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m-ric

posted an update 36 minutes ago

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smolagents now support vLLM! 🥳

As one of the most popular local inference solutions, the community had been asking us to integrate vLLM: after a heavy refactoring of our LLM classes, we've just released smolagents 1.11.0, with a brand new VLLMModel class.

Go try it and tell us what you think!

https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/blob/45b2c86857b7f7657daaa74e4d17d347e9e2c4a4/src/smolagents/models.py#L497

eliebak

posted an update 3 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
papers
> Only use Zero3, no TP/PP if i understand correctly ?
> Training budget relatively similar than gemma2

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clefourrier

posted an update 3 days ago

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Gemma3 family is out! Reading the tech report, and this section was really interesting to me from a methods/scientific fairness pov.

Instead of doing over-hyped comparisons, they clearly state that **results are reported in a setup which is advantageous to their models**.
(Which everybody does, but people usually don't say)

For a tech report, it makes a lot of sense to report model performance when used optimally!
On leaderboards on the other hand, comparison will be apples to apples, but in a potentially unoptimal way for a given model family (like some user interact sub-optimally with models)

Also contains a cool section (6) on training data memorization rate too! Important to see if your model will output the training data it has seen as such: always an issue for privacy/copyright/... but also very much for evaluation!

Because if your model knows its evals by heart, you're not testing for generalization.

m-ric

posted an update 5 days ago

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Our new Agentic leaderboard is now live!💥

If you ever asked which LLM is best for powering agents, we've just made a leaderboard that ranks them all! Built with @albertvillanova , this ranks LLMs powering a smolagents CodeAgent on subsets of various benchmarks. ✅

🏆 GPT-4.5 comes on top, even beating reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 or o1. And Claude-3.7-Sonnet is a close second!

The leaderboard also allows you to show the scores of vanilla LLMs (without any agentic setup) on the same benchmarks: this shows the huge improvements brought by agentic setups. 💪

(Note that results will be added manually, so the leaderboard might not always have the latest LLMs)

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m-ric

posted an update 19 days ago

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We now have a Deep Research for academia: SurveyX automatically writes academic surveys nearly indistinguishable from human-written ones 🔥

Researchers from Beijing and Shanghai just published the first application of a deep research system to academia: their algorithm, given a question, can give you a survey of all papers on the subject.

To make a research survey, you generally follow two steps, preparation (collect and organize papers) and writing (outline creation, writing, polishing). Researchers followed the same two steps and automated them.

🎯 For the preparation part, a key part is find all the important references on the given subject.
Researchers first cast a wide net of all relevant papers. But then finding the really important ones is like distilling knowledge from a haystack of information. To solve this challenge, they built an “AttributeTree” object that structures key information from citations. Ablating these AttributeTrees significantly decreased structure and synthesis scores, so they were really useful!

📝 For the writing part, key was to get a synthesis that's both short and true. This is not easy to get with LLMs! So they used methods like LLM-based deduplication to shorten the too verbose listings made by LLMs, and RAG to grab original quotes instead of made-up ones.

As a result, their system outperforms previous approaches by far!

As assessed by LLM-judges, the quality score os SurveyX even approaches this of human experts, with 4.59/5 vs 4.75/5 🏆

I advise you to read the paper, it's a great overview of the kind of assistants that we'll get in the short future! 👉 SurveyX: Academic Survey Automation via Large Language Models (2502.14776)
Their website shows examples of generated surveys 👉 http://www.surveyx.cn/

lysandre

posted an update 22 days ago

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SmolVLM-2 and SigLIP-2 are now part of transformers in dedicated releases!

They're added on top of the v4.49.0 release, and can be installed from the following tags: v4.49.0-SmolVLM-2 and v4.49.0-SigLIP-2.

This marks a new beginning for the release process of transformers. For the past five years, we've been doing monthly releases featuring many models (v4.49.0, the latest release, features 9 new architectures).

Starting with SmolVLM-2 & SigLIP2, we'll now additionally release tags supporting new models on a stable branch. These models are therefore directly available for use by installing from the tag itself. These tags will continue to be updated with fixes applied to these models.

Going forward, continue expecting software releases following semantic versioning: v4.50.0 will have ~10 new architectures compared to v4.49.0, as well as a myriad of new features, improvements and bug fixes. Accompanying these software releases, we'll release tags offering brand new models as fast as possible, to make them accessible to all immediately.

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m-ric

posted an update 25 days ago

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Less is More for Reasoning (LIMO): a 32B model fine-tuned with 817 examples can beat o1-preview on math reasoning! 🤯

Do we really need o1's huge RL procedure to see reasoning emerge? It seems not.
Researchers from Shanghai Jiaotong University just demonstrated that carefully selected examples can boost math performance in large language models using SFT —no huge datasets or RL procedures needed.

