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| license: odc-by |
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| # The Dump |
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| **The Dump** is a diverse, general-purpose collection of English-language text datasets released under permissive licenses. Its primary purpose is to aggregate a wide variety of content types to support flexible language model training and experimentation. |
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| ## Dataset Composition |
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| To ensure a balanced sample, **110 000 rows** were extracted from each source dataset using the configuration below: |
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| | Dataset | Subset | Split | Column | |
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| | [`HuggingFaceFW/fineweb`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb) | default | train | text | |
| | [`HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu) | default | train | text | |
| | [`allenai/c4`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/c4) | en | train | text | |
| | [`agentlans/common-crawl-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/common-crawl-sample) | en | train | text | |
| | [`agentlans/LLM360-TxT360-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/LLM360-TxT360-sample) | eng_Latn | train | text | |
| | [`HuggingFaceFW/finepdfs`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/finepdfs) | eng_Latn | train | text | |
| | [`agentlans/PleIAs-common_corpus-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/PleIAs-common_corpus-sample) | English | train | text | |
| | [`EleutherAI/the_pile_deduplicated`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/EleutherAI/the_pile_deduplicated) | *none* | train | text | |
| | [`DKYoon/SlimPajama-6B`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/DKYoon/SlimPajama-6B) | *none* | train | text | |
| | [`tiiuae/falcon-refinedweb`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/tiiuae/falcon-refinedweb) | *none* | train | content | |
| | [`agentlans/dolma-1m`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/dolma-1m) | *none* | train | text | |
| | [`agentlans/allenai-dolma3_mix-6T-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/allenai-dolma3_mix-6T-sample) | *none* | train | text | |
| | [`agentlans/BAAI-IndustryCorpus2-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/BAAI-IndustryCorpus2-sample) | *none* | train | text | |
| | [`agentlans/m-a-p-FineFineWeb-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/m-a-p-FineFineWeb-sample) | *none* | train | text | |
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| ## Preprocessing & Cleaning |
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| The data underwent the following preprocessing steps: |
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| * **PII Removal:** Stripping of common personally identifiable information (PII) such as email addresses and URLs. |
| * **Normalization:** Unicode normalization applied to NFC format. |
| * **Whitespace Cleanup:** Leading and trailing spaces stripped. |
| * **Deduplication:** Texts were deduplicated via exact match. |
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| ## Data Structure |
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| The dataset is provided in **JSONLines** format, with each record structured as follows: |
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| * `id`: Unique UUID for the entry. |
| * `text`: The raw text content. |
| * `source`: The originating Hugging Face dataset name. |
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| ## Limitations & Considerations |
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| * **Variable Quality & Formatting:** Because these datasets originate from open web crawls, formatting, length, and text quality vary significantly. |
| * **Unfiltered Content:** As is typical with web text collections, the corpus may occasionally contain offensive or biased language. Users are advised to perform downstream filtering based on their specific use case. |
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| ## Licence |
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| Released under the **ODC-BY (Open Data Commons Attribution)** licence. If you have specific compliance requirements, please consult the individual source datasets linked above. |
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