Datasets:

Morton-Li
/

FineWeb-Edu-Quality4plus

license: odc-by
task_categories:
  - text-generation
language:
  - en
pretty_name: FineWeb-Edu-Quality4plus
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: sample
        path: sample/*
      - split: train
        path: data/*/*
    features:
      - name: text
        dtype: string
      - name: id
        dtype: string
      - name: dump
        dtype: string
      - name: url
        dtype: string
      - name: date
        dtype: string
      - name: file_path
        dtype: string
      - name: language
        dtype: string
      - name: language_score
        dtype: float64
      - name: token_count
        dtype: int64
      - name: score
        dtype: float64
      - name: int_score
        dtype: int64
  - config_name: v1.0.0-v1.4.0
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/v1.0.0-v1.4.0/*

📘 FineWeb-Edu-Quality4plus

Overview

FineWeb-Edu-Quality4plus is a high-quality filtered subset of the original HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu dataset (ODC-By License).

This subset retains only samples with:

quality_score ≥ 4

The goal is to provide a cleaner and more reliable dataset suitable for language model pre-training, instruction tuning, education-related NLP, and quality-sensitive downstream tasks.

This work is independent and not affiliated with the official FineWeb / FineWeb-Edu maintainers.

Key Features

✔ Derived from FineWeb-Edu (ODC-By License)
✔ Quality-filtered using quality_score ≥ 4
✔ No modification to the original text content
✔ Cleaner distribution of high-quality educational web data
✔ Suitable for LLM pretraining and fine-tuning

Dataset Construction

Source Dataset

HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu
License: ODC-By License

Filtering Rule

quality_score >= 4

Processing Notes

The dataset retains exactly the original text and metadata.
Only samples failing the quality threshold are removed.
No normalization, rewriting, or translation has been applied.

Use Cases

Not Recommended

Tasks requiring the full low-quality distribution of FineWeb-Edu
Research requiring unchanged statistical distribution of the full dataset

License

This dataset is distributed under:

Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) v1.0 (same as the source dataset)

The ODC-By license and attribution to the original creators are preserved.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@misc{fineweb-edu-quality4plus,
  title  = {FineWeb-Edu-Quality4plus: A High-Quality Subset of FineWeb-Edu},
  author = {Morton Li},
  year   = {2025},
  note   = {Derived from HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu (ODC-By License)}
}

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to the creators of:

FineWeb-Edu

Their open datasets enable high-quality research for the entire community.