An MNIST-like fashion product dataset
I don't understand why this seems to be getting so much attention. There are plenty of small image datasets around, and wide recognition of the issues with MNIST.<p>I see no evidence at all that this particular dataset is better than MNIST. None of the issues they themselves list with MNIST are discussed with relation to their proposed replacement.<p>The benchmarks they provide are entirely useless - sklearn does not claim to be a platform for computer vision models. A quick WRN model gets 96% of this dataset (h/t @ajmooch on Twitter), suggesting that it doesn't deal with the "too easy" issue.<p>The images clearly don't deal with the problem of lack of translation invariance.<p>On the downside, they don't have the same ease of understanding of hand-drawn digits, which is extremely helpful for teaching, debugging, and visualizing.