{"url":"/dataset/webli","name":"WebLI","full_name":"Web Language Image","description_markdown":"**WebLI** (Web Language Image) is a web-scale multilingual image-text dataset, designed to support Google’s vision-language research, such as the large-scale pre-training for image understanding, image captioning, visual question answering, object detection etc.\r\n\r\nThe dataset is built from the public web, including image bytes, image-associated texts (alt-text, OCR, page title), 109 languages and many other features. The dataset is deduplicated on 68 common vision/vision-language tasks, and has no user or personally identifiable data with careful RAI considerations.\r\n\r\nsource: [PaLI: A Jointly-Scaled Multilingual Language-Image Model](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06794)","description_withheld":null,"homepage":"","introduced_date":"2022-09-14","introduced_date_note":null,"introduced_by":null,"license":null,"modalities":[],"tasks":[{"name":"Visual Question Answering (VQA)","url":"/task/visual-question-answering","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/visual-question-answering"},{"name":"Image Retrieval","url":"/task/image-retrieval","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/image-retrieval"},{"name":"Image Captioning","url":"/task/image-captioning","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/image-captioning"},{"name":"Optical Character Recognition (OCR)","url":"/task/optical-character-recognition","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/optical-character-recognition"},{"name":"Multimodal Deep Learning","url":"/task/multimodal-deep-learning","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/multimodal-deep-learning"},{"name":"Zero-shot Image Retrieval","url":"/task/zero-shot-image-retrieval","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/zero-shot-image-retrieval"},{"name":"Zero-shot Text Retrieval","url":"/task/zero-shot-text-retrieval","datasets_with_task":"/datasets/task/zero-shot-text-retrieval"}],"languages":[{"name":"Multilingual","url":"/datasets/language/multilingual"}],"variants":["WebLI"],"data_loaders":[],"num_papers_in_archive":1,"source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28"},"benchmarks":[],"papers_with_a_benchmark_row":[],"syntology_totals":{"read_at":"2026-09-24T18:15:14+00:00","papers_with_samples":0,"samples_harvested":0,"samples_ran":0,"samples_unverified":0,"pointer_only_for_licence":0,"papers_with_no_sample_that_ran":0,"note":"the per-paper counts above, summed; not a rate"},"papers_note":"The archive never published its papers-using-dataset list; these are papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks."}