This is a captioned bucketed-shards export of images from limingcv/LAION_Aesthetics_512.
Images were filtered and resized/cropped into SDXL-style aspect-ratio buckets at a 512 base resolution, without upsampling. The export contains 1,999,908 images across 1,976 uncompressed WebDataset-style tar shards.
The .txt files contain model-generated captions, not the original LAION web-scrape alt text or surrounding page text. Captions were… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/data-archetype/LAION_Aesthetics_512_bucketed_512.