A C program which uses libfann to train a simple MLP on MNIST

MNIST Data: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/

Platform: Ubuntu 14.04

Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install gcc

sudo apt-get install libfann2 libfann-dbg

Files:

typescript - Example training output with classification error on test set

train2.c - The trainer

Compilation: 
  gcc -o train2 train2.c -lfann

Usage:
  Expects files train.fann and test.fann in working directory

  ./train2

idxToCsv.py: Converts MNIST binary data files to libfann compatible text format.

Usage: ./idxToCsv.py -h - Show help

  Example:

    ./idxToCsv.py -i train-images-idx3-ubyte -l train-labels-idx1-ubyte -o train.fann
    ./idxToCsv.py -i t10k-images-idx3-ubyte -l t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte -o test.fann