I tried downloading the data with the following command:
python ./downloader.py \
-data_root /imagenet \
-number_of_classes 19000 \
-images_per_class 2 \
-multiprocessing_workers 24
It downloaded arbitrary number of images per class. I mean I am unable to see why this is happening. Some of the images in a class were 21 other were 3 and so on and so forth.