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20 Newsgroups
The 20 Newsgroups data set is a collection of approximately 20,000 newsgroup documents, partitioned (nearly) evenly across 20 different newsgroups.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
All 5 leaderboards whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.
| First row (archive order) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text Retrieval | 20 Newsgroups | B-VAE Precision@100 0.441 | A Binary Variational Autoencoder for Hashing | fmenat/DiscreteVAE | 3 | Compare |
| Out-of-Distribution Detection | 20 Newsgroups | 2-Layered GRU AUROC 99.6 | An Effective Baseline for Robustness to Distributional Shift | Sushil-Thapa/Abstention-OoD | 2 | Compare |
| Text Clustering | 20 Newsgroups | G-BAT Accuracy 41.25 | Neural Topic Modeling with Bidirectional Adversarial Training | zll17/Neural_Topic_Models | 2 | Compare |
| Topic Models | 20 Newsgroups | Bayesian SMM Test perplexity 515 | Learning document embeddings along with their uncertainties | skesiraju/BaySMM +1 | 2 | Compare |
| Text Classification | 20 Newsgroups | RoBERTaGCN Accuracy 89.5 | BertGCN: Transductive Text Classification by Combining... | ZeroRin/BertGCN | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
8 shown of 8 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 27. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
| Date | Samples run Syntology | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Effective Baseline for Robustness to Distributional Shift | 1 | 1 | 15 May 2021 | not harvested |
| BertGCN: Transductive Text Classification by Combining GCN and BERT | 1 | 1 | 12 May 2021 | not harvested |
| Neural Topic Modeling with Bidirectional Adversarial Training | 1 | 2 | 26 Apr 2020 | not harvested |
| A Binary Variational Autoencoder for Hashing | 1 | 2 | 22 Oct 2019 | not harvested |
| Learning document embeddings along with their uncertainties | 2 | 1 | 20 Aug 2019 | not harvested |
| Outlier Exposure with Confidence Control for Out-of-Distribution Detection | 1 | 1 | 8 Jun 2019 | not harvested |
| Variational Deep Semantic Hashing for Text Documents | 3 | 1 | 11 Aug 2017 | not harvested |
| Neural Variational Inference for Text Processing | 6 | 1 | 19 Nov 2015 | ran 1 of 4 samples (3 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence) |
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
3 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
License archive 2025-07-28
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Modalities archive 2025-07-28
Languages archive 2025-07-28
Variants archive 2025-07-28
- 20 Newsgroups
1 variant name, as the archive lists them.
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