license: cc-by-nc-4.0
language:
- en
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
task_categories:
- text-generation
- question-answering
- table-question-answering
- text2text-generation
pretty_name: SFD - SEC Filings Dataset (v1)
tags:
- finance
- sec
- edgar
- financial-disclosure
- long-context
- regulatory
- 10-K
- 10-Q
- 8-K
- tables
- multimarkdown
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/parsed/*.parquet
SFD: SEC Filings Dataset (v1)
SFD-v1 is an open, layout-faithful reconstruction of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR filings into token-efficient MultiMarkdown (MMD), targeted at long-context language modeling, financial reasoning, document understanding, and evaluation.
This release covers filings from January 2022 through June 2025 (~3.8M filings; ~152B Qwen3-1.7B tokens).
The full SFD corpus is estimated at ~500B tokens across ~18.4M filings (1994–present); this release is a public snapshot focused on the most recent four-and-a-half years.
Key facts
- Format: MultiMarkdown — preserves merged-cell tables (
||colspan,^^rowspan), indentation, and visual hierarchy that standard text extraction destroys. - Source formats handled: HTML (~72.6%), XML (~24.1%), plaintext (~1.6%), SGML (~0.9%), PDF-via-OCR (~0.8%) — see paper §3.
- Filings: ~3.8M parsed
.mddocuments across 350+ filing types (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, Form 4, N-PORT, 13F, 485BPOS, ABS-EE, …). - Tokens: ~152B Qwen3-1.7B tokens.
- License: CC-BY-NC-4.0 (parsed). Underlying SEC filings are U.S. Government public domain.
- Storage: Parquet shards with zstd-15 compression, one shard per (year, month).
Schema
Each row is one parsed filing.
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
accession |
string | SEC accession number (e.g. 0000320193-24-000123) |
file_stem |
string | Stem of the original submission file |
year |
int16 | Filing year |
month |
int8 | Filing month (1–12) |
parsed_md |
string | MultiMarkdown reconstruction of the filing |
char_count |
int64 | Character count of parsed_md |
md5 |
string | MD5 of parsed_md (UTF-8) |
has_ocr |
bool | True if any portion required Mistral OCR |
source_format |
string | Primary source format (html, xml, plaintext, sgml, pdf) |
Loading
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("sfd-anonymous/sfd-v1", split="train", streaming=True)
for row in ds.take(1):
print(row["accession"], row["year"], row["month"], len(row["parsed_md"]))
For a full local materialization (~50 GB on disk):
ds = load_dataset("sfd-anonymous/sfd-v1", split="train")
ds = ds.filter(lambda r: r["year"] == 2024) # or by month, source_format, etc.
To recover the canonical SEC EDGAR URL for any row:
acc = row["accession"] # e.g. "0000320193-24-000123"
acc_clean = acc.replace("-", "")
url = f"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/{int(acc.split('-')[0])}/{acc_clean}/"
Methodology summary
SFD treats filings as 2-D rendered grids rather than DOM trees:
- HTML: Reconstructs the visual coordinate system; collapses the "Three-Column Hack" ($ / value / closing-paren split into separate cells); coalesces fragmented multi-row headers using
border-*andmargin-*cues; preserves indentation hierarchy by binning CSS units into discrete levels. - XML: Routes 33 specialized schemas (Forms 3/4/5, 13F, N-PORT, N-CEN, etc.) through schema-aware emitters that reconstruct human-readable disclosures from field hierarchies.
- Plaintext / SGML: Wraps fixed-width legacy filings in code fences to preserve column alignment; collapses 3+ blank lines to 2.
- PDFs: Run through Mistral OCR 3 in 10-page batches; HTML table fragments converted to MMD; near-blank pages skipped via pixel-variance filter.
Every row is prepended with <SEC-HEADER>-derived metadata (CIK, SIC, filing type, period of report, etc.) so each filing is self-contained.
See paper §3 for full details.
Companion benchmarks
Two evaluation benchmarks are derived from SFD and reported alongside this dataset:
EDGAR-OCR — 300 hand-selected SEC tables, synthetically perturbed for contamination resistance, scored by adjusted recall over (content × placement × inline formatting).
EDGAR-Forecast — 50 companies × 5 numeric targets each (250 total) drawn from 2026 10-Q filings, evaluated agentically with prior 5-year filing history visible.
EDGAR-OCR: https://huggingface.co/datasets/sfd-anonymous/edgar-ocr-benchmark
EDGAR-Forecast: https://huggingface.co/datasets/sfd-anonymous/edgar-forecast-benchmark
Citation
@inproceedings{anonymous2026sfd,
title={The SEC Filings Dataset: Reconstructing U.S. Corporate and Financial Disclosures into Layout-Faithful and Token-Efficient Pretraining Data},
author={Anonymous Authors},
booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Evaluations \& Datasets Track},
year={2026}
}
License & terms
- Parsed corpus (this release): CC BY-NC 4.0 — non-commercial use only with attribution. Derivative works must keep this notice.
- Underlying raw filings: U.S. Government public domain, available canonically from the SEC EDGAR system at https://www.sec.gov/edgar. Redistribution of raw filings under CC BY 4.0 attribution-style metadata is permitted.
- Mistral OCR outputs (the small PDF subset,
has_ocr == True) are subject to the Mistral AI Terms of Service at the time of generation; downstream redistribution within this CC BY-NC 4.0 corpus is permitted.
Ethics, privacy, limitations
- All filings are public regulatory disclosures with no expectation of privacy.
- The dataset preserves filer-supplied content verbatim; SFD does not correct factual or accounting errors in the source filings.
- The MMD reconstruction is high-fidelity but not perfect; estimated ~99% structural/semantic accuracy. A small minority of filings (notably highly visual exhibits with low OCR-recoverable content) may have degraded representation.
- Token counts reflect the Qwen3-1.7B tokenizer; other tokenizers will differ.
Provenance & versions
- v1 (this release): 2022-01 → 2025-06, parsed by SFD pipeline rev
sec_parser. - Future releases will extend coverage to 1994–2021 and incrementally to 2025-07+.
Contact
- Anonymous Authors