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Meta-Dataset

Introduced by Eleni Triantafillou et al. in Meta-Dataset: A Dataset of Datasets for Learning to Learn from Few Examples1 Jan 2019 archive 2025-07-28

The Meta-Dataset benchmark is a large few-shot learning benchmark and consists of multiple datasets of different data distributions. It does not restrict few-shot tasks to have fixed ways and shots, thus representing a more realistic scenario. It consists of 10 datasets from diverse domains:

  • ILSVRC-2012 (the ImageNet dataset, consisting of natural images with 1000 categories)
  • Omniglot (hand-written characters, 1623 classes)
  • Aircraft (dataset of aircraft images, 100 classes)
  • CUB-200-2011 (dataset of Birds, 200 classes)
  • Describable Textures (different kinds of texture images with 43 categories)
  • Quick Draw (black and white sketches of 345 different categories)
  • Fungi (a large dataset of mushrooms with 1500 categories)
  • VGG Flower (dataset of flower images with 102 categories),
  • Traffic Signs (German traffic sign images with 43 classes)
  • MSCOCO (images collected from Flickr, 80 classes).

All datasets except Traffic signs and MSCOCO have a training, validation and test split (proportioned roughly into 70%, 15%, 15%). The datasets Traffic Signs and MSCOCO are reserved for testing only.

Source: Optimized Generic Feature Learning for Few-shot Classification across Domains Image Source: Triantafillou et al

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 2 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Few-Shot Image Classification Meta-Dataset SMAT (DINO-VIT-Base-16-224) Accuracy 85.27 Unleashing the Power of Meta-tuning for Few-shot... szc12153/sparse_meta_tuning 22 Compare
Few-Shot Image Classification Meta-Dataset Rank URT Mean Rank 2.85 A Universal Representation Transformer Layer for... liulu112601/URT 13 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

18 shown of 18 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 128. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
Task-Specific Preconditioner for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning 0 1 20 Dec 2024 not harvested
Unleashing the Power of Meta-tuning for Few-shot Generalization Through Sparse Interpolated Experts 1 1 13 Mar 2024 ran 7 of 7 samples (0 unverified; 7 pointer-only for licence)
Contextual Squeeze-and-Excitation for Efficient Few-Shot Image Classification 1 2 20 Jun 2022 ran 3 of 3 samples (0 unverified)
Pushing the Limits of Simple Pipelines for Few-Shot Learning: External Data and Fine-Tuning Make a Difference 1 1 15 Apr 2022 ran 6 of 19 samples (13 unverified)
Cross-domain Few-shot Learning with Task-specific Adapters 4 1 1 Jul 2021 not harvested
Universal Representation Learning from Multiple Domains for Few-shot Classification 5 1 25 Mar 2021 ran 12 of 26 samples (14 unverified)
Exploring Complementary Strengths of Invariant and Equivariant Representations for Few-Shot Learning 1 1 1 Mar 2021 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified)
Shallow Bayesian Meta Learning for Real-World Few-Shot Recognition 2 1 8 Jan 2021 ran 3 of 3 samples (0 unverified; 3 pointer-only for licence)
A Universal Representation Transformer Layer for Few-Shot Image Classification 1 2 21 Jun 2020 not harvested
Enhancing Few-Shot Image Classification with Unlabelled Examples 2 2 17 Jun 2020 ran 3 of 9 samples (6 unverified)
Selecting Relevant Features from a Multi-domain Representation for Few-shot Classification 1 4 20 Mar 2020 ran 3 of 10 samples (7 unverified)
Improved Few-Shot Visual Classification 2 2 7 Dec 2019 not harvested
Fast and Flexible Multi-Task Classification Using Conditional Neural Adaptive Processes 1 2 18 Jun 2019 not harvested
Meta-Dataset: A Dataset of Datasets for Learning to Learn from Few Examples 15 6 7 Mar 2019 ran 4 of 11 samples (7 unverified)
Learning to Compare: Relation Network for Few-Shot Learning 13 2 16 Nov 2017 ran 1 of 2 samples (1 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)
Prototypical Networks for Few-shot Learning 43 2 15 Mar 2017 ran 49 of 64 samples (15 unverified; 18 pointer-only for licence)
Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks 85 2 9 Mar 2017 ran 86 of 154 samples (68 unverified; 57 pointer-only for licence)
Matching Networks for One Shot Learning 26 2 13 Jun 2016 ran 6 of 16 samples (10 unverified; 6 pointer-only for licence)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • Meta-Dataset
  • Meta-Dataset Rank

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