| --- |
| license: mit |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - philosophy |
| - classical-texts |
| - humanities |
| - wikitext |
| - bpe-tokenizer |
| - gpt-training |
| size_categories: |
| - 1M<n<10M |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/train-* |
| - split: validation |
| path: data/validation-* |
| dataset_info: |
| features: |
| - name: text |
| dtype: string |
| splits: |
| - name: train |
| num_bytes: 2607290216 |
| num_examples: 16149339 |
| - name: validation |
| num_bytes: 289382628 |
| num_examples: 1794371 |
| download_size: 1977715003 |
| dataset_size: 2896672844 |
| --- |
| |
| # Philosophy & Humanities Corpus |
|
|
| Combined humanities and Wikipedia corpus for training small language models. |
|
|
| ## Dataset |
|
|
| | Split | Lines | Size | Description | |
| |-------|-------|------|-------------| |
| | **train.txt** | 3.0M | 549 MB | Humanities (368K lines) + WikiText-103 (2.6M lines) | |
| | **val.txt** | 315K | 57 MB | Matching validation split | |
|
|
| ## Sources |
|
|
| ### Humanities (368K lines, 66 MB) |
| 54 classical philosophy and humanities texts: |
|
|
| | Category | Works | |
| |---|---| |
| | **Plato** | Republic, Apology, Symposium, Phaedo, Crito, Meno, Phaedrus, Timaeus, Laws, Gorgias, Protagoras, Theaetetus | |
| | **Aristotle** | Categories, Ethics, Rhetoric, Physics, Metaphysics, Poetics, Politics, On the Soul, On the Heavens, Prior/Posterior Analytics, Topics, On Generation & Corruption | |
| | **Stoics** | Marcus Aurelius Meditations, Epictetus Discourses & Enchiridion, Seneca Moral Essays | |
| | **Roman** | Lucretius, Cicero (On Duties, Nature of Gods, On Friendship) | |
| | **Early Modern** | Descartes, Kant, Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke, Bacon | |
| | **Enlightenment/19th c.** | Hume, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Mill, Machiavelli, Emerson, Thoreau, Montaigne, Schopenhauer | |
| | **Other** | Boethius, Diogenes/Epicurus, Aeschylus, Latin Grammar, Euclid Elements | |
|
|
| Sources: [Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/), [MIT Internet Classics Archive](http://classics.mit.edu/) |
|
|
| ### WikiText-103 (2.6M lines, 481 MB) |
| Wikipedia articles from [Salesforce/wikitext](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Salesforce/wikitext) (wikitext-103-v1). Cleaned, chunked, and deduplicated. |
|
|
| ## Tokenizer |
|
|
| **tokenizer.json** — BPE tokenizer (4000 vocab) trained on the combined corpus. |
| - Format: HuggingFace tokenizers JSON (GPT-2 ByteLevel BPE) |
| - Special tokens: `<|pad|>` (id=0), `<|eos|>` (id=1) |
|
|
| ## Files |
|
|
| | File | Description | |
| |------|-------------| |
| | `train.txt` | Combined training data (one chunk per line) | |
| | `val.txt` | Combined validation data | |
| | `tokenizer.json` | BPE tokenizer (vocab_size=4000) | |
| | `data/*.txt` | Individual source text files | |
| | `train_enriched.jsonl` | Enriched training data with metadata | |
| | `train_trivium.txt` | Trivium-phase subset | |
| | `train_quadrivium.txt` | Quadrivium-phase subset | |
| | `train_philosophy.txt` | Philosophy-phase subset | |
|
|
| ## Usage |
|
|
| Training data for [JuliaGPT](https://github.com/DavinciDreams/JuliaGPT) — small transformer language models in Julia (Flux.jl). |
|
|
| ```julia |
| # Auto-downloaded by juliadistill.ipynb |
| hf_download("LisaMegaWatts/philosophy-corpus", "train.txt"; repo_type="dataset") |
| hf_download("LisaMegaWatts/philosophy-corpus", "val.txt"; repo_type="dataset") |
| hf_download("LisaMegaWatts/philosophy-corpus", "tokenizer.json"; repo_type="dataset") |
| ``` |
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