---
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- recsys
- retrieval
- dataset
pretty_name: Yambda-5B
size_categories:
- 1B<n<10B

configs:
- config_name: flat-50m
  data_files:
#     - flat/50m/likes.parquet
#     - flat/50m/listens.parquet
#     - flat/50m/unlikes.parquet
    - flat/50m/multi_event.parquet
#     - flat/50m/dislikes.parquet
#     - flat/50m/undislikes.parquet
- config_name: flat-500m
  data_files:
#     - flat/500m/likes.parquet
#     - flat/500m/listens.parquet
#     - flat/500m/unlikes.parquet
    - flat/500m/multi_event.parquet
#     - flat/500m/dislikes.parquet
#     - flat/500m/undislikes.parquet
- config_name: flat-5b
  data_files:
#     - flat/5b/likes.parquet
#     - flat/5b/listens.parquet
#     - flat/5b/unlikes.parquet
    - flat/5b/multi_event.parquet
#     - flat/5b/dislikes.parquet
#     - flat/5b/undislikes.parquet
# - config_name: sequential-50m
#   data_files:
#     - sequential/50m/likes.parquet
#     - sequential/50m/listens.parquet
#     - sequential/50m/unlikes.parquet
#     - sequential/50m/multi_event.parquet
#     - sequential/50m/dislikes.parquet
#     - sequential/50m/undislikes.parquet
# - config_name: sequential-500m
#   data_files:
#     - sequential/500m/likes.parquet
#     - sequential/500m/listens.parquet
#     - sequential/500m/unlikes.parquet
#     - sequential/500m/multi_event.parquet
#     - sequential/500m/dislikes.parquet
#     - sequential/500m/undislikes.parquet
# - config_name: sequential-5b
#   data_files:
#     - sequential/5b/likes.parquet
#     - sequential/5b/listens.parquet
#     - sequential/5b/unlikes.parquet
#     - sequential/5b/multi_event.parquet
#     - sequential/5b/dislikes.parquet
#     - sequential/5b/undislikes.parquet

---

# Yambda-5B — A Large-Scale Multi-modal Dataset for Ranking And Retrieval

**Industrial-scale music recommendation dataset with organic/recommendation interactions and audio embeddings**

 [📌 Overview](#overview) • [🔑 Key Features](#key-features) • [📊 Statistics](#statistics) • [📝 Format](#data-format) • [🏆 Benchmark](#benchmark) • [⬇️ Download](#download) • [❓ FAQ](#faq)

## Overview

The Yambda-5B dataset is a large-scale open database comprising **4.79 billion user-item interactions** collected from **1 million users** and spanning **9.39 million tracks**. The dataset includes both implicit feedback, such as listening events, and explicit feedback, in the form of likes and dislikes. Additionally, it provides distinctive markers for organic versus recommendation-driven interactions, along with precomputed audio embeddings to facilitate content-aware recommendation systems.

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22238

## Key Features

- 🎵 4.79B user-music interactions (listens, likes, dislikes, unlikes, undislikes)
- 🕒 Timestamps with global temporal ordering
- 🔊 Audio embeddings for 7.72M tracks
- 💡 Organic and recommendation-driven interactions
- 📈 Multiple dataset scales (50M, 500M, 5B interactions)
- 🧪 Standardized evaluation protocol with baseline benchmarks

## About Dataset

### Statistics

| Dataset     |     Users |     Items |       Listens |      Likes |   Dislikes |
|-------------|----------:|----------:|--------------:|-----------:|-----------:|
| Yambda-50M  |    10,000 |   934,057 |    46,467,212 |    881,456 |    107,776 |
| Yambda-500M |   100,000 | 3,004,578 |   466,512,103 |  9,033,960 |  1,128,113 |
| Yambda-5B   | 1,000,000 | 9,390,623 | 4,649,567,411 | 89,334,605 | 11,579,143 |

### User History Length Distribution

![user history length](assets/img/user_history_len.png "User History Length")

![user history length log-scale](assets/img/user_history_log_len.png "User History Length Log-scale")

### Item Interaction Count

![item interaction count log-scale](assets/img/item_interactions.png "Item Interaction Count Log-scale")

## Data Format

### File Descriptions

| File                       | Description                                 | Schema                                                                                  |
|----------------------------|---------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `listens.parquet`          | User listening events with playback details | `uid`, `item_id`, `timestamp`, `is_organic`, `played_ratio_pct`, `track_length_seconds` |
| `likes.parquet`            | User like actions                           | `uid`, `item_id`, `timestamp`, `is_organic`                                             |
| `dislikes.parquet`         | User dislike actions                        | `uid`, `item_id`, `timestamp`, `is_organic`                                             |
| `undislikes.parquet`       | User undislike actions (reverting dislikes) | `uid`, `item_id`, `timestamp`, `is_organic`                                             |
| `unlikes.parquet`          | User unlike actions (reverting likes)       | `uid`, `item_id`, `timestamp`, `is_organic`                                             |
| `embeddings.parquet`       | Track audio-embeddings                      | `item_id`, `embed`, `normalized_embed`                                                  |

