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+## openwebtext dataset
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+after running `prepare.py` (preprocess) we get:
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+- train.bin is ~17GB, val.bin ~8.5MB
+- train has ~9B tokens (9,035,582,198)
+- val has ~4M tokens (4,434,897)
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+this came from 8,013,769 documents in total.
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+references:
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+- OpenAI's WebText dataset is discussed in [GPT-2 paper](https://d4mucfpksywv.cloudfront.net/better-language-models/language_models_are_unsupervised_multitask_learners.pdf)
+- [OpenWebText](https://skylion007.github.io/OpenWebTextCorpus/) dataset