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bactrainus-hotpotqa

This release is an adaptation of the English HotpotQA dataset. When sharing or adapting it, retain the following attribution in a reasonably visible location:

Bactrainus HotpotQA Training Data by Iman Barati, Arash Ghafouri, and Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli, derived from HotpotQA by Zhilin Yang, Peng Qi, Saizheng Zhang, Yoshua Bengio, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, and Christopher D. Manning. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes include schema normalization, deterministic task-view construction, chat serialization, validation, and Parquet sharding.

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this dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/bactrianus/bactrainus-hotpotqa
HotpotQA: https://hotpotqa.github.io/
CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Bactrainus: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06286

Indicate any additional modifications you make. Adapted datasets must remain under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a license permitted by its ShareAlike compatibility rules.

Upstream dataset

HotpotQA is distributed by its authors under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. This release uses only the English HotpotQA v1.1 training split and preserves each upstream example ID as source_id.

@inproceedings{yang2018hotpotqa,
  title     = {{HotpotQA}: A Dataset for Diverse, Explainable Multi-hop Question Answering},
  author    = {Yang, Zhilin and Qi, Peng and Zhang, Saizheng and Bengio, Yoshua and Cohen, William W. and Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Manning, Christopher D.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  year      = {2018},
  pages     = {2369--2380},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/D18-1259},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/D18-1259/}
}

Bactrainus task views

The Bactrainus authors created the normalized schema and the four deterministic supervised-fine-tuning views in this repository. Cite the associated article when using those views:

@article{barati2025bactrainus,
  title   = {Bactrainus: Optimizing Large Language Models for Multi-hop Complex Question Answering Tasks},
  author  = {Barati, Iman and Ghafouri, Arash and Minaei-Bidgoli, Behrouz},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06286},
  year    = {2025},
  url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06286}
}

Architecture figure

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No endorsement

Attribution does not imply that the HotpotQA authors, Wikipedia contributors, Creative Commons, or any other upstream party endorses Bactrainus or a downstream use.