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davidberenstein1957 
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🚨 New Bonus Unit: Tracing & Evaluating Your Agent! 🚨

Learn how to transform your agent from a simple demo into a robust, reliable product ready for real users.

UNIT: https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/bonus-unit2/introduction

In this unit, you'll learn:
- Offline Evaluation – Benchmark and iterate your agent using datasets.
- Online Evaluation – Continuously track key metrics such as latency, costs, and user feedback.

Happy testing and improving!

Thanks Langfuse team!
davanstrien 
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burtenshaw 
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The Hugging Face Agents Course now includes three major agent frameworks!

🔗 https://huggingface.co/agents-course

This includes LlamaIndex, LangChain, and our very own smolagents. We've worked to integrate the three frameworks in distinctive ways so that learners can reflect on when and where to use each.

This also means that you can follow the course if you're already familiar with one of these frameworks, and soak up some of the fundamental knowledge in earlier units.

Hopefully, this makes the agents course as open to as many people as possible.
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burtenshaw 
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The open LLM leaderboard is completed, retired, dead, ‘ascended to a higher plane’. And in its shadow we have an amazing range of leaderboards built and maintained by the community.

In this post, I just want to list some of those great leaderboards that you should bookmark for staying up to date:

- Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard is the first port of call for checking out the best model. It’s not the fastest because humans will need to use the models to get scores, but it’s worth the wait. lmarena-ai/chatbot-arena-leaderboard

- OpenVLM Leaderboard is great for getting scores on vision language models opencompass/open_vlm_leaderboard

- Ai2 are doing a great job on RewardBench and I hope they keep it up because reward models are the unsexy workhorse of the field. allenai/reward-bench

- The GAIA leaderboard is great for evaluating agent applications. gaia-benchmark/leaderboard

🤩 This seems like such a sustainable way of building for the long term, where rather than leaning on a single company to evaluate all LLMs, we share the load.
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sayakpaul 
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burtenshaw 
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Still speed running Gemma 3 to think. Today I focused on setting up gpu poor hardware to run GRPO.

This is a plain TRL and PEFT notebook which works on mac silicone or colab T4. This uses the 1b variant of Gemma 3 and a reasoning version of GSM8K dataset.

🧑‍🍳 There’s more still in the oven like releasing models, an Unsloth version, and deeper tutorials, but hopefully this should bootstrap your projects.

Here’s a link to the 1b notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1mwCy5GQb9xJFSuwt2L_We3eKkVbx2qSt?usp=sharing
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burtenshaw 
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everybody and their dog is fine-tuning Gemma 3 today, so I thought I'd do a longer post on the tips and sharp edges I find. let's go!

1. has to be install everything form main and nightly. this is what I'm working with to get unsloth and TRL running

git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers@main
git+https://github.com/huggingface/trl.git@main
bitsandbytes
peft


plus this with --no-deps

git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth-zoo.git@nightly
git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git@nightly


2. will brown's code to turn GSM8k into a reasoning dataset is a nice toy experiment https://gist.github.com/willccbb/4676755236bb08cab5f4e54a0475d6fb

3. with a learning rate of 5e-6 rewards and loss stayed flat for the first 100 or so steps.

4. so far none of my runs have undermined the outputs after 1 epoch. therefore, I'm mainly experimenting with bigger LoRA adapters.

from trl import GRPOConfig

training_args = GRPOConfig(
    learning_rate = 5e-6,
    adam_beta1 = 0.9,
    adam_beta2 = 0.99,
    weight_decay = 0.1,
    warmup_ratio = 0.1,
    lr_scheduler_type = "cosine",
    optim = "adamw_8bit",
    logging_steps = 1,
    per_device_train_batch_size = 2,
    gradient_accumulation_steps = 1,
    num_generations = 2,
    max_prompt_length = 256,
    max_completion_length = 1024 - 256,
    num_train_epochs = 1,
    max_steps = 250,
    save_steps = 250,
    max_grad_norm = 0.1,
    report_to = "none",
)


5. vision fine-tuning isn't available in TRL's GRPOTrainer, so stick to text datasets. but no need to load the model differently in transformers or Unsloth

from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText

model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("google/gemma-3-4b-it)


if you want an introduction to GRPO, check out the reasoning course, it walks you through the algorithm, theory, and implementation in a smooth way.

https://huggingface.co/reasoning-course
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burtenshaw 
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Here’s a notebook to make Gemma reason with GRPO & TRL. I made this whilst prepping the next unit of the reasoning course:

In this notebooks I combine together google’s model with some community tooling

- First, I load the model from the Hugging Face hub with transformers’s latest release for Gemma 3
- I use PEFT and bitsandbytes to get it running on Colab
- Then, I took Will Browns processing and reward functions to make reasoning chains from GSM8k
- Finally, I used TRL’s GRPOTrainer to train the model

Next step is to bring Unsloth AI in, then ship it in the reasoning course. Links to notebook below.

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Vkl69ytCS3bvOtV9_stRETMthlQXR4wX?usp=sharing
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davidberenstein1957 
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burtenshaw 
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I’m super excited to work with @mlabonne to build the first practical example in the reasoning course.

🔗 https://huggingface.co/reasoning-course

Here's a quick walk through of the first drop of material that works toward the use case:

- a fundamental introduction to reinforcement learning. Answering questions like, ‘what is a reward?’ and ‘how do we create an environment for a language model?’

