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20NewsGroups

Introduced by Yasmen Wahba et al. in A Comparison of SVM against Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) for Text Classification Tasks archive 2025-07-28

The 20 Newsgroups data set is a collection of approximately 20,000 newsgroup documents, partitioned (nearly) evenly across 20 different newsgroups.

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 3 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
Topic Models	20NewsGroups	vONTSS C_v 0.69	vONTSS: vMF based semi-supervised neural topic modeling...	—	6	Compare
Unsupervised Text Classification	20NewsGroups	Lbl2Vec F1-score 75.1	Lbl2Vec: An Embedding-Based Approach for Unsupervised...	sebischair/lbl2vec	2	Compare
Intrusion Detection	20NewsGroups	intrusion detection Actions Top-1 (S2) action	A Neural Network Architecture Combining Gated Recurrent...	AFAgarap/cnn-svm +4	1	Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

9 shown of 9 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 20. 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
vONTSS: vMF based semi-supervised neural topic modeling with optimal transport	0	1	3 Jul 2023	not harvested
Evaluating Unsupervised Text Classification: Zero-shot and Similarity-based Approaches	2	1	29 Nov 2022	not harvested
Lbl2Vec: An Embedding-Based Approach for Unsupervised Document Retrieval on Predefined Topics	1	1	12 Oct 2022	not harvested
Neural Topic Model via Optimal Transport	1	1	12 Aug 2020	ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified)
Topic Modeling in Embedding Spaces	12	1	8 Jul 2019	ran 3 of 13 samples (10 unverified)
Spherical Latent Spaces for Stable Variational Autoencoders	1	1	31 Aug 2018	ran 0 of 6 samples (6 unverified)
A Neural Network Architecture Combining Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) for Intrusion Detection in Network Traffic Data	5	1	10 Sep 2017	not harvested
Discovering Discrete Latent Topics with Neural Variational Inference	1	1	1 Jun 2017	not harvested
Autoencoding Variational Inference For Topic Models	6	1	4 Mar 2017	ran 1 of 8 samples (7 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

Intrusion Detection Topic Models Unsupervised Text Classification

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

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Languages archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

20NewsGroups

1 variant name, as the archive lists them.

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