diff --git a/veriflow/experiments/datasets.py b/veriflow/experiments/datasets.py
index b0bf119..2036230 100644
--- a/veriflow/experiments/datasets.py
+++ b/veriflow/experiments/datasets.py
@@ -190,16 +190,23 @@ def __getitem__(self, index: int):
 
 class MnistDequantized(DequantizedDataset):
     def __init__(self, dataloc: os.PathLike = None, train: bool = True, digit: T.Optional[int] = None, flatten=True):
-        rel_path = "MNIST/raw/train-images-idx3-ubyte" if train else "MNIST/raw/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte"
+        if train:
+            rel_path = "MNIST/raw/train-images-idx3-ubyte" 
+        else:
+            rel_path = "MNIST/raw/t10k-images-idx3-ubyte"
         path = os.path.join(dataloc, rel_path)
         if not os.path.exists(path):
-            MNIST(path, train=train, download=True)
+            MNIST(dataloc, train=train, download=True)
+
         # TODO: remove hardcoding of 3x3 downsampling
         dataset = idx2numpy.convert_from_file(path)[:, ::3, ::3]
         if flatten:
             dataset = dataset.reshape(dataset.shape[0], -1)   
         if digit is not None:
-            rel_path = "MNIST/raw/train-labels-idx1-ubyte" if train else "MNIST/raw/t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte"
+            if train:
+                rel_path = "MNIST/raw/train-labels-idx1-ubyte" 
+            else:
+                rel_path = "MNIST/raw/t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte"
             path = os.path.join(dataloc, rel_path)
             labels = idx2numpy.convert_from_file(path)
             dataset = dataset[labels == digit]