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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.
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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Inference-time scaling meets Flux.1-Dev (and others) 🔥
Presenting a simple re-implementation of "Inference-time scaling diffusion models beyond denoising steps" by Ma et al.
I did the simplest random search strategy, but results can potentially be improved with better-guided search methods.
Supports Gemini 2 Flash & Qwen2.5 as verifiers for "LLMGrading" 🤗
The steps are simple:
For each round:
1> Starting by sampling 2 starting noises with different seeds.
2> Score the generations w.r.t a metric.
3> Obtain the best generation from the current round.
If you have more compute budget, go to the next search round. Scale the noise pool (
This constitutes the random search method as done in the paper by Google DeepMind.
Code, more results, and a bunch of other stuff are in the repository. Check it out here: https://github.com/sayakpaul/tt-scale-flux/ 🤗
Presenting a simple re-implementation of "Inference-time scaling diffusion models beyond denoising steps" by Ma et al.
I did the simplest random search strategy, but results can potentially be improved with better-guided search methods.
Supports Gemini 2 Flash & Qwen2.5 as verifiers for "LLMGrading" 🤗
The steps are simple:
For each round:
1> Starting by sampling 2 starting noises with different seeds.
2> Score the generations w.r.t a metric.
3> Obtain the best generation from the current round.
If you have more compute budget, go to the next search round. Scale the noise pool (
2 ** search_round) and repeat 1 - 3.This constitutes the random search method as done in the paper by Google DeepMind.
Code, more results, and a bunch of other stuff are in the repository. Check it out here: https://github.com/sayakpaul/tt-scale-flux/ 🤗
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NEW COURSE! We’re cooking hard on Hugging Face courses, and it’s not just agents. The NLP course is getting the same treatment with a new chapter on Supervised Fine-Tuning!
👉 Follow to get more updates https://huggingface.co/nlp-course
The new SFT chapter will guide you through these topics:
1️⃣ Chat Templates: Master the art of structuring AI conversations for consistent and helpful responses.
2️⃣ Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT): Learn the core techniques to adapt pre-trained models to your specific outputs.
3️⃣ Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA): Discover efficient fine-tuning methods that save memory and resources.
4️⃣ Evaluation: Measure your model's performance and ensure top-notch results.
This is the first update in a series, so follow along if you’re upskilling in AI.
👉 Follow to get more updates https://huggingface.co/nlp-course
The new SFT chapter will guide you through these topics:
1️⃣ Chat Templates: Master the art of structuring AI conversations for consistent and helpful responses.
2️⃣ Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT): Learn the core techniques to adapt pre-trained models to your specific outputs.
3️⃣ Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA): Discover efficient fine-tuning methods that save memory and resources.
4️⃣ Evaluation: Measure your model's performance and ensure top-notch results.
This is the first update in a series, so follow along if you’re upskilling in AI.
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Hey, I’m Ben and I work at Hugging Face.
Right now, I’m focusing on educational stuff and getting loads of new people to build open AI models using free and open source tools.
I’ve made a collection of some of the tools I’m building and using for teaching. Stuff like quizzes, code challenges, and certificates.
burtenshaw/tools-for-learning-ai-6797453caae193052d3638e2
Right now, I’m focusing on educational stuff and getting loads of new people to build open AI models using free and open source tools.
I’ve made a collection of some of the tools I’m building and using for teaching. Stuff like quizzes, code challenges, and certificates.
burtenshaw/tools-for-learning-ai-6797453caae193052d3638e2
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The Hugging Face agents course is finally out!
👉 https://huggingface.co/agents-course
This first unit of the course sets you up with all the fundamentals to become a pro in agents.
- What's an AI Agent?
- What are LLMs?
- Messages and Special Tokens
- Understanding AI Agents through the Thought-Action-Observation Cycle
- Thought, Internal Reasoning and the Re-Act Approach
- Actions, Enabling the Agent to Engage with Its Environment
- Observe, Integrating Feedback to Reflect and Adapt
👉 https://huggingface.co/agents-course
This first unit of the course sets you up with all the fundamentals to become a pro in agents.
- What's an AI Agent?
- What are LLMs?
- Messages and Special Tokens
- Understanding AI Agents through the Thought-Action-Observation Cycle
- Thought, Internal Reasoning and the Re-Act Approach
- Actions, Enabling the Agent to Engage with Its Environment
- Observe, Integrating Feedback to Reflect and Adapt
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SmolLM2 paper is out! 😊
😍 Why do I love it? Because it facilitates teaching and learning!
Over the past few months I've engaged with (no joke) thousands of students based on SmolLM.
- People have inferred, fine-tuned, aligned, and evaluated this smol model.
- People used they're own machines and they've used free tools like colab, kaggle, and spaces.
- People tackled use cases in their job, for fun, in their own language, and with their friends.
upvote the paper SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model (2502.02737)
😍 Why do I love it? Because it facilitates teaching and learning!
Over the past few months I've engaged with (no joke) thousands of students based on SmolLM.
- People have inferred, fine-tuned, aligned, and evaluated this smol model.
- People used they're own machines and they've used free tools like colab, kaggle, and spaces.
