josteece/github-issues huggingface dataset:
Document the HF_DATASETS_CACHE environment variable in the datasets cache documentation
Opened by Harry-Yang0518 (closed)


This pull request updates the Datasets documentation to include the `HF_DATASETS_CACHE` environment variable. While the current documentation only mentions `HF_HOME` for overriding the default cache directory, `HF_DATASETS_CACHE` is also a supported and useful option for specifying a custom cache location for datasets stored in Arrow format.

This addition is based on the discussion in (https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/7457), where users noted the absence of this variable in the documentation despite its functionality. The update adds a new section to `cache.mdx` that explains how to use `HF_DATASETS_CACHE` with an example.

This change aims to improve clarity and help users better manage their cache directories when working in shared environments or with limited local storage.

Closes #7457.

Comments:
The docs for this PR live [here](https://moon-ci-docs.huggingface.co/docs/datasets/pr_7532). All of your documentation changes will be reflected on that endpoint. The docs are available until 30 days after the last update.

Your clarification in your comment at https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/7480#issuecomment-2833640084 sounds great, would you like to update this PR to include it ?

Hi @lhoestq, I’ve updated the documentation to reflect the clarifications discussed in #7480. Let me know if anything else is needed!
How to solve "Spaces stuck in Building" problems
Opened by ghost (closed)

### Describe the bug

Public spaces may stuck in Building after restarting, error log as follows:

build error
Unexpected job error

ERROR: failed to push spaces-registry.huggingface.tech/spaces/*:cpu-*-*: unexpected status from HEAD request to https://spaces-registry.huggingface.tech/v2/spaces/*/manifests/cpu-*-*: 401 Unauthorized

### Steps to reproduce the bug

Restart space / Factory rebuild cannot avoid it

### Expected behavior

Fix this problem

### Environment info

no requirements.txt can still happen
python gradio spaces

Comments:
I'm facing the same issue—Space stuck in "Building" even after restart and Factory rebuild. Any fix?


> I'm facing the same issue—Space stuck in "Building" even after restart and Factory rebuild. Any fix?

Also see https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/issues/3019

I'm facing the same issue. The build fails with the same error, and restarting won't help. Is there a fix or ETA?
audio folder builder cannot detect custom split name
Opened by phineas-pta (open)

### Describe the bug

when using audio folder builder (`load_dataset("audiofolder", data_dir="/path/to/folder")`), it cannot detect custom split name other than train/validation/test

### Steps to reproduce the bug

i have the following folder structure
```
my_dataset/
├── train/
│   ├── lorem.wav
│   ├── …
│   └── metadata.csv
├── test/
│   ├── ipsum.wav
│   ├── …
│   └── metadata.csv
├── validation/
│   ├── dolor.wav
│   ├── …
│   └── metadata.csv
└── custom/
    ├── sit.wav
    ├── …
    └── metadata.csv
```
using `ds = load_dataset("audiofolder", data_dir="/path/to/my_dataset")`

### Expected behavior

i got `ds` with only 3 splits train/validation/test, whenever i rename train/validation/test folder it also disappear if i re-create `ds`

### Environment info

- `datasets` version: 3.5.0
- Platform: Windows-11-10.0.26100-SP0
- Python version: 3.12.8
- `huggingface_hub` version: 0.30.2
- PyArrow version: 18.1.0
- Pandas version: 2.2.3
- `fsspec` version: 2024.9.0

Comments:
Data Studio Error: Convert JSONL incorrectly
Opened by zxccade (open)

### Describe the bug

Hi there,

I uploaded a dataset here https://huggingface.co/datasets/V-STaR-Bench/V-STaR, but I found that Data Studio incorrectly convert the "bboxes" value for the whole dataset. Therefore, anyone who downloaded the dataset via the API would get the wrong "bboxes" value in the data file.

Could you help me address the issue?

Many thanks,



### Steps to reproduce the bug

The JSONL file of [V_STaR_test_release.jsonl](https://huggingface.co/datasets/V-STaR-Bench/V-STaR/blob/main/V_STaR_test_release.jsonl) has the correct values of every "bboxes" for each sample.

But in the Data Studio, we can see that the values of "bboxes" have changed, and load the dataset via API will also get the wrong values.

### Expected behavior

Fix the bug to correctly download my dataset.

