Deep Big Simple Neural Nets Excel on Handwritten Digit Recognition

1 code implementation • 1 Mar 2010 • Dan Claudiu Ciresan, Ueli Meier, Luca Maria Gambardella, Juergen Schmidhuber

Good old on-line back-propagation for plain multi-layer perceptrons yields a very low 0. 35% error rate on the famous MNIST handwritten digits benchmark.

Handwritten Digit Recognition