This is a rough implementation of a very simple Neural Network that showcases the basics of Machine Learning. You can find an extensive description of this network here.

The network is defined in neuralnetwork.go. An example for calling the network is found in main.go.

The network is prepared to work with the MNIST dataset in CSV format (find it here).

The dataset contains 60,000 greyscale images (28x28 pixels) for training and 10,000 greyscale images for testing.

imageutil.go provides functionality to convert from CSV to PNG. It also provides a function for preparing custom images that are to be passed to the neural network.

The network can be stored and loaded in/from YAML files.

The implementation purposely refrains from using advanced libraries in order to give a complete look under the hood. For this reason, some basic matrix operations are defined in matrixutility.go. Still, make sure that you have the following libraries installed:

• gonum.org/v1/gonum v0.12.0
• gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1

First Steps: Download the datasets and have a look at the three functions in main.go. Choose one and begin your experiments!