SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics
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thomwolf
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Diffusers supports a good variety of quantization backends. It can be challenging to navigate through them, given the complex nature of diffusion pipelines in general.
So, @derekl35 set out to write a comprehensive guide that puts users in the front seat. Explore the different backends we support, learn the trade-offs they offer, and finally, check out the cool space we built that lets you compare quantization results.
Give it a go here:
https://lnkd.in/gf8Pi4-2
So, @derekl35 set out to write a comprehensive guide that puts users in the front seat. Explore the different backends we support, learn the trade-offs they offer, and finally, check out the cool space we built that lets you compare quantization results.
Give it a go here:
https://lnkd.in/gf8Pi4-2
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Despite the emergence of combining LLM and DiT architectures for T2I synthesis, its design remains severely understudied.
This was done long ago and got into CVPR25 -- super excited to finally share it now, along with the data and code ♥️
We explore several architectural choices that affect this design. We provide an open & reproducible training recipe that works at scale.
Works like Playground v3 have already explored a deep fusion between an LLM and a DiT, sharing their representations through layerwise attention. They exhibit excellent performance on T2I.
Despite its compelling results and other performance virtues, it remains unexplored, which is what we want to improve in our work. Specifically, we take a pre-trained LLM (Gemma-2B) and trainable DiT, and set out to explore what makes a "good deep fusion" between the two for T2I.
We explore several key questions in the work, such as:
Q1: How should we do attention? We considered several alternatives. PixArt-Alpha like attention (cross-attention) is very promising.
Q2: Should we incorporate additional text modulation?
Q3: Can we eliminate timestep conditioning?
Q4: How do we do positional encodings?
Q5: Do instruction-tuned LLMs help deep fusion?
Q6: Would using a decoder LLM from a multimodal model be helpful?
Q7: Does using a better variant of Gemma help?
Based on the above findings, we arrive at FuseDiT with the following components on top of the base architecture from the findings of our experiments.
* No AdaLN-Zero modules
* 1D + 2D-RoPE
* Gemma 2 2B, adjusting DiT configurations accordingly
We trained FuseDiT on a mixture from CC12M, JourneyDB, & SA (~26M image-text pairs) for 800 steps. While not the best model, it's encouraging to develop something in a guided manner using open datasets.
To know more (code, models, all are available), please check out the paper:
https://lnkd.in/gg6qyqZX.
This was done long ago and got into CVPR25 -- super excited to finally share it now, along with the data and code ♥️
We explore several architectural choices that affect this design. We provide an open & reproducible training recipe that works at scale.
Works like Playground v3 have already explored a deep fusion between an LLM and a DiT, sharing their representations through layerwise attention. They exhibit excellent performance on T2I.
Despite its compelling results and other performance virtues, it remains unexplored, which is what we want to improve in our work. Specifically, we take a pre-trained LLM (Gemma-2B) and trainable DiT, and set out to explore what makes a "good deep fusion" between the two for T2I.
We explore several key questions in the work, such as:
Q1: How should we do attention? We considered several alternatives. PixArt-Alpha like attention (cross-attention) is very promising.
Q2: Should we incorporate additional text modulation?
Q3: Can we eliminate timestep conditioning?
Q4: How do we do positional encodings?
Q5: Do instruction-tuned LLMs help deep fusion?
Q6: Would using a decoder LLM from a multimodal model be helpful?
Q7: Does using a better variant of Gemma help?
Based on the above findings, we arrive at FuseDiT with the following components on top of the base architecture from the findings of our experiments.
* No AdaLN-Zero modules
* 1D + 2D-RoPE
* Gemma 2 2B, adjusting DiT configurations accordingly
We trained FuseDiT on a mixture from CC12M, JourneyDB, & SA (~26M image-text pairs) for 800 steps. While not the best model, it's encouraging to develop something in a guided manner using open datasets.
To know more (code, models, all are available), please check out the paper:
https://lnkd.in/gg6qyqZX.
sayakpaul
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sayakpaul
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If you've followed the progress of robotics in the past 18 months, you've likely noticed how robotics is increasingly becoming the next frontier that AI will unlock.
