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The Pile dataset released on: 2020-12-31.
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- 2020-12-31
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- the-pile · dataset · pretraining · eleutherai · 2020
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[1] preprint · arXiv (Gao, Biderman, Black, Golding, Hoppe, Foster, Phang, He, Thite, Nabeshima, Presser, Leahy) · 2020-12-31
The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling“In this work, we present the Pile: an 825 GiB English text corpus targeted at training large-scale language models.”
[2] official blog · EleutherAI
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