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+#  Copyright (c) 2021 Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
+#  SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+"""
+Utility functions related to data and models that are common to all the model conditioning examples.
+"""
+import tensorflow as tf
+import numpy as np
+
+
+def get_data():
+    """Downloads and returns the pre-processed data and labels for training and testing.
+
+    Returns:
+        Tuple of: (train data, train labels, test data, test labels)
+    """
+
+    # To save time we use the MNIST dataset for this example.
+    (x_train, y_train), (x_test, y_test) = tf.keras.datasets.mnist.load_data()
+
+    # Convolution operations require data to have 4 dimensions.
+    # We divide by 255 to help training and cast to float32 for TensorFlow.
+    x_train = (x_train[..., np.newaxis] / 255.0).astype(np.float32)
+    x_test = (x_test[..., np.newaxis] / 255.0).astype(np.float32)
+
+    return x_train, y_train, x_test, y_test
+
+
+def create_model():
+    """Create and returns a simple Keras model for training MNIST.
+
+    We will use a simple convolutional neural network for this example,
+    but the model optimization methods employed should be compatible with a
+    wide variety of CNN architectures such as Mobilenet and Inception etc.
+
+    Returns:
+        Uncompiled Keras model.
+    """
+
+    keras_model = tf.keras.models.Sequential([
+        tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(32, 3, padding='same', input_shape=(28, 28, 1), activation=tf.nn.relu),
+        tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(32, 3, padding='same', activation=tf.nn.relu),
+        tf.keras.layers.MaxPool2D(),
+        tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(32, 3, padding='same', activation=tf.nn.relu),
+        tf.keras.layers.MaxPool2D(),
+        tf.keras.layers.Flatten(),
+        tf.keras.layers.Dense(units=10, activation=tf.nn.softmax)
+    ])
+
+    return keras_model