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This error is raised when the names of the fields or their data types do not match with the inferred ones.

In this case, an item has a field called "WARC-Identified-Payload-Type" (in the "metadata" column) that was not present in the items before it and therefore it was not taken into account when inferring the "metadata" struct types (just using the first items).

In order to fix this error, feature inference should be avoided by providing explicitly all the fields and their types. This can be done in the README.md file, using the dataset_info (and features) YAML tags.

@albertvillanova thanks for the quick reply and explanation. I tried giving manually created features to load_dataset(), but it's still failing.

Actually, is there a way to ignore fields in the raw files? I tried skipping them in manually defined features, but it fails immediately.

I can try defining features in the YAML file, let's see, if it works.

Using README.md also doesn't work. I tried specifying only important features for us with this:

dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe
      dtype: int64
    - name: previous_word_count
      dtype: int64
    - name: url
      dtype: string
    - name: text
      dtype: string
    - name: fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob
      dtype: float64

But it fails: All the data files must have the same columns, but at some point there are 3 new columns ({'metadata', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext', 'warcinfo'})

Also I tried specifying all the features, but in this case it fails with the same error cast error as was in the original post.

Is the only viable option to write to a builder script?

@yury-zyphra you need to specify all the features present in the dataset, but you can tweak their dtype so that no error is raised.

I guess the main issue is the dtype of the "metadata" feature: it is a struct, but their field names are not always the same.

You need to investigate all the possible field names within the "metadata" feature across the entire dataset and exhaustively define all of them within a struct dtype

dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: ...
  ...
  - name: metadata
    struct:
    - name: Content-Length
      dtype: string
    - name: Content-Type
      dtype: string
    - name: ... # list ALL possible field names

I tried specifying metadata as string hoping it would just cast it as string, but it fails with the message that it cannot cast struct as string.

Could someone from dclm team, please, comment?

Calling DCLM Team Member

@albertvillanova The issue is still there even after your fix here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mlfoundations/dclm-baseline-1.0/discussions/11
The error can also still be seen in the dataset viewer.