Datasets › MNIST Large Scale dataset

MNIST Large Scale dataset

Introduced by Ylva Jansson et al. in Exploring the ability of CNNs to generalise to previously unseen scales over wide scale ranges5 Jun 2020 archive 2025-07-28

The MNIST Large Scale dataset is based on the classic MNIST dataset, but contains large scale variations up to a factor of 16. The motivation behind creating this dataset was to enable testing the ability of different algorithms to learn in the presence of large scale variability and specifically the ability to generalise to new scales not present in the training set over wide scale ranges.

The dataset contains training data for each one of the relative size factors 1, 2 and 4 relative to the original MNIST dataset and testing data for relative scaling factors between 1/2 and 8, with a ratio of √(2) between adjacent scales.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 1 leaderboard 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
Scale Generalisation MNIST Large Scale dataset FovAvg Single-scale training Average Accuracy 99.32 Scale-invariant scale-channel networks: Deep networks... — 2 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper 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 4. 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
Scale-invariant scale-channel networks: Deep networks that generalise to previously unseen scales 0 2 11 Jun 2021 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

Available at Zenodo after request

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • MNIST Large Scale dataset

1 variant name, as the archive lists them.

Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections