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We show a simplistic approach using simple Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to classify Japanese handwritten digit dataset Kuzushiji-MNIST. We use combinations of loss functions and optimisers on an empirically sound model of Convolutional Neural Netwok (CNN) to come up with a new State-of-the-art accuracy for all Simple CNN approaches on the Kuzushiji-MNIST dataset with accuracy of 96.13 %.
A. Ghosh and A. Mukherjee—Both authors have contributed equally
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Ghosh, A., Mukherjee, A., Ghosh, C. (2020). Simplistic Deep Learning for Japanese Handwritten Digit Recognition. In: Dawn, S., Balas, V., Esposito, A., Gope, S. (eds) Intelligent Techniques and Applications in Science and Technology. ICIMSAT 2019. Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42363-6_10
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