diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7956e1d..87a472a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,16 @@ __pycache__/
 .DS_Store
 out
 website/
-docs-minimind/
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+docs-minimind/
+
+# Local downloaded datasets and model artifacts
+dataset/*.jsonl
+dataset/images/
+dataset/README.md
+dataset/.gitattributes
+dataset/.msc
+dataset/.mv
+dataset/.cache/
+dataset/._____temp/
+minimind-3/
+checkpoints/
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