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RACE (ReAding Comprehension dataset from Examinations)
The ReAding Comprehension dataset from Examinations (RACE) dataset is a machine reading comprehension dataset consisting of 27,933 passages and 97,867 questions from English exams, targeting Chinese students aged 12-18. RACE consists of two subsets, RACE-M and RACE-H, from middle school and high school exams, respectively. RACE-M has 28,293 questions and RACE-H has 69,574. Each question is associated with 4 candidate answers, one of which is correct. The data generation process of RACE differs from most machine reading comprehension datasets - instead of generating questions and answers by heuristics or crowd-sourcing, questions in RACE are specifically designed for testing human reading skills, and are created by domain experts.
Source: Dynamic Fusion Networks for Machine Reading Comprehension Image Source: Lai et al
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 | ||||
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| Reading Comprehension | RACE | ALBERT (Ensemble) Accuracy 91.4 | Improving Machine Reading Comprehension with... | — | 24 | Compare |
| Question Answering | RACE | XLNet RACE-m 85.45 | XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for... | huggingface/transformers +26 | 7 | Compare |
| Distractor Generation | RACE | BDG p.m. BLEU-1 39.81 | A BERT-based Distractor Generation Scheme with... | voidful/BDG | 1 | Compare |
Papers archive 2025-07-28
18 shown of 18 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 412. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.
Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28
7 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
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1 variant name, as the archive lists them.
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