How To Download The Pile Dataset May 2026

zstd -d *.jsonl.zst To save space, download only what you need via Hugging Face:

To download a specific subset locally:

from datasets import load_dataset dataset = load_dataset("EleutherAI/the_pile", split="train", streaming=True) To download fully (requires ~800GB) dataset = load_dataset("EleutherAI/the_pile", split="train")