"""MNIST handwritten digits dataset.
"""
import numpy as np
from pyeddl.utils.data_utils import get_file
[docs]def load_data(path='mnist.npz'):
"""Loads the MNIST dataset.
Arguments:
path: path where to cache the dataset locally
Returns:
Tuple of Numpy arrays: `(x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test)`.
License:
Yann LeCun and Corinna Cortes hold the copyright of MNIST dataset,
which is a derivative work from original NIST datasets.
MNIST dataset is made available under the terms of the
[Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.](
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
"""
origin_folder = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/tf-keras-datasets/'
path = get_file(
path,
origin=origin_folder + 'mnist.npz',
file_hash='8a61469f7ea1b51cbae51d4f78837e45')
with np.load(path) as f:
x_train, y_train = f['x_train'], f['y_train']
x_test, y_test = f['x_test'], f['y_test']
return (x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test)