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merve

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IBM released ibm-granite/granite-vision-3.1-2b-preview, a small vision LM with impressive performance on different tasks 😮🔥

it comes with transformers and vLLM support from the get-go 💗
you can run it in Colab T4, so I built a notebook to put it to test, find it here: https://github.com/merveenoyan/smol-vision/blob/main/inference_gists/IBM_Granite_Vision.ipynb

reach-vb

authored a paper about 19 hours ago

SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model

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albertvillanova

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🚀 Introducing @huggingface Open Deep-Research💥

In just 24 hours, we built an open-source agent that:
✅ Autonomously browse the web
✅ Search, scroll & extract info
✅ Download & manipulate files
✅ Run calculations on data

55% on GAIA validation set! Help us improve it!💡
https://huggingface.co/blog/open-deep-research

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merve

posted an update 7 days ago

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This week in open AI was 🔥 Let's recap! 🤗 merve/january-31-releases-679a10669bd4030090c5de4d
LLMs 💬
> Huge: AllenAI released new Tülu models that outperform DeepSeek R1 using Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) based on Llama 3.1 405B 🔥
> Mistral AI is back to open-source with their "small" 24B models (base & SFT), with Apache 2.0 license 😱
> Alibaba Qwen released their 1M context length models Qwen2.5-Instruct-1M, great for agentic use with Apache 2.0 license 🔥
> Arcee AI released Virtuoso-medium, 32.8B LLMs distilled from DeepSeek V3 with dataset of 5B+ tokens
> Velvet-14B is a new family of 14B Italian LLMs trained on 10T tokens in six languages
> OpenThinker-7B is fine-tuned version of Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct on OpenThoughts dataset

VLMs & vision 👀
> Alibaba Qwen is back with Qwen2.5VL, amazing new capabilities ranging from agentic computer use to zero-shot localization 🔥
> NVIDIA released new series of Eagle2 models with 1B and 9B sizes
> DeepSeek released Janus-Pro, new any-to-any model (image-text generation from image-text input) with MIT license
> BEN2 is a new background removal model with MIT license!

Audio 🗣️
> YuE is a new open-source music generation foundation model, lyrics-to-song generation

Codebase 👩🏻‍💻
> We are open-sourcing our SmolVLM training and eval codebase! https://github.com/huggingface/smollm/tree/main/vision
> Open-R1 is open-source reproduction of R1 by @huggingface science team https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1

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zamal

posted an update 7 days ago

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🚀 Try Out RAG Demo! 🚀

A Hugging Face Space where you can compare DeepSeek-R1 vs Llama-3 using Stuff RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)!

🔍 Upload a PDF, ask questions, and see how both models perform in real-time!

Try out now:
zamal/Deepseek-R1-vs-LLama3

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pagezyhf

posted an update 8 days ago

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We published https://huggingface.co/blog/deepseek-r1-aws!

If you are using AWS, give a read. It is a running document to showcase how to deploy and fine-tune DeepSeek R1 models with Hugging Face on AWS.

We're working hard to enable all the scenarios, whether you want to deploy to Inference Endpoints, Sagemaker or EC2; with GPUs or with Trainium & Inferentia.

We have full support for the distilled models, DeepSeek-R1 support is coming soon!! I'll keep you posted.

Cheers

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not-lain

posted an update 8 days ago

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I have just released a new blogpost about kv caching and its role in inference speedup 🚀
🔗 https://huggingface.co/blog/not-lain/kv-caching/
some takeaways :

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clem

posted an update 11 days ago

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AI is not a zero-sum game. Open-source AI is the tide that lifts all boats!

merve

posted an update 14 days ago

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Oof, what a week! 🥵 So many things have happened, let's recap! merve/jan-24-releases-6793d610774073328eac67a9

Multimodal 💬
- We have released SmolVLM -- tiniest VLMs that come in 256M and 500M, with it's retrieval models ColSmol for multimodal RAG 💗
- UI-TARS are new models by ByteDance to unlock agentic GUI control 🤯 in 2B, 7B and 72B
- Alibaba DAMO lab released VideoLlama3, new video LMs that come in 2B and 7B
- MiniMaxAI released Minimax-VL-01, where decoder is based on MiniMax-Text-01 456B MoE model with long context
- Dataset: Yale released a new benchmark called MMVU
- Dataset: CAIS released Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) a new challenging MM benchmark

LLMs 📖
- DeepSeek-R1 & DeepSeek-R1-Zero: gigantic 660B reasoning models by DeepSeek, and six distilled dense models, on par with o1 with MIT license! 🤯
- Qwen2.5-Math-PRM: new math models by Qwen in 7B and 72B
- NVIDIA released AceMath and AceInstruct, new family of models and their datasets (SFT and reward ones too!)

