MONET: A Massive, Open, Non-redundant and Enriched Text-to-image dataset
arXiv:2605.21272v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training large text-to-image models requires high-quality, curated datasets with diverse content and detailed captions. Yet the cost and complexity of collecting, filtering, deduplicating, and re-captioning such corpora at scale hinder open and reproducible research in the field. We introduce MONET, an open Apache 2.0 dataset of 103.8M image-text pairs collected from 2.9B raw pairs across heterogeneous open sources through successive stages of safety filtering, domain-based filtering, exact and near-duplicate removal, and re-captioning with multiple vision-language models covering short to long-form descriptions, and further augmented with synthetically generated samples. Each image is shipped with pre-computed embeddings and annotations to accelerate downstream use. To validate the effectiveness of MONET, we train a 4B-parameter latent diffusion model exclusively on it and reach competitive GenEval and DPG scores, demonstrating that our dataset lowers the barrier to large-scale, reproducible text-to-image research.
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Canonical link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21272