RELEASE_NOTES.md

Release Notes

release_v1

This release package is cleaned for public publication.

Release-facing changes

• removed the auxiliary canonical split from the public package
• removed paper-era legacy manifests from the public package
• removed machine-local path assumptions from scripts and docs
• kept only official train and test split manifests
• preserved raw query relevance provenance in metadata/source/
• preserved gallery-filtered query relevance in metadata/query_relevance.json
• added a minimal timm evaluation example
• kept only the validation utility needed by end users

Official counts

• train gallery: 47,882 images / 23,941 crater IDs
• test gallery: 50,000 images / 25,000 crater IDs
• test query: 5,000 images / 1,000 crater IDs

Hosting

• primary: Hugging Face Datasets (jfang/CraterBench-R)
• all images distributed as a single images.zip archive (1.8 GB)
• extract with unzip images.zip to produce images/gallery/ and images/query/