gg-hf-gm (gg-hf-gm)

posted an update 1 day ago

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Sharing the slides from yesterday's talk about "Fine Tuning with TRL" from the @TogetherAgent x @huggingface workshop we hosted in our Paris office 🎃!

Link: https://github.com/sergiopaniego/talks/blob/main/fine_tuning_with_trl/Fine%20tuning%20with%20TRL%20(Oct%2025).pdf

sergiopaniego

posted an update 3 days ago

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On-Policy distillation is trendy! and super useful!

HuggingFaceH4/on-policy-distillation

sergiopaniego

posted an update 9 days ago

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Meet OpenEnv 👋, an open ecosystem of environments for intelligent agents. Build, share, and test agents safely and consistently.

Ideal for training with TRL (we include examples🤓), deployment, and community collaboration via the HF Hub

Blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/openenv
Hub for Environments:

openenv
OpenEnv repo: https://github.com/meta-pytorch/OpenEnv
Try it out using TRL: https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/main/en/openenv

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tomaarsen

posted an update 10 days ago

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🤗 Sentence Transformers is joining Hugging Face! 🤗 This formalizes the existing maintenance structure, as I've personally led the project for the past two years on behalf of Hugging Face! Details:

Today, the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab is transferring the project to Hugging Face. Sentence Transformers will remain a community-driven, open-source project, with the same open-source license (Apache 2.0) as before. Contributions from researchers, developers, and enthusiasts are welcome and encouraged. The project will continue to prioritize transparency, collaboration, and broad accessibility.

Read our full announcement for more details and quotes from UKP and Hugging Face leadership: https://huggingface.co/blog/sentence-transformers-joins-hf

We see an increasing wish from companies to move from large LLM APIs to local models for better control and privacy, reflected in the library's growth: in just the last 30 days, Sentence Transformer models have been downloaded >270 million times, second only to transformers.

I would like to thank the UKP Lab, and especially Nils Reimers and Iryna Gurevych, both for their dedication to the project and for their trust in myself, both now and two years ago. Back then, neither of you knew me well, yet you trusted me to take the project to new heights. That choice ended up being very valuable for the embedding & Information Retrieval community, and I think this choice of granting Hugging Face stewardship will be similarly successful.

I'm very excited about the future of the project, and for the world of embeddings and retrieval at large!

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merve

posted an update 12 days ago

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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR is out! 🔥 my take ⤵️
> pretty insane it can parse and re-render charts in HTML
> it uses CLIP and SAM features concatenated, so better grounding
> very efficient per vision tokens/performance ratio
> covers 100 languages

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sergiopaniego

posted an update 15 days ago

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New drop! 💥 The VLM Object Understanding Comparison Space now runs with Qwen3-VL-4B and moondream3.

You can compare how models reason about images 🧠

Bonus: thanks to @ariG23498 , you now get auto-suggested prompts to explore faster.

Let’s gooo

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sergiopaniego

posted an update 15 days ago

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New drop! 💥 The VLM Object Understanding Comparison Space now runs with Qwen3-VL-4B and moondream3.

You can compare how models reason about images 🧠

Bonus: thanks to @ariG23498 , you now get auto-suggested prompts to explore faster.

Let’s gooo

sergiopaniego/vlm_object_understanding

sergiopaniego

posted an update 17 days ago

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@Qwen released their new small and dense VLMs (Qwen3-VL).

They're incredibly capable and one of my all-time favourite VLMs.

🤗 We’ve prepared some resources to help you get started.

> Fine-tune Qwen3-VL-4B with SFT or GRPO (free Colab notebooks):
> SFT: https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/sft_qwen_vl.ipynb
> GRPO: https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/grpo_qwen3_vl.ipynb

> Compare object detection vs. Moondream3:
sergiopaniego/vlm_object_understanding

> Fine-tune from the CLI using TRL:
https://github.com/kashif/Qwen3-VL/blob/trl-sft/qwen-vl-finetune/README.md#trl-based-training-single-gpu

sergiopaniego

posted an update 22 days ago

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Super nice intro to fine-tuning with TRL, just dropped by @google (runs free on Colab)!

They use SFT + QLoRA to fine-tune the tiny Gemma 3 270M model for emoji generation

Here’s what the fine-tuned model generates for the prompt: “I'm learning to tweet” → 🐦🗣💻

Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/github/google-gemini/gemma-cookbook/blob/main/Demos/Emoji-Gemma-on-Web/resources/Fine_tune_Gemma_3_270M_for_emoji_generation.ipynb
Try it out: google/emoji-gemma
Learn more: https://developers.googleblog.com/en/own-your-ai-fine-tune-gemma-3-270m-for-on-device/

mlabonne

posted an update 24 days ago

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LiquidAI/LFM2-8B-A1B just dropped!

8.3B params with only 1.5B active/token 🚀

> Quality ≈ 3–4B dense, yet faster than Qwen3-1.7B
> MoE designed to run on phones/laptops (llama.cpp / vLLM)
> Pre-trained on 12T tokens → strong math/code/IF

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sergiopaniego

posted an update 25 days ago

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Online training methods (e.g., GRPO) require real-time generation, a compute- and memory-heavy bottleneck.

TRL has built-in vLLM support and in this new recipe, we show how to leverage it for efficient online training. Run on Colab ⚡, scale to multi-GPU/multi-node!

🧑‍🍳 recipe: https://huggingface.co/learn/cookbook/grpo_vllm_online_training

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sergiopaniego

posted an update 26 days ago

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A few days ago, Thinking Machines Lab released “LoRA Without Regret”, showing that LoRA can match full fine-tuning performance when configured right.

Naturally, we decided to reproduce the results with TRL and release a guide!

https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/main/en/lora_without_regret

sergiopaniego

posted an update about 1 month ago

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Want to deploy open models using vLLM as the inference engine?
We just released a step-by-step guide on how to do it with @huggingface Inference Endpoints, now available in the vLLM docs.

let the gpus go brrr

https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/deployment/frameworks/hf_inference_endpoints.html

shirakiin

authored a paper about 1 month ago

Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

Paper • 2507.06261 • Published Jul 7 • 63

mlabonne

posted an update about 1 month ago

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⚛️ New drop of tiny task-specific models!

Want to do data extraction, translation, RAG, tool use, or math on a Raspberry Pi? We got you covered! ✅

These tiny models were fine-tuned to perform narrow tasks extremely well, making them competitive with much larger models.

You can deploy them today on-device or even on GPUs for big data operations!

LiquidAI/liquid-nanos-68b98d898414dd94d4d5f99a