diff --git a/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClassification.py b/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClassification.py
index d3ba2dabf0..a4c52a4471 100644
--- a/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClassification.py
+++ b/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClassification.py
@@ -111,8 +111,7 @@ def _calculate_metrics_from_split(
             imgs = self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.image_column_name]
             labels = self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.label_column_name]
         elif compute_overall:
-            imgs = []
-            labels = []
+            imgs, labels = [], []
             for hf_subset in self.metadata.eval_langs:
                 imgs.extend(self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.image_column_name])
                 labels.extend(self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.label_column_name])
@@ -126,7 +125,7 @@ def _calculate_metrics_from_split(
 
         img_widths, img_heights = [], []
         for img in imgs:
-            width, height = img.size
+            width, height = img.size  # type: ignore
             img_heights.append(height)
             img_widths.append(width)
 
diff --git a/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClustering.py b/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClustering.py
index 585bf4ea5b..33287b45aa 100644
--- a/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClustering.py
+++ b/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageClustering.py
@@ -73,8 +73,7 @@ def _calculate_metrics_from_split(
             imgs = self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.image_column_name]
             labels = self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.label_column_name]
         elif compute_overall:
-            imgs = []
-            labels = []
+            imgs, labels = [], []
             for hf_subset in self.metadata.eval_langs:
                 imgs.extend(self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.image_column_name])
                 labels.extend(self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.label_column_name])
@@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ def _calculate_metrics_from_split(
 
         img_widths, img_heights = [], []
         for img in imgs:
-            width, height = img.size
+            width, height = img.size  # type: ignore
             img_heights.append(height)
             img_widths.append(width)
 
diff --git a/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageMultilabelClassification.py b/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageMultilabelClassification.py
index 1e66e30cdc..3fd285d96a 100644
--- a/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageMultilabelClassification.py
+++ b/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskImageMultilabelClassification.py
@@ -132,8 +132,7 @@ def _calculate_metrics_from_split(
             imgs = self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.image_column_name]
             labels = self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.label_column_name]
         elif compute_overall:
-            imgs = []
-            labels = []
+            imgs, labels = [], []
             for hf_subset in self.metadata.eval_langs:
                 imgs.extend(self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.image_column_name])
                 labels.extend(self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.label_column_name])
diff --git a/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskZeroShotClassification.py b/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskZeroShotClassification.py
index 95a37d21f0..ff6812c2ad 100644
--- a/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskZeroShotClassification.py
+++ b/mteb/abstasks/Image/AbsTaskZeroShotClassification.py
@@ -79,8 +79,7 @@ def _calculate_metrics_from_split(
             imgs = self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.image_column_name]
             labels = self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.label_column_name]
         elif compute_overall:
-            imgs = []
-            labels = []
+            imgs, labels = [], []
             for hf_subset in self.metadata.eval_langs:
                 imgs.extend(self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.image_column_name])
                 labels.extend(self.dataset[hf_subset][split][self.label_column_name])
@@ -94,12 +93,11 @@ def _calculate_metrics_from_split(
 
         img_widths, img_heights = [], []
         for img in imgs:
-            width, height = img.size
+            width, height = img.size  # type: ignore
             img_heights.append(height)
             img_widths.append(width)
 
-        candidate_labels = self.get_candidate_labels()
-        candidate_labels_len = [len(c) for c in candidate_labels]
+        candidate_labels_len = [len(c) for c in self.get_candidate_labels()]
 
         return ZeroShotClassificationDescriptiveStatistics(
             num_samples=num_samples,
@@ -131,7 +129,6 @@ def _evaluate_subset(
         evaluator = ZeroShotClassificationEvaluator(
             dataset,
             self.image_column_name,
-            # dataset[self.image_column_name],#broken into dataset and self.image_column_name
             dataset[self.label_column_name],
             candidate_labels,
             task_name=self.metadata.name,