### Environment info

- `datasets` version: 2.16.1
- Platform: Linux-5.14.0-427.22.1.el9_4.x86_64-x86_64-with-glibc2.34
- Python version: 3.10.16
- `huggingface_hub` version: 0.29.3
- PyArrow version: 19.0.0
- Pandas version: 2.2.3
- `fsspec` version: 2023.10.0

Comments:
Hi ! Your JSONL file is incompatible with Arrow / Parquet. Indeed in Arrow / Parquet every dict should have the same keys, while in your dataset the bboxes have varying keys.

This causes the Data Studio to treat the bboxes as if each row was missing the keys from other rows.

Feel free to take a look at the docs on object segmentation to see how to format a dataset with bboxes: https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/object_detection
Auto-merge option for `convert-to-parquet`
Opened by klamike (closed)

### Feature request

Add a command-line option, e.g. `--auto-merge-pull-request` that enables automatic merging of the commits created by the `convert-to-parquet` tool.

### Motivation

Large datasets may result in dozens of PRs due to the splitting mechanism. Each of these has to be manually accepted via the website.

### Your contribution

Happy to look into submitting a PR if this is of interest to maintainers.

Comments:
Alternatively, there could be an option to switch from submitting PRs to just committing changes directly to `main`.

Why not, I'd be in favor of `--merge-pull-request` to call `HfApi().merge_pull_request()` at the end of the conversion :) feel free to open a PR if you'd like

#self-assign

Closing since convert to parquet has been removed... https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/pull/7592#issuecomment-3073053138
Faster downloads/uploads with Xet storage
Opened by lhoestq (open)

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6e247f4a-d436-4428-a682-fe18ebdc73a9)

## Xet is out !

Over the past few weeks, Hugging Face’s [Xet Team](https://huggingface.co/xet-team) took a major step forward by [migrating the first Model and Dataset repositories off LFS and to Xet storage](https://huggingface.co/posts/jsulz/911431940353906).

See more information on the HF blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/xet-on-the-hub

You can already enable Xet on Hugging Face account to benefit from faster downloads and uploads :)

We finalized an official integration with the `huggingface_hub` library that means you get the benefits of Xet without any significant changes to your current workflow.


## Previous versions of `datasets`

For older versions of `datasets` you might see this warning in `push_to_hub()`:

```
Uploading files as bytes or binary IO objects is not supported by Xet Storage.
```

This means the `huggingface_hub` + Xet integration isn't enabled for your version of `datasets`.

You can fix this by updating to `datasets>=3.6.0` and `huggingface_hub>=0.31.0`

```
pip install -U datasets huggingface_hub
```

## The future

Stay tuned for more Xet optimizations, especially on [Xet-optimized Parquet](https://huggingface.co/blog/improve_parquet_dedupe)



Comments:
Fix indexing in split commit messages
Opened by klamike (closed)

When a large commit is split up, it seems the commit index in the message is zero-based while the total number is one-based. I came across this running `convert-to-parquet` and was wondering why there was no `6-of-6` commit. This PR fixes that by adding one to the commit index, so both are one-based.

Current behavior:
<img width="463" alt="Screenshot 2025-04-17 at 1 00 17 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7f3d389e-cb92-405d-a3c2-f2b1cdf0cb79" />

Comments:
Hi ! this is expected and is coherent with other naming conventions in `datasets` such as parquet shards naming
fix: Image Feature in Datasets Library Fails to Handle bytearray Objects from Spark DataFrames (#7517)
Opened by giraffacarp (closed)

## Task
Support bytes-like objects (bytes and bytearray) in Features classes

### Description
The `Features` classes only accept `bytes` objects for binary data, but not `bytearray`. This leads to errors when using `IterableDataset.from_spark()` with Spark DataFrames as they contain `bytearray` objects, even though both `bytes` and `bytearray` are valid [*bytes-like objects* in Python](https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-bytes-like-object).

### Changes
- Updated `Features` classes to accept both `bytes` and `bytearray` types for binary data fields.

### Reasoning
- `bytes` and `bytearray` serve the same purpose for binary data, with the only difference being mutability.
- Modifying the Spark iterator to convert `bytearray` to `bytes` would be a workaround, not a true fix. I think the correct solution is to accept all bytes-like objects as input.
- This approach is more robust and future-proof since Python 3.12+ provides a [standard way to check for buffer protocol](https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/buffer.html#bufferobjects).

