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# HuggingFaceFW/fineweb filter Malaysian context

## What is it?

We filter the original 🍷 FineWeb dataset that consists more than **15T tokens** on simple Malaysian keywords.

Total tokens for the filtered dataset is 174102784199 tokens, **174B tokens**.

## How we do it?

1. We filter rows using `{'malay', 'malaysia', 'melayu', 'bursa', 'ringgit'}` keywords on r5.16xlarge EC2 instance for 7 days.
2. We calculate total tokens using `tiktoken.encoding_for_model("gpt2")` on c7a.24xlarge EC2 instance for 1 hour.

source code at https://github.com/mesolitica/malaysian-dataset/tree/master/corpus/fineweb

## Why we do it?

So anybody can use this filtered corpus to pretrain, continue pretraining or generate synthetic dataset for their own use cases.