ATTRIBUTION.md

# Attribution

## Required attribution

This release is an adaptation of the English HotpotQA dataset. When sharing or adapting it, retain the following attribution in a reasonably visible location:

> Bactrainus HotpotQA Training Data by Iman Barati, Arash Ghafouri, and Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli, derived from HotpotQA by Zhilin Yang, Peng Qi, Saizheng Zhang, Yoshua Bengio, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, and Christopher D. Manning. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes include schema normalization, deterministic task-view construction, chat serialization, validation, and Parquet sharding.

Include links to:

- this dataset: <https://huggingface.co/datasets/bactrianus/bactrainus-hotpotqa>
- HotpotQA: <https://hotpotqa.github.io/>
- CC BY-SA 4.0: <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>
- Bactrainus: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06286>

Indicate any additional modifications you make. Adapted datasets must remain under CC BY-SA 4.0 or a license permitted by its ShareAlike compatibility rules.

## Upstream dataset

HotpotQA is distributed by its authors under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. This release uses only the English HotpotQA v1.1 training split and preserves each upstream example ID as `source_id`.

```bibtex
@inproceedings{yang2018hotpotqa,
  title     = {{HotpotQA}: A Dataset for Diverse, Explainable Multi-hop Question Answering},
  author    = {Yang, Zhilin and Qi, Peng and Zhang, Saizheng and Bengio, Yoshua and Cohen, William W. and Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Manning, Christopher D.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  year      = {2018},
  pages     = {2369--2380},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/D18-1259},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/D18-1259/}
}
```

## Bactrainus task views

The Bactrainus authors created the normalized schema and the four deterministic supervised-fine-tuning views in this repository. Cite the associated article when using those views:

```bibtex
@article{barati2025bactrainus,
  title   = {Bactrainus: Optimizing Large Language Models for Multi-hop Complex Question Answering Tasks},
  author  = {Barati, Iman and Ghafouri, Arash and Minaei-Bidgoli, Behrouz},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06286},
  year    = {2025},
  url     = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06286}
}
```

## Architecture figure

`architecture.svg` is the original Bactrainus architecture figure supplied by the project authors. This release does not incorporate Flaticon icons or other third-party icon assets.

## No endorsement

Attribution does not imply that the HotpotQA authors, Wikipedia contributors, Creative Commons, or any other upstream party endorses Bactrainus or a downstream use.