Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Generation
Modalities:
Text
Formats:
parquet
Languages:
English
Size:
10K - 100K
ArXiv:
License:
| license: apache-2.0 | |
| task_categories: | |
| - text-generation | |
| language: | |
| - en | |
| pretty_name: UFWED | |
| size_categories: | |
| - 10K<n<100K | |
| # Ultra FineWeb EDU | |
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| **High-Quality Educational Content from Ultra-FineWeb** | |
| *Filtered for Maximum Educational Value* | |
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| ## 📚 Overview | |
| Ultra FineWeb EDU is a premium educational dataset created by applying advanced educational content filtering to the exceptional [Ultra-FineWeb](https://huggingface.co/datasets/openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb) dataset. This work builds directly upon two foundational achievements: the rigorous data curation methodology of Ultra-FineWeb and the sophisticated educational classification capabilities of the [FineWeb-Edu classifier](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu-classifier). We extract only the highest quality educational content with a strict threshold of **3.5+ educational score**. | |
| ## ⭐ Key Features | |
| - **🎯 Premium Quality**: Only content scoring 3.5+ on educational value (top ~10% of Ultra-FineWeb) | |
| - **📖 Pure Content**: Metadata stripped, contains only the essential text content | |
| - **🔍 Rigorous Filtering**: Multi-stage filtering pipeline ensures exceptional quality | |
| - **⚡ Optimized Processing**: High-performance GPU-accelerated filtering pipeline | |
| - **🤝 Community Driven**: Open-source processing code for reproducibility and extension | |
| ## 📊 Dataset Statistics | |
| ### Filtering Pipeline Overview | |
| ``` | |
| Raw Web Content (Trillions of pages) | |
| ↓ (Heavy filtering) | |
| FineWeb (24.99B examples) | |
| ↓ (94.83% filtered out) | |
| Ultra-FineWeb (1.29B examples) | |
| ↓ (90% filtered out - Educational threshold 3.5+) | |
| Ultra FineWeb EDU (64,000+ examples) ← This Dataset | |
| ``` | |
| ### Quality Metrics | |
| - **Educational Threshold**: 3.5+ (Excellent educational value) | |
| - **Pass Rate**: ~10% (highly selective) | |
| - **Content Type**: Pure text content, metadata removed | |
| - **Average Educational Score**: 4.2+ (estimated for passed content) | |
| - **Language**: English (with potential for multilingual expansion) | |
| - **Current Release**: 64,000+ premium educational samples | |
| ## 🏗️ Creation Methodology | |
| **Building on Proven Excellence**: This dataset leverages the battle-tested methodologies from Ultra-FineWeb's efficient verification-based filtering and FineWeb-Edu's expert-validated educational classification. | |
| ### Educational Classification | |
| We used the proven [HuggingFace FineWeb-Edu classifier](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu-classifier), trained on 450k expert annotations, to score each sample: | |
| - **Score 0-1**: Not educational / Low educational value → **Filtered out** | |
| - **Score 2-3**: Some to good educational value → **Filtered out** | |
| - **Score 3.5+**: High to excellent educational value → **✅ Included** | |
| ### Processing Pipeline | |
| 1. **Stream Ultra-FineWeb** in batches for memory efficiency | |
| 2. **Extract content** field only (remove metadata) | |
| 3. **Educational scoring** using BERT-based classifier | |
| 4. **Threshold filtering** at 3.5+ educational score | |
| 5. **Quality validation** and dataset compilation | |
| ## 🚀 Performance Optimizations | |
| Our processing pipeline achieves **350+ samples/second** using: | |
| - ⚡ FP16 precision for 2x speed boost | |
| - 🔥 Large batch processing (512+ samples) | |
| - 🎯 GPU memory optimization | |
| - 💾 Automatic checkpointing every 30 minutes | |
| - 🔄 Smart memory management and cleanup | |
| ## 📁 Dataset Structure | |
| ```json | |
| { | |
| "content": "High-quality educational text content..." | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| Each sample contains only the `content` field with educational text, optimized for training language models focused on educational applications. | |
| ## 🛠️ Processing Code | |
| The complete processing pipeline is open-sourced to enable community scaling and reproduction. The code includes optimizations for high-speed GPU processing, automatic checkpointing, and educational quality filtering. | |
| ### Requirements | |
| ```bash | |
| pip install torch transformers datasets tqdm numpy pandas | |
| ``` | |
| *Complete processing script and documentation will be available in the repository.* | |
| ## 📈 Quality Analysis | |
| ### Educational Score Distribution (Based on 64,000+ Samples) | |
| - **Score 3.5-4.0**: Solid educational content (60% of passed samples) | |
| - **Score 4.0-4.5**: High-quality educational material (30% of passed samples) | |
| - **Score 4.5-5.0**: Exceptional educational resources (10% of passed samples) | |
| ## 🎯 Use Cases | |
| - **Educational AI Training**: Train models specifically for educational applications | |
| - **Content Quality Research**: Study high-quality web content characteristics | |
| - **Educational Content Generation**: Fine-tune models for creating educational materials | |
| - **Knowledge Distillation**: Transfer educational knowledge to smaller models | |
| - **Curriculum Development**: Analyze educational content patterns and structures | |
