roshbeed/text8-dataset

Text8 Dataset

This repository contains the Text8 dataset, a large text corpus commonly used for training word embeddings and language models.

Dataset Information

• Source: http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text8.zip
• License: Public domain
• Format: Text corpus
• Size: Large text corpus (~100MB)

Files

• text8_full.txt: Complete text8 corpus
• text8_sentences.json: Text8 split into sentences for easier processing
• dataset_info.json: Dataset metadata

Usage

You can load this dataset in your training scripts using:

from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
import json

# Download sentences
sentences_path = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="roshbeed/text8-dataset",
    filename="text8_sentences.json",
    token="your_token"
)

with open(sentences_path, 'r') as f:
    data = json.load(f)
    sentences = data['sentences']

# Use sentences for training

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original source.