README.md

metadata

configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
task_categories:
  - image-text-to-text
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: images
      list:
        image:
          decode: false
    - name: id
      dtype: string
    - name: messages
      list:
        - name: role
          dtype: string
        - name: content
          list:
            - name: type
              dtype: string
            - name: text
              dtype: string
    - name: origin_dataset
      dtype: string
    - name: raw_metadata
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 2118998617
      num_examples: 4342
  download_size: 2118414692
  dataset_size: 2118998617

AgroBench

AgroBench is a vision-language model (VLM) benchmark for agriculture, annotated by expert agronomists. It covers seven agricultural topics spanning 203 crop categories and 682 disease categories, with 4,342 question-answer examples pairing images with multiple-choice questions across tasks such as crop identification, disease diagnosis, pest identification, and weed identification.

This dataset has been standardized to the HF image_text_to_text format: one conversational messages schema, imagefolder-native images, and (if present) a text_only parquet config.

This dataset is indexed on https://project-agml.github.io/ as part of the AgML python library.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Single image folder -> one default config
ds = load_dataset("Project-AgML/AgroBench")

# Stream without downloading
ds = load_dataset("Project-AgML/AgroBench", streaming=True)

Every record shares the SAME columns so heterogeneous AgML datasets concatenate cleanly: id, file_names (one image per row), messages, origin_dataset, and raw_metadata. raw_metadata is a JSON-encoded string holding source fields not folded into messages/file_names (here: the original source_image filename and parsed crop_prefix); restore it with json.loads(row["raw_metadata"]). Image placeholders in messages align 1:1 with file_names. Using a JSON string (not a native struct) is what lets concatenate_datasets([...]) work across datasets whose raw fields differ in type. Multi-image rows return images as a list aligned to the {"type": "image"} placeholders in messages.

Citation

@misc{shinoda2025agrobench,
      title={AgroBench: Vision-Language Model Benchmark in Agriculture},
      author={Shinoda, Risa and Inoue, Nakamasa and Kataoka, Hirokatsu and Onishi, Masaki and Ushiku, Yoshitaka},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2507.20519},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20519}
}

Shinoda, Risa; Inoue, Nakamasa; Kataoka, Hirokatsu; Onishi, Masaki; Ushiku, Yoshitaka (2025), "AgroBench: Vision-Language Model Benchmark in Agriculture", arXiv:2507.20519