| ## 🤝 Community & Contributions | |
| This initial release of 64,000+ premium educational samples demonstrates the effectiveness of our filtering pipeline. The dataset represents a proof-of-concept for community-driven scaling. | |
| **How you can contribute:** | |
| - **Scale the processing**: Use our code to process additional Ultra-FineWeb data | |
| - **Quality improvements**: Suggest enhanced filtering techniques | |
| - **Multilingual expansion**: Apply similar filtering to other languages | |
| - **Research applications**: Share findings and use cases with the community | |
| **Next Steps:** | |
| The processing pipeline is designed for easy scaling. With access to larger compute resources, the complete Ultra-FineWeb dataset can be processed to yield an estimated 130M+ premium educational samples. | |
| ## 🚀 More Examples Coming Soon | |
| This initial release represents just the beginning! We're actively working to expand Ultra FineWeb EDU with additional high-quality educational content. | |
| **📈 Upcoming Releases:** | |
| - **Extended English Dataset**: Processing continues on the full Ultra-FineWeb English corpus | |
| - **Multilingual Support**: Chinese educational content from Ultra-FineWeb-zh | |
| - **Quality Improvements**: Enhanced filtering techniques and threshold optimization | |
| - **Community Contributions**: Datasets processed by community members with larger compute resources | |
| **🔄 Release Schedule:** | |
| - **Phase 1** (Current): 64,000+ samples - Proof of concept ✅ | |
| - **Phase 2** (Coming Soon): 500,000+ samples - Extended initial release | |
| - **Phase 3** (Future): 10M+ samples - Major expansion | |
| - **Phase 4** (Goal): 130M+ samples - Complete Ultra-FineWeb processing | |
| **📊 Stay Updated:** | |
| Follow this repository for announcements about new releases, expanded datasets, and community contributions. Each release will maintain the same rigorous 3.5+ educational quality threshold. | |
| *Processing speed: ~350 samples/second on consumer hardware. Community members with enterprise GPUs can significantly accelerate timeline.* | |
| ## 📄 Citation | |
| If you use Ultra FineWeb EDU in your research or applications, please cite: | |
| ```bibtex | |
| @dataset{procreations2025ultrafineweb_edu, | |
| title={Ultra FineWeb EDU: High-Quality Educational Content from Ultra-FineWeb}, | |
| author={ProCreations}, | |
| year={2025}, | |
| url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/[dataset-url]}, | |
| note={Filtered from Ultra-FineWeb using educational quality threshold 3.5+} | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| ## 🙏 Acknowledgments | |
| This dataset stands on the shoulders of giants and would not be possible without the groundbreaking work of several teams: | |
| ### Core Foundations | |
| - **🏆 Ultra-FineWeb Team ([openbmb](https://huggingface.co/openbmb))**: For creating the exceptional Ultra-FineWeb dataset through their innovative efficient verification-based filtering pipeline. Their work represents a quantum leap in data quality, reducing 25B samples to 1.3B through rigorous curation. This dataset directly builds upon their outstanding research and methodology. ([Ultra-FineWeb](https://huggingface.co/datasets/openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb), [Technical Report](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05427)) | |
| - **🧠 FineWeb-Edu Team ([HuggingFaceFW](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceFW))**: For developing the sophisticated educational content classifier that makes this work possible. Their BERT-based model, trained on 450k expert annotations, provides the critical educational quality assessment that enables precise filtering. ([FineWeb-Edu Classifier](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu-classifier)) | |
| ### Additional Thanks | |
| - **FineWeb Team**: For the original high-quality web corpus that serves as the foundation for all subsequent work | |
| - **Llama3 Team**: For providing the annotations that trained the educational classifier | |
| - **Snowflake Arctic Team**: For the embedding model that powers the classifier | |
| - **Open Source Community**: For the tools, libraries, and collaborative spirit that enables this research | |
| ### Special Recognition | |
| The methodologies, quality standards, and technical innovations developed by the Ultra-FineWeb and FineWeb-Edu teams form the core foundation of this dataset. This work is essentially an application and extension of their remarkable contributions to the field of high-quality dataset curation. | |
| ## 📜 License | |
| This dataset is released under the **Apache 2.0 License**, consistent with the source Ultra-FineWeb dataset. Please ensure compliance with the original dataset licenses when using this data. | |
| ## 🔗 Related Resources | |
| - [Ultra-FineWeb Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/openbmb/Ultra-FineWeb) | |
| - [FineWeb-Edu Classifier](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu-classifier) | |
| - [Original FineWeb Dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb) | |
| - [Processing Code Repository](https://github.com/[your-repo]) | |
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| *Building better educational AI, one dataset at a time* 🚀📚 | |
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