Implementation of the Batch Normalization technique (Numpy) and reproduction of MNIST results.

Paper: Ioffe, Sergey, and Christian Szegedy. “Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift.” ArXiv:1502.03167 [Cs], Mar. 2015. arXiv.org, http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03167.

MNIST - Dataset: LeCun, Y., Bottou, L., Bengio, Y., and Haffner, P. (1998). Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition. Proceedings of the IEEE, 86, 2278–2324.

MNIST dataset is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

Batch Normalization provides stability to the inputs of the activation functions. By doing that, it reduces the number of steps needed to train a model.

pip install -r requirements.txt

cd data/
unzip mnist-in-csv.zip

python3 main.py