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CNN Project: MNIST

In this project, you will build a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to classify handwritten digits from the MNIST dataset. You will use PyTorch and apply data preprocessing, model definition, training, and evaluation.

Project: Handwritten digit recognition using CNN on MNIST.

Step 1: Import Libraries and Load Data

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.optim as optim
import torchvision
import torchvision.transforms as transforms

transform = transforms.Compose([
transforms.ToTensor(),
transforms.Normalize((0.5,), (0.5,))
])

trainset = torchvision.datasets.MNIST(root='./data', train=True, download=True, transform=transform)
testset = torchvision.datasets.MNIST(root='./data', train=False, download=True, transform=transform)

trainloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(trainset, batch_size=64, shuffle=True)
testloader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(testset, batch_size=64, shuffle=False)

Step 2: Define the CNN Model

class CNN(nn.Module):
def __init__(self):
super().__init__()
self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(1, 32, 3, 1)
self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(32, 64, 3, 1)
self.dropout1 = nn.Dropout2d(0.25)
self.dropout2 = nn.Dropout2d(0.5)
self.fc1 = nn.Linear(9216, 128)
self.fc2 = nn.Linear(128, 10)

def forward(self, x):
x = self.conv1(x)
x = nn.functional.relu(x)
x = self.conv2(x)
x = nn.functional.relu(x)
x = nn.functional.max_pool2d(x, 2)
x = self.dropout1(x)
x = torch.flatten(x, 1)
x = self.fc1(x)
x = nn.functional.relu(x)
x = self.dropout2(x)
x = self.fc2(x)
output = nn.functional.log_softmax(x, dim=1)
return output

Step 3: Train the Model

model = CNN()
criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
optimizer = optim.Adam(model.parameters(), lr=0.001)

epochs = 5
for epoch in range(epochs):
running_loss = 0.0
for images, labels in trainloader:
optimizer.zero_grad()
output = model(images)
loss = criterion(output, labels)
loss.backward()
optimizer.step()
running_loss += loss.item()
print(f"Epoch {epoch+1}, Loss: {running_loss/len(trainloader):.4f}")

Step 4: Evaluate Accuracy

correct = 0
total = 0
with torch.no_grad():
for images, labels in testloader:
output = model(images)
_, predicted = torch.max(output, 1)
total += labels.size(0)
correct += (predicted == labels).sum().item()
print(f"Test Accuracy: {100 * correct / total:.2f}%")


Two Minute Drill
  • Build CNN with conv2d, pooling, dropout, linear layers.
  • Train with cross‑entropy loss and Adam optimizer.
  • Evaluate on test set for accuracy.
  • Expected accuracy ~98‑99%.

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