Our Submission for NIPS Workshop - Code a Paper

An important facet of science is replication, that is, being able to reproduce the results claimed in any scientific work. Independent testing, challenging and verification of published results not only add to the crediblity of the research, but also helps in democratizing scientific knowledge. Research based on machine learning should therefore be put up against the same verification process in order to be called science.

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Playing with Fashion MNIST

Recently, the researchers at Zalando, an e-commerce company, introduced Fashion MNIST as a drop-in replacement for the original MNIST dataset. Like MNIST, Fashion MNIST consists of a training set consisting of 60,000 examples belonging to 10 different classes and a test set of 10,000 examples. Each training example is a gray-scale image, 28x28 in size. The authors of the work further claim that the Fashion MNIST should actually replace MNIST dataset for benchmarking of new Machine Learning or Computer Vision models.

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