Accepted Manuscript On improving CNNs performance: The case of MNIST Ricardo F. Alvear-Sandoval, Jos ´ e L. Sancho-G ´ omez, An´ ıbal R. Figueiras-Vidal PII: S1566-2535(18)30529-3 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.12.005 Reference: INFFUS 1063 To appear in: Information Fusion Received date: 27 July 2018 Revised date: 6 November 2018 Accepted date: 10 December 2018 Please cite this article as: Ricardo F. Alvear-Sandoval, Jos´ e L. Sancho-G ´ omez, An´ ıbal R. Figueiras-Vidal, On improving CNNs performance: The case of MNIST, Information Fusion (2018), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2018.12.005 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.