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  "id": 571338,
  "title": "Pretraining on Birdset",
  "url": "/competitions/birdclef-2025/discussion/571338",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-04-02T18:38:47.675314900Z",
  "votes": 5,
  "comment_count": 3,
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  "content": "<p>Hello everyone,</p>\n<p>Is pretraining on BirdSet (XCL) dataset allowed for this competition? The dataset is available on Huggingface (<a href=\"https://huggingface.co/datasets/DBD-research-group/BirdSet\" target=\"_blank\">https://huggingface.co/datasets/DBD-research-group/BirdSet</a>) and is under Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license according to the authors.</p>\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "3168749",
      "postDate": "04/02/2025 18:38:47",
      "content": "<p>Hello everyone,</p>\n<p>Is pretraining on BirdSet (XCL) dataset allowed for this competition? The dataset is available on Huggingface (<a href=\"https://huggingface.co/datasets/DBD-research-group/BirdSet\" target=\"_blank\">https://huggingface.co/datasets/DBD-research-group/BirdSet</a>) and is under Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license according to the authors.</p>\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello everyone,\n\nIs pretraining on BirdSet (XCL) dataset allowed for this competition? The dataset is available on Huggingface (https://huggingface.co/datasets/DBD-research-group/BirdSet) and is under Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license according to the authors.\n\nThanks!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3169091",
      "postDate": "04/03/2025 05:34:43",
      "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>Freely &amp; publicly available external data is allowed, including pre-trained models.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I think you should also pay attention to the external data section on the rules page. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": ">Freely & publicly available external data is allowed, including pre-trained models.\n\nI think you should also pay attention to the external data section on the rules page.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3169332",
      "postDate": "04/03/2025 11:20:58",
      "content": "<p>Yes, you can use BirdSet. Please make sure to acknowledge BirdSet in your write-up afterward.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yes, you can use BirdSet. Please make sure to acknowledge BirdSet in your write-up afterward.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3169358",
      "postDate": "04/03/2025 11:54:50",
      "content": "<p>Thank you for your quick response !</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you for your quick response !",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3169091,
      "author_name": "mathieuduverne",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/03/2025 05:34:43",
      "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>Freely &amp; publicly available external data is allowed, including pre-trained models.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I think you should also pay attention to the external data section on the rules page. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 3169332,
      "author_name": "stefankahl",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/03/2025 11:20:58",
      "content": "<p>Yes, you can use BirdSet. Please make sure to acknowledge BirdSet in your write-up afterward.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3169358,
          "author_name": "lperret",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "04/03/2025 11:54:50",
          "content": "<p>Thank you for your quick response !</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "3168749": "Hello everyone,\n\nIs pretraining on BirdSet (XCL) dataset allowed for this competition? The dataset is available on Huggingface (https://huggingface.co/datasets/DBD-research-group/BirdSet) and is under Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 license according to the authors.\n\nThanks!",
    "3169091": ">Freely & publicly available external data is allowed, including pre-trained models.\n\nI think you should also pay attention to the external data section on the rules page.",
    "3169332": "Yes, you can use BirdSet. Please make sure to acknowledge BirdSet in your write-up afterward.",
    "3169358": "Thank you for your quick response !"
  },
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}