---
pretty_name: "AG News"
license: "unknown"
language:
  - en
tags:
  - news
  - classification
  - text
task_categories:
  - text-classification
---

# AG News

This repository hosts a copy of the **AG News** topic classification dataset,
a standard benchmark for English news text classification.

The dataset contains news article titles/descriptions paired with one of four topic labels.

## Contents
Typical splits:

- `train`
- `test`

A typical entry contains:
```json
{
  "text": "...",
  "label": 0
}
```

## Usage
```python
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("fancyzhx/ag_news")
```

## Source
This dataset is taken from the Hugging Face dataset repository:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/fancyzhx/ag_news

## License
The Hugging Face dataset card lists the license as **unknown**.
Please review the dataset’s original sources and terms of use before redistribution or commercial use.