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Provides access to 1 trillion tokens of PDF-derived multimodal data (images + OCR text) from Common Crawl 2023-14, organized in WebDataset format for distributed streaming. Uses tar-based sharding architecture enabling efficient parallel loading across GPUs without requiring full dataset materialization on disk. Integrates with HuggingFace datasets library and MLCroissant metadata standard for reproducible, versioned access to 5.7M+ document samples.
Unique: Combines 1T tokens of PDF-derived content from Common Crawl with WebDataset sharding for distributed streaming, enabling sub-second per-sample access without full materialization — unlike static image-text datasets (LAION, CC3M) that require download or local indexing
vs alternatives: Offers 10x larger scale than LAION-5B for document-specific content with native OCR alignment, while maintaining streaming efficiency that COCO and Flickr30K lack due to their centralized file structures
Automatically extracts and aligns image renderings of PDF pages with their corresponding OCR text output, preserving spatial relationships and document structure. Uses PDF parsing to generate page images at consistent DPI (72-300) and applies OCR engines (likely Tesseract or similar) to produce character-level text with bounding box metadata. Deduplication via content hashing removes near-duplicate pages across Common Crawl crawls.
Unique: Provides 1T-token scale OCR-image pairs with automatic deduplication across Common Crawl snapshots, using content hashing to eliminate redundant pages — most document datasets (DocVQA, RVL-CDIP) manually curate smaller, domain-specific collections without cross-crawl deduplication
vs alternatives: Scales to 5.7M documents with automated deduplication, whereas DocVQA (12K docs) and IIT-CDIP (6M pages) require manual curation or are domain-specific; offers broader diversity than academic paper datasets (arXiv, S2-ORC)
Implements WebDataset-compatible tar-based sharding that enables efficient parallel loading across distributed training clusters without materializing the full dataset on local storage. Each shard contains ~1000 samples; workers fetch shards on-demand and decompress in-memory, with built-in support for HuggingFace Datasets streaming mode and PyTorch DataLoader integration. Supports deterministic shuffling via seed-based shard ordering for reproducible training runs.
Unique: Uses tar-based WebDataset sharding with on-demand decompression and deterministic seed-based shuffling, enabling distributed training without centralized storage — most large datasets (ImageNet, COCO) require pre-download or NAS mounting, adding deployment complexity
vs alternatives: Eliminates storage bottleneck compared to LAION-5B (requires 330GB download) and provides native streaming support that static dataset formats (COCO, Flickr30K) lack; comparable to LAION's WebDataset approach but with larger scale and PDF-specific preprocessing
Publishes dataset metadata in MLCroissant format (W3C standard for machine learning datasets), enabling automated discovery, versioning, and reproducible access through standardized schema. Includes structured descriptions of splits, features, licenses, and data provenance (Common Crawl 2023-14 snapshot). Enables tools like HuggingFace Hub and Croissant parsers to automatically validate dataset integrity and generate data cards.
Unique: Implements W3C MLCroissant standard for dataset metadata, enabling automated discovery and validation through standardized schema — most large datasets (LAION, COCO) publish metadata in ad-hoc formats (JSON, YAML) without formal schema compliance
vs alternatives: Provides machine-readable, standardized metadata that enables automated tooling and discovery, whereas LAION and other large datasets rely on unstructured documentation; comparable to Hugging Face's dataset cards but with formal W3C compliance
Curates and deduplicates content from Common Crawl's 2023-14 snapshot using content hashing (likely SHA-256 or similar) to remove near-duplicate PDF pages across multiple crawl cycles. Applies language detection to filter predominantly English documents and removes known low-quality sources. Preserves document source URLs and metadata for traceability.
Unique: Applies cross-crawl deduplication using content hashing to Common Crawl 2023-14 snapshot, eliminating redundant PDFs that appear in multiple crawl cycles — most web-scale datasets (LAION, C4) deduplicate within a single crawl but not across temporal snapshots
vs alternatives: Provides cleaner, deduplicated content than raw Common Crawl while maintaining web-scale diversity; more authentic than manually curated datasets (DocVQA, RVL-CDIP) but less curated than academic paper collections (arXiv, S2-ORC)
Renders PDF pages to images at configurable DPI (72-300 range) to balance visual fidelity with storage efficiency. Uses PDF rendering engines (likely poppler or similar) to convert vector-based PDF content to raster images while preserving text and layout information. Applies consistent DPI across dataset to enable batch processing without resolution normalization.