Audio 🗣️
- Llasa is a new speech synthesis model based on Llama that comes in 1B,3B, and 8B
- TangoFlux is a new audio generation model trained from scratch and aligned with CRPO

Image/Video/3D Generation ⏯️
- Flex.1-alpha is a new 8B pre-trained diffusion model by ostris similar to Flux
- tencent released Hunyuan3D-2, new 3D asset generation from images

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clem

posted an update 14 days ago

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The 🐳 just crossed 10,000 followers on HF

https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai

merve

posted an update 14 days ago

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smolagents can see 🔥
we just shipped vision support to smolagents 🤗 agentic computers FTW

you can now:
💻 let the agent get images dynamically (e.g. agentic web browser)
📑 pass images at the init of the agent (e.g. chatting with documents, filling forms automatically etc)
with few LoC change! 🤯
you can use transformers models locally (like Qwen2VL) OR plug-in your favorite multimodal inference provider (gpt-4o, antrophic & co) 🤠

read our blog http://hf.co/blog/smolagents-can-see

zamal

posted an update 21 days ago

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zamal/Multimodal-Chat-PDF

🚀 Introducing Chat PDF Multimodal 💬

Interact with your PDF documents like never before! 🤯
Extract text & images, then ask context-aware questions based on both. Powered by RAG techniques & multimodal LLMs. Perfect for studying, research & more! 📝👀
Try it out now!!!! ✍️

#LlavaNext #MultimodalAI #Transformers

florentgbelidji

posted an update 21 days ago

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𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗦𝗸𝗶 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝘁 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿: 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁!🏔️⛷️

With the big hype around AI agents these days, I couldn’t stop thinking about how AI agents could truly enhance real-world activities.
What sort of applications could we build with those AI agents: agentic RAG? self-correcting text-to-sql? Nah, boring…

Passionate about outdoors, I’ve always dreamed of a tool that could simplify planning mountain trips while accounting for all potential risks. That’s why I built 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁, a smart assistant designed to help you plan safe and enjoyable itineraries in the French Alps and Pyrenees.

Built using Hugging Face's 𝘀𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 library, Alpine Agent combines the power of AI with trusted resources like 𝘚𝘬𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳.𝘧𝘳 (https://skitour.fr/) and METEO FRANCE. Whether it’s suggesting a route with moderate difficulty or analyzing avalanche risks and weather conditions, this agent dynamically integrates data to deliver personalized recommendations.

In my latest blog post, I share how I developed this project—from defining tools and integrating APIs to selecting the best LLMs like 𝘘𝘸𝘦𝘯2.5-𝘊𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳-32𝘉-𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵, 𝘓𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘢-3.3-70𝘉-𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵, or 𝘎𝘗𝘛-4.

⛷️ Curious how AI can enhance adventure planning? Try the app and share your thoughts: florentgbelidji/alpine-agent

👉 Want to build your own agents? Whether for cooking, sports training, or other passions, the possibilities are endless. Check out the blog post to learn more: https://huggingface.co/blog/florentgbelidji/alpine-agent

Many thanks to @m-ric for helping on building this tool with smolagents!

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merve

posted an update 21 days ago

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Everything that happened this week in open AI, a recap 🤠 merve/jan-17-releases-678a673a9de4a4675f215bf5

👀 Multimodal
- MiniCPM-o 2.6 is a new sota any-to-any model by OpenBMB
(vision, speech and text!)
- VideoChat-Flash-Qwen2.5-2B is new video multimodal models by OpenGVLab that come in sizes 2B & 7B in resolutions 224 & 448
- ByteDance released larger SA2VA that comes in 26B parameters
- Dataset: VRC-Bench is a new diverse benchmark for multimodal LLM reasoning performance

💬 LLMs
- MiniMax-Text-01 is a new huge language model (456B passive 45.9B active params) by MiniMaxAI with context length of 4M tokens 🤯
- Dataset: Sky-T1-data-17k is a diverse dataset used to train Sky-T1-32B
- kyutai released Helium-1-Preview-2B is a new small multilingual LM
- Wayfarer-12B is a new LLM able to write D&D 🧙🏻‍♂️
- ReaderLM-v2 is a new HTML parsing model by Jina AI

