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AG News (AG’s News Corpus)

Introduced by Xiang Zhang et al. in Character-level Convolutional Networks for Text Classification1 Jan 2015 archive 2025-07-28

AG News (AG’s News Corpus) is a subdataset of AG's corpus of news articles constructed by assembling titles and description fields of articles from the 4 largest classes (“World”, “Sports”, “Business”, “Sci/Tech”) of AG’s Corpus. The AG News contains 30,000 training and 1,900 test samples per class.

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.01626.pdf

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 9 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.

Papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 35 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 969. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
CAPO: Cost-Aware Prompt Optimization 2 3 22 Apr 2025 not harvested
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
Continual Training of Language Models for Few-Shot Learning 3 1 11 Oct 2022 not harvested
DATE: Detecting Anomalies in Text via Self-Supervision of Transformers 1 1 12 Apr 2021 not harvested
Supporting Clustering with Contrastive Learning 2 1 24 Mar 2021 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified)
Mixing ADAM and SGD: a Combined Optimization Method 1 1 16 Nov 2020 not harvested
Revisiting LSTM Networks for Semi-Supervised Text Classification via Mixed Objective Function 1 1 8 Sep 2020 ran 2 of 3 samples (1 unverified; 3 pointer-only for licence)
Neural Topic Model via Optimal Transport 1 1 12 Aug 2020 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified)
Semi-Supervised Learning with Normalizing Flows 2 3 30 Dec 2019 ran 1 of 1 samples (0 unverified; 1 pointer-only for licence)
Sampling Bias in Deep Active Classification: An Empirical Study 2 1 20 Sep 2019 ran 0 of 1 samples (1 unverified)
Topic Modeling in Embedding Spaces 12 1 8 Jul 2019 ran 3 of 13 samples (10 unverified)
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding 27 1 19 Jun 2019 ran 10 of 24 samples (14 unverified; 3 pointer-only for licence)
How to Fine-Tune BERT for Text Classification? 15 1 14 May 2019 ran 6 of 18 samples (12 unverified; 5 pointer-only for licence)
Squeezed Very Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Classification 1 1 28 Jan 2019 not harvested
Learning to Remember More with Less Memorization 1 1 5 Jan 2019 ran 3 of 3 samples (0 unverified)
Explicit Interaction Model towards Text Classification 1 1 23 Nov 2018 ran 2 of 3 samples (1 unverified; 3 pointer-only for licence)
Compositional Coding Capsule Network with K-Means Routing for Text Classification 1 1 22 Oct 2018 not harvested
Spherical Latent Spaces for Stable Variational Autoencoders 1 1 31 Aug 2018 ran 0 of 6 samples (6 unverified)
On Tree-Based Neural Sentence Modeling 1 1 29 Aug 2018 ran 0 of 6 samples (6 unverified)
Task-oriented Word Embedding for Text Classification 1 1 1 Aug 2018 not harvested
Disconnected Recurrent Neural Networks for Text Categorization 0 1 1 Jul 2018 not harvested
Baseline Needs More Love: On Simple Word-Embedding-Based Models and Associated Pooling Mechanisms 2 1 24 May 2018 not harvested
Abstractive Text Classification Using Sequence-to-convolution Neural Networks 1 1 20 May 2018 not harvested
Joint Embedding of Words and Labels for Text Classification 2 1 10 May 2018 not harvested
Investigating Capsule Networks with Dynamic Routing for Text Classification 4 1 29 Mar 2018 not harvested
Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification 66 1 18 Jan 2018 ran 2 of 5 samples (3 unverified; 3 pointer-only for licence)
Deep Pyramid Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Categorization 1 1 1 Jul 2017 not harvested
Discovering Discrete Latent Topics with Neural Variational Inference 1 1 1 Jun 2017 not harvested

The full list of 35 is in the JSON twin.

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

8 loaders as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

Custom (non-commercial)

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • AG News
  • AG News (200 Labels)
  • ag_news

3 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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