Store the dataset in WebDataset format ?
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lhoestq
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Thanks for sharing the dataset ! Just one question: it doesn't seem to be a WebDataset right ?
In WebDataset the samples share a file prefix and we use multiple TAR archives. Here it seems it's only one TAR archive but chunked in many files(which is not always ideal because you have to download the full thing to untar the data)
WebDatasets are pretty useful to efficiently stream images and train models so I was wondering if you planned to switch to this format. This would make the dataset easier to use by the community imo :)
Thanks for your suggestion! Actually, because this dataset is really large, we are also planning to make it more accessible to the community. We will consider using WebDataset.
Great thanks !
+1 to wds format!