### Common Event Structure (Homogeneous)

Most event files (`listens`, `likes`, `dislikes`, `undislikes`, `unlikes`) share this base structure:

| Field        | Type   | Description                                                                         |
|--------------|--------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `uid`        | uint32 | Unique user identifier                                                              |
| `item_id`    | uint32 | Unique track identifier                                                             |
| `timestamp`  | uint32 | Delta times, binned into 5s units.                                                  |
| `is_organic` | uint8  | Boolean flag (0/1) indicating if the interaction was algorithmic (0) or organic (1) |

**Sorting**: All files are sorted by (`uid`, `timestamp`) in ascending order.

### Unified Event Structure (Heterogeneous)

For applications needing all event types in a unified format:

| Field                  | Type              | Description                                                   |
|------------------------|-------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
| `uid`                  | uint32            | Unique user identifier                                        |
| `item_id`              | uint32            | Unique track identifier                                       |
| `timestamp`            | uint32            | Timestamp binned into 5s units.granularity                    |
| `is_organic`           | uint8             | Boolean flag for organic interactions                         |
| `event_type`           | enum              | One of: `listen`, `like`, `dislike`, `unlike`, `undislike`    |
| `played_ratio_pct`     | Optional[uint16] | Percentage of track played (1-100), null for non-listen events |
| `track_length_seconds` | Optional[uint32] | Total track duration in seconds, null for non-listen events    |

**Notes**:

- `played_ratio_pct` and `track_length_seconds` are non-null **only** when `event_type = "listen"`
- All fields except the two above are guaranteed non-null

### Sequential (Aggregated) Format

Each dataset is also available in a user-aggregated sequential format with the following structure:

| Field        | Type         | Description                                      |
|--------------|--------------|--------------------------------------------------|
| `uid`        | uint32       | Unique user identifier                           |
| `item_ids`   | List[uint32] | Chronological list of interacted track IDs       |
| `timestamps` | List[uint32] | Corresponding interaction timestamps             |
| `is_organic` | List[uint8]  | Corresponding organic flags for each interaction |
| `played_ratio_pct`     | List[Optional[uint16]] | (Only in `listens` and `multi_event`) Play percentages |
| `track_length_seconds` | List[Optional[uint32]] | (Only in `listens` and `multi_event`) Track durations  |

**Notes**:

- All lists maintain chronological order
- For each user, `len(item_ids) == len(timestamps) == len(is_organic)`
- In multi-event format, null values are preserved in respective lists

## Benchmark

Code for the baseline models can be found in `benchmarks/` directory, see [Reproducibility Guide](benchmarks/README.md)

### Download

Simplest way:
```python
from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("yandex/yambda", data_dir="flat/50m", data_files="likes.parquet")
```

Also, we provide simple wrapper for convenient usage:
```python
from typing import Literal
from datasets import Dataset, DatasetDict, load_dataset

class YambdaDataset:
    INTERACTIONS = frozenset([
        "likes", "listens", "multi_event", "dislikes", "unlikes", "undislikes"
    ])

    def __init__(
        self,
        dataset_type: Literal["flat", "sequential"] = "flat",
        dataset_size: Literal["50m", "500m", "5b"] = "50m"
    ):
        assert dataset_type in {"flat", "sequential"}
        assert dataset_size in {"50m", "500m", "5b"}
        self.dataset_type = dataset_type
        self.dataset_size = dataset_size

    def interaction(self, event_type: Literal[
        "likes", "listens", "multi_event", "dislikes", "unlikes", "undislikes"
    ]) -> Dataset:
        assert event_type in YambdaDataset.INTERACTIONS
        return self._download(f"{self.dataset_type}/{self.dataset_size}", event_type)

    def audio_embeddings(self) -> Dataset:
        return self._download("", "embeddings")

    def album_item_mapping(self) -> Dataset:
        return self._download("", "album_item_mapping")

    def artist_item_mapping(self) -> Dataset:
        return self._download("", "artist_item_mapping")

    @staticmethod
    def _download(data_dir: str, file: str) -> Dataset:
        data = load_dataset("yandex/yambda", data_dir=data_dir, data_files=f"{file}.parquet")
        # Returns DatasetDict; extracting the only split
        assert isinstance(data, DatasetDict)
        return data["train"]

dataset = YambdaDataset("flat", "50m")
likes = dataset.interaction("likes")  # returns a HuggingFace Dataset
```

## FAQ

### Are test items presented in training data?

Not all, some test items do appear in the training set, others do not.

### Are test users presented in training data?

Yes, there are no cold users in the test set.

### How are audio embeddings generated?

Using a convolutional neural network inspired by Contrastive Learning of Musical Representations (J. Spijkervet et al., 2021).

### What's the `is_organic` flag?

Indicates whether interactions occurred through organic discovery (True) or recommendation-driven pathways (False)

### Which events are considered recommendation-driven?

Recommendation events include actions from:
- Personalized music feed
- Personalized playlists

### What counts as a "listened" track or \\(Listen_+\\)?

A track is considered "listened" if over 50% of its duration is played.

### What does it mean when played_ratio_pct is greater than 100?

A played_ratio_pct greater than 100% indicates that the user rewound and 
replayed sections of the track—so the total time listened exceeds the original track length. 
These values are expected behavior and not log noise. See [discussion](https://huggingface.co/datasets/yandex/yambda/discussions/10)