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mlbench (version 2.1-9)

Machine Learning Benchmark Problems

Description

A collection of artificial and real-world machine learning benchmark problems, including, e.g., several data sets from the UCI repository.

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install.packages('mlbench')

Monthly Downloads

45,909

Version

2.1-9

License

GPL-2

Maintainer

Kurt Hornik

Last Published

July 13th, 2026

Functions in mlbench (2.1-9)

mlbench.friedman2

Benchmark Problem Friedman 2
mlbench.peak

Peak Benchmark Problem
Vowel

Vowel Recognition (Deterding data)
mlbench.friedman3

Benchmark Problem Friedman 3
mlbench.ringnorm

Ringnorm Benchmark Problem
mlbench.shapes

Shapes in 2d
bayesclass

Bayes classifier
mlbench.2dnormals

2-dimensional Gaussian Problem
mlbench.smiley

The Smiley
mlbench.simplex

Corners of d-dimensional Simplex
plot.mlbench

Plot mlbench objects
mlbench.xor

Continuous XOR Benchmark Problem
mlbench.circle

Circle in a Square Problem
mlbench.twonorm

Twonorm Benchmark Problem
mlbench.cassini

Cassini: A 2 Dimensional Problem
mlbench.threenorm

Threenorm Benchmark Problem
mlbench.spirals

Two Spirals Benchmark Problem
mlbench.cuboids

Cuboids: A 3 Dimensional Problem
mlbench.friedman1

Benchmark Problem Friedman 1
mlbench.waveform

Waveform Database Generator
PimaIndiansDiabetes

Pima Indians Diabetes Database
Soybean

Soybean Database
HouseVotes84

United States Congressional Voting Records 1984
DNA

Primate splice-junction gene sequences (DNA)
Zoo

Zoo Data
BreastCancer

Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database
Servo

Servo Data
as.data.frame.mlbench

Convert an mlbench object to a dataframe
LetterRecognition

Letter Image Recognition Data
BostonHousing

Boston Housing Data
Vehicle

Vehicle Silhouettes
Ozone

Los Angeles ozone pollution data, 1976
Ionosphere

Johns Hopkins University Ionosphere database
Satellite

Landsat Multi-Spectral Scanner Image Data
Sonar

Sonar, Mines vs. Rocks
Glass

Glass Identification Database
mlbench.hypercube

Corners of Hypercube
Shuttle

Shuttle Dataset (Statlog version)