import os import pandas as pd from datasets import Dataset, Image, Features, Value df = pd.read_json("data/metadata.jsonl", lines=True) def get_full_path(file_name): return os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "data", file_name) df['image_path'] = df['file_name'].apply(get_full_path) # 3. binary def __force_embed_image(example): with open(example["image_path"], "rb") as f: image_bytes = f.read() return {"image": {"bytes": image_bytes}} ds = Dataset.from_pandas(df) ds = ds.map(__force_embed_image, remove_columns=["image_path"], num_proc=1) ds = ds.cast_column("image", Image()) ds.to_parquet("violin-test.parquet")