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+"""Miscellaneous neural network functionality."""
+from typing import Tuple
+
+from einops import rearrange
+import torch
+from torch.nn import Unfold
+
+
+def sliding_window(
+    images: torch.Tensor, patch_size: Tuple[int, int], stride: Tuple[int, int]
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Creates patches of an image.
+
+    Args:
+        images (torch.Tensor): A Torch tensor of a 4D image(s), i.e. (batch, channel, height, width).
+        patch_size (Tuple[int, int]): The size of the patches to generate, e.g. 28x28 for EMNIST.
+        stride (Tuple[int, int]): The stride of the sliding window.
+
+    Returns:
+        torch.Tensor: A tensor with the shape (batch, patches, height, width).
+
+    """
+    unfold = Unfold(kernel_size=patch_size, stride=stride)
+    patches = unfold(images)
+    patches = rearrange(
+        patches, "b (h w) c -> b c h w", h=patch_size[0], w=patch_size[1]
+    )
+    return patches