A comparative study of algorithms for handwritten digit recognition. Case: MNIST

Authors

  • Yasiel Conde Bernal UAEMéx
  • Saul Lazcano Salas
  • Maricela Quintana López
  • Saturnino Job Morales Escobar
  • Asdrúbal López Chau

Keywords:

MNIST, neural networks, pattern recognition, classification metrics, classification algorithms

Abstract

The present work presents a comparison of classification algorithms for the recognition of handwritten characters corresponding to the digits from zero to nine, using the MNIST database as a source of information. Exhaustive search techniques for hyperparameters from the KNN machine learning algorithms, logistic regression, Nayve Bayes, support vector machine, decision tree and random forest will be used. The result of the previous algorithms will be compared with a multilayer neural network and another convolutional network also designed in the work, the classification metrics accuracy, precision, recall and F1-score will be used for this purpose.

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Published

2024-02-11

How to Cite

Conde Bernal, Y., Lazcano Salas, S., Quintana López, M., Morales Escobar, S. J., & López Chau, A. (2024). A comparative study of algorithms for handwritten digit recognition. Case: MNIST. ReCIBE, Electronic Journal of Computing, Informatics, Biomedical and Electronics, 12(2), C6–20. Retrieved from http://recibe.cucei.udg.mx/index.php/ReCIBE/article/view/306

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Computer Science & IT