Unique: Applies consistent DPI rendering across 5.7M documents from diverse PDF sources, enabling batch processing without per-sample resolution normalization — most document datasets (DocVQA, RVL-CDIP) use variable resolutions or require downstream normalization
vs alternatives: Provides consistent rendering quality that enables efficient batching, whereas raw PDF rendering varies by engine; more scalable than manual curation but less controlled than synthetic document generation
Implements a Model Context Protocol server that bridges Perplexity's real-time search API with LLM applications, enabling structured queries that return synthesized answers with source citations. The MCP server translates tool-call requests into Perplexity API calls, handles response parsing, and returns results in a format compatible with Claude, LLaMA, and other MCP-aware LLMs. Uses JSON-RPC 2.0 message framing over stdio/HTTP transports to maintain stateless request-response semantics.
Unique: Exposes Perplexity's proprietary AI-synthesized search as a standardized MCP tool, allowing any MCP-compatible LLM to access real-time web answers without direct API integration — the MCP abstraction layer decouples Perplexity's API contract from the LLM client
vs alternatives: Simpler than building custom Perplexity integrations for each LLM framework because MCP standardizes the tool interface; more current than retrieval-augmented generation with static embeddings because it queries live web data
Registers Perplexity search as a callable tool within the MCP ecosystem by defining a JSON schema that describes input parameters, output format, and tool metadata. The server implements the MCP tools/list and tools/call RPC methods, allowing LLM clients to discover available tools, validate inputs against the schema, and invoke search with type-safe parameters. Uses JSON Schema Draft 7 for parameter validation and supports optional tool hints for LLM routing.
Unique: Implements MCP's standardized tool registration pattern rather than custom function-calling APIs, enabling any MCP-aware LLM to invoke Perplexity without client-specific adapters — the schema-driven approach decouples tool definition from LLM implementation details
vs alternatives: More portable than OpenAI function calling because MCP is LLM-agnostic; more discoverable than hardcoded tool lists because schema-based registration allows dynamic tool enumeration
Perplexity scores higher at 40/100 vs MINT-1T-PDF-CC-2023-14 at 22/100.
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Implements a stateless MCP server that communicates via JSON-RPC 2.0 messages over stdio (for local integration) or HTTP (for remote access). Each request is independently routed to the appropriate handler (search, tool listing, etc.) without maintaining session state or connection context. The server uses a simple message dispatcher pattern to map RPC method names to handler functions, enabling lightweight deployment as a subprocess or containerized service.
Unique: Uses MCP's standard JSON-RPC 2.0 message framing with dual transport support (stdio and HTTP), allowing the same server code to run as a subprocess or remote service without transport-specific branching — the abstraction is at the message handler level, not the transport layer
vs alternatives: Simpler than REST APIs because JSON-RPC 2.0 provides standardized request/response semantics; more flexible than gRPC because it works over stdio and HTTP without code generation
Manages Perplexity API authentication by accepting an API key at server initialization and injecting it into all outbound Perplexity API requests via HTTP headers. The server handles credential validation (checking for missing or malformed keys) and propagates authentication errors back to the MCP client. Uses environment variables or configuration files to avoid hardcoding secrets in code.
Unique: Centralizes Perplexity API authentication at the MCP server level rather than requiring each client to manage credentials, reducing the attack surface by keeping API keys in a single process — the server acts as a credential broker between LLM clients and Perplexity
vs alternatives: More secure than embedding API keys in client code because credentials are isolated to the server process; simpler than OAuth because Perplexity uses API key authentication
Parses Perplexity API responses to extract synthesized answer text, source URLs, and citation metadata. The parser maps Perplexity's response schema (which may include nested citations, confidence scores, and related queries) into a normalized output format suitable for MCP clients. Handles edge cases like missing citations, malformed URLs, and partial responses from Perplexity.
Unique: Abstracts Perplexity's response schema behind a normalized output format, allowing MCP clients to remain agnostic to Perplexity API changes — the parser acts as a schema adapter layer
vs alternatives: More maintainable than raw API responses because schema changes are handled in one place; more transparent than black-box search because citations are explicitly extracted and returned
Implements error handling for Perplexity API failures (rate limits, timeouts, invalid responses) by catching exceptions, mapping them to MCP error codes, and returning structured error responses to the client. The server implements retry logic with exponential backoff for transient failures and provides fallback responses when Perplexity is unavailable. Error messages include diagnostic information (HTTP status, error code, retry-after headers) to help clients decide whether to retry.
Unique: Implements MCP-compliant error responses with diagnostic metadata (retry-after, error codes) rather than raw API errors, allowing clients to make informed retry decisions — the error abstraction layer decouples Perplexity's error semantics from MCP clients
vs alternatives: More resilient than direct API calls because retry logic is built-in; more informative than generic error messages because diagnostic metadata is included