diff --git a/src/TensorFlowHub/MnistModelLoader.cs b/src/TensorFlowHub/MnistModelLoader.cs
index d3341f32..670fb0ac 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowHub/MnistModelLoader.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowHub/MnistModelLoader.cs
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Hub
 
         private NDArray ExtractImages(string file, int? limit = null)
         {
+            if (!Path.IsPathRooted(file))
+                file = Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, file);
+
             using (var bytestream = new FileStream(file, FileMode.Open))
             {
                 var magic = Read32(bytestream);
@@ -118,6 +121,9 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Hub
 
         private NDArray ExtractLabels(string file, bool one_hot = false, int num_classes = 10, int? limit = null)
         {
+            if (!Path.IsPathRooted(file))
+                file = Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, file);
+                
             using (var bytestream = new FileStream(file, FileMode.Open))
             {
                 var magic = Read32(bytestream);
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowHub/Utils.cs b/src/TensorFlowHub/Utils.cs
index 92828f0d..10aaf958 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowHub/Utils.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowHub/Utils.cs
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Hub
 
             if (!Directory.Exists(saveTo))
                 Directory.CreateDirectory(saveTo);
+            
+            if (!Path.IsPathRooted(zipFile))
+                zipFile = Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, zipFile);
 
             var destFilePath = Path.Combine(saveTo, Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(zipFile));