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Provides a 1 trillion token-scale dataset of PDF documents paired with extracted images and text, curated from Common Crawl with deduplication and quality filtering applied at scale. The dataset uses HuggingFace's distributed dataset infrastructure to enable efficient streaming and sampling of 1M+ document-image pairs without requiring full local storage, with metadata indexing for retrieval by document type, language, and content characteristics.
Unique: Combines PDF-level document structure preservation with extracted image-text pairs at 1T token scale, using Common Crawl's distributed crawl infrastructure and HuggingFace's streaming dataset format to avoid centralized storage bottlenecks — most competitors (e.g., LAION) focus on web images or require full downloads
vs alternatives: Larger and more document-focused than LAION-5B or Conceptual Captions, with native PDF structure metadata enabling document-aware training; more accessible than proprietary datasets like Google's internal document corpora due to CC-BY-4.0 licensing and HuggingFace Hub distribution
Implements HuggingFace Datasets' streaming protocol to load document-image pairs on-demand without downloading the full 1T token dataset, using memory-mapped Arrow format and distributed sharding across multiple processes. Batching is handled through configurable DataLoader wrappers that respect image tensor dimensions and text sequence lengths, enabling training on machines with limited VRAM through dynamic batch size adjustment.
Unique: Uses HuggingFace's Arrow-based streaming format with automatic shard distribution and epoch-level determinism, enabling true lazy loading without requiring dataset mirroring — most competitors (Petastorm, TFRecord) require pre-sharding or local caching
vs alternatives: More memory-efficient than downloading full datasets and faster to iterate than manual data pipelines; integrates natively with PyTorch/TensorFlow without custom serialization code
Extracts text and images from PDF documents using OCR and layout analysis, then aligns extracted text with corresponding page images through spatial coordinate matching and text-region association. The extraction pipeline handles multi-page PDFs, preserves document structure metadata (headers, footers, sections), and deduplicates near-identical documents using perceptual hashing and text similarity metrics to ensure dataset quality.
Unique: Combines PDF text extraction with rendered page images and spatial alignment metadata at scale, using perceptual hashing for deduplication — most document datasets (DocVQA, RVL-CDIP) are manually curated or use simpler extraction without alignment preservation
vs alternatives: Preserves document structure and layout information unlike text-only datasets; larger and more diverse than manually-curated document benchmarks; automated extraction enables continuous updates from Common Crawl
Ingests documents from Common Crawl's WARC archives, applies language detection (likely using fastText or similar) to filter for English content, and runs quality heuristics (text-to-image ratio, document length, spam detection) to remove low-quality or malicious PDFs. The filtering pipeline is applied during dataset construction, reducing the raw crawl from billions of documents to 1M+ high-quality document-image pairs with reproducible filtering criteria.
Unique: Applies reproducible quality filtering to Common Crawl at scale, with transparent filtering criteria and public provenance — most proprietary datasets (Google, OpenAI) do not disclose filtering methods; most academic datasets are manually curated at smaller scale
vs alternatives: Larger and more diverse than manually-curated datasets; more transparent and reproducible than proprietary web-scale datasets; enables research on real-world document distributions
Provides mechanisms to sample subsets of the 1T token dataset with control over document type distribution, image-text ratio, and content characteristics. Sampling can be stratified by document category (academic papers, web pages, forms, etc.) or by content properties (text length, image density, language) to ensure training data reflects desired distributions rather than raw web frequencies, which are heavily skewed toward common document types.
Unique: Enables stratified sampling across document types and content properties at scale, allowing researchers to control training data distribution — most large datasets provide raw access without built-in stratification mechanisms
vs alternatives: More flexible than fixed dataset splits; enables targeted evaluation on specific document categories; supports research on dataset bias and distribution effects
Each dataset record includes rich metadata beyond image and text: source URL, crawl date, document type classification, quality score, OCR confidence, text-image alignment score, and deduplication information. Metadata is structured as JSON and queryable, enabling filtering and analysis without loading full images/text, and providing traceability for reproducibility and copyright attribution.
Unique: Provides queryable metadata with quality scores and source attribution for every record, enabling transparent dataset analysis and reproducibility — most large datasets provide minimal metadata or require custom extraction
vs alternatives: More transparent than proprietary datasets; enables reproducible research and copyright compliance; supports dataset bias analysis and quality-aware training
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-2024-18 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