \[[3](#references)\], Neural Networks \[[4-7](#references)\], Boosting \[[8](#references)\] and preprocessing methods like distortion removal, noise removal, and blurring. Among these algorithms, the *Convolutional Neural Network* (CNN) has achieved a series of impressive results in Image Classification tasks, including VGGNet, GoogLeNet, and ResNet (See [Image Classification](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/tree/develop/03.image_classification) tutorial).
The MNIST dataset has been used for evaluating many image recognition algorithms such as a single layer linear classifier, Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Multilayer CNN LeNet\[[1](#references)\], K-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN) \[[2](#references)\], Support Vector Machine (SVM) \[[3](#references)\], Neural Networks \[[4-7](#references)\], Boosting \[[8](#references)\] and preprocessing methods like distortion removal, noise removal, and blurring. Among these algorithms, the *Convolutional Neural Network* (CNN) has achieved a series of impressive results in Image Classification tasks, including VGGNet, GoogLeNet, and ResNet (See [Image Classification](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/book/tree/develop/03.image_classification) tutorial).
In this tutorial, we start with a simple **softmax** regression model and go on with MLP and CNN. Readers will see how these methods improve the recognition accuracy step-by-step.
