Datasets:
dataset_info:
features:
- name: personality
sequence: string
- name: utterances
list:
- name: candidates
sequence: string
- name: history
sequence: string
splits:
- name: train
num_bytes: 175333427
num_examples: 16046
- name: validation
num_bytes: 30803403
num_examples: 2832
download_size: 101859610
dataset_size: 206136830
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/train-*
- split: validation
path: data/validation-*
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- text-generation
Persona-Chat
Dataset Summary
Persona-Chat is a high-quality multi-turn dialogue dataset designed to train conversational AI systems with consistent personality and style. Each participant in the dataset is assigned a persona—a short description or set of traits—which guides their responses throughout the conversation. This dataset enables AI models to learn to maintain coherent personas across dialogue turns and produce responses that reflect consistent characteristics, improving naturalness and engagement in human-like conversation.
The dataset contains real human conversations and captures both persona-driven and context-aware interactions. It is commonly used for research in dialogue modeling, persona-based chatbots, and human-AI interaction studies.
Data Structure
Fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| personality | List of persona traits describing a participant |
| utterances | Multi-turn conversation data |
| ├── candidates | Candidate responses for the given turn |
| └── history | Past dialogue turns preceding the current turn |
Splits
| Split | Examples | Size (bytes) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Train | 16046 | 175333427 | Used for model training |
| Validation | 2832 | 30803403 | Used for validation and tuning |
Total dataset size: 206136830 bytes
Total number of dialogues: 18878
Usage Example
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("anezatra/persona-chat", split="train")
print(ds[0])
References
Zhang, S., Dinan, E., Urbanek, J., Szlam, A., Kiela, D., & Weston, J. (2018). Personalizing dialogue agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?. arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.07243. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07243)