Model components / Dataset Processing Tools

The Pile (pipeline)

The original documented-corpus construction pipeline: downloads, combines, weights/upsamples, and formats 22 components into The Pile. Distinct from the released Pile dataset.

EleutherAI the-pile construction code (distinct from the Pile dataset); MIT confirmed live 2026-07-21 but frozen (last push 2023-04). The canonical documented-corpus construction reference; underpinned GPT-Neo/GPT-J/Pythia.

Openness

5 high confidence

5.0

license: MIT(OSI)
source: public(EleutherAI/the-pile)
governance: EleutherAI
core-gated: ungated

Fully OSI-licensed (MIT), full source public.

https://github.com/EleutherAI/the-pile/blob/master/LICENSE recorded 2026-07-21
MIT License text

Adoption

2 medium confidence

2.0

~1.7k GitHub stars; frozen since 2023 but the canonical, widely-cited documented-corpus construction pipeline (GPT-Neo/J, Pythia).

https://github.com/EleutherAI/the-pile recorded 2026-07-21
1.7k stars

Capability

3 medium confidence

3.0

Origin-node construction pipeline; not actively developed.

https://github.com/EleutherAI/the-pile recorded 2026-07-21
the-pile-pipeline repo feature set confirmed

Unchanged since 2026-07-30 (last edited, not re-checked)