| --- |
| license: odc-by |
| task_categories: |
| - text-generation |
| language: |
| - en |
| pretty_name: Parameter Golf Competition Data |
| size_categories: |
| - 1B<n<10B |
| tags: |
| - parameter-golf |
| - fineweb |
| - language-modeling |
| - competition |
| --- |
| |
| # Parameter Golf Competition Data |
|
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| Pre-tokenized [FineWeb](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb) shards for the [OpenAI Parameter Golf](https://github.com/openai/parameter-golf) competition. |
|
|
| **Two tokenizations included:** |
| - **SP1024** — SentencePiece BPE, 1024 tokens (competition default) |
| - **Scylla** — TokenMonster-derived, 998 tokens (community alternative from [PR #1143](https://github.com/openai/parameter-golf/pull/1143)) |
|
|
| ## Why this exists |
|
|
| Every time you launch a GPU pod, re-downloading 16+ GB of data from the competition repo costs 10-30 minutes of billable GPU time. This dataset provides the same data via `huggingface-cli download` — fast, resumable, and available from any provider (RunPod, Modal, Colab, Vast.ai). |
|
|
| ## Quick Start |
|
|
| ```bash |
| # Full SP1024 dataset (~11 GB) |
| huggingface-cli download LightSpeedUp/parameter-golf-data --include "fineweb_sp1024/*" --local-dir /workspace/data |
| |
| # Full Scylla dataset (~11 GB) |
| huggingface-cli download LightSpeedUp/parameter-golf-data --include "fineweb_scylla/*" --local-dir /workspace/data |
| |
| # Tokenizers only |
| huggingface-cli download LightSpeedUp/parameter-golf-data --include "tokenizers/*" --local-dir /workspace/data |
| |
| # Mini subset for smoke tests (~2 GB, 10 shards + val) |
| huggingface-cli download LightSpeedUp/parameter-golf-data \ |
| --include "fineweb_sp1024/fineweb_train_00000?.bin" \ |
| --include "fineweb_sp1024/fineweb_val*" \ |
| --local-dir /workspace/data |
| |
| # Val only (~200 MB) |
| huggingface-cli download LightSpeedUp/parameter-golf-data \ |
| --include "fineweb_sp1024/fineweb_val*" \ |
| --local-dir /workspace/data |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Dataset Structure |
|
|
| ``` |
| parameter-golf-data/ |
| ├── fineweb_sp1024/ |
| │ ├── fineweb_train_000000.bin ... fineweb_train_000079.bin (80 shards, ~11 GB) |
| │ └── fineweb_val_000000.bin (1 shard, ~200 MB) |
| ├── fineweb_scylla/ |
| │ ├── fineweb_train_000000.bin ... fineweb_train_000079.bin (80 shards, ~11 GB) |
| │ └── fineweb_val_000000.bin (1 shard) |
| ├── tokenizers/ |
| │ ├── fineweb_1024_bpe.model (SP1024 SentencePiece) |
| │ ├── scylla/candidate.vocab (TokenMonster 998) |
| │ └── scylla/candidate.meta.npz (byte LUTs) |
| └── SHA256SUMS.txt (integrity manifest) |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Data Integrity |
|
|
| Verify your download: |
| ```bash |
| cd /workspace/data |
| sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Provenance |
|
|
| - **Source:** [FineWeb](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb) (CommonCrawl-derived, by Hugging Face) |
| - **SP1024 tokenization:** SentencePiece BPE trained on FineWeb, 1024 tokens — from [openai/parameter-golf](https://github.com/openai/parameter-golf) competition repo |
| - **Scylla tokenization:** TokenMonster vocabulary (998 tokens) by [@simon-marcus](https://github.com/simon-marcus) ([PR #1143](https://github.com/openai/parameter-golf/pull/1143)). Retokenized using our [retokenize_scylla.py](https://github.com/MatoTeziTanka/parameter-golf-private) pipeline. |
| - **No modification** to token sequences — these are byte-identical to what you'd get by cloning the competition repo and running the tokenizer yourself. |
|
|
| ## Attribution Chain |
|
|
| FineWeb → CommonCrawl (CC-BY) → Hugging Face (ODC-By 1.0) → This dataset (ODC-By 1.0) |
|
|
| ## License |
|
|
| **Data:** [Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By 1.0)](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1-0/) — required by FineWeb upstream license. You may use, share, and adapt this data with attribution. |
|
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| **Retokenization code:** Apache 2.0 — see [PATENTS.md](PATENTS.md) for patent boundary notice. |
|
|
| ## Community |
|
|
| - [The Agora](https://matotezitanka.github.io/parameter-golf) — live leaderboard + compliance tracker |
| - [Issue #942](https://github.com/openai/parameter-golf/issues/942) — compute resources discussion |
| - [Issue #140](https://github.com/openai/parameter-golf/issues/140) — competition discussion thread |
|
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| Built by [Light Speed Up](https://lightspeedup.com) for the Parameter Golf community. |
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