astronolan/galaxy-description-benchmark
Description Benchmark based on GalaxyZoo A small sample of the GZ-DECaLS dataset to cheaply test the ability of vision-language models to describe galaxy images. Data source The underlying catalog data are derived from the Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: Detailed Visual Morphology Measurements from Volunteers and Deep Learning for 314,000 Galaxies and remain subject to their original data-use policy and required acknowledgements. Embeddings Citation… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/astronolan/galaxy-description-benchmark.
Description Benchmark based on GalaxyZoo
A small sample of the GZ-DECaLS dataset to cheaply test the ability of vision-language models to describe galaxy images.
Data source
The underlying catalog data are derived from the Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: Detailed Visual Morphology Measurements from Volunteers and Deep Learning for 314,000 Galaxies and remain subject to their original data-use policy and required acknowledgements.
Embeddings Citation
@misc{koblischke2025semantic,
title={Semantic search for 100M+ galaxy images using AI-generated captions},
author={Nolan Koblischke and Liam Parker and Francois Lanusse and Irina Espejo Morales and Jo Bovy and Shirley Ho},
year={2025},
eprint={2512.11982},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={astro-ph.IM},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11982},
}GZ-DECaLS Dataset Citation
@dataset{walmsley_mike_2020_4573248,
author = {Walmsley, Mike and
Lintott, Chris and
Tobias, Geron and
Kruk, Sandor J and
Krawczyk, Coleman and
Willett, Kyle and
Bamford, Steven and
Kelvin, Lee S and
Fortson, Lucy and
Gal, Yarin and
Keel, William and
Masters, Karen and
Mehta, Vihang and
Simmons, Brooke and
Smethurst, Rebecca J and
Smith, Lewis and
Baeten, Elisabeth M L and
Macmillan, Christine},
title = {{Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: Detailed Visual Morphology
Measurements from Volunteers and Deep Learning for
314,000 Galaxies}},
month = dec,
year = 2020,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {0.0.2},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.4573248},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4573248}
}