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RareAct
RareAct is a video dataset of unusual actions, including actions like “blend phone”, “cut keyboard” and “microwave shoes”. It aims at evaluating the zero-shot and few-shot compositionality of action recognition models for unlikely compositions of common action verbs and object nouns. It contains 122 different actions which were obtained by combining verbs and nouns rarely co-occurring together in the large-scale textual corpus from HowTo100M, but that frequently appear separately.
Source: https://github.com/antoine77340/RareAct Image Source: https://github.com/antoine77340/RareAct
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
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| Action Recognition | RareAct | 🦩 Flamingo mWAP 60.8 | Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning | mlfoundations/open_flamingo +4 | 3 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
3 shown of 3 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 12. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning | 5 | 1 | 29 Apr 2022 | ran 18 of 24 samples (6 unverified; 7 pointer-only for licence) |
| Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision | 82 | 1 | 26 Feb 2021 | ran 16 of 20 samples (4 unverified; 16 pointer-only for licence) |
| End-to-End Learning of Visual Representations from Uncurated Instructional Videos | 4 | 1 | 13 Dec 2019 | ran 3 of 5 samples (2 unverified) |
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
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