Datasets:

OpenWhistleNeurIPS26
/

OpenWhistle-Classification-Finetuning

dataset_info:
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              '3': SW_Dana
              '4': SW_Luna
              '5': SW_Nana
              '6': SW_Neo
              '7': SW_Nikita
              '8': SW_Shy
              '9': SW_Yosefa
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      - name: onset
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      - name: offset
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      - name: duration
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      - name: recording_duration
        dtype: float32
      - name: whistle_type
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      - name: whistle_name
        dtype: string
      - name: f0_time
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      - name: f0_hz
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      - name: f0_conf
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      - name: f0_ok
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      - name: f0_bad_reason
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      - name: f0_spectrogram
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      - name: snr_db
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      - name: validation
        num_examples: 1253
      - name: test
        num_examples: 1253
  - config_name: all-review-sample
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      - name: audio
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          audio:
            decode: false
      - name: label
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            names:
              '0': NSW_3
              '1': NSW_2
              '2': NSW_1
              '3': SW_Dana
              '4': SW_Luna
              '5': SW_Nana
              '6': SW_Neo
              '7': SW_Nikita
              '8': SW_Shy
              '9': SW_Yosefa
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        dtype: string
      - name: onset
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      - name: offset
        dtype: float32
      - name: duration
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      - name: recording_duration
        dtype: float32
      - name: whistle_type
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      - name: whistle_name
        dtype: string
      - name: f0_time
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_hz
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_conf
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_ok
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      - name: f0_bad_reason
        dtype: string
      - name: f0_spectrogram
        dtype: image
      - name: snr_db
        dtype: float64
    splits:
      - name: train
        num_examples: 336
      - name: validation
        num_examples: 72
      - name: test
        num_examples: 72
  - config_name: balanced
    features:
      - name: audio
        dtype:
          audio:
            decode: false
      - name: label
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            names:
              '0': NSW_1
              '1': SW_Luna
              '2': SW_Nana
              '3': SW_Neo
              '4': SW_Nikita
              '5': SW_Yosefa
      - name: name
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      - name: onset
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      - name: offset
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      - name: duration
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      - name: recording_duration
        dtype: float32
      - name: whistle_type
        dtype: int64
      - name: whistle_name
        dtype: string
      - name: f0_time
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_hz
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_conf
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_ok
        dtype: bool
      - name: f0_bad_reason
        dtype: string
      - name: f0_spectrogram
        dtype: image
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      - name: train
        num_examples: 2100
      - name: validation
        num_examples: 450
      - name: test
        num_examples: 450
  - config_name: balanced-review-sample
    features:
      - name: audio
        dtype:
          audio:
            decode: false
      - name: label
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              '0': NSW_1
              '1': SW_Luna
              '2': SW_Nana
              '3': SW_Neo
              '4': SW_Nikita
              '5': SW_Yosefa
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      - name: offset
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      - name: duration
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      - name: recording_duration
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      - name: whistle_type
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      - name: whistle_name
        dtype: string
      - name: f0_time
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      - name: f0_hz
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_conf
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_ok
        dtype: bool
      - name: f0_bad_reason
        dtype: string
      - name: f0_spectrogram
        dtype: image
    splits:
      - name: train
        num_examples: 336
      - name: validation
        num_examples: 72
      - name: test
        num_examples: 72
  - config_name: unbalanced
    features:
      - name: audio
        dtype:
          audio:
            decode: false
      - name: label
        dtype:
          class_label:
            names:
              '0': NSW_3
              '1': NSW_2
              '2': NSW_1
              '3': SW_Dana
              '4': SW_Luna
              '5': SW_Nana
              '6': SW_Neo
              '7': SW_Nikita
              '8': SW_Shy
              '9': SW_Yosefa
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      - name: onset
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      - name: offset
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      - name: duration
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      - name: recording_duration
        dtype: float32
      - name: whistle_type
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      - name: whistle_name
        dtype: string
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      - name: f0_hz
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_conf
        sequence: float32
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      - name: f0_bad_reason
        dtype: string
      - name: f0_spectrogram
        dtype: image
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      - name: train
        num_examples: 2442
      - name: validation
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      - name: test
        num_examples: 523
  - config_name: unbalanced-review-sample
    features:
      - name: audio
        dtype:
          audio:
            decode: false
      - name: label
        dtype:
          class_label:
            names:
              '0': NSW_3
              '1': NSW_2
              '2': NSW_1
              '3': SW_Dana
              '4': SW_Luna
              '5': SW_Nana
              '6': SW_Neo
              '7': SW_Nikita
              '8': SW_Shy
              '9': SW_Yosefa
      - name: name
        dtype: string
      - name: onset
        dtype: float32
      - name: offset
        dtype: float32
      - name: duration
        dtype: float32
      - name: recording_duration
        dtype: float32
      - name: whistle_type
        dtype: int64
      - name: whistle_name
        dtype: string
      - name: f0_time
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_hz
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_conf
        sequence: float32
      - name: f0_ok
        dtype: bool
      - name: f0_bad_reason
        dtype: string
      - name: f0_spectrogram
        dtype: image
    splits:
      - name: train
        num_examples: 336
      - name: validation
        num_examples: 72
      - name: test
        num_examples: 72
task_categories:
  - audio-classification
tags:
  - dolphin
  - bioacoustics
  - whistle-classification
  - audio
  - f0
  - spectrogram
configs:
  - config_name: all
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: all/train-*
      - split: validation
        path: all/validation-*
      - split: test
        path: all/test-*
  - config_name: all-review-sample
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: all-review-sample/train-*
      - split: validation
        path: all-review-sample/validation-*
      - split: test
        path: all-review-sample/test-*
  - config_name: balanced
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: balanced/train-*
      - split: validation
        path: balanced/validation-*
      - split: test
        path: balanced/test-*
  - config_name: balanced-review-sample
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: balanced-review-sample/train-*
      - split: validation
        path: balanced-review-sample/validation-*
      - split: test
        path: balanced-review-sample/test-*
  - config_name: unbalanced
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: unbalanced/train-*
      - split: validation
        path: unbalanced/validation-*
      - split: test
        path: unbalanced/test-*
  - config_name: unbalanced-review-sample
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: unbalanced-review-sample/train-*
      - split: validation
        path: unbalanced-review-sample/validation-*
      - split: test
        path: unbalanced-review-sample/test-*

