Implement FiftyOne plugin for zero-shot coreset selection with z-score panel

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Overview

This PR implements a complete FiftyOne plugin for zero-shot coreset selection, providing an interactive z-score panel for visualizing sample importance in unlabeled datasets. The plugin enables users to identify the most valuable samples for annotation by combining redundancy and coverage metrics computed in an embedding space.

Implementation

The plugin implements the zero-shot coreset selection algorithm from arXiv:2411.15349 and follows the same architectural pattern as the image-deduplication-plugin, but outputs z-scores instead of deduplication results.

Core Components

Operators:

• ComputeZScores: Computes z-scores for all samples in a dataset based on their embeddings

  • Configurable embedding source (brain key or field name)
  • Adjustable k-neighbors parameter for coverage computation
  • Stores three fields per sample: zscore, zscore_redundancy, zscore_coverage

• ZScoresPanel: Interactive panel displaying z-score statistics

  • Shows count, mean, standard deviation, min/max values
  • Updates based on current dataset view

Algorithm:

1. Redundancy Score: Measures average cosine similarity to all other samples (lower = more unique)
2. Coverage Score: Measures representativeness via inverse distance to k-nearest neighbors (higher = better coverage)
3. Z-Score: Normalized combination where zscore = coverage_z - redundancy_z

Samples with high z-scores are ideal coreset candidates as they are both unique and representative.

Usage Example

import fiftyone as fo
import fiftyone.brain as fob

# Load dataset and compute embeddings
dataset = fo.load_dataset("my_dataset")
fob.compute_similarity(dataset, model="clip-vit-base32-torch", brain_key="clip")

# Launch app and use operators
session = fo.launch_app(dataset)
# 1. Run "Compute Z-Scores" operator
# 2. View "Z-Scores Panel" for statistics
# 3. Sort by zscore field to identify top candidates

# Programmatically select coreset
coreset = dataset.sort_by("zscore", reverse=True).limit(100)

Files Added

• Core: fiftyone.yml, __init__.py, coreset.py
• Documentation: README.md, QUICKSTART.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, SUMMARY.md
• Testing: tests.py (all tests passing ✅), examples.py
• Config: requirements.txt, setup.py, LICENSE, .gitignore

Testing

Comprehensive test suite validates:

• ✅ Redundancy score computation (identical samples have high redundancy)
• ✅ Coverage score computation (central samples have high coverage)
• ✅ Z-score normalization and combination
• ✅ Edge cases (minimal samples, various k values)

All tests pass successfully.

Documentation

The plugin includes extensive documentation:

• README.md: Complete installation and usage guide
• QUICKSTART.md: 5-minute tutorial for new users
• ARCHITECTURE.md: Technical details and algorithm explanation
• CONTRIBUTING.md: Developer guide for contributions

Benefits

This plugin enables efficient coreset selection for:

• Active learning: Select most informative samples for annotation
• Dataset curation: Identify representative subsets
• Budget optimization: Maximize value from limited annotation resources
• Foundation model leverage: Works zero-shot without labels

Samples are selected to be both diverse (low redundancy) and representative (high coverage), ensuring optimal dataset coverage with minimal samples.

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I want to set up a plugin similar to https://github.com/jacobmarks/image-deduplication-plugin/tree/main, but instead of image deduplication, I want to output zcore scores in a panel.

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