# PubMedQA by Qiao Jin: AI Training Dataset
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## Dataset Card

By Qiao Jin, published under mit, revision 9001f2853fb8.

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### Table of Contents

- Dataset Description
- Dataset Summary
- Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
- Languages
- Dataset Structure
- Data Instances
- Data Fields
- Data Splits
- Dataset Creation
- Curation Rationale
- Source Data
- Annotations
- Personal and Sensitive Information
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Social Impact of Dataset
- Discussion of Biases
- Other Known Limitations
- Additional Information
- Dataset Curators
- Licensing Information
- Citation Information
- Contributions

### Dataset Description

- Homepage: [PubMedQA homepage](https://pubmedqa.github.io/)
- Repository: [PubMedQA repository](https://github.com/pubmedqa/pubmedqa)
- Paper: [PubMedQA: A Dataset for Biomedical Research Question Answering](https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06146)
- Leaderboard: [PubMedQA: Leaderboard](https://pubmedqa.github.io/)

#### Dataset Summary

The task of PubMedQA is to answer research questions with yes/no/maybe (e.g.: Do preoperative statins reduce atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting?) using the corresponding abstracts.

#### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

The official leaderboard is available at: https://pubmedqa.github.io/.

500 questions in the pqa_labeled are used as the test set. They can be found at https://github.com/pubmedqa/pubmedqa.

#### Languages

English

### Dataset Structure

#### Data Instances

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#### Data Fields

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#### Data Splits

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### Dataset Creation

#### Curation Rationale

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## Structure

### pqa_artificial 211,269 rows

| Split | Rows | Size |
| --- | --- | --- |
| train | 211,269 | 446.8 MB |

pubidint32questionstringcontextSequencelong_answerstringfinal_decisionstring

### pqa_labeled 1,000 rows

| Split | Rows | Size |
| --- | --- | --- |
| train | 1,000 | 2.1 MB |

pubidint32questionstringcontextSequencelong_answerstringfinal_decisionstring

### pqa_unlabeled 61,249 rows

| Split | Rows | Size |
| --- | --- | --- |
| train | 61,249 | 126.7 MB |

pubidint32questionstringcontextSequencelong_answerstring

## Details

Repository

qiaojin/PubMedQA

Publisher

Qiao Jin

Task category

Question answering

Tags

Not stated by the source

Size category

100K<n<1M

Languages

en

Revision

9001f2853fb87cab8d220904e0de81ac6973b318

Last updated

2024-03-06

## Files

5 files, 300.5 MB in total.

Data3 files · 300.5 MB

Documentation1 file · 5.2 KB

Repository1 file · 1.2 KB

Every file

| File | Type | Size | SHA-256 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| pqa_artificial/train-00000-of-00001.parquet | Data | 233.4 MB | cdee2d3c0136 |
| pqa_labeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet | Data | 1.1 MB | 3d56bd1abc11 |
| pqa_unlabeled/train-00000-of-00001.parquet | Data | 66.0 MB | 2f390ea5e6e3 |
| README.md | Documentation | 5.2 KB | — |
| .gitattributes | Repository | 1.2 KB | — |

## License and Download

License

mit

Access

No access gate

[Download from Qiao Jin](https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA)

Released by Qiao Jin through its official repository on Hugging Face. [Read the license](https://opensource.org/license/mit).

## Models Trained on This Dataset

- Trained on (disclosed)[Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Medical-Finetuned-merged](https://savrn.com/models/llama-3-1-8b-instruct-medical-finetuned-merged)

## Qiao Jin

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- [The dataset directory](https://savrn.com/datasets)
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## Source

- Repository metadata, read 2026-10-19.
- [Hugging Face record](https://huggingface.co/datasets/qiaojin/PubMedQA)
- [How the hub is built](https://savrn.com/model-hub/methodology)
