Omniglot

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Omniglot is a widely used benchmark dataset of handwritten characters from numerous alphabets, designed to evaluate one-shot and few-shot learning in machine learning research.

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instanceOf benchmark dataset
few-shot learning benchmark
machine learning dataset
one-shot learning benchmark
backgroundSetUsedFor meta-training
benchmarkFor Bayesian program learning NERFINISHED
matching networks
memory-augmented neural networks
meta-learning algorithms
model-agnostic meta-learning
neural Turing machines NERFINISHED
prototypical networks NERFINISHED
collectionMethod handwriting on a digital tablet
online crowd-sourcing
comparedTo ImageNet in terms of role as a benchmark NERFINISHED
contains characters from constructed alphabets
characters from multiple alphabets
characters from real-world writing systems
creator Brenden M. Lake NERFINISHED
Joshua B. Tenenbaum NERFINISHED
Ruslan Salakhutdinov NERFINISHED
dataType handwritten characters
describedIn Human-level concept learning through probabilistic program induction NERFINISHED
domain handwritten character recognition
eachCharacterHas 20 instances
eachClassDrawnBy multiple different people
evaluationSetUsedFor meta-testing
hostedAt author-maintained project website
imageModality grayscale images
imageSize 105x105 pixels
includes 50 different alphabets
alphabets from diverse language families
invented alphabets created for the dataset
inspiredBy the need for a character-level ImageNet for one-shot learning NERFINISHED
license freely available for research use
numberOfCharactersPerAlphabet approximately 20 to 40 GENERATED
numberOfClasses 1623
numberOfExamplesPerClass 20 GENERATED
numberOfImages 32460
publicationVenue Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society NERFINISHED
publicationYear 2015
taskSupported few-shot classification
generative modeling
one-shot classification
sequence prediction of pen strokes
typicalSplit background set and evaluation set
usedFor evaluating few-shot learning algorithms
evaluating one-shot learning algorithms
learning to learn experiments
meta-learning research
testing rapid concept learning from few examples

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