The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text
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Came across a very nice submission from
@marcodsn
for the reasoning datasets competition (https://huggingface.co/blog/bespokelabs/reasoning-datasets-competition).
The dataset distils reasoning chains from arXiv research papers in biology and economics. Some nice features of the dataset:
- Extracts both the logical structure AND researcher intuition from academic papers
- Adopts the persona of researchers "before experiments" to capture exploratory thinking
- Provides multi-short and single-long reasoning formats with token budgets - Shows 7.2% improvement on MMLU-Pro Economics when fine-tuning a 3B model
It's created using the Curator framework with plans to scale across more scientific domains and incorporate multi-modal reasoning with charts and mathematics.
I personally am very excited about datasets like this, which involve creativity in their creation and don't just rely on $$$ to produce a big dataset with little novelty.
Dataset can be found here: marcodsn/academic-chains (give it a like!)
The dataset distils reasoning chains from arXiv research papers in biology and economics. Some nice features of the dataset:
- Extracts both the logical structure AND researcher intuition from academic papers
- Adopts the persona of researchers "before experiments" to capture exploratory thinking
- Provides multi-short and single-long reasoning formats with token budgets - Shows 7.2% improvement on MMLU-Pro Economics when fine-tuning a 3B model
It's created using the Curator framework with plans to scale across more scientific domains and incorporate multi-modal reasoning with charts and mathematics.
I personally am very excited about datasets like this, which involve creativity in their creation and don't just rely on $$$ to produce a big dataset with little novelty.
Dataset can be found here: marcodsn/academic-chains (give it a like!)
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I've created a v1 dataset (
davanstrien/reasoning-required) and model (
davanstrien/ModernBERT-based-Reasoning-Required) to help curate "wild text" data for generating reasoning examples beyond the usual code/math/science domains.
- I developed a "Reasoning Required" dataset with a 0-4 scoring system for reasoning complexity
- I used educational content from HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu, adding annotations for domains, reasoning types, and example questions
My approach enables a more efficient workflow: filter text with small models first, then use LLMs only on high-value content.
This significantly reduces computation costs while expanding reasoning dataset domain coverage.
- I developed a "Reasoning Required" dataset with a 0-4 scoring system for reasoning complexity
- I used educational content from HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu, adding annotations for domains, reasoning types, and example questions
My approach enables a more efficient workflow: filter text with small models first, then use LLMs only on high-value content.
This significantly reduces computation costs while expanding reasoning dataset domain coverage.
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Wohoo 🥳 I have finished my 2025 GPU workstation build and I am very excited to train new awesome open source models on it.
I built my last GPU workstation 5 years ago featuring an AMD Ryzen 5900X, 64GB of G.SKILL Trident Z RGB on an ASRock X570 Taichi cooled by an Alphacool Eisbär 420. GPU was a Zotac RTX 3090 AMP Extreme. Unfortunately, I was never satisfied with the case - some Fractal Define 7, as it is definitely too small, airflow is not optimal as I had to open the front door all the time and it also arrived with a partly damaged side panel.
For my new build, I've used the following components: an outstanding new AMD Ryzen 9950X3D with 64GB of Corsair Dominator Titanium (what a name). As a huge Noctua fan - warm greetings to my Austrian neighbors - I am using the brand new Noctua NH-D15 G2 on an ASRock X870E Taichi in an amazing Lian Li LANCOOL III chassis. One joke that only NVIDIA Blackwell users will understand: you definitely need a tempered glass panel to check if your GPU cables/connectors start melting 😂 And the best is yet to come: I returned my previously bought Zotac RTX 5090 Solid to the eBay seller (because of... missing ROPs, only NVIDIA Blackwell users will again understand) and bought a Zotac 5090 AMP Extreme INFINITY (yes, the long name indicates that this is the flagship model from Zotac) from a more trustworthy source (NBB in Germany).
I am so happy to start training and fine-tuning new open source models - stay tuned!!!
I built my last GPU workstation 5 years ago featuring an AMD Ryzen 5900X, 64GB of G.SKILL Trident Z RGB on an ASRock X570 Taichi cooled by an Alphacool Eisbär 420. GPU was a Zotac RTX 3090 AMP Extreme. Unfortunately, I was never satisfied with the case - some Fractal Define 7, as it is definitely too small, airflow is not optimal as I had to open the front door all the time and it also arrived with a partly damaged side panel.
