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license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
tags:
  - neurips2026
  - audio
  - bioacoustics
pretty_name: BEANS-Next
---

# BEANS-Next

Audio files live under `audio/`. Metadata is in `metadata.parquet` with a
`file_name` column (repo-relative paths) so the Hugging Face Dataset Viewer can
play clips—**only** `file_name` uses that convention; tier 4 rows instead use
`context_audio_paths` (list) and `query_audio_path` so the viewer is not confused
by several `*_file_name`-like columns. Column `task` is the benchmark task id
(same strings as the old `subset` column in other layouts). Column `tier` is an
integer in ``{1,2,3,4}`` (legacy Parquet may still use directory strings; loaders
normalize both). Example:
`dataset["test"].filter(lambda x: x["task"] == "crow-description")`.