# datasets
**Repository Path**: hello20/datasets
## Basic Information
- **Project Name**: datasets
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- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
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- **Created**: 2022-04-06
- **Last Updated**: 2022-04-06
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## README
🤗 Datasets is a lightweight library providing **two** main features:
- **one-line dataloaders for many public datasets**: one-liners to download and pre-process any of the  major public datasets (text datasets in 467 languages and dialects, image datasets, audio datasets, etc.) provided on the [HuggingFace Datasets Hub](https://huggingface.co/datasets). With a simple command like `squad_dataset = load_dataset("squad")`, get any of these datasets ready to use in a dataloader for training/evaluating a ML model (Numpy/Pandas/PyTorch/TensorFlow/JAX),
- **efficient data pre-processing**: simple, fast and reproducible data pre-processing for the above public datasets as well as your own local datasets in CSV/JSON/text/PNG/JPEG/etc. With simple commands like `processed_dataset = dataset.map(process_example)`, efficiently prepare the dataset for inspection and ML model evaluation and training.
[🎓 **Documentation**](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/) [🕹 **Colab tutorial**](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/notebooks/Overview.ipynb)
[🔎 **Find a dataset in the Hub**](https://huggingface.co/datasets) [🌟 **Add a new dataset to the Hub**](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/ADD_NEW_DATASET.md)
🤗 Datasets also provides access to +40 evaluation metrics and is designed to let the community easily add and share new datasets and evaluation metrics.
🤗 Datasets has many additional interesting features:
- Thrive on large datasets: 🤗 Datasets naturally frees the user from RAM memory limitation, all datasets are memory-mapped using an efficient zero-serialization cost backend (Apache Arrow).
- Smart caching: never wait for your data to process several times.
- Lightweight and fast with a transparent and pythonic API (multi-processing/caching/memory-mapping).
- Built-in interoperability with NumPy, pandas, PyTorch, Tensorflow 2 and JAX.
🤗 Datasets originated from a fork of the awesome [TensorFlow Datasets](https://github.com/tensorflow/datasets) and the HuggingFace team want to deeply thank the TensorFlow Datasets team for building this amazing library. More details on the differences between 🤗 Datasets and `tfds` can be found in the section [Main differences between 🤗 Datasets and `tfds`](#main-differences-between--datasets-and-tfds).
# Installation
## With pip
🤗 Datasets can be installed from PyPi and has to be installed in a virtual environment (venv or conda for instance)
```bash
pip install datasets
```
## With conda
🤗 Datasets can be installed using conda as follows:
```bash
conda install -c huggingface -c conda-forge datasets
```
Follow the installation pages of TensorFlow and PyTorch to see how to install them with conda.
For more details on installation, check the installation page in the documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/installation
## Installation to use with PyTorch/TensorFlow/pandas
If you plan to use 🤗 Datasets with PyTorch (1.0+), TensorFlow (2.2+) or pandas, you should also install PyTorch, TensorFlow or pandas.
For more details on using the library with NumPy, pandas, PyTorch or TensorFlow, check the quick start page in the documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/quickstart
# Usage
🤗 Datasets is made to be very simple to use. The main methods are:
- `datasets.list_datasets()` to list the available datasets
- `datasets.load_dataset(dataset_name, **kwargs)` to instantiate a dataset
- `datasets.list_metrics()` to list the available metrics
- `datasets.load_metric(metric_name, **kwargs)` to instantiate a metric
This library can be used for text/image/audio/etc. datasets. Here is an example to load a text dataset:
Here is a quick example:
```python
from datasets import list_datasets, load_dataset, list_metrics, load_metric
# Print all the available datasets
print(list_datasets())
# Load a dataset and print the first example in the training set
squad_dataset = load_dataset('squad')
print(squad_dataset['train'][0])
# List all the available metrics
print(list_metrics())
# Load a metric
squad_metric = load_metric('squad')
# Process the dataset - add a column with the length of the context texts
dataset_with_length = squad_dataset.map(lambda x: {"length": len(x["context"])})
# Process the dataset - tokenize the context texts (using a tokenizer from the 🤗 Transformers library)
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('bert-base-cased')
tokenized_dataset = squad_dataset.map(lambda x: tokenizer(x['context']), batched=True)
```
For more details on using the library, check the quick start page in the documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/quickstart.html and the specific pages on:
- Loading a dataset https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/loading
- What's in a Dataset: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/access
- Processing data with 🤗 Datasets: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/process
- Processing audio data: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/audio_process
- Processing image data: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/image_process
- Writing your own dataset loading script: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/dataset_script
- etc.