### Testing
- Added tests to cover `bytearray` inputs for image features.

### Related Issues
- Fixes: #7517 

Comments:
@lhoestq let me know if you prefer to change the spark iterator so it outputs `bytes`

The docs for this PR live [here](https://moon-ci-docs.huggingface.co/docs/datasets/pr_7521). All of your documentation changes will be reflected on that endpoint. The docs are available until 30 days after the last update.
Update items in the dataset without `map`
Opened by mashdragon (open)

### Feature request

I would like to be able to update items in my dataset without affecting all rows. At least if there was a range option, I would be able to process those items, save the dataset, and then continue.

If I am supposed to split the dataset first, that is not clear, since the docs suggest that any of those functions returns a new object, so I don't think I can do that.

### Motivation

I am applying an extremely time-consuming function to each item in my `Dataset`. Unfortunately, datasets only supports updating values via `map`, so if my computer dies in the middle of this long-running process, I lose all progress. This is far from ideal. I would like to use `datasets` throughout this processing, but this limitation is now forcing me to write my own dataset format just to do this intermediary operation.

It would be less intuitive but I suppose I could split and then concatenate the dataset before saving? But this feels very inefficient.

### Your contribution

I can test the feature.

Comments:
Hello!

Have you looked at `Dataset.shard`? [Docs](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/en/process#shard)

Using this method you could break your dataset in N shards. Apply `map` on each shard and concatenate them back.
num_proc parallelization works only for first ~10s.
Opened by pshishodiaa (open)

### Describe the bug

When I try to load an already downloaded dataset with num_proc=64, the speed is very high for the first 10-20 seconds acheiving 30-40K samples / s, and 100% utilization for all cores but it soon drops to <= 1000 with almost 0% utilization for most cores. 

### Steps to reproduce the bug

```
// download dataset with cli
!huggingface-cli download --repo-type dataset timm/imagenet-1k-wds --max-workers 32

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("timm/imagenet-1k-wds", num_proc=64)
```


### Expected behavior

100% core utilization throughout. 

### Environment info

Azure A100-80GB, 16 cores VM

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/69d00fe3-d720-4474-9439-21e046d85034)

Comments:
Hi, can you check if the processes are still alive ? It's a bit weird because `datasets` does check if processes crash and return an error in that case

Thank you for reverting quickly. I digged a bit, and realized my disk's IOPS is also limited - which is causing this. will check further and report if it's an issue of hf datasets' side or mine.
Image Feature in Datasets Library Fails to Handle bytearray Objects from Spark DataFrames
Opened by giraffacarp (closed)

### Describe the bug

When using `IterableDataset.from_spark()` with a Spark DataFrame containing image data, the `Image` feature class fails to properly process this data type, causing an `AttributeError: 'bytearray' object has no attribute 'get'`

### Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Create a Spark DataFrame with a column containing image data as bytearray objects
2. Define a Feature schema with an Image feature
3. Create an IterableDataset using `IterableDataset.from_spark()`
4. Attempt to iterate through the dataset

```
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
from datasets import Dataset, IterableDataset, Features, Image, Value

# initialize spark
spark = SparkSession.builder.appName("MinimalRepro").getOrCreate()

# create spark dataframe
data = [(0, open("image.png", "rb").read())]
df = spark.createDataFrame(data, "idx: int, image: binary")

# convert to dataset
features = Features({"idx": Value("int64"), "image": Image()})
ds = Dataset.from_spark(df, features=features)
ds_iter = IterableDataset.from_spark(df, features=features)

# iterate
print(next(iter(ds)))
print(next(iter(ds_iter)))
```

### Expected behavior

The features should work on `IterableDataset` the same way they work on `Dataset`

### Environment info

- `datasets` version: 3.5.0
- Platform: macOS-15.3.2-arm64-arm-64bit
- Python version: 3.12.7
- `huggingface_hub` version: 0.30.2
- PyArrow version: 18.1.0
- Pandas version: 2.2.3
- `fsspec` version: 2024.12.0


Comments:
Hi ! The `Image()` type accepts either
- a `bytes` object containing the image bytes
- a `str` object containing the image path
- a `PIL.Image` object

but it doesn't support `bytearray`, maybe you can convert to `bytes` beforehand ?