- Then it focuses on Deepseek R1 by walking through the paper and highlighting key aspects. This is an old school way to learn ML topics, but it always works.

- Next, it takes to you Transformers Reinforcement Learning and demonstrates potential reward functions you could use. This is cool because it uses Marimo notebooks to visualise the reward.

- Finally, Maxime walks us through a real training notebook that uses GRPO to reduce generation length. I’m really into this because it works and Maxime took the time to validate it share assets and logging from his own runs for you to compare with.

Maxime’s work and notebooks have been a major part of the open source community over the last few years. I, like everyone, have learnt so much from them.
davidberenstein1957 
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🥊 Epic Agent Framework Showdown! Available today!

🔵 In the blue corner, the versatile challenger with a proven track record of knowledge retrieval: LlamaIndex!

🛑 In the red corner, the defender, weighing in with lightweight efficiency: Hugging Face smolagents!

🔗 URL: https://huggingface.co/agents-course

We just published the LlamaIndex unit for the agents course, and it is set to offer a great contrast between the smolagents unit by looking at

- What makes llama-index stand-out
- How the LlamaHub is used for integrations
- Creating QueryEngine components
- Using agents and tools
- Agentic and multi-agent workflows

The team has been working flat-out on this for a few weeks. Supported by Logan Markewich and Laurie Voss over at LlamaIndex.

Who won? You decide!
davidberenstein1957 
posted an update 21 days ago
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🫸 New release to push vector search to the Hub with vicinity and work with any serialisable objects.

🧑‍🏫 KNN, HNSW, USEARCH, ANNOY, PYNNDESCENT, FAISS, and VOYAGER.

🔗 Example Repo: minishlab/my-vicinity-repo
davanstrien 
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📊 Introducing "Hugging Face Dataset Spotlight" 📊

I'm excited to share the first episode of our AI-generated podcast series focusing on nice datasets from the Hugging Face Hub!

This first episode explores mathematical reasoning datasets:

- SynthLabsAI/Big-Math-RL-Verified: Over 250,000 rigorously verified problems spanning multiple difficulty levels and mathematical domains
- open-r1/OpenR1-Math-220k: 220,000 math problems with multiple reasoning traces, verified for accuracy using Math Verify and Llama-3.3-70B models.
- facebook/natural_reasoning: 1.1 million general reasoning questions carefully deduplicated and decontaminated from existing benchmarks, showing superior scaling effects when training models like Llama3.1-8B-Instruct.

Plus a bonus segment on bespokelabs/bespoke-manim!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TgmRq45tW4
davanstrien 
posted an update 26 days ago
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Quick POC: Turn a Hugging Face dataset card into a short podcast introducing the dataset using all open models.

I think I'm the only weirdo who would enjoy listening to something like this though 😅

Here is an example for eth-nlped/stepverify
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burtenshaw 
posted an update 26 days ago
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I made a real time voice agent with FastRTC, smolagents, and hugging face inference providers. Check it out in this space:

🔗 burtenshaw/coworking_agent
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burtenshaw 
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Now the Hugging Face agent course is getting real! With frameworks like smolagents, LlamaIndex, and LangChain.

🔗 Follow the org for updates https://huggingface.co/agents-course

This week we are releasing the first framework unit in the course and it’s on smolagents. This is what the unit covers:

- why should you use smolagents vs another library?
- how to build agents that use code
- build multiagents systems
- use vision language models for browser use

The team has been working flat out on this for a few weeks. Led by @sergiopaniego and supported by smolagents author @m-ric .
alvarobartt 
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🔥 Agents can do anything! @microsoft Research just announced the release of Magma 8B!

Magma is a new Visual Language Model (VLM) with 8B parameters for multi-modal agents designed to handle complex interactions across virtual and real environments; and it's MIT licensed!

Magma comes with exciting new features such as:
- Introduces the Set-of-Mark and Trace-of-Mark techniques for fine-tuning
- Leverages a large amount of unlabeled video data to learn the spatial-temporal grounding and planning
- A strong generalization and ability to be fine-tuned for other agentic tasks
- SOTA in different multi-modal benchmarks spanning across UI navigation, robotics manipulation, image / video understanding and spatial understanding and reasoning
- Generates goal-driven visual plans and actions for agentic use cases

Model: microsoft/Magma-8B
Technical Report: Magma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI Agents (2502.13130)
davanstrien 
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Hacked together a way to log trl GRPO training completions to a 🤗 dataset repo. This allows you to:

- Track rewards from multiple reward functions
- Treat the completion and rewards from training as a "proper" dataset and do EDA
- Share results for open science

The implementation is super hacky, but I'm curious if people would find this useful.

To push completions to the Hub, you just need two extra parameters:

log_completions=True
log_completions_hub_repo='your-username/repo-name'

Example dataset: davanstrien/test-logs
Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wzBFPVthRYYTp-mEYlznLg_e_0Za1M3g
burtenshaw 
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AGENTS + FINETUNING! This week Hugging Face learn has a whole pathway on finetuning for agentic applications. You can follow these two courses to get knowledge on levelling up your agent game beyond prompts:

1️⃣ New Supervised Fine-tuning unit in the NLP Course https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/en/chapter11/1
2️⃣New Finetuning for agents bonus module in the Agents Course https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/bonus-unit1/introduction

Fine-tuning will squeeze everything out of your model for how you’re using it, more than any prompt.
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