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  - `test_mixed`: 20'000 images, consisting of the (shuffled) concatenation of our ambiguous `test` test and the nominal mnist test set by LeCun et. al.,
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  - `train_mixed`: 70'000 images, consisting
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  For research targeting explicitly aleatoric uncertainty, we recommend training the model using `train_mixed`.
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  Otherwise, our `test` set will lead to both epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty.
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- Note that in related literature, these 'mixed' splits are sometimes denoted as *dirty* splits.
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  ### Assessment and Validity
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  For a brief discussion of the strength and weaknesses of this dataset,
 
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  - `test_mixed`: 20'000 images, consisting of the (shuffled) concatenation of our ambiguous `test` test and the nominal mnist test set by LeCun et. al.,
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  - `train_mixed`: 70'000 images, consisting
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+ Note that the ambiguous train images are highly ambiguous (i.e., the two classes have very similar ground truth likelihoods),
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+ the training set images allow for more unbalanced ambiguity.
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+ This is to make the training set more closely connected to the nominal data, while still keeping the test set clearly ambiguous.
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  For research targeting explicitly aleatoric uncertainty, we recommend training the model using `train_mixed`.
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  Otherwise, our `test` set will lead to both epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty.
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+ In related literature, such 'mixed' splits are sometimes denoted as *dirty* splits.
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  ### Assessment and Validity
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  For a brief discussion of the strength and weaknesses of this dataset,