Hi @lhoestq, 
converting to bytes is certainly possible and would work around the error. However, the core issue is that `Dataset` and `IterableDataset` behave differently with the features.

I’d be happy to work on a fix for this issue.

I see, that's an issue indeed. Feel free to ping me if I can help with reviews or any guidance

If it can help, the code that takes a Spark DataFrame and iterates on the rows for `IterableDataset` is here: 

https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/6a96bf313085d7538a999b929a550e14e1d406c9/src/datasets/packaged_modules/spark/spark.py#L49-L53

#self-assign
unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B server error
Opened by Editor-1 (closed)

### Describe the bug

hfhubhttperror: 500 server error: internal server error for url: https://huggingface.co/api/models/unsloth/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b-bnb-4bit/commits/main (request id: root=1-67fe23fa-3a2150eb444c2a823c388579;de3aed68-c397-4da5-94d4-6565efd3b919) internal error - we're working hard to fix this as soon as possible!

### Steps to reproduce the bug

unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B server error

### Expected behavior

Network repair

### Environment info

The web side is also unavailable

Comments:
`concatenate_datasets` does not preserve Pytorch format for IterableDataset
Opened by francescorubbo (closed)

### Describe the bug

When concatenating datasets with `concatenate_datasets`, I would expect the resulting combined dataset to be in the same format as the inputs (assuming it's consistent). This is indeed the behavior when combining `Dataset`, but not when combining `IterableDataset`. Specifically, when applying `concatenate_datasets` to a list of `IterableDataset` in Pytorch format (i.e. using `.with_format(Pytorch)`), the output `IterableDataset` is not in Pytorch format.

### Steps to reproduce the bug

```
import datasets
ds = datasets.Dataset.from_dict({"a": [1,2,3]})
iterable_ds = ds.to_iterable_dataset()
datasets.concatenate_datasets([ds.with_format("torch")]) # <- this preserves Pytorch format
datasets.concatenate_datasets([iterable_ds.with_format("torch")]) # <- this does NOT preserves Pytorch format
```

### Expected behavior

Pytorch format should be preserved when combining IterableDataset in Pytorch format.

### Environment info

datasets==3.5.0, Python 3.11.11, torch==2.2.2

Comments:
Hi ! Oh indeed it would be cool to return the same format in that case. Would you like to submit a PR ? The function that does the concatenation is here:

https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/90e5bf8a8599b625d6103ee5ac83b98269991141/src/datasets/iterable_dataset.py#L3375-L3380

Thank you for the pointer, @lhoestq ! See #7522
Do not hash `generator` in `BuilderConfig.create_config_id`
Opened by simonreise (closed)

`Dataset.from_generator` function passes all of its arguments to `BuilderConfig.create_config_id`, including generator function itself. `BuilderConfig.create_config_id` function tries to hash all the args, and hashing a `generator` can take a large amount of time or even cause MemoryError if the dataset processed in a generator function is large enough.

Maybe we should pop generator from `config_kwargs_to_add_to_suffix` before hashing to avoid it.

There is a more detailed description of the problem this PR solves in #7513 

Comments:
Incompatibile dill version (0.3.9) in datasets 2.18.0 - 3.5.0
Opened by JGrel (closed)

### Describe the bug

Datasets 2.18.0 - 3.5.0 has a dependency on dill < 0.3.9. This causes errors with dill >= 0.3.9.

Could you please take a look into it and make it compatible?

### Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Install setuptools >= 2.18.0
2. Install dill >=0.3.9
3. Run pip check
4. Output:
ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
datasets 2.18.0 requires dill<0.3.9,>=0.3.0, but you have dill 0.3.9 which is incompatible.

### Expected behavior

Pip install both libraries without any errors

### Environment info

Datasets version: 2.18 - 3.5
Python: 3.11

Comments:
Hi ! We can bump `dill` to 0.3.9 if we make sure it's deterministic and doesn't break the caching mechanism in `datasets`.

Would you be interested in opening a PR ? Then we can run the CI to see if it works

Hi!. Yeah I can do it. Should I make any changes besides dill versions?

There are probably some usage of internal functions from `dill` that we'll need to update in `datasets`

If you run `pytest tests/test_fingerprint.py` you should already have a good idea of what works and what doesn't.
But feel free to open a PR anyway, this way we can run the full CI and see the results


Hi, sorry for no response from my side. I will try to do it today.

