task_categories:
- text-generation
language:
- en
pretty_name: USGPO
USGPO
Description
The United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO) is a federal agency responsible for disseminating official documents authored by the U.S. government. This dataset includes all plain-text documents made available through the USGPO’s GovInfo.gov developer API. This collection comprises over 2.7 million documents, spanning issues of the Federal Register, congressional hearing transcripts, budget reports, economic indicators, and other federal publications.
Dataset Statistics
| Documents | UTF-8 GB |
|---|---|
| 2,148,548 | 36.1 |
License Issues
While we aim to produce datasets with completely accurate licensing information, license laundering and inaccurate metadata can cause us to erroneously assign the incorrect license to some documents (for further discussion of this limitation, please see our paper). If you believe you have found an instance of incorrect licensing in this dataset, please start a discussion on this repository.
Other Versions
This is the "filtered" version of the USGPO dataset. If you are looking for the raw version, you can find it here.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite:
@article{kandpal2025common,
title={{The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text}},
author={Nikhil Kandpal and Brian Lester and Colin Raffel and Sebastian Majstorovic and Stella Biderman and Baber Abbasi and Luca Soldaini and Enrico Shippole and A. Feder Cooper and Aviya Skowron and Shayne Longpre and Lintang Sutawika and Alon Albalak and Zhenlin Xu and Guilherme Penedo and Loubna Ben and Elie Bakouch and John David and Honglu Fan and Dashiell Stander and Guangyu Song and Aaron Gokaslan and John Kirchenbauer and Tom Goldstein and Brian R and Bhavya Kailkhura and Tyler Murray},
journal={arXiv preprint},
year={2025}
}