If you are on a cloud VM (AWS, GCP, Lambda Labs) where torrenting is blocked, use direct HTTP downloads.
, it has become significantly harder to access due to copyright-related takedowns of its original mirrors. 1. The Legal Maze: Why Is It Hard to Download? how to download the pile dataset
If you are training a large language model (LLM) or conducting serious natural language processing (NLP) research, you have almost certainly heard of . Released by EleutherAI in 2020, The Pile is a massive, diverse, open-source text dataset specifically designed for training large-scale language models. Unlike other datasets that focus only on clean Wikipedia dumps or Reddit comments, The Pile aggregates 22 smaller, high-quality datasets—from PubMed Central and arXiv to GitHub, StackExchange, and even the European Parliament records. If you are on a cloud VM (AWS,
wget -c --wait=2 --limit-rate=50M $BASE_URL$file The Legal Maze: Why Is It Hard to Download
wget https://the-eye.eu/public/AI/pile/arxiv.jsonl.zst
The Pile is a massive, 825 GiB open-source language modeling dataset curated by , consisting of 22 high-quality subsets. Due to its size and recent copyright disputes, the download process has shifted from a single direct link to a combination of community mirrors and Hugging Face repositories. 1. Direct Download from Official Mirrors
This will produce pubmed_central.jsonl (a text file with one JSON object per line).