MNIST
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MNIST is a widely used benchmark dataset of handwritten digit images commonly employed for training and evaluating image classification algorithms in machine learning and computer vision.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| MNIST canonical | 13 |
| MNIST database | 3 |
| MNIST dataset | 3 |
| MNIST handwritten digit database | 1 |
| Yann LeCun's MNIST website | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T591891 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: MNIST Context triple: [LeNet, notableDataset, MNIST]
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CIFAR
CIFAR (the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) is a Canadian global research organization that supports long-term, collaborative, interdisciplinary research, including major initiatives in artificial intelligence.
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LeNet
LeNet is one of the earliest convolutional neural network architectures, pioneering modern deep learning approaches to image recognition and handwritten digit classification.
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RBM
RBM is a global partnership initiative dedicated to coordinating and scaling up efforts to prevent, control, and ultimately eliminate malaria worldwide.
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“Learning representations by back-propagating errors”
“Learning representations by back-propagating errors” is a landmark 1986 research paper that popularized the backpropagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural networks, helping to launch the modern field of deep learning.
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Google Brain
Google Brain is a deep learning research team at Google that pioneered many advances in neural networks and artificial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: MNIST Target entity description: MNIST is a widely used benchmark dataset of handwritten digit images commonly employed for training and evaluating image classification algorithms in machine learning and computer vision.
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CIFAR
CIFAR (the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) is a Canadian global research organization that supports long-term, collaborative, interdisciplinary research, including major initiatives in artificial intelligence.
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B.
LeNet
LeNet is one of the earliest convolutional neural network architectures, pioneering modern deep learning approaches to image recognition and handwritten digit classification.
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C.
RBM
RBM is a global partnership initiative dedicated to coordinating and scaling up efforts to prevent, control, and ultimately eliminate malaria worldwide.
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D.
“Learning representations by back-propagating errors”
“Learning representations by back-propagating errors” is a landmark 1986 research paper that popularized the backpropagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural networks, helping to launch the modern field of deep learning.
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Google Brain
Google Brain is a deep learning research team at Google that pioneered many advances in neural networks and artificial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
benchmark dataset
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dataset ⓘ handwritten digit dataset ⓘ |
| backgroundColor | black ⓘ |
| basedOn |
NIST Special Database 1
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NIST Special Database 3 ⓘ |
| benchmarkStatus | canonical toy dataset in machine learning ⓘ |
| classLabels | digits 0 through 9 ⓘ |
| commonModelType |
convolutional neural network
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multilayer perceptron ⓘ |
| creator |
Christopher J. C. Burges
ⓘ
Corinna Cortes ⓘ Yann LeCun ⓘ |
| dataSource | scanned handwritten digits ⓘ |
| dataType | grayscale images ⓘ |
| digitColor | white ⓘ |
| domain |
computer vision
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machine learning ⓘ |
| fileFormat | IDX ⓘ |
| fullName | Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology database ⓘ |
| hostedBy | Yann LeCun’s website ⓘ |
| imageChannels | 1 ⓘ |
| imageFile |
t10k-images-idx3-ubyte
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train-images-idx3-ubyte ⓘ |
| imageHeight | 28 pixels ⓘ |
| imageResolution | 28x28 pixels ⓘ |
| imageWidth | 28 pixels ⓘ |
| inspiredDataset |
EMNIST
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Fashion-MNIST ⓘ KMNIST ⓘ |
| introducedInPublication | Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition ⓘ |
| labelFile |
t10k-labels-idx1-ubyte
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train-labels-idx1-ubyte ⓘ |
| license | freely available for research and educational use ⓘ |
| numberOfClasses | 10 ⓘ |
| preprocessingStep |
centering in a fixed-size image
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size normalization ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| task |
handwritten digit recognition
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image classification ⓘ |
| testSetSize | 10000 ⓘ |
| totalImages | 70000 ⓘ |
| trainingSetSize | 60000 ⓘ |
| typicalUse |
benchmarking classification algorithms
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educational examples in deep learning ⓘ training neural networks ⓘ |
| valueRange | 0 to 255 grayscale intensity ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: MNIST Description of subject: MNIST is a widely used benchmark dataset of handwritten digit images commonly employed for training and evaluating image classification algorithms in machine learning and computer vision.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.