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mfarre  authored a paper 8 days ago
SmolDocling: An ultra-compact vision-language model for end-to-end multi-modal document conversion
andito  authored a paper 8 days ago
SmolDocling: An ultra-compact vision-language model for end-to-end multi-modal document conversion
lewtun  authored a paper 13 days ago
Optimizing Test-Time Compute via Meta Reinforcement Fine-Tuning
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merve 
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So many open releases at Hugging Face past week 🤯 recapping all here ⤵️ merve/march-21-releases-67dbe10e185f199e656140ae

👀 Multimodal
> Mistral AI released a 24B vision LM, both base and instruction FT versions, sota 🔥 (OS)
> with IBM we released SmolDocling, a sota 256M document parser with Apache 2.0 license (OS)
> SpatialLM is a new vision LM that outputs 3D bounding boxes, comes with 0.5B (QwenVL based) and 1B (Llama based) variants
> SkyWork released SkyWork-R1V-38B, new vision reasoning model (OS)

💬 LLMs
> NVIDIA released new Nemotron models in 49B and 8B with their post-training dataset
> LG released EXAONE, new reasoning models in 2.4B, 7.8B and 32B
> Dataset: Glaive AI released a new reasoning dataset of 22M+ examples
> Dataset: NVIDIA released new helpfulness dataset HelpSteer3
> Dataset: OpenManusRL is a new agent dataset based on ReAct framework (OS)
> Open-R1 team released OlympicCoder, new competitive coder model in 7B and 32B
> Dataset: GeneralThought-430K is a new reasoning dataset (OS)

🖼️ Image Generation/Computer Vision
> Roboflow released RF-DETR, new real-time sota object detector (OS) 🔥
> YOLOE is a new real-time zero-shot object detector with text and visual prompts 🥹
> Stability AI released Stable Virtual Camera, a new novel view synthesis model
> Tencent released Hunyuan3D-2mini, new small and fast 3D asset generation model
> ByteDance released InfiniteYou, new realistic photo generation model
> StarVector is a new 8B model that generates svg from images
> FlexWorld is a new model that expands 3D views (OS)

🎤 Audio
> Sesame released CSM-1B new speech generation model (OS)

🤖 Robotics
> NVIDIA released GR00T, new robotics model for generalized reasoning and skills, along with the dataset

*OS ones have Apache 2.0 or MIT license
fdaudens 
posted an update 4 days ago
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🎥 Just tested Stability AI's Stable Virtual Camera - it turns a single photo into dynamic video with AI-powered camera movements! From static meeting room to cinematic sweeps. 🚀

Try it out: stabilityai/stable-virtual-camera
fdaudens 
posted an update 5 days ago
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🔊 Meet Orpheus: A breakthrough open-source TTS model that matches human-level speech with empathy & emotion.
- Available in 4 sizes (150M-3B parameters)
- delivers ultra-fast streaming
- zero-shot voice cloning.
- Apache 2.0 license

canopylabs/orpheus-tts-67d9ea3f6c05a941c06ad9d2
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fdaudens 
posted an update 7 days ago
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Want to build useful newsroom tools with AI? We’re launching a Hugging Face x Journalism Slack channel where journalists turn AI concepts into real newsroom solutions.

Inside the community:
✅ Build open-source AI tools for journalism
✅ Get direct help from the community
✅ Stay updated on new models and datasets
✅ Learn from other journalists’ experiments and builds

The goal? Go from “I read about AI” to “I built an AI tool that supercharged my newsroom.” —no more learning in isolation.

Join us! https://join.slack.com/t/journalistson-tnd8294/shared_invite/zt-30vsmhk4w-dZpeMOoxdhCvfNsqtspPUQ (Please make sure to use a clear identity—no teddybear85, for example 😉)

(If you know people who might be interested, tag them below! The more minds we bring in, the better the tools we build.)
fdaudens 
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mfarre 
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fdaudens 
posted an update 11 days ago
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🤯 Gemma 3's image analysis blew me away!

Tested 2 ways to extract airplane registration numbers from photos with 12B model:

1️⃣ Gradio app w/API link (underrated feature IMO) + ZeroGPU infra on Hugging Face in Google Colab. Fast & free.

2️⃣ LMStudio + local processing (100% private). Running this powerhouse on a MacBook w/16GB RAM is wild! 🚀

Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1YmmaP0IDEu98CLDppAAK9kbQZ7lFnLZ1?usp=sharing
fdaudens 
posted an update 13 days ago
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Ever wanted 45 min with one of AI’s most fascinating minds? Was with @thomwolf at HumanX Vegas. Sharing my notes of his Q&A with the press—completely changed how I think about AI’s future:

1️⃣ The next wave of successful AI companies won’t be defined by who has the best model but by who builds the most useful real-world solutions. "We all have engines in our cars, but that’s rarely the only reason we buy one. We expect it to work well, and that’s enough. LLMs will be the same."

2️⃣ Big players are pivoting: "Closed-source companies—OpenAI being the first—have largely shifted from LLM announcements to product announcements."

3️⃣ Open source is changing everything: "DeepSeek was open source AI’s ChatGPT moment. Basically, everyone outside the bubble realized you can get a model for free—and it’s just as good as the paid ones."

4️⃣ Product innovation is being democratized: Take Manus, for example—they built a product on top of Anthropic’s models that’s "actually better than Anthropic’s own product for now, in terms of agents." This proves that anyone can build great products with existing models.

