Afro-MNIST: Synthetic generation of MNIST-style datasets for low-resource languages

Daniel J Wu, Andrew C Yang, Vinay U Prabhu

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. Thes…