{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/afro-mnist-synthetic-generation-of-mnist","title":"Afro-MNIST: Synthetic generation of MNIST-style datasets for low-resource languages","arxiv_id":"2009.13509","date":"2020-09-28","proceeding":null,"authors":["Daniel J Wu","Andrew C Yang","Vinay U Prabhu"],"abstract":"We present Afro-MNIST, a set of synthetic MNIST-style datasets for four orthographies used in Afro-Asiatic and Niger-Congo languages: Ge`ez (Ethiopic), Vai, Osmanya, and N'Ko. These datasets serve as \"drop-in\" replacements for MNIST. We also describe and open-source a method for synthetic MNIST-style dataset generation from single examples of each digit. These datasets can be found at https://github.com/Daniel-Wu/AfroMNIST. We hope that MNIST-style datasets will be developed for other numeral systems, and that these datasets vitalize machine learning education in underrepresented nations in the research community.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.13509v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.13509v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"afro-mnist-synthetic-generation-of-mnist","repo_url":"https://github.com/Daniel-Wu/AfroMNIST","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"MIT"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"machine-learning","task_name":"BIG-bench Machine Learning"},{"task_slug":"dataset-generation","task_name":"Dataset Generation"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"afromnist","name":"AfroMNIST","full_name":""}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2009.13509","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2009.13509","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}