- People tackled use cases in their job, for fun, in their own language, and with their friends.
upvote the paper SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model (2502.02737)
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Manic few days in open source AI, with game changing development all over the place. Here's a round up of the resources:
- The science team at @huggingface reproduced and open source the seek r1. https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1
- @qwen released a series of models with 1 million token context! https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-1m/
- SmolVLM got even smaller with completely new variants at 256m and 500m https://huggingface.co/blog/smolervlm
There's so much you could do with these developments. Especially combining them together into agentic applications or fine-tuning them on your use case.
- The science team at @huggingface reproduced and open source the seek r1. https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1
- @qwen released a series of models with 1 million token context! https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-1m/
- SmolVLM got even smaller with completely new variants at 256m and 500m https://huggingface.co/blog/smolervlm
There's so much you could do with these developments. Especially combining them together into agentic applications or fine-tuning them on your use case.
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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
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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Hey 👋
I'm helping out on some community research to learn about the AI community. If you want to join in the conversation, head over here where I started a community discussion on the most influential model since BERT.
OSAIResearchCommunity/README#2
I'm helping out on some community research to learn about the AI community. If you want to join in the conversation, head over here where I started a community discussion on the most influential model since BERT.
OSAIResearchCommunity/README#2
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📣 Teachers and Students! Here's a handy quiz app if you're preparing your own study material.
TLDR, It's a quiz that uses a dataset to make questions and save answers
Here's how it works:
- make a dataset of multiple choice questions
- duplicate the space add set the dataset repo
- log in and do the quiz
- submit the questions to create a new dataset
I made this to get ready for the agents course, but I hope it's useful for you projects too!
quiz app burtenshaw/dataset_quiz
dataset with questions burtenshaw/exam_questions
agents course we're working on https://huggingface.co/agents-course
TLDR, It's a quiz that uses a dataset to make questions and save answers
Here's how it works:
- make a dataset of multiple choice questions
- duplicate the space add set the dataset repo
- log in and do the quiz
- submit the questions to create a new dataset
I made this to get ready for the agents course, but I hope it's useful for you projects too!
quiz app burtenshaw/dataset_quiz
dataset with questions burtenshaw/exam_questions
agents course we're working on https://huggingface.co/agents-course
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🚧 Work in Progress! 🚧
👷♀️ We're working hard on getting the official agents course ready for the 50,000 students that have signed up.
If you want to contribute to the discussion, I started these community posts. Looking forward to hearing from you:
- smolagents unit in the agents course - agents-course/README#7
- LlamaIndex Unit in the agents course - agents-course/README#6
- LangChain and LangGraph unit in the agents course - agents-course/README#5
- Real world use cases in the agents course - agents-course/README#8
👷♀️ We're working hard on getting the official agents course ready for the 50,000 students that have signed up.
If you want to contribute to the discussion, I started these community posts. Looking forward to hearing from you:
- smolagents unit in the agents course - agents-course/README#7
- LlamaIndex Unit in the agents course - agents-course/README#6
- LangChain and LangGraph unit in the agents course - agents-course/README#5
- Real world use cases in the agents course - agents-course/README#8
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What happened yesterday in the Chinese AI community? 🚀
T2A-01-HD 👉 https://hailuo.ai/audio
MiniMax's Text-to-Audio model, now in Hailuo AI, offers 300+ voices in 17+ languages and instant emotional voice cloning.
Tare 👉 https://www.trae.ai/
A new coding tool by Bytedance for professional developers, supporting English & Chinese with free access to Claude 3.5 and GPT-4 for a limited time.
DeepSeek-R1 Series 👉 deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-678e1e131c0169c0bc89728d
Open-source reasoning models with MIT license by DeepSeek.
Kimi K 1.5 👉 https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-k1.5 | https://kimi.ai/
An O1-level multi-modal model by MoonShot AI, utilizing reinforcement learning with long and short-chain-of-thought and supporting up to 128k tokens.
And today…
Hunyuan 3D-2.0 👉 tencent/Hunyuan3D-2
A SoTA 3D synthesis system for high-res textured assets by Tencent Hunyuan , with open weights and code!
Stay tuned for more updates 👉 https://huggingface.co/zh-ai-community
T2A-01-HD 👉 https://hailuo.ai/audio
MiniMax's Text-to-Audio model, now in Hailuo AI, offers 300+ voices in 17+ languages and instant emotional voice cloning.
Tare 👉 https://www.trae.ai/
A new coding tool by Bytedance for professional developers, supporting English & Chinese with free access to Claude 3.5 and GPT-4 for a limited time.
DeepSeek-R1 Series 👉 deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-678e1e131c0169c0bc89728d
Open-source reasoning models with MIT license by DeepSeek.
Kimi K 1.5 👉 https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-k1.5 | https://kimi.ai/
An O1-level multi-modal model by MoonShot AI, utilizing reinforcement learning with long and short-chain-of-thought and supporting up to 128k tokens.
And today…
Hunyuan 3D-2.0 👉 tencent/Hunyuan3D-2
A SoTA 3D synthesis system for high-res textured assets by Tencent Hunyuan , with open weights and code!
Stay tuned for more updates 👉 https://huggingface.co/zh-ai-community
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Playing with agents, and I reckon Gradio spaces make the perfect agent tools! So I wrote this guide using Gradio and smolagents:
https://huggingface.co/blog/burtenshaw/gradio-spaces-agent-tools
https://huggingface.co/blog/burtenshaw/gradio-spaces-agent-tools
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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
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