We’re entering a "multi-LLM world," where models are becoming commoditized, and all the tools to build are readily available—just look at the flurry of daily new releases on Hugging Face.

Thom's comparison to the internet era is spot-on: "In the beginning you made a lot of money by making websites... but nowadays the huge internet companies are not the companies that built websites. Like Airbnb, Uber, Facebook, they just use the internet as a medium to make something for real life use cases."

Love to hear your thoughts on this shift!
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lewtun 
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thomwolf 
posted an update 13 days ago
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We've kept pushing our Open-R1 project, an open initiative to replicate and extend the techniques behind DeepSeek-R1.

And even we were mind-blown by the results we got with this latest model we're releasing: ⚡️OlympicCoder ( open-r1/OlympicCoder-7B and open-r1/OlympicCoder-32B)

It's beating Claude 3.7 on (competitive) programming –a domain Anthropic has been historically really strong at– and it's getting close to o1-mini/R1 on olympiad level coding with just 7B parameters!

And the best part is that we're open-sourcing all about its training dataset, the new IOI benchmark, and more in our Open-R1 progress report #3: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1/update-3

Datasets are are releasing:
- open-r1/codeforces
- open-r1/codeforces-cots
- open-r1/ioi
- open-r1/ioi-test-cases
- open-r1/ioi-sample-solutions
- open-r1/ioi-cots
- open-r1/ioi-2024-model-solutions
eliebak 
posted an update 13 days ago
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Google just dropped an exciting technical report for the brand-new Gemma3 model! 🚀 Here are my personal notes highlighting the most intriguing architectural innovations, design choices, and insights from this release:

1) Architecture choices:
> No more softcaping, replace by QK-Norm
> Both Pre AND Post Norm
> Wider MLP than Qwen2.5, ~ same depth
> SWA with 5:1 and 1024 (very small and cool ablation on the paper!)
> No MLA to save KV cache, SWA do the job!

2) Long context
> Only increase the rope in the global layer (to 1M)
> Confirmation that it's harder to do long context for smol models, no 128k for the 1B
> Pretrained with 32k context? seems very high
> No yarn nor llama3 like rope extension

3) Distillation
> Only keep te first 256 logits for the teacher
> Ablation on the teacher gap (tl;dr you need some "patience" to see that using a small teacher is better)
> On policy distillation yeahh (by
@agarwl_
et al), not sure if the teacher gap behave the same here, curious if someone have more info?

4) Others
> Checkpoint with QAT, that's very cool
> RL using improve version of BOND, WARM/WARP good excuse to look at
@ramealexandre
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> Only use Zero3, no TP/PP if i understand correctly ?
> Training budget relatively similar than gemma2
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freddyaboulton 
posted an update 13 days ago
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Privacy matters when talking to AI! 🔇

We've just added a microphone mute button to FastRTC in our latest update (v0.0.14). Now you control exactly what your LLM hears.

Plus lots more features in this release! Check them out:
https://github.com/freddyaboulton/fastrtc/releases/tag/0.0.14
lewtun 
posted an update 13 days ago
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Introducing OlympicCoder: a series of open reasoning models that can solve olympiad-level programming problems 🧑‍💻

- 7B open-r1/OlympicCoder-7B
- 32B open-r1/OlympicCoder-32B

We find that OlympicCoder models outperform Claude 3.7 Sonnet, as well as others over 100x larger 💪

Together with the models, we are releasing:

📊CodeForces-CoTs: new dataset of code problems from the most popular competitive coding platform, with R1 traces in C++ and Python open-r1/codeforces-cots

🏆 IOI'2024: a new benchmark of VERY hard programming problems where even frontier models struggle to match human performance open-r1/ioi

For links to the models and datasets, check out our latest progress report from Open R1: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1/update-3
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fdaudens 
posted an update 13 days ago
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🔥The Open R1 team just dropped OlympicCoder and it's wild:

- 7B model outperforms Claude 3.7 Sonnet on IOI benchmark (yes, 7B!!)
- 32B crushes all open-weight models tested, even those 100x larger 🤯

Open-sourcing the future of code reasoning! 🚀

Check it out https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1/update-3
BrigitteTousi 
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BrigitteTousi 
posted an update 15 days ago
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Regardless of X being down or not, so glad I can rely on HF Posts for AI news ❤️🤗
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fdaudens 
posted an update 16 days ago
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Honored to be named among their 12 pioneers and power players in the news industry in the 2025 Tech Trends Report from Future Today Strategy Group.

Incredible group to be part of - each person is doing groundbreaking work at the intersection of AI and journalism. Worth following them all: they're consistently sharing practical insights on building the future of news.

Take the time to read this report, it's packed with insights as always. The news & information section's #1 insight hits hard: "The most substantive economic impact of AI to date has been licensing payouts for a handful of big publishers. The competition will start shifting in the year ahead to separate AI 'haves' that have positioned themselves to grow from the 'have-nots.'"

This AI-driven divide is something I've been really concerned about. Now is the time to build more than ever!

👉 Full report here: https://ftsg.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/FTSG_2025_TR_FINAL_LINKED.pdf
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fdaudens 
posted an update 19 days ago
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AI will bring us "a country of yes-men on servers" instead of one of "Einsteins sitting in a data center" if we continue on current trends.

Must-read by @thomwolf deflating overblown AI promises and explaining what real scientific breakthroughs require.

https://thomwolf.io/blog/scientific-ai.html
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davidberenstein1957 
posted an update 19 days ago