diff --git a/timm/data/dataset_factory.py b/timm/data/dataset_factory.py
index 757c2e5d..a4c18e39 100644
--- a/timm/data/dataset_factory.py
+++ b/timm/data/dataset_factory.py
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ def create_dataset(
     elif name.startswith('hfds/'):
         # NOTE right now, HF datasets default arrow format is a random-access Dataset,
         # There will be a IterableDataset variant too, TBD
-        ds = ImageDataset(root, reader=name, split=split, **kwargs)
+        ds = ImageDataset(root, reader=name, split=split, class_map=class_map, **kwargs)
     elif name.startswith('tfds/'):
         ds = IterableImageDataset(
             root,
diff --git a/timm/data/readers/reader_factory.py b/timm/data/readers/reader_factory.py
index 58ff56cd..226e3857 100644
--- a/timm/data/readers/reader_factory.py
+++ b/timm/data/readers/reader_factory.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from .reader_image_in_tar import ReaderImageInTar
 
 def create_reader(name, root, split='train', **kwargs):
     name = name.lower()
-    name = name.split('/', 2)
+    name = name.split('/', 1)
     prefix = ''
     if len(name) > 1:
         prefix = name[0]
diff --git a/timm/data/readers/reader_hfds.py b/timm/data/readers/reader_hfds.py
index 901cf4bc..62ae5f4d 100644
--- a/timm/data/readers/reader_hfds.py
+++ b/timm/data/readers/reader_hfds.py
@@ -13,13 +13,14 @@ try:
 except ImportError as e:
     print("Please install Hugging Face datasets package `pip install datasets`.")
     exit(1)
+from .class_map import load_class_map
 from .reader import Reader
 
 
-def get_class_labels(info):
+def get_class_labels(info, label_key='label'):
     if 'label' not in info.features:
         return {}
-    class_label = info.features['label']
+    class_label = info.features[label_key]
     class_to_idx = {n: class_label.str2int(n) for n in class_label.names}
     return class_to_idx
 
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ class ReaderHfds(Reader):
             name,
             split='train',
             class_map=None,
+            label_key='label',
             download=False,
     ):
         """
@@ -43,12 +45,17 @@ class ReaderHfds(Reader):
             name,  # 'name' maps to path arg in hf datasets
             split=split,
             cache_dir=self.root,  # timm doesn't expect hidden cache dir for datasets, specify a path
-            #use_auth_token=True,
         )
         # leave decode for caller, plus we want easy access to original path names...
         self.dataset = self.dataset.cast_column('image', datasets.Image(decode=False))
 
-        self.class_to_idx = get_class_labels(self.dataset.info)
+        self.label_key = label_key
+        self.remap_class = False
+        if class_map:
+            self.class_to_idx = load_class_map(class_map)
+            self.remap_class = True
+        else:
+            self.class_to_idx = get_class_labels(self.dataset.info, self.label_key)
         self.split_info = self.dataset.info.splits[split]
         self.num_samples = self.split_info.num_examples
 
@@ -60,7 +67,10 @@ class ReaderHfds(Reader):
         else:
             assert 'path' in image and image['path']
             image = open(image['path'], 'rb')
-        return image, item['label']
+        label = item[self.label_key]
+        if self.remap_class:
+            label = self.class_to_idx[label]
+        return image, label
 
     def __len__(self):
         return len(self.dataset)