The Pile

A 825GB English text corpus designed for training large language models, sourced from diverse datasets including academic papers, books, and web pages.

About Dataset

The Pile is a large-scale English text corpus created by EleutherAI, designed specifically for training large language models. It aggregates data from diverse sources such as academic papers, books, web text, code repositories, and community discussions. The dataset is carefully documented to provide transparency into its composition and sources. With hundreds of gigabytes of text, The Pile represents a broad cross-section of written English used in research, technical, and general contexts.

Purpose of Dataset

The Pile Is Primarily Used For Pretraining Large Language Models In Open And Academic Research Settings. Its Diversity Makes It Suitable For Learning General Language Representations, Technical Reasoning, And Long-context Understanding. Researchers Use It To Benchmark Model Scaling, Data Mixture Effects, And Training Efficiency. The Dataset Has Played A Key Role In Enabling Reproducible Open-source Llm Development And Comparative Research Against Proprietary Models.