TensorFlow Datasets provides many public datasets as tf.data.Datasets.

To install and use TFDS, we strongly encourage to start with our getting started guide. Try it interactively in a Colab notebook.

Our documentation contains:

• Tutorials and guides
• List of all available datasets
• The API reference

# !pip install tensorflow-datasets
import tensorflow_datasets as tfds
import tensorflow as tf
# Construct a tf.data.Dataset
ds = tfds.load('mnist', split='train', as_supervised=True, shuffle_files=True)
# Build your input pipeline
ds = ds.shuffle(1000).batch(128).prefetch(10).take(5)
for image, label in ds:
  pass

TFDS has been built with these principles in mind:

• Simplicity: Standard use-cases should work out-of-the box
• Performance: TFDS follows best practices and can achieve state-of-the-art speed
• Determinism/reproducibility: All users get the same examples in the same order
• Customisability: Advanced users can have fine-grained control

If those use cases are not satisfied, please send us feedback.

Adding a dataset is really straightforward by following our guide.

Request a dataset by opening a Dataset request GitHub issue.

And vote on the current set of requests by adding a thumbs-up reaction to the issue.

Please include the following citation when using tensorflow-datasets for a paper, in addition to any citation specific to the used datasets.

@misc{TFDS,
  title = {{TensorFlow Datasets}, A collection of ready-to-use datasets},
  howpublished = {\url{https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets}},
}

This is a utility library that downloads and prepares public datasets. We do not host or distribute these datasets, vouch for their quality or fairness, or claim that you have license to use the dataset. It is your responsibility to determine whether you have permission to use the dataset under the dataset's license.

If you're a dataset owner and wish to update any part of it (description, citation, etc.), or do not want your dataset to be included in this library, please get in touch through a GitHub issue. Thanks for your contribution to the ML community!

If you're interested in learning more about responsible AI practices, including fairness, please see Google AI's Responsible AI Practices.

tensorflow/datasets is Apache 2.0 licensed. See the LICENSE file.