3.1.0

Dataset Features

• Video support by @lhoestq in #7230

  >>> from datasets import Dataset, Video, load_dataset
  >>> ds = Dataset.from_dict({"video":["path/to/Screen Recording.mov"]}).cast_column("video", Video())
  >>> # or from the hub
  >>> ds = load_dataset("username/dataset_name", split="train")
  >>> ds[0]["video"]
  <decord.video_reader.VideoReader at 0x105525c70>

• Add IterableDataset.shard() by @lhoestq in #7252

  >>> from datasets import load_dataset
  >>> full_ds = load_dataset("amphion/Emilia-Dataset", split="train", streaming=True)
  >>> full_ds.num_shards
  2360
  >>> ds = full_ds.shard(num_shards=ds.num_shards, index=0)
  >>> ds.num_shards
  1
  >>> ds = full_ds.shard(num_shards=8, index=0)
  >>> ds.num_shards
  295

• Basic XML support by @lhoestq in #7250

What's Changed

• (Super tiny doc update) Mention to_polars by @fzyzcjy in #7232
• [MINOR:TYPO] Update arrow_dataset.py by @cakiki in #7236
• Missing video docs by @lhoestq in #7251
• fix decord import by @lhoestq in #7255
• fix ci for pyarrow 18 by @lhoestq in #7257
• Retry all requests timeouts by @lhoestq in #7256
• Always set non-null writer batch size by @lhoestq in #7258
• Don't embed videos by @lhoestq in #7259
• Allow video with disabeld decoding without decord by @lhoestq in #7262
• Small addition to video docs by @lhoestq in #7263
• fix docs relative links by @lhoestq in #7264
• Disallow video push_to_hub by @lhoestq in #7265

New Contributors

• @fzyzcjy made their first contribution in #7232

Full Changelog: 3.0.2...3.1.0