Their procedure allows Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct to jump from 6.5% to 57% on AIME and from 59% to 95% on MATH, while using only 1% of the data in previous approaches.

⚡ The Less-is-More Reasoning Hypothesis:
‣ Minimal but precise examples that showcase optimal reasoning patterns matter more than sheer quantity
‣ Pre-training knowledge plus sufficient computational resources at inference levels up math skills

➡️ Core techniques:
‣ High-quality reasoning chains with self-verification steps
‣ 817 handpicked problems that encourage deeper reasoning
‣ Enough inference-time computation to allow extended reasoning

💪 Efficiency gains:
‣ Only 817 examples instead of 100k+
‣ 40.5% absolute improvement across 10 diverse benchmarks, outperforming models trained on 100x more data

This really challenges the notion that SFT leads to memorization rather than generalization! And opens up reasoning to GPU-poor researchers 🚀

Read the full paper here 👉 LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning (2502.03387)

regisss

posted an update 29 days ago

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Nice paper comparing the fp8 inference efficiency of Nvidia H100 and Intel Gaudi2: An Investigation of FP8 Across Accelerators for LLM Inference (2502.01070)

The conclusion is interesting: "Our findings highlight that the Gaudi 2, by leveraging FP8, achieves higher throughput-to-power efficiency during LLM inference"

One aspect of AI hardware accelerators that is often overlooked is how they consume less energy than GPUs. It's nice to see researchers starting carrying out experiments to measure this!

Gaudi3 results soon...

m-ric

posted an update 29 days ago

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𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁: you can now share agents to the Hub! 🥳🥳

And any agent pushed to Hub get a cool Space interface to directly chat with it.

This was a real technical challenge: for instance, serializing tools to export them meant that you needed to get all the source code for a tool, verify that it was standalone (not relying on external variables), and gathering all the packages required to make it run.

Go try it out! 👉 https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents

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m-ric

posted an update 29 days ago

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For those who haven't come across it yet, here's a handy trick to discuss an entire GitHub repo with an LLM:

=> Just replace "github" with "gitingest" in the url, and you get the whole repo as a single string that you can then paste in your LLMs

m-ric

posted an update about 1 month ago

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"𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀": this statement has often been made, here are numbers to support it.

I've plotted the progress of AI agents on GAIA test set, and it seems they're headed to catch up with the human baseline in early 2026.

And that progress is still driven mostly by the improvement of base LLMs: progress would be even faster with fine-tuned agentic models.

Xenova

posted an update about 1 month ago

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We did it. Kokoro TTS (v1.0) can now run 100% locally in your browser w/ WebGPU acceleration. Real-time text-to-speech without a server. ⚡️

Generate 10 seconds of speech in ~1 second for $0.

What will you build? 🔥
webml-community/kokoro-webgpu

The most difficult part was getting the model running in the first place, but the next steps are simple:
✂️ Implement sentence splitting, allowing for streamed responses
🌍 Multilingual support (only phonemization left)

Who wants to help?

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m-ric

posted an update about 1 month ago

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𝗔𝗱𝘆𝗲𝗻'𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗸-𝗥𝟭 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀! ❌

➡️ How well do reasoning models perform on agentic tasks? Until now, all indicators seemed to show that they worked really well. On our recent reproduction of Deep Search, OpenAI's o1 was by far the best model to power an agentic system.

So when our partner Adyen built a huge benchmark of 450 data science tasks, and built data agents with smolagents to test different models, I expected reasoning models like o1 or DeepSeek-R1 to destroy the tasks at hand.

👎 But they really missed the mark. DeepSeek-R1 only got 1 or 2 out of 10 questions correct. Similarly, o1 was only at ~13% correct answers.

🧐 These results really surprised us. We thoroughly checked them, we even thought our APIs for DeepSeek were broken and colleagues Leandro Anton helped me start custom instances of R1 on our own H100s to make sure it worked well.
But there seemed to be no mistake. Reasoning LLMs actually did not seem that smart. Often, these models made basic mistakes, like forgetting the content of a folder that they had just explored, misspelling file names, or hallucinating data. Even though they do great at exploring webpages through several steps, the same level of multi-step planning seemed much harder to achieve when reasoning over files and data.

It seems like there's still lots of work to do in the Agents x Data space. Congrats to Adyen for this great benchmark, looking forward to see people proposing better agents! 🚀

Read more in the blog post 👉 https://huggingface.co/blog/dabstep