INSTALL.md

SMILE Installation

This project relies on several open-source libraries. We recommend using conda to manage your Python environment and installing dependencies via the provided environment.yml file.

Installation Steps

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/fmthoker/SMILE.git
cd SMILE

2. Create a conda environment

conda env create -f environment.yml

3. Activate the environment

conda activate smile

4. Download CLIP weights (Optional, only required for pretraining)

mkdir clip_weights

For pretraining, please download the CLIP weights and place them in the clip_weights folder created above.