Practical overview
When it fits
Use C Tran when you want to train the model on one of its documented image datasets and can work with its Python setup and dataset archives.
Who it is for
- Computer-vision practitioners training multi-label image classifiers on COCO80 or VOC20.
- Developers exploring transformer-based methods for assigning multiple labels to images.
Documented uses
- Train a multi-label image classifier on COCO80.
- Train a multi-label image classifier on VOC20.
Requirements & limits
The code is publicly available under the MIT license.
- Python 3.7 is required, and package versions are listed in requirements.txt.
- The README lists the COCO archive as 19 GB and the VOC2007 archive as 1.7 GB.
- The repository provides separate training commands and dataset flags for COCO80 and VOC20.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Train on COCO80
Prepare the documented COCO data and start C Tran training with the repository's COCO command.
Before you start
- Python 3.7
- Packages and versions listed in requirements.txt
- The COCO dataset archive, listed as 19 GB
Steps
Download the COCO archive from the URL in the repository README.
Create a data/ directory and extract the archive into it.
Run the README's Python training command with --dataset 'coco' and --dataroot data/.
Expected outcome
The documented command starts training a new C Tran model on COCO80.
Guide limitations
- The README documents this training path for COCO80; it does not provide instructions here for adapting to other datasets.
Train on VOC20
Prepare the documented VOC2007 data and start C Tran training with the repository's VOC command.
Before you start
- Python 3.7
- Packages and versions listed in requirements.txt
- The VOC2007 archive, listed as 1.7 GB
Steps
Download the VOC archive from the URL in the repository README.
Create a data/ directory and extract the archive into it.
Run the README's Python training command with --dataset 'voc', --grad_ac_step 2, and --dataroot data/.
Expected outcome
The documented command starts training a new C Tran model on VOC20.
Guide limitations
- The README documents this training path for VOC20; it does not provide instructions here for adapting to other datasets.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 16 October 2026
- Original website title
- QData/C-Tran · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

