Datasets:
| pretty_name: "C4" | |
| license: "odc-by" | |
| language: | |
| - en | |
| tags: | |
| - news | |
| - language-modeling | |
| - summarization | |
| task_categories: | |
| - text-generation | |
| - summarization | |
| # C4 | |
| This repository hosts a copy of the widely used **C4** dataset, a variant of the Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus designed for training and evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) on news-like text. | |
| C4 consists of cleaned web data from Common Crawl, specifically curated to contain more news-style content. This dataset is commonly used in language modeling tasks, text generation, and research focused on news and article-like content. | |
| ## Contents | |
| - `c4.json` (or your actual filename): the standard set of cleaned web data with a news-like style. | |
| Each entry contains: | |
| ``` | |
| { | |
| "prompt": "...", | |
| "natural_text": "..." | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| ## Usage | |
| ``` | |
| from datasets import load_dataset | |
| ds = load_dataset("S3IC/c4") | |
| ``` | |
| ## Source | |
| This dataset is taken from the public C4 release: https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/c4 | |
| ## License | |
| C4 is released under the original license provided by the authors. See the LICENSE file for more details. |