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+---
+license: cc0-1.0
+language:
+- en
+- la
+source_datasets:
+  - imageomics/TreeOfLife-10M
+task_categories:
+- image-classification
+- zero-shot-classification
+pretty_name: TreeOfLife-10M WEBP
+size_categories:
+- 10M<n<100M
+---
+
+# Dataset Card for TreeOfLife-10M-WEBP
+
+## Dataset Description
+
+This is an optimized version of the [TreeOfLife-10M](https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-10M) dataset,
+containing over 10 million images covering 454 thousand taxa in the tree of life.
+This version has been processed to improve usability and reduce storage requirements while maintaining full compatibility with the original dataset structure.
+
+### Dataset Summary
+
+This version modifies the original dataset as follows:
+
+- Corrupted files were repaired.
+- Very large images (some >40K pixels in width) were resized so that the total number of pixels < 1,048,576 (=1024×1024), preserving aspect ratio.
+- All images were re-encoded to WEBP format.
+- The dataset was repacked in the same shard structure as the original to remain fully compatible.
+
+The result is a significantly reduced dataset size (~500GB vs. ~2TB), with lower I/O overhead and fewer extreme image cases that can slow down training pipelines.
+
+For dataset details, licensing information, taxonomy information and annotation process, please see the [original dataset card](https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-10M).
+
+## Limitations
+
+- Maintains all original dataset limitations regarding taxonomic coverage and class imbalance
+- Some images have been resized, which may affect fine-grained visual analysis of extremely high-resolution specimens
+
+## Licensing
+
+This repackaged dataset is distributed under the same licensing terms as the original TreeOfLife-10M dataset.
+Please review the [original licensing information](https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-10M#licensing-information) before using this dataset, as all terms and restrictions remain applicable.
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@dataset{treeoflife_10m,
+  author = {Samuel Stevens and Jiaman Wu and Matthew J Thompson and Elizabeth G Campolongo and Chan Hee Song and David Edward Carlyn and Li Dong and Wasila M Dahdul and Charles Stewart and Tanya Berger-Wolf and Wei-Lun Chao and Yu Su},
+  title = {TreeOfLife-10M},
+  year = {2023},
+  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-10M},
+  doi = {10.57967/hf/1972},
+  publisher = {Hugging Face}
+}
+
+@inproceedings{stevens2024bioclip,
+  title = {{B}io{CLIP}: A Vision Foundation Model for the Tree of Life},
+  author = {Samuel Stevens and Jiaman Wu and Matthew J Thompson and Elizabeth G Campolongo and Chan Hee Song and David Edward Carlyn and Li Dong and Wasila M Dahdul and Charles Stewart and Tanya Berger-Wolf and Wei-Lun Chao and Yu Su},
+  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
+  year = {2024},
+  pages = {19412-19424}
+}
+```
+
+## Acknowledgments
+
+This optimization builds upon the outstanding work of the original TreeOfLife-10M creators.
+All credit for data curation, taxonomic labeling, and scientific contributions belongs to the original team at the Imageomics Institute.