This dataset contains:
- 250K documents from the WebText test set
- For each GPT-2 model (trained on the WebText training set), 250K random samples (temperature 1, no truncation) and 250K samples generated with Top-K 40 truncation
We look forward to the research produced using this data!
For each model, we have a training split of 250K generated examples, as well as validation and test splits of 5K examples.
All data is located in Google Cloud Storage, under the directory gs://gpt-2/output-dataset/v1.
There, you will find files:
webtext.${split}.jsonlsmall-117M.${split}.jsonlsmall-117M-k40.${split}.jsonlmedium-345M.${split}.jsonlmedium-345M-k40.${split}.jsonllarge-762M.${split}.jsonllarge-762M-k40.${split}.jsonlxl-1542M.${split}.jsonlxl-1542M-k40.${split}.jsonl
where split is one of train, test, and valid.
We've provided a script to download all of them, in download_dataset.py.
We're interested in seeing research in detectability of GPT-2 model family generations.
We've provided a starter baseline which trains a logistic regression detector on TF-IDF unigram and bigram features, in baseline.py. The baseline achieves the following accuracies:
| Model | Temperature 1 | Top-K 40 |
|---|---|---|
| 117M | 88.29% | 96.79% |
| 345M | 88.94% | 95.22% |
| 762M | 77.16% | 94.43% |
| 1542M | 74.31% | 92.69% |
Unsurprisingly, shorter documents are harder to detect and performance improves gradually with length. Accuracy of detection of short documents of 500 characters (a long paragraph) is about 15% lower.
Truncated sampling, which is commonly used for high-quality generations from the GPT-2 model family, results in a shift in the part of speech distribution of the generated text compared to real text. A clear example is the underuse of proper nouns and overuse of pronouns which are more generic. This shift contributes to the 8% to 18% higher detection rate of Top-K samples compared to random samples across models.
If you believe your work is included in WebText and would like us to remove it, please let us know at [email protected].