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RCV1 (Reuters Corpus Volume 1)

Introduced in RCV1: A New Benchmark Collection for Text Categorization Research1 Jan 2004 archive 2025-07-28

The RCV1 dataset is a benchmark dataset on text categorization. It is a collection of newswire articles producd by Reuters in 1996-1997. It contains 804,414 manually labeled newswire documents, and categorized with respect to three controlled vocabularies: industries, topics and regions.

Source: Random Projections for Linear Support Vector Machines Image Source: https://www.nasdaq.com/publishers/reuters

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 6 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

11 shown of 11 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 336. 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

1 loader 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

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • RCV1-v2
  • Reuters RCV1/RCV2 English-to-German
  • Reuters RCV1/RCV2 German-to-English
  • RCV1

4 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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