OpenWhistle Classification Finetuning Dataset

OpenWhistleNeurIPS26/OpenWhistle-Classification-Finetuning is the public classification finetuning dataset used for dolphin whistle identity classification. It contains short whistle clips, whistle-level metadata, fundamental-frequency tracks, rendered F0 spectrograms, and integer class labels.

The main reviewer-facing subset is the balanced balanced config. It contains six classes:

NSW_1 (label=0)
SW_Luna (label=1)
SW_Nana (label=2)
SW_Neo (label=3)
SW_Nikita (label=4)
SW_Yosefa (label=5)

The full dataset is split by recording session, so no session appears in more than one of train, validation, or test. Smaller deterministic review configs are also provided so reviewers can inspect representative examples quickly without downloading the complete data first.

Dataset Contents

Hugging Face repo: OpenWhistleNeurIPS26/OpenWhistle-Classification-Finetuning
Main balanced config: balanced
Reviewer convenience config: balanced-review-sample
Public columns common to all configs: audio, label, name, onset, offset, duration, recording_duration, whistle_type, whistle_name, f0_time, f0_hz, f0_conf, f0_ok, f0_bad_reason, f0_spectrogram
The all and all-review-sample configs additionally include snr_db, the estimated clip-level signal-to-noise ratio in dB.

Balanced Dataset Splits

Split	Rows	NSW_1	SW_Luna	SW_Nana	SW_Neo	SW_Nikita	SW_Yosefa	Sessions
`train`	2,100	350	350	350	350	350	350	161
`validation`	450	75	75	75	75	75	75	54
`test`	450	75	75	75	75	75	75	37
Total	3,000	500	500	500	500	500	500	252

The split assignment was generated with seed 42 and exact class balancing. Session leakage checks found no overlap between any pair of splits.

Available Subsets

The repository provides three full classification subsets and their smaller review counterparts:

Subset/config	Rows	Classes	Sessions	Purpose
`balanced`	3,000	6	252	Main balanced six-class finetuning dataset
`unbalanced`	3,488	10	258	Ten-class finetuning dataset with capped rare classes
`all`	8,354	10	261	Ten-class dataset preserving the full available class distribution
`balanced-review-sample`	480	6	Same source split design	Small reviewer sample from `balanced`
`unbalanced-review-sample`	480	10	Same source split design	Small reviewer sample from `unbalanced`
`all-review-sample`	480	10	Same source split design	Small reviewer sample from `all`

The ten-class subsets use the following labels:

NSW_3
NSW_2
NSW_1
SW_Dana
SW_Luna
SW_Nana
SW_Neo
SW_Nikita
SW_Shy
SW_Yosefa

The balanced subset keeps the six classes listed above and is the recommended starting point for reviewers and model finetuning. The unbalanced and all subsets expose the broader ten-class label space for additional analysis.

Review Samples

Review samples are small deterministic subsets of the same public dataset. They were created only to make review and manual inspection easier. They are not a replacement for the full configs used for model development or reporting.

How The Review Samples Were Created

All review samples were built after the session-disjoint train/validation/test splits were finalized. The review-sample scripts preserve the original split assignment: reviewer training examples come only from the original train split, reviewer validation examples only from validation, and reviewer test examples only from test.

For balanced-review-sample, rows were sampled separately within each split and class. Each class group was shuffled deterministically with numpy.default_rng(seed + split_index) using seed 42, then capped at 56 rows per class for train and 12 rows per class for both validation and test. This keeps the same 70/15/15 split ratio as the full balanced config while keeping every class equally represented.

For unbalanced-review-sample and all-review-sample, the same deterministic shuffle was used, but the target rows were allocated proportionally to the source class distribution inside each split. This preserves the class imbalance of the larger source configs while keeping the review download small.

Review Sample Sizes

Config	Source config	Strategy	Train	Validation	Test	Total
`balanced-review-sample`	`balanced`	Equal rows per class within each split	336	72	72	480
`unbalanced-review-sample`	`unbalanced`	Proportional class distribution within each split	336	72	72	480
`all-review-sample`	`all`	Proportional class distribution within each split	336	72	72	480

The reviewer-facing sample for the main balanced dataset is balanced-review-sample. The other review samples are included so each full subset has a matching small inspection subset.

Loading The Data

from datasets import load_dataset

full = load_dataset(
    "OpenWhistleNeurIPS26/OpenWhistle-Classification-Finetuning",
    "balanced",
)
review = load_dataset(
    "OpenWhistleNeurIPS26/OpenWhistle-Classification-Finetuning",
    "balanced-review-sample",
)

Optional broader configs can be loaded by passing "unbalanced" or "all" as the second load_dataset argument. Their corresponding review configs are "unbalanced-review-sample" and "all-review-sample".