MNIST benchmark

benchmarks of different machine learning libraries using the MNIST dataset

• (tensorflow) DNN : 97.81%
• (tensorflow) CNN : coming up
• PyTorch : coming up

Prerequisites

tensorflow:

$ pip3 install tensorflow

note: has to be Python3.7.6 or older, tensorflow is not updated for Python3.8 yet

Use

$ python3 benchmark.py

predictions.py

played around with plotting

• incorrect classifications
  • network guess (red) and certainty (bar graph)
  • actual classification (blue)
• unconfident predictions (< 65% certain)

Authors

• simon - buy my merch - mightbesimon

Shoutout to tensorflow.org tutorials
Shoutout to Google for creating tensorflow

Acknowledgments

• I'm just following tensorflow.org tutorials