- Dria released, Dria-Agent-a-3B, new agentic coding model (Pythonic function calling) based on Qwen2.5 Coder
- Unsloth released Phi-4, faster and memory efficient Llama 3.3

🖼️ Vision
- MatchAnything is a new foundation model for matching
- FitDit is a high-fidelity VTON model based on DiT architecture

🗣️ Audio
- OuteTTS-0.3-1B is a new multilingual text-to-speech model with voice cloning and emotion control capabilities

📖 Retrieval
- lightblue released a new reranker based on Qwen2.5 LB-reranker-0.5B-v1.0 that can handle 95+ languages
- cde-small-v2 is a new sota small retrieval model by
@jxm

not-lain

posted an update 21 days ago

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we now have more than 2000 public AI models using ModelHubMixin🤗

merve

posted an update 22 days ago

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New smolagents example landed on Hugging Face cookbook 🤠

Learn how to create an inventory managing multi-agent system with smolagents, MongoDB and DeepSeek Chat 📖 https://huggingface.co/learn/cookbook/mongodb_smolagents_multi_micro_agents

pagezyhf

posted an update 25 days ago

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Learn how to deploy multiple LoRA adapters on Vertex AI with this blogpost, using Hugging Face Deep Learning Containers on GCP.

https://medium.com/google-cloud/open-models-on-vertex-ai-with-hugging-face-serving-multiple-lora-adapters-on-vertex-ai-e3ceae7b717c

merve

posted an update 25 days ago

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there's a new multimodal retrieval model in town 🤠
LlamaIndex released vdr-2b-multi-v1
> uses 70% less image tokens, yet outperforming other dse-qwen2 based models
> 3x faster inference with less VRAM 💨
> shrinkable with matryoshka 🪆
> can do cross-lingual retrieval!
Collection: llamaindex/visual-document-retrieval-678151d19d2758f78ce910e1 (with models and datasets)
Demo: llamaindex/multimodal_vdr_demo
Learn more from their blog post here https://huggingface.co/blog/vdr-2b-multilingual 📖

not-lain

posted an update 26 days ago

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Published a new blogpost 📖
In this blogpost I have gone through the transformers' architecture emphasizing how shapes propagate throughout each layer.
🔗 https://huggingface.co/blog/not-lain/tensor-dims
some interesting takeaways :

merve

posted an update 28 days ago

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What a beginning to this year in open ML 🤠
Let's unwrap! merve/jan-10-releases-677fe34177759de0edfc9714

Multimodal 🖼️
> ByteDance released SA2VA: a family of vision LMs that can take image, video, text and visual prompts
> moondream2 is out with new capabilities like outputting structured data and gaze detection!
> Dataset: Alibaba DAMO lab released multimodal textbook — 22k hours worth of samples from instruction videos 🤯
> Dataset: SciCap captioning on scientific documents benchmark dataset is released along with the challenge!

LLMs 💬
> Microsoft released Phi-4, sota open-source 14B language model 🔥
> Dolphin is back with Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.1 8B 🐬🐬
> Prime-RL released Eurus-2-7B-PRIME a new language model trained using PRIME alignment
> SmallThinker-3B is a new small reasoning LM based on Owen2.5-3B-Instruct 💭
> Dataset: QWQ-LONGCOT-500K is the dataset used to train SmallThinker, generated using QwQ-32B-preview 📕
> Dataset: @cfahlgren1 released React Code Instructions: a dataset of code instruction-code pairs 📕
> Dataset: Qwen team is on the roll, they just released CodeElo, a dataset of code preferences 👩🏻‍💻

Embeddings 🔖
> @MoritzLaurer released zero-shot version of ModernBERT large 👏
> KaLM is a new family of performant multilingual embedding models with MIT license built using Qwen2-0.5B

Image/Video Generation ⏯️
> NVIDIA released Cosmos, a new family of diffusion/autoregressive World Foundation Models generating worlds from images, videos and texts 🔥
> Adobe released TransPixar: a new text-to-video model that can generate assets with transparent backgrounds (a first!)
> Dataset: fal released cosmos-openvid-1m Cosmos-tokenized OpenVid-1M with samples from OpenVid-1M

Others
> Prior Labs released TabPFNv2, the best tabular transformer is out for classification and regression
> Metagene-1 is a new RNA language model that can be used for pathogen detection, zero-shot embedding and genome understanding

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