For my new build, I've used the following components: an outstanding new AMD Ryzen 9950X3D with 64GB of Corsair Dominator Titanium (what a name). As a huge Noctua fan - warm greetings to my Austrian neighbors - I am using the brand new Noctua NH-D15 G2 on an ASRock X870E Taichi in an amazing Lian Li LANCOOL III chassis. One joke that only NVIDIA Blackwell users will understand: you definitely need a tempered glass panel to check if your GPU cables/connectors start melting 😂 And the best is yet to come: I returned my previously bought Zotac RTX 5090 Solid to the eBay seller (because of... missing ROPs, only NVIDIA Blackwell users will again understand) and bought a Zotac 5090 AMP Extreme INFINITY (yes, the long name indicates that this is the flagship model from Zotac) from a more trustworthy source (NBB in Germany).
I am so happy to start training and fine-tuning new open source models - stay tuned!!!
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🇹🇷 😍 I'm very happy to finally announce my new Turkish LM called "BERT5urk":
stefan-it/bert5urk
It is a 1.42B T5-based model, trained with UL2 pretraining objective on the Turkish part of the awesome HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2 dataset.
Feel free to check it out!
stefan-it/bert5urk
It is a 1.42B T5-based model, trained with UL2 pretraining objective on the Turkish part of the awesome HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2 dataset.
Feel free to check it out!
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📊 Introducing "Hugging Face Dataset Spotlight" 📊
I'm excited to share the first episode of our AI-generated podcast series focusing on nice datasets from the Hugging Face Hub!
This first episode explores mathematical reasoning datasets:
- SynthLabsAI/Big-Math-RL-Verified: Over 250,000 rigorously verified problems spanning multiple difficulty levels and mathematical domains
- open-r1/OpenR1-Math-220k: 220,000 math problems with multiple reasoning traces, verified for accuracy using Math Verify and Llama-3.3-70B models.
- facebook/natural_reasoning: 1.1 million general reasoning questions carefully deduplicated and decontaminated from existing benchmarks, showing superior scaling effects when training models like Llama3.1-8B-Instruct.
Plus a bonus segment on bespokelabs/bespoke-manim!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TgmRq45tW4
I'm excited to share the first episode of our AI-generated podcast series focusing on nice datasets from the Hugging Face Hub!
This first episode explores mathematical reasoning datasets:
- SynthLabsAI/Big-Math-RL-Verified: Over 250,000 rigorously verified problems spanning multiple difficulty levels and mathematical domains
- open-r1/OpenR1-Math-220k: 220,000 math problems with multiple reasoning traces, verified for accuracy using Math Verify and Llama-3.3-70B models.
- facebook/natural_reasoning: 1.1 million general reasoning questions carefully deduplicated and decontaminated from existing benchmarks, showing superior scaling effects when training models like Llama3.1-8B-Instruct.
Plus a bonus segment on bespokelabs/bespoke-manim!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TgmRq45tW4
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After running some 3DMark and FurMark benchmarks on Windows to make sure that my new 5090 is not causing melting cables [1] and some nice shots with a thermal camera (I don't think that's too much), running some fine-tuning experiments with my favorite Flair & Transformers libraries are very easy to perform.
Important steps:
Good idea is to start with a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 installation with latest CUDA 12.8 and the open NVIDIA driver - follow more advices from [2]:
I tried update from an existing Ubuntu installation with an older CUDA and driver version and it resulted in a non-startable system.
If you are using PyTorch 2.6 with built CUDA 12.6 it will result in:
But no worries! For PyTorch you need just to use a nightly 2.7 version that was built with CUDA 12.8. This can easily done via:
After that the latest Flair version can be installed and fine-tuning will work!
References:
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1inpox7/rtx_50_series_12vhpwr_megathread/
[2]: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&Distribution=Ubuntu&target_version=24.04&target_type=deb_network
Important steps:
Good idea is to start with a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 installation with latest CUDA 12.8 and the open NVIDIA driver - follow more advices from [2]:
sudo apt -y install cuda-toolkit-12-8 nvidia-openI tried update from an existing Ubuntu installation with an older CUDA and driver version and it resulted in a non-startable system.
