| | --- |
| | license: mit |
| | task_categories: |
| | - text-generation |
| | language: |
| | - en |
| | tags: |
| | - philosophy |
| | - classical-texts |
| | - humanities |
| | - wikitext |
| | - bpe-tokenizer |
| | - gpt-training |
| | size_categories: |
| | - 1M<n<10M |
| | configs: |
| | - config_name: default |
| | data_files: |
| | - split: train |
| | path: data/train-* |
| | - split: validation |
| | path: data/validation-* |
| | dataset_info: |
| | features: |
| | - name: text |
| | dtype: string |
| | splits: |
| | - name: train |
| | num_bytes: 2153173168 |
| | num_examples: 13683034 |
| | - name: validation |
| | num_bytes: 238462992 |
| | num_examples: 1520338 |
| | download_size: 1628332782 |
| | dataset_size: 2391636160 |
| | --- |
| | |
| | # Philosophy & Humanities Corpus |
| |
|
| | Combined humanities and Wikipedia corpus for training small language models. |
| |
|
| | ## Dataset |
| |
|
| | | Split | Lines | Size | Description | |
| | |-------|-------|------|-------------| |
| | | **train.txt** | 3.0M | 549 MB | Humanities (368K lines) + WikiText-103 (2.6M lines) | |
| | | **val.txt** | 315K | 57 MB | Matching validation split | |
| |
|
| | ## Sources |
| |
|
| | ### Humanities (368K lines, 66 MB) |
| | 54 classical philosophy and humanities texts: |
| |
|
| | | Category | Works | |
| | |---|---| |
| | | **Plato** | Republic, Apology, Symposium, Phaedo, Crito, Meno, Phaedrus, Timaeus, Laws, Gorgias, Protagoras, Theaetetus | |
| | | **Aristotle** | Categories, Ethics, Rhetoric, Physics, Metaphysics, Poetics, Politics, On the Soul, On the Heavens, Prior/Posterior Analytics, Topics, On Generation & Corruption | |
| | | **Stoics** | Marcus Aurelius Meditations, Epictetus Discourses & Enchiridion, Seneca Moral Essays | |
| | | **Roman** | Lucretius, Cicero (On Duties, Nature of Gods, On Friendship) | |
| | | **Early Modern** | Descartes, Kant, Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke, Bacon | |
| | | **Enlightenment/19th c.** | Hume, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Mill, Machiavelli, Emerson, Thoreau, Montaigne, Schopenhauer | |
| | | **Other** | Boethius, Diogenes/Epicurus, Aeschylus, Latin Grammar, Euclid Elements | |
| |
|
| | Sources: [Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/), [MIT Internet Classics Archive](http://classics.mit.edu/) |
| |
|
| | ### WikiText-103 (2.6M lines, 481 MB) |
| | Wikipedia articles from [Salesforce/wikitext](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Salesforce/wikitext) (wikitext-103-v1). Cleaned, chunked, and deduplicated. |
| |
|
| | ## Tokenizer |
| |
|
| | **tokenizer.json** — BPE tokenizer (4000 vocab) trained on the combined corpus. |
| | - Format: HuggingFace tokenizers JSON (GPT-2 ByteLevel BPE) |
| | - Special tokens: `<|pad|>` (id=0), `<|eos|>` (id=1) |
| |
|
| | ## Files |
| |
|
| | | File | Description | |
| | |------|-------------| |
| | | `train.txt` | Combined training data (one chunk per line) | |
| | | `val.txt` | Combined validation data | |
| | | `tokenizer.json` | BPE tokenizer (vocab_size=4000) | |
| | | `data/*.txt` | Individual source text files | |
| | | `train_enriched.jsonl` | Enriched training data with metadata | |
| | | `train_trivium.txt` | Trivium-phase subset | |
| | | `train_quadrivium.txt` | Quadrivium-phase subset | |
| | | `train_philosophy.txt` | Philosophy-phase subset | |
| |
|
| | ## Usage |
| |
|
| | Training data for [JuliaGPT](https://github.com/DavinciDreams/JuliaGPT) — small transformer language models in Julia (Flux.jl). |
| |
|
| | ```julia |
| | # Auto-downloaded by juliadistill.ipynb |
| | hf_download("LisaMegaWatts/philosophy-corpus", "train.txt"; repo_type="dataset") |
| | hf_download("LisaMegaWatts/philosophy-corpus", "val.txt"; repo_type="dataset") |
| | hf_download("LisaMegaWatts/philosophy-corpus", "tokenizer.json"; repo_type="dataset") |
| | ``` |
| |
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