Created pull request: [LINK](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/pull/7535)
Tried to run tests by using command you have send and got few errors:

![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acbf1feb-4dd1-416e-a118-c91abe0d188b)

Thanks for running the test ! So it appears we have two issues to fix:
1. 'log' is not defined: it seems an internal `dill` function has disappeared, so we should adapt the `datasets` code that was using it
2. there are some hashes mismatches, which means `dill` doesn't seem to output the same dump when passed the same ipython function twice, or the same function but located at a different line in a python file
Iterating over Image feature columns is extremely slow
Opened by sohamparikh (open)

We are trying to load datasets where the image column stores `PIL.PngImagePlugin.PngImageFile` images. However, iterating over these datasets is extremely slow. 
What I have found:
1. It is the presence of the image column that causes the slowdown. Removing the column from the dataset results in blazingly fast (as expected) times
2. It is ~2x faster to iterate when the column contains a single image as opposed to a list of images i.e., the feature is a Sequence of Image objects. We often need multiple images per sample, so we need to work with a list of images
3. It is ~17x faster to store paths to PNG files and load them using `PIL.Image.open`, as opposed to iterating over a `Dataset` with an Image column, and ~30x faster compared to `Sequence` of `Image`s. See a simple script below with an openly available dataset.


It would be great to understand the standard practices for storing and loading multimodal datasets (image + text). 

https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/en/image_load seems a bit underdeveloped? (e.g., `dataset.decode` only works with `IterableDataset`, but it's not clear from the doc)

Thanks!

```python
from datasets import load_dataset, load_from_disk
from PIL import Image
from pathlib import Path

ds = load_dataset("getomni-ai/ocr-benchmark")

for idx, sample in enumerate(ds["test"]):
    image = sample["image"]
    image.save(f"/tmp/ds_files/images/image_{idx}.png")

ds.save_to_disk("/tmp/ds_columns")

# Remove the 'image' column
ds["test"] = ds["test"].remove_columns(["image"])

# Create image paths for each sample
image_paths = [f"images/image_{idx}.png" for idx in range(len(ds["test"]))]

# Add the 'image_path' column to the dataset
ds["test"] = ds["test"].add_column("image_path", image_paths)

# Save the updated dataset
ds.save_to_disk("/tmp/ds_files")
files_path = Path("/tmp/ds_files")
column_path = Path("/tmp/ds_columns")

# load and benchmark
ds_file = load_from_disk(files_path)
ds_column = load_from_disk(column_path)
import time


images_files = []
start = time.time()
for idx in range(len(ds_file["test"])):
    image_path = files_path / ds_file["test"][idx]["image_path"]
    image = Image.open(image_path)
    images_files.append(image)
end = time.time()
print(f"Time taken to load images from files: {end - start} seconds")

# Time taken to load images from files: 1.2364635467529297 seconds


images_column = []
start = time.time()
for idx in range(len(ds_column["test"])):
    images_column.append(ds_column["test"][idx]["image"])
end = time.time()
print(f"Time taken to load images from columns: {end - start} seconds")

# Time taken to load images from columns: 20.49347186088562 seconds
```

Comments:
Hi ! Could it be because the `Image()` type in dataset does `image  = Image.open(image_path)` and also `image.load()` which actually loads the image data in memory ? This is needed to avoid too many open files issues, see https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/issues/3985

Yes, that seems to be it. For my purposes, I've cast the column to `Image(decode=False)`, and only load the images when necessary, which is much much faster
Front-end statistical data quantity deviation
Opened by rangehow (open)

### Describe the bug

While browsing the dataset at https://huggingface.co/datasets/NeuML/wikipedia-20250123, I noticed that a dataset with nearly 7M entries was estimated to be only 4M in size—almost half the actual amount. According to the post-download loading and the dataset_info (https://huggingface.co/datasets/NeuML/wikipedia-20250123/blob/main/train/dataset_info.json), the true data volume is indeed close to 7M. This significant discrepancy could mislead users when sorting datasets by row count. Why not directly retrieve this information from dataset_info?

Not sure if this is the right place to report this bug, but leaving it here for the team's awareness.

Comments:
Hi ! the format of this dataset is not supported by the Dataset Viewer. It looks like this dataset was saved using `save_to_disk()` which is meant for local storage / easy reload without compression, not for sharing online.