metadata

license: odc-by
pretty_name: Zyda-2
task_categories:
  - text-generation
language:
  - en
size_categories:
  - n>1T
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/*/*/*
  - config_name: dclm_crossdeduped
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/dclm_crossdeduped/*/*
  - config_name: zyda_crossdeduped-filtered
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/zyda_crossdeduped-filtered /*/*
  - config_name: dolma-cc_crossdeduped-filtered
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/dolma-cc_crossdeduped-filtered/*
  - config_name: fwe3
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/fwe3/*/*

Zyda-2

Zyda-2 is a 5 trillion token language modeling dataset created by collecting open and high quality datasets and combining them and cross-deduplication and model-based quality filtering. Zyda-2 comprises diverse sources of web data, highly educational content, math, code, and scientific papers.

To construct Zyda-2, we took the best open-source datasets available: Zyda, FineWeb, DCLM, Dolma. Models trained on Zyda-2 significantly outperform identical models trained on the Pile, RefinedWeb, FineWeb, FineWeb-Edu, and DCLM. Due to our post-processing deduplication, filtering, and weighting pipeline, Zyda-2 outperforms all its constituent datasets in resulting model quality.

An early version of Zyda-2 was used as the primary dataset for phase 1 pretraining of our Zamba2 series of models which perform extremely strongly on a per-token basis and are often state-of-the-art for their size, testifying to the strength of Zyda-2 as a pretraining dataset.

According to our evaluations, Zyda-2 is the most performant per-token open dataset available. Zyda-2 excels at educational and natural language reasoning content. For code performance, we reccomend mixing it with a pure code dataset such as Starcoder.

For more information, please see our technical blog (-/TODO LINK)

How to download

Since we preserved the schemas of original component datasets, attempting to dowlnoad the whole dataset using datasets.load_dataset() might fail during the stage of generating a split.

To download the whole dataset we recommend to either clone the repository, or, if you must use the datasets.load_dataset(), download individual components separately.

Example command to clone the repository using huggingface-cli: huggingface-cli download Zyphra/Zyda-2--repo-type dataset

Commands to download individual components:

DCLM: ds = datasets.load_dataset("Zyphra/Zyda-2", name="dclm_crossdeduped", split="train")
Zyda: ds = datasets.load_dataset("Zyphra/Zyda-2", name="zyda_crossdeduped-filtered", split="train")
Dolma-CC: ds = datasets.load_dataset("Zyphra/Zyda-2", name="dolma-cc_crossdeduped-filtered", split="train")
Fineweb-Edu: ds = datasets.load_dataset("Zyphra/Zyda-2", name="fwe3", split="train")

In this repository we provide raw results of cross deduplication and filtering. To achieve the best possible performance, one will need to appropriate weights during training. We found the following optimal weights (in the sense of weights in the resultant dataset): DCLM - 4.0, FWE3 - 4.0, Zyda - 0.16, Dolma-CC - 0.24.

Breakdown by component

Component	Download size (parquet, GBs)	Documents (millions)	gpt-neox tokens (billions)
dclm-crossdeduped	8469.4	2,590.5	3,348.942
zyda-crossdeduped-filtered	452.4	247.7	163.6
dolma_cc-crossdeduped-filtered	668.2	445.6	238.4
fwe3	3490.5	1,279.1	1,319.2
Total	13080.5	4,562.8	5,070.2

Dataset Description

Curated by: Zyphra
Language(s) (NLP): Primarily English
License: Open Data Commons License

Dataset Structure

Each component has they're own individual schema. Please, consult with their respective sources for exact information.

However, in all components the document text is in text column, and unique document document id is in nemo_id column.

Our Zyda-1 and Dolma-CC versions also have two additional columns corresponding to prediction of Nvidia's quality model (https://huggingface.co/nvidia/quality-classifier-deberta): quality_prob and quality_pred.

Source Data

Zyda-2 is comprised of four high quality open-source datasets:

Zyda-1: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Zyphra/Zyda

Dolma-CC v1.7: https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/dolma

DCLM-baseline: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0

FineWeb-Edu-score2: https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu-score-2

Personal and Sensitive Information

As a language modelling dataset, it likely contains PII which has not been filtered out of the component datasets and which may have been missed by our own filters.

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

As a dataset comprised of open web scrapes, it is likely that it contains biased and toxic content.

Licensing Information

We are releasing this dataset under the terms of ODC-BY. By using this dataset, you are also bound by any license agreements and terms of use of the original data sources.

Citation

If you use our dataset to train a model, please cite us at:

@misc{tokpanov2024zyda,
      title={Zyda: A 1.3T Dataset for Open Language Modeling}, 
      author={Yury Tokpanov and Beren Millidge and Paolo Glorioso and Jonathan Pilault and Adam Ibrahim and James Whittington and Quentin Anthony},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2406.01981},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}