deep-learning/README.md

Rust Deep Learning

School Project I did for a Neural Networks Class at the end of 2023:

• Implements a neural net (backpropagation / multilayer perceptron) in Rust
• Constraint: Can't use any Linear Algebra libraries or frameworks
• Training/Dataset: Fashion-MNIST dataset (achieves about 91% accuracy in less than 10 min of training)

See OVERVIEW.png for the underlying math I came up with to do backprop and organize memory.

Dataset

Fashion MNIST (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.07747.pdf). Dataset of images ‒ consisting of a training set of 60,000 examples and a test set of 10,000 examples. Each example is a 28x28 grayscale image, associated with a label from 10 classes. The dataset is in CSV format:

• fashion_mnist_train_vectors.csv - training input vectors
• fashion_mnist_test_vectors.csv - testing input vectors
• fashion_mnist_train_labels.csv - training labels
• fashion_mnist_test_labels.csv - testing labels