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license: apache-2.0
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Ultra FineWeb EDU

High-Quality Educational Content from Ultra-FineWeb

Filtered for Maximum Educational Value

📚 Overview

Ultra FineWeb EDU is a premium educational dataset created by applying advanced educational content filtering to the exceptional Ultra-FineWeb dataset. This work builds directly upon two foundational achievements: the rigorous data curation methodology of Ultra-FineWeb and the sophisticated educational classification capabilities of the FineWeb-Edu classifier. We extract only the highest quality educational content with a strict threshold of 3.5+ educational score.

⭐ Key Features

🎯 Premium Quality: Only content scoring 3.5+ on educational value (top ~10% of Ultra-FineWeb)
📖 Pure Content: Metadata stripped, contains only the essential text content
🔍 Rigorous Filtering: Multi-stage filtering pipeline ensures exceptional quality
⚡ Optimized Processing: High-performance GPU-accelerated filtering pipeline
🤝 Community Driven: Open-source processing code for reproducibility and extension

📊 Dataset Statistics

Filtering Pipeline Overview

Raw Web Content (Trillions of pages)
    ↓ (Heavy filtering)
FineWeb (24.99B examples)
    ↓ (94.83% filtered out)
Ultra-FineWeb (1.29B examples)  
    ↓ (90% filtered out - Educational threshold 3.5+)
Ultra FineWeb EDU (64,000+ examples) ← This Dataset

Quality Metrics

Educational Threshold: 3.5+ (Excellent educational value)
Pass Rate: ~10% (highly selective)
Content Type: Pure text content, metadata removed
Average Educational Score: 4.2+ (estimated for passed content)
Language: English (with potential for multilingual expansion)
Current Release: 64,000+ premium educational samples

🏗️ Creation Methodology

Building on Proven Excellence: This dataset leverages the battle-tested methodologies from Ultra-FineWeb's efficient verification-based filtering and FineWeb-Edu's expert-validated educational classification.

Educational Classification

We used the proven HuggingFace FineWeb-Edu classifier, trained on 450k expert annotations, to score each sample:

Score 0-1: Not educational / Low educational value → Filtered out
Score 2-3: Some to good educational value → Filtered out
Score 3.5+: High to excellent educational value → ✅ Included

Processing Pipeline

Stream Ultra-FineWeb in batches for memory efficiency
Extract content field only (remove metadata)
Educational scoring using BERT-based classifier
Threshold filtering at 3.5+ educational score
Quality validation and dataset compilation

🚀 Performance Optimizations

Our processing pipeline achieves 350+ samples/second using:

⚡ FP16 precision for 2x speed boost
🔥 Large batch processing (512+ samples)
🎯 GPU memory optimization
💾 Automatic checkpointing every 30 minutes
🔄 Smart memory management and cleanup

📁 Dataset Structure

{
  "content": "High-quality educational text content..."
}

Each sample contains only the content field with educational text, optimized for training language models focused on educational applications.

🛠️ Processing Code

The complete processing pipeline is open-sourced to enable community scaling and reproduction. The code includes optimizations for high-speed GPU processing, automatic checkpointing, and educational quality filtering.

Requirements

pip install torch transformers datasets tqdm numpy pandas

Complete processing script and documentation will be available in the repository.

📈 Quality Analysis

Educational Score Distribution (Based on 64,000+ Samples)

Score 3.5-4.0: Solid educational content (60% of passed samples)
Score 4.0-4.5: High-quality educational material (30% of passed samples)
Score 4.5-5.0: Exceptional educational resources (10% of passed samples)

🎯 Use Cases

Educational AI Training: Train models specifically for educational applications
Content Quality Research: Study high-quality web content characteristics
Educational Content Generation: Fine-tune models for creating educational materials
Knowledge Distillation: Transfer educational knowledge to smaller models
Curriculum Development: Analyze educational content patterns and structures

🤝 Community & Contributions

This initial release of 64,000+ premium educational samples demonstrates the effectiveness of our filtering pipeline. The dataset represents a proof-of-concept for community-driven scaling.

How you can contribute:

Scale the processing: Use our code to process additional Ultra-FineWeb data
Quality improvements: Suggest enhanced filtering techniques
Multilingual expansion: Apply similar filtering to other languages
Research applications: Share findings and use cases with the community

Next Steps: The processing pipeline is designed for easy scaling. With access to larger compute resources, the complete Ultra-FineWeb dataset can be processed to yield an estimated 130M+ premium educational samples.

🚀 More Examples Coming Soon

This initial release represents just the beginning! We're actively working to expand Ultra FineWeb EDU with additional high-quality educational content.

📈 Upcoming Releases:

Extended English Dataset: Processing continues on the full Ultra-FineWeb English corpus
Multilingual Support: Chinese educational content from Ultra-FineWeb-zh
Quality Improvements: Enhanced filtering techniques and threshold optimization
Community Contributions: Datasets processed by community members with larger compute resources

🔄 Release Schedule:

Phase 1 (Current): 64,000+ samples - Proof of concept ✅
Phase 2 (Coming Soon): 500,000+ samples - Extended initial release
Phase 3 (Future): 10M+ samples - Major expansion
Phase 4 (Goal): 130M+ samples - Complete Ultra-FineWeb processing

📊 Stay Updated: Follow this repository for announcements about new releases, expanded datasets, and community contributions. Each release will maintain the same rigorous 3.5+ educational quality threshold.

Processing speed: ~350 samples/second on consumer hardware. Community members with enterprise GPUs can significantly accelerate timeline.

📄 Citation

If you use Ultra FineWeb EDU in your research or applications, please cite:

@dataset{procreations2025ultrafineweb_edu,
  title={Ultra FineWeb EDU: High-Quality Educational Content from Ultra-FineWeb},
  author={ProCreations},
  year={2025},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/[dataset-url]},
  note={Filtered from Ultra-FineWeb using educational quality threshold 3.5+}
}

🙏 Acknowledgments

This dataset stands on the shoulders of giants and would not be possible without the groundbreaking work of several teams:

Core Foundations

🏆 Ultra-FineWeb Team (openbmb): For creating the exceptional Ultra-FineWeb dataset through their innovative efficient verification-based filtering pipeline. Their work represents a quantum leap in data quality, reducing 25B samples to 1.3B through rigorous curation. This dataset directly builds upon their outstanding research and methodology. (Ultra-FineWeb, Technical Report)
🧠 FineWeb-Edu Team (HuggingFaceFW): For developing the sophisticated educational content classifier that makes this work possible. Their BERT-based model, trained on 450k expert annotations, provides the critical educational quality assessment that enables precise filtering. (FineWeb-Edu Classifier)

Additional Thanks

FineWeb Team: For the original high-quality web corpus that serves as the foundation for all subsequent work
Llama3 Team: For providing the annotations that trained the educational classifier
Snowflake Arctic Team: For the embedding model that powers the classifier
Open Source Community: For the tools, libraries, and collaborative spirit that enables this research

Special Recognition

The methodologies, quality standards, and technical innovations developed by the Ultra-FineWeb and FineWeb-Edu teams form the core foundation of this dataset. This work is essentially an application and extension of their remarkable contributions to the field of high-quality dataset curation.

📜 License

This dataset is released under the Apache 2.0 License, consistent with the source Ultra-FineWeb dataset. Please ensure compliance with the original dataset licenses when using this data.

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