Another introduction to 🤗 Datasets is the tutorial on Google Colab here:
[](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/notebooks/Overview.ipynb)
# Add a new dataset to the Hub
We have a very detailed step-by-step guide to add a new dataset to the  datasets already provided on the [HuggingFace Datasets Hub](https://huggingface.co/datasets).
You will find [the step-by-step guide here](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/share.html) to add a dataset on the Hub.
However if you prefer to add your dataset in this repository, you can find the guide [here](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/ADD_NEW_DATASET.md).
# Main differences between 🤗 Datasets and `tfds`
If you are familiar with the great TensorFlow Datasets, here are the main differences between 🤗 Datasets and `tfds`:
- the scripts in 🤗 Datasets are not provided within the library but are queried, downloaded/cached and dynamically loaded upon request
- 🤗 Datasets also provides evaluation metrics in a similar fashion to the datasets, i.e. as dynamically installed scripts with a unified API. This gives access to the pair of a benchmark dataset and a benchmark metric for instance for benchmarks like [SQuAD](https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/) or [GLUE](https://gluebenchmark.com/).
- the backend serialization of 🤗 Datasets is based on [Apache Arrow](https://arrow.apache.org/) instead of TF Records and leverage python dataclasses for info and features with some diverging features (we mostly don't do encoding and store the raw data as much as possible in the backend serialization cache).
- the user-facing dataset object of 🤗 Datasets is not a `tf.data.Dataset` but a built-in framework-agnostic dataset class with methods inspired by what we like in `tf.data` (like a `map()` method). It basically wraps a memory-mapped Arrow table cache.
# Disclaimers
Similar to TensorFlow Datasets, 🤗 Datasets is a utility library that downloads and prepares public datasets. We do not host or distribute these datasets, vouch for their quality or fairness, or claim that you have license to use them. It is your responsibility to determine whether you have permission to use the dataset under the dataset's license.
If you're a dataset owner and wish to update any part of it (description, citation, etc.), or do not want your dataset to be included in this library, please get in touch through a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/new). Thanks for your contribution to the ML community!
## BibTeX
If you want to cite our 🤗 Datasets library, you can use our [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.02846):
```bibtex
@inproceedings{lhoest-etal-2021-datasets,
title = "Datasets: A Community Library for Natural Language Processing",
author = "Lhoest, Quentin and
Villanova del Moral, Albert and
Jernite, Yacine and
Thakur, Abhishek and
von Platen, Patrick and
Patil, Suraj and
Chaumond, Julien and
Drame, Mariama and
Plu, Julien and
Tunstall, Lewis and
Davison, Joe and
{\v{S}}a{\v{s}}ko, Mario and
Chhablani, Gunjan and
Malik, Bhavitvya and
Brandeis, Simon and
Le Scao, Teven and
Sanh, Victor and
Xu, Canwen and
Patry, Nicolas and
McMillan-Major, Angelina and
Schmid, Philipp and
Gugger, Sylvain and
Delangue, Cl{\'e}ment and
Matussi{\`e}re, Th{\'e}o and
Debut, Lysandre and
Bekman, Stas and
Cistac, Pierric and
Goehringer, Thibault and
Mustar, Victor and
Lagunas, Fran{\c{c}}ois and
Rush, Alexander and
Wolf, Thomas",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-demo.21",
pages = "175--184",
abstract = "The scale, variety, and quantity of publicly-available NLP datasets has grown rapidly as researchers propose new tasks, larger models, and novel benchmarks. Datasets is a community library for contemporary NLP designed to support this ecosystem. Datasets aims to standardize end-user interfaces, versioning, and documentation, while providing a lightweight front-end that behaves similarly for small datasets as for internet-scale corpora. The design of the library incorporates a distributed, community-driven approach to adding datasets and documenting usage. After a year of development, the library now includes more than 650 unique datasets, has more than 250 contributors, and has helped support a variety of novel cross-dataset research projects and shared tasks. The library is available at https://github.com/huggingface/datasets.",
eprint={2109.02846},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
}
```
If you need to cite a specific version of our 🤗 Datasets library for reproducibility, you can use the corresponding version Zenodo DOI from this [list](https://zenodo.org/search?q=conceptrecid:%224817768%22&sort=-version&all_versions=True).