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Mind

Overview

Dataset name: Mind
Latest version: large
Available versions: small, large
Source: https://msnews.github.io/

MIcrosoft News Dataset (MIND) is a large-scale dataset for news recommendation research.

Citation

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/acl/WuQCWQLLXGWZ20,
  author       = {Fangzhao Wu and
                  Ying Qiao and
                  Jiun{-}Hung Chen and
                  Chuhan Wu and
                  Tao Qi and
                  Jianxun Lian and
                  Danyang Liu and
                  Xing Xie and
                  Jianfeng Gao and
                  Winnie Wu and
                  Ming Zhou},
  title        = {{MIND:} {A} Large-scale Dataset for News Recommendation},
  booktitle    = {{ACL}},
  pages        = {3597--3606},
  publisher    = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year         = {2020}
}

Version: large

Data Sources

Name Source type Archive URL Checksum
train_archive ManualSource zip md5:0bfe5f08404a69b2bd76721e7b7f7d5d
validation_archive ManualSource zip md5:64b9fc265c16814ba0f470542ef6cd69
test_archive ManualSource zip md5:081f0b249f9d7927cb0c78fb37db833a

Resources

train

  • Type: interactions
  • Format: sequence_tabular_inline
  • Required: yes
  • Source: train_archive
  • Filename: behaviors.tsv

Schema

user_col: user
sequence_col: sequence
timestamp_col: time
cols:
- impression_id
- user
- time
- sequence
- impressions
col_sep: "\t"
sequence_sep: ' '

validation

  • Type: interactions
  • Format: sequence_tabular_inline
  • Source: validation_archive
  • Filename: behaviors.tsv

Schema

user_col: user
sequence_col: sequence
timestamp_col: time
cols:
- impression_id
- user
- time
- sequence
- impressions
col_sep: "\t"
sequence_sep: ' '

test

  • Type: interactions
  • Format: sequence_tabular_inline
  • Source: test_archive
  • Filename: behaviors.tsv

Schema

user_col: user
sequence_col: sequence
timestamp_col: time
cols:
- impression_id
- user
- time
- sequence
- impressions
col_sep: "\t"
sequence_sep: ' '

Dataset Characteristics

Computed at: 2025-12-16

Metric Value
n_users 698365
n_items 79546
n_interactions 73629852
space_size 235.69501965463758
space_size_log 2.3723504057769302
shape 8.779385512785055
shape_log 0.9434641198074959
density 0.001325418768112102
density_log -2.8776468840317686
gini_item 0.9249633473855028
gini_user 0.778868062516292
ratings_per_user 105.43176132824526
ratings_per_item 925.6260779926081

License & Usage

Please refer to the official dataset page for licensing and usage restrictions. https://msnews.github.io/