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title: Load a HuggingFace Dataset
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  - /documentation/tutorials/huggingface-datasets/
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# Load and Search Hugging Face Datasets with Qdrant

[Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/) provides a platform for sharing and using ML models and
datasets. [Qdrant](https://huggingface.co/Qdrant) also publishes datasets along with the
embeddings that you can use to practice with Qdrant and build your applications based on semantic
search. **Please [let us know](https://qdrant.to/discord) if you'd like to see a specific dataset!**

## arxiv-titles-instructorxl-embeddings

[This dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Qdrant/arxiv-titles-instructorxl-embeddings) contains 
embeddings generated from the paper titles only. Each vector has a payload with the title used to 
create it, along with the DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

```json
{
    "title": "Nash Social Welfare for Indivisible Items under Separable, Piecewise-Linear Concave Utilities",
    "DOI": "1612.05191"
}
```

You can find a detailed description of the dataset in the [Practice Datasets](/documentation/datasets/#journal-article-titles) 
section. If you prefer loading the dataset from a Qdrant snapshot, it also linked there.

Loading the dataset is as simple as using the `load_dataset` function from the `datasets` library:

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("Qdrant/arxiv-titles-instructorxl-embeddings")
```

<aside role="status">The dataset has over 16 GB, so it might take a while to download.</aside>

The dataset contains 2,250,000 vectors. This is how you can check the list of the features in the dataset:

```python
dataset.features
```

### Streaming the dataset

Dataset streaming lets you work with a dataset without downloading it. The data is streamed as 
you iterate over the dataset. You can read more about it in the [Hugging Face 
documentation](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/stream).

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset(
    "Qdrant/arxiv-titles-instructorxl-embeddings", split="train", streaming=True
)
```

### Loading the dataset into Qdrant

You can load the dataset into Qdrant using the [Python SDK](https://github.com/qdrant/qdrant-client).
The embeddings are already precomputed, so you can store them in a collection, that we're going
to create in a second:

```python
from qdrant_client import QdrantClient, models

client = QdrantClient("http://localhost:6333")

client.create_collection(
    collection_name="arxiv-titles-instructorxl-embeddings",
    vectors_config=models.VectorParams(
        size=768,
        distance=models.Distance.COSINE,
    ),
)
```

It is always a good idea to use batching, while loading a large dataset, so let's do that.
We are going to need a helper function to split the dataset into batches:

```python
from itertools import islice

def batched(iterable, n):
    iterator = iter(iterable)
    while batch := list(islice(iterator, n)):
        yield batch
```

If you are a happy user of Python 3.12+, you can use the [`batched` function from the `itertools`
](https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.batched) package instead.

No matter what Python version you are using, you can use the `upsert` method to load the dataset,
batch by batch, into Qdrant:

```python
batch_size = 100

for batch in batched(dataset, batch_size):
    ids = [point.pop("id") for point in batch]
    vectors = [point.pop("vector") for point in batch]

    client.upsert(
        collection_name="arxiv-titles-instructorxl-embeddings",
        points=models.Batch(
            ids=ids,
            vectors=vectors,
            payloads=batch,
        ),
    )
```

Your collection is ready to be used for search! Please [let us know using Discord](https://qdrant.to/discord) 
if you would like to see more datasets published on Hugging Face hub.