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Use aliases as pointers to specific versions. By default, wandb.Run.log_artifact() adds the latest alias to the logged version. Weights & Biases creates an artifact version v0 and attaches it to your artifact when you log that artifact for the first time. Weights & Biases checksums the contents when you log again to the same artifact. If the artifact changed, Weights & Biases saves a new version v1. For example, if you want your training script to pull the most recent version of a dataset, specify latest when you use that artifact. The following code example demonstrates how to download a recent dataset artifact named bike-dataset that has an alias, latest:
You can also apply a custom alias to an artifact version. For example, if you want to mark that model checkpoint is the best on the metric AP-50, you could add the string 'best-ap50' as an alias when you log the model artifact.
Last modified on September 29, 2026