README.md

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Repo license: cc-by-sa-4.0
README note:
- Evaluation artifacts are released under CC-BY-SA-4.0.
- They are derived from / evaluated against UniverseTBD/AstroLLaVA_convos.
- Original project scripts/code, where included, remain MIT where applicable.
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## Citation

If you use AstraQ-VL, its checkpoints, or its evaluation artifacts, please cite:

> Roy, G. (2026). *AstraQ-VL: Parameter-Efficient Astronomy Vision-Language Modeling with Connector Alignment and LoRA Tuning* (Version v1). Zenodo. [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21284851](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21284851)

`ibtex
@misc{roy2026astraqvl,
  author    = {Roy, Gourab},
  title     = {AstraQ-VL: Parameter-Efficient Astronomy Vision-Language Modeling with Connector Alignment and LoRA Tuning},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  version   = {v1},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.21284851},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21284851}
}
`