Tele-Data

Dataset Summary

Tele-Data is a comprehensive dataset of telecommunications material that revolves around four categories of sources: (1) scientific papers from arXiv, (2) 3GPP standards, (3) Wikipedia articles related to telecommunications, and (4) telecommunications-related websites extracted from Common Crawl dumps.

LLM-based filtering was used to identify the relevant material from these sources, which then underwent extensive cleaning, format unification, and equation material standardization. The dataset consists of approximately 2.5 billion tokens, making it ideal for continually pretraining language models to adapt them to the telecommunications domain.

Dataset Structure

Data Fields

The data fields are as follows:

• ID: Provides a unique identifier for each data sample.
• Category: Identifies the category of the sample.
• Content: Includes the full text of the data sample.
• Metadata: Includes a JSON object, cast as a string, with information relevant to each data sample, which varies depending on the category.

Data Instances

An example of Tele-Data looks as follows:

{
    "ID": "standard_2413",
    "Category": "standard",
    "Content": "3rd Generation Partnership Project; \n Technical Specification Group Core Network and Terminals;\n Interworking between the Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN)\n supporting packet based services with\n Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Access and\n Packet Data Networks (PDN)\n (Release 12)\n Foreword\n This Technical Specification (TS) has been produced...",
    "Metadata":
      "Series": "29",
      "Release": "12",
      "File_name": "29161-c00"
}

Sample Code

Below, we share a code snippet on how to get quickly started with using the dataset. First, make sure to pip install datasets, then copy the snippet below and adapt it to your usecase.

Using the whole dataset

import json
from datasets import load_dataset

Tele_Data = load_dataset("AliMaatouk/Tele-Data")
data_sample = Tele_Data['train'][0]
print(f"ID: {data_sample['id']}\nCategory: {data_sample['category']}  \nContent: {data_sample['content']}")
for key, value in json.loads(data_sample['metadata']).items():
    print(f"{key}: {value}")

Using a subset of the dataset

import json
from datasets import load_dataset

Tele_Data = load_dataset("AliMaatouk/Tele-Data", name="standard")
data_sample = Tele_Data['train'][0]
print(f"ID: {data_sample['id']}\nCategory: {data_sample['category']}  \nContent: {data_sample['content']}")
for key, value in json.loads(data_sample['metadata']).items():
    print(f"{key}: {value}")

Citation

You can find the paper with all details about the dataset at https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05314. Please cite it as follows:

@misc{maatouk2024telellmsseriesspecializedlarge,
      title={Tele-LLMs: A Series of Specialized Large Language Models for Telecommunications}, 
      author={Ali Maatouk and Kenny Chirino Ampudia and Rex Ying and Leandros Tassiulas},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2409.05314},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IT},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05314}, 
}