MNIST dataset
The objective here is to classify the digit contained in a image.
Preparing the data
We can download the MNIST dataset using the dataset_mnist function available in the keras package.
We then need to extract the training and test data from the mnist object.
# Training data
train_images <- mnist$train$x
train_labels <- mnist$train$y
# Test data
test_images <- mnist$test$x
test_labels <- mnist$test$yThe code below shows that the train_images is a tensor with 3 axis, (samples, height, width). In this case, the channels axis was not necessary because the grey-scale images has only one channel.
## int [1:60000, 1:28, 1:28] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...We can use slice operations to inspect specific images. Below we can see the content of the first training image.
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## [28,] 0 0 0 0A plot can be made using the as.raster function.
The train labels is a vector holding the digit that the respective image is representing, going from zero to nine.
## train_labels
## 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
## 5923 6742 5958 6131 5842 5421 5918 6265 5851 5949Defining the model
In this case we are using a layer_dense which expects an input tensor of rank equal to two (sample, features) where each sample should contain 28*28=784 pixels.
Compiling the model
Data pre-processing
Before training, we’ll preprocess the data by reshaping it into the shape the network expects and scaling it so that all values are in the [0, 1] interval.
Previously, our training images, for instance, were stored in an array of shape (60000, 28, 28) of type integer with values in the [0, 255] interval. We transform it into a double array of shape (60000, 28 * 28) with values between 0 and 1.
# Processing the data
train_images <- array_reshape(train_images, c(60000, 28 * 28))
train_images <- train_images / 255
train_labels <- to_categorical(train_labels)
test_images <- array_reshape(test_images, c(10000, 28 * 28))
test_images <- test_images / 255
test_labels <- to_categorical(test_labels)Recommended exercise 1
Perform model validation (plot loss and accuracy metric) and model assessment (accuracy in the test dataset) for the model defined here.