diff --git a/.github/workflows/rust.yml b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
index 3baade425..5ac291c0d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
@@ -547,8 +547,6 @@ jobs:
         with:
           crate: cargo-nextest
           locked: true
-      - name: Download MNIST
-        run: sh data.sh
       - name: Examples
         run: cargo nextest run --release tests_examples
 
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a05479b20..cbebdcf1e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 target
 pkg
-data
 *.csv
 !examples/notebooks/eth_price.csv
 *.ipynb_checkpoints
diff --git a/data.sh b/data.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 63ce9ffe7..000000000
--- a/data.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-mkdir data
-cd data
-
-wget http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/train-images-idx3-ubyte.gz
-wget http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/train-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz
-wget http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte.gz
-wget http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte.gz
-
-gzip -d *.gz
diff --git a/examples/conv2d_mnist/main.rs b/examples/conv2d_mnist/main.rs
index e06e54f86..bd1dd8f85 100644
--- a/examples/conv2d_mnist/main.rs
+++ b/examples/conv2d_mnist/main.rs
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ pub fn runconv() {
         tst_lbl: _,
         ..
     } = MnistBuilder::new()
+        .base_path("examples/data")
         .label_format_digit()
         .training_set_length(50_000)
         .validation_set_length(10_000)
diff --git a/examples/data/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte b/examples/data/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1170b2cae
Binary files /dev/null and b/examples/data/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte differ
diff --git a/examples/data/t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte b/examples/data/t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d1c3a9706
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diff --git a/examples/data/train-images-idx3-ubyte b/examples/data/train-images-idx3-ubyte
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bbce27659
Binary files /dev/null and b/examples/data/train-images-idx3-ubyte differ
diff --git a/examples/data/train-labels-idx1-ubyte b/examples/data/train-labels-idx1-ubyte
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d6b4c5db3
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diff --git a/src/circuit/modules/polycommit.rs b/src/circuit/modules/polycommit.rs
index fd1f7952c..3b31c5b5c 100644
--- a/src/circuit/modules/polycommit.rs
+++ b/src/circuit/modules/polycommit.rs
@@ -44,12 +44,11 @@ impl PolyCommitChip {
     /// Commit to the message using the KZG commitment scheme
     pub fn commit<Scheme: CommitmentScheme<Scalar = Fp, Curve = G1Affine>>(
         message: Vec<Scheme::Scalar>,
-        degree: u32,
         num_unusable_rows: u32,
         params: &Scheme::ParamsProver,
     ) -> Vec<G1Affine> {
         let k = params.k();
-        let domain = halo2_proofs::poly::EvaluationDomain::new(degree, k);
+        let domain = halo2_proofs::poly::EvaluationDomain::new(2, k);
         let n = 2_u64.pow(k) - num_unusable_rows as u64;
         let num_poly = (message.len() / n as usize) + 1;
         let mut poly = vec![domain.empty_lagrange(); num_poly];
diff --git a/src/graph/modules.rs b/src/graph/modules.rs
index 82eba5d62..94895ea84 100644
--- a/src/graph/modules.rs
+++ b/src/graph/modules.rs
@@ -314,7 +314,6 @@ impl GraphModules {
                     let commitments = inputs.iter().fold(vec![], |mut acc, x| {
                         let res = PolyCommitChip::commit::<Scheme>(
                             x.to_vec(),
-                            vk.cs().degree() as u32,
                             (vk.cs().blinding_factors() + 1) as u32,
                             srs,
                         );
diff --git a/src/python.rs b/src/python.rs
index cb1e4d216..8586cda25 100644
--- a/src/python.rs
+++ b/src/python.rs
@@ -547,7 +547,6 @@ fn kzg_commit(
 
     let output = PolyCommitChip::commit::<KZGCommitmentScheme<Bn256>>(
         message,
-        vk.cs().degree() as u32,
         (vk.cs().blinding_factors() + 1) as u32,
         &srs,
     );
@@ -606,7 +605,6 @@ fn ipa_commit(
 
     let output = PolyCommitChip::commit::<IPACommitmentScheme<G1Affine>>(
         message,
-        vk.cs().degree() as u32,
         (vk.cs().blinding_factors() + 1) as u32,
         &srs,
     );
diff --git a/src/wasm.rs b/src/wasm.rs
index d4c28ca1a..d26b3b080 100644
--- a/src/wasm.rs
+++ b/src/wasm.rs
@@ -177,7 +177,6 @@ pub fn kzgCommit(
 
     let output = PolyCommitChip::commit::<KZGCommitmentScheme<Bn256>>(
         message,
-        vk.cs().degree() as u32,
         (vk.cs().blinding_factors() + 1) as u32,
         &params,
     );
diff --git a/tests/wasm.rs b/tests/wasm.rs
index c14b15aa8..d06b9e70c 100644
--- a/tests/wasm.rs
+++ b/tests/wasm.rs
@@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ mod wasm32 {
             serde_json::from_slice(&commitment_ser[..]).unwrap();
         let reference_commitment = PolyCommitChip::commit::<KZGCommitmentScheme<Bn256>>(
             message,
-            vk.cs().degree() as u32,
             (vk.cs().blinding_factors() + 1) as u32,
             &params,
         );