If you are using PyTorch 2.6 with built CUDA 12.6 it will result in:
NVIDIA Graphics Device with CUDA capability sm_120 is not compatible with the current PyTorch installation.
The current PyTorch install supports CUDA capabilities sm_50 sm_60 sm_70 sm_75 sm_80 sm_86 sm_90.But no worries! For PyTorch you need just to use a nightly 2.7 version that was built with CUDA 12.8. This can easily done via:
pip install --pre torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu128After that the latest Flair version can be installed and fine-tuning will work!
References:
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1inpox7/rtx_50_series_12vhpwr_megathread/
[2]: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&Distribution=Ubuntu&target_version=24.04&target_type=deb_network
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Quick POC: Turn a Hugging Face dataset card into a short podcast introducing the dataset using all open models.
I think I'm the only weirdo who would enjoy listening to something like this though 😅
Here is an example for eth-nlped/stepverify
I think I'm the only weirdo who would enjoy listening to something like this though 😅
Here is an example for eth-nlped/stepverify
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She arrived 😍
[Expect more models soon...]
[Expect more models soon...]
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Hacked together a way to log trl GRPO training completions to a 🤗 dataset repo. This allows you to:
- Track rewards from multiple reward functions
- Treat the completion and rewards from training as a "proper" dataset and do EDA
- Share results for open science
The implementation is super hacky, but I'm curious if people would find this useful.
To push completions to the Hub, you just need two extra parameters:
Example dataset: davanstrien/test-logs
Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wzBFPVthRYYTp-mEYlznLg_e_0Za1M3g
- Track rewards from multiple reward functions
- Treat the completion and rewards from training as a "proper" dataset and do EDA
- Share results for open science
The implementation is super hacky, but I'm curious if people would find this useful.
To push completions to the Hub, you just need two extra parameters:
log_completions=True
log_completions_hub_repo='your-username/repo-name'Example dataset: davanstrien/test-logs
Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wzBFPVthRYYTp-mEYlznLg_e_0Za1M3g
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Dataset descriptions for trending Hugging Face datasets? Powered by a Smol model
davanstrien/Smol-Hub-tldr
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How do you make 1M+ Hugging Face models & datasets more discoverable?
davanstrien/Smol-Hub-tldr!
I fine-tuned HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M to generate one-line summaries from a model or dataset README.
Its own self-description?
"A model for generating concise summaries of model & dataset cards from the Hugging Face Hub"
The goal? Make it easier to find the right models and datasets for your specific needs. It's already powering a semantic search for datasets Space.
It's still a WIP but thanks to @loubnabnl , @anton-l , @eliebak et al, for cooking such a nice base model for fine-tuning small, efficient models for specific domains and tasks. 🙏
davanstrien/Smol-Hub-tldr!
I fine-tuned HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M to generate one-line summaries from a model or dataset README.
Its own self-description?
"A model for generating concise summaries of model & dataset cards from the Hugging Face Hub"
The goal? Make it easier to find the right models and datasets for your specific needs. It's already powering a semantic search for datasets Space.
It's still a WIP but thanks to @loubnabnl , @anton-l , @eliebak et al, for cooking such a nice base model for fine-tuning small, efficient models for specific domains and tasks. 🙏
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Made some significant updates to my 🤗 semantic datasets search app. If you love falling into a wiki black hole, you might like this...
https://huggingface.co/spaces/librarian-bots/huggingface-datasets-semantic-search
https://huggingface.co/spaces/librarian-bots/huggingface-datasets-semantic-search
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Why choose between strong LLM reasoning and efficient models?
Use DeepSeek to generate high-quality training data, then distil that knowledge into ModernBERT answerdotai/ModernBERT-base for fast, efficient classification.
Blog post: https://danielvanstrien.xyz/posts/2025/deepseek/distil-deepseek-modernbert.html
Use DeepSeek to generate high-quality training data, then distil that knowledge into ModernBERT answerdotai/ModernBERT-base for fast, efficient classification.
Blog post: https://danielvanstrien.xyz/posts/2025/deepseek/distil-deepseek-modernbert.html