Digit guesser

The project is a rust implementation of guessing hand-written digits using a deep learning algorithm, with the help of the MNIST database. It has been heavily inspired by 3Blue1Brown's video introduction to deep learning.

Running

1. Install rust
2. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/jookzie/digit-guesser-rs.git --depth=1
cd digit-guesser-rs

3. Run the project

cargo run --release

Progress

• Parse database files
• Train model
• Test model
• Command line interface
• Benchmarks
• Tests
• Serialize/deseralize model
• Multi-threading

Status

So far, the trained models manage to guess the digits 36% of the time. Most likely the backprop is subpar and needs optimizations.

P.S. I have not had any AI courses, this is purely an attempt to learn rust and deep learning.