<s>
The	O
Fashion	B-General_Concept
MNIST	I-General_Concept
dataset	O
is	O
a	O
large	O
freely	O
available	O
database	O
of	O
fashion	O
images	O
that	O
is	O
commonly	O
used	O
for	O
training	O
and	O
testing	O
various	O
machine	O
learning	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Fashion-MNIST	O
was	O
intended	O
to	O
serve	O
as	O
a	O
replacement	O
for	O
the	O
original	O
MNIST	B-General_Concept
database	I-General_Concept
for	O
benchmarking	O
machine	O
learning	O
algorithms	O
,	O
as	O
it	O
shares	O
the	O
same	O
image	O
size	O
,	O
data	O
format	O
and	O
the	O
structure	O
of	O
training	O
and	O
testing	O
splits	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
set	O
of	O
images	O
in	O
the	O
Fashion	B-General_Concept
MNIST	I-General_Concept
database	O
was	O
created	O
in	O
2017	O
to	O
pose	O
a	O
more	O
challenging	O
classification	B-General_Concept
task	I-General_Concept
than	O
the	O
simple	O
MNIST	B-General_Concept
digits	O
data	O
,	O
which	O
saw	O
performance	O
reaching	O
upwards	O
of	O
99.7	O
%	O
.	O
</s>
