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Fix DatasetGenerationError
in Datasets
✅ Solution
DatasetGenerationError often arises from unsupported data types or nested structures when creating or converting datasets, especially with chunked arrays or specific file formats like webdataset. Ensure that your data types are compatible with the dataset format and that you flatten or convert complex nested structures like deeply nested dictionaries or lists of dictionaries to simpler, serializable types like strings or numpy arrays before dataset creation. Consider using `datasets.features.Features` to explicitly define the expected schema and data types, enabling automatic type coercion during dataset creation.
Related Issues
Real GitHub issues where developers encountered this error:
Cannot load dataset, fails with nested data conversions not implemented for chunked array outputsSep 27, 2025
Dataset creation is broken if nesting a dict inside a dict inside a listMay 13, 2025
TypeError: Couldn't cast array of type string to null on webdataset format datasetMay 2, 2025
Nested Feature raises ArrowNotImplementedError: Unsupported cast using function cast_structApr 7, 2025
Timeline
First reported:Apr 7, 2025
Last reported:Sep 27, 2025