The cnn_dailymail dataset was rarely downloaded successfully in the past few days. import datasets test_dataset = datasets.load_dataset(“cnn_dailymail”, “3.0.0”, split=“test”) Most of the time when I try to load this dataset using Colab, it throws a “Not a directory” error: NotADirectoryError…

Cnn_dailymail dataset loading problem with Colab

merve January 1, 2022, 9:00am 2

I would either try streaming or clear the cache, mount drive & let it save under ‘/content’.

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