Datasets:
Natural Questions is not streamable
As this datasets needs 134GB of disk space to load I thought the streaming feature of load_dataset would come handy here but apparently streaming is not possible on Natural Questions. It was my assumption that all datasets were streamable on huggingface. Was my assumption incorrect?
Hi, @dmarcos. Thanks for reporting.
Indeed, no, not all datasets are streamable. We implemented the streaming feature, so that most of the datasets are streamable out-of-the-box. However, some others need further tweaking to support streaming.
Particularly, this dataset script uses Apache Beam to parallelize the processing and datasets using Apache Beam are not streamable.
I agree with you that it would be a good feature for such a big dataset, but it wouldt take too long to load the dataset as not done in parallel.