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+# Dataset Card for MNIST
+
+<!-- Provide a quick summary of the dataset. -->
+
+## Dataset Details
+
+### Dataset Description
+
+<!-- Provide a longer summary of what this dataset is. -->
+The MNIST database is a large collection of handwritten digits. It has a training set of 60,000 examples, and a test set of 10,000 examples.
+
+### Dataset Sources
+
+<!-- Provide the basic links for the dataset. -->
+
+- **Homepage:** https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/mnist#:~:text=The%20MNIST%20database%20(Modified%20National,test%20set%20of%2010%2C000%20examples.
+
+## Dataset Structure
+
+<!-- This section provides a description of the dataset fields, and additional information about the dataset structure such as criteria used to create the splits, relationships between data points, etc. -->
+
+Total images: 70,000
+
+Splits:
+
+- **Train**: 60,000 images
+
+- **Test**: 10,000 images
+
+Classes (labels): 10 categories
+
+Image specs: 28x28 pixels, grayscale
+
+## Example Usage
+Below is a quick example of how to load this dataset via the Hugging Face Datasets library.
+```
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+# Load the dataset
+dataset = load_dataset("randall-lab/mnist", split="train", trust_remote_code=True)
+# dataset = load_dataset("randall-lab/mnist", split="test", trust_remote_code=True)
+
+# Access a sample from the training set
+example = dataset["train"][0]
+image = example["image"]
+label = example["label"]
+
+image.show()  # Display the image
+print(f"Label: {label}")
+```
+
+## Citation
+
+<!-- If there is a paper or blog post introducing the dataset, the APA and Bibtex information for that should go in this section. -->
+
+**BibTeX:**
+
+@misc{lecun1998mnist,
+  author={Yann LeCun and Corinna Cortes and Christopher J.C. Burges},
+  title={The MNIST database of handwritten digits},
+  year={1998},
+  url={http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/}
+}
+