At Hugging Face—in robotics and across all AI fields—we believe in a future where AI and robots are open-source, transparent, and affordable; community-built and safe; hackable and fun. We've had so much mutual understanding and passion working with the Pollen Robotics team over the past year that we decided to join forces!
You can already find our open-source humanoid robot platform Reachy 2 on the Pollen website and the Pollen community and people here on the hub at
pollen-robotics
We're so excited to build and share more open-source robots with the world in the coming months!
At Hugging Face—in robotics and across all AI fields—we believe in a future where AI and robots are open-source, transparent, and affordable; community-built and safe; hackable and fun. We've had so much mutual understanding and passion working with the Pollen Robotics team over the past year that we decided to join forces!
You can already find our open-source humanoid robot platform Reachy 2 on the Pollen website and the Pollen community and people here on the hub at
pollen-robotics
We're so excited to build and share more open-source robots with the world in the coming months!
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thomwolf
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anton-l
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pcuenq
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thomwolf
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The new DeepSite space is really insane for vibe-coders
enzostvs/deepsite
With the wave of vibe-coding-optimized LLMs like the latest open-source DeepSeek model (version V3-0324), you can basically prompt out-of-the-box and create any app and game in one-shot.
It feels so powerful to me, no more complex framework or under-the-hood prompt engineering to have a working text-to-app tool.
AI is eating the world and *open-source* AI is eating AI itself!
PS: and even more meta is that the DeepSite app and DeepSeek model are both fully open-source code => time to start recursively improve?
PPS: you still need some inference hosting unless you're running the 600B param model at home, so check the very nice list of HF Inference Providers for this model: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324
enzostvs/deepsite
With the wave of vibe-coding-optimized LLMs like the latest open-source DeepSeek model (version V3-0324), you can basically prompt out-of-the-box and create any app and game in one-shot.
It feels so powerful to me, no more complex framework or under-the-hood prompt engineering to have a working text-to-app tool.
AI is eating the world and *open-source* AI is eating AI itself!
PS: and even more meta is that the DeepSite app and DeepSeek model are both fully open-source code => time to start recursively improve?
PPS: you still need some inference hosting unless you're running the 600B param model at home, so check the very nice list of HF Inference Providers for this model: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324
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sayakpaul
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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
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
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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/ 🤗
anton-l
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4 months ago
thomwolf
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We have been cooking a couple of fine-tuning runs on CogVideoX with finetrainers, smol datasets, and LoRA to generate cool video effects like crushing, dissolving, etc.
We are also releasing a LoRA extraction utility from a fully fine-tuned checkpoint. I know that kind of stuff has existed since eternity, but the quality on video models was nothing short of spectacular. Below are some links:
* Models and datasets:
finetrainers
* finetrainers: https://github.com/a-r-r-o-w/finetrainers
* LoRA extraction: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/main/scripts/extract_lora_from_model.py
We are also releasing a LoRA extraction utility from a fully fine-tuned checkpoint. I know that kind of stuff has existed since eternity, but the quality on video models was nothing short of spectacular. Below are some links:
* Models and datasets:
finetrainers
* finetrainers: https://github.com/a-r-r-o-w/finetrainers
* LoRA extraction: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/main/scripts/extract_lora_from_model.py
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We have authored a post to go over the state of video generation in the Diffusers ecosystem 🧨
We cover the models supported, the knobs of optims our users can fire, fine-tuning, and more 🔥
5-6GBs for HunyuanVideo, sky is the limit 🌌 🤗
https://huggingface.co/blog/video_gen
We cover the models supported, the knobs of optims our users can fire, fine-tuning, and more 🔥
5-6GBs for HunyuanVideo, sky is the limit 🌌 🤗
https://huggingface.co/blog/video_gen
thomwolf
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Commits speak louder than words 🤪
* 4 new video models
* Multiple image models, including SANA & Flux Control
* New quantizers -> GGUF & TorchAO
* New training scripts
Enjoy this holiday-special Diffusers release 🤗
Notes: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/releases/tag/v0.32.0
* 4 new video models
* Multiple image models, including SANA & Flux Control
* New quantizers -> GGUF & TorchAO
* New training scripts
Enjoy this holiday-special Diffusers release 🤗
Notes: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/releases/tag/v0.32.0