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The Hugging Face agents course is finally out!
๐ 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
๐ 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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๐๐ฑ๐๐ฒ๐ป'๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ต๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ-๐ฅ๐ญ ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ด๐ด๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ธ๐! โ
โก๏ธ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ง 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! ๐
Read more in the blog post ๐ https://huggingface.co/blog/dabstep
โก๏ธ 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.
๐ 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.
๐ง 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! ๐
Read more in the blog post ๐ https://huggingface.co/blog/dabstep
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SmolLM2 paper is out! ๐
๐ 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)
๐ 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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Introducing ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ-๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต by Hugging Face! ๐ฅ
OpenAI's latest agentic app Deep Research seems really good... But it's closed, as usual.
โฑ๏ธ So with a team of cracked colleagues, we set ourselves a 24hours deadline to replicate and open-source Deep Research! โฑ๏ธ
โก๏ธ We built open-Deep-Research, an entirely open agent that can: navigate the web autonomously, scroll and search through pages, download and manipulate files, run calculation on data...
We aimed for the best performance: are the agent's answers really rigorous?
On GAIA benchmark, Deep Research had 67% accuracy on the validation set.
โก๏ธ open Deep Research is at 55% (powered by o1), it is:
- the best pass@1 solution submitted
- the best open solution ๐ช๐ช
And it's only getting started ! Please jump in, drop PRs, and let's bring it to the top !
Read the blog post ๐ https://huggingface.co/blog/open-deep-research
OpenAI's latest agentic app Deep Research seems really good... But it's closed, as usual.
โฑ๏ธ So with a team of cracked colleagues, we set ourselves a 24hours deadline to replicate and open-source Deep Research! โฑ๏ธ
โก๏ธ We built open-Deep-Research, an entirely open agent that can: navigate the web autonomously, scroll and search through pages, download and manipulate files, run calculation on data...
We aimed for the best performance: are the agent's answers really rigorous?
On GAIA benchmark, Deep Research had 67% accuracy on the validation set.
โก๏ธ open Deep Research is at 55% (powered by o1), it is:
- the best pass@1 solution submitted
- the best open solution ๐ช๐ช
And it's only getting started ! Please jump in, drop PRs, and let's bring it to the top !
Read the blog post ๐ https://huggingface.co/blog/open-deep-research
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Now you can launch a code agent directly from your terminal!
โจ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ "๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐" directly launches a CodeAgent
โถ๏ธ This also works with web agents (replace ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ with ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐) thanks to @merve !
๐พ Another treat from smolagents release 1.7.0:
Now agents have a memory mechanism, enabling many possibilities like replaying the last run with ๐๐๐๐๐.๐๐๐๐๐๐ข(), thank you @clefourrier !
Check the release notes here ๐ https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/releases/tag/v1.7.0
โจ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ "๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐" directly launches a CodeAgent
โถ๏ธ This also works with web agents (replace ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ with ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐) thanks to @merve !
๐พ Another treat from smolagents release 1.7.0:
Now agents have a memory mechanism, enabling many possibilities like replaying the last run with ๐๐๐๐๐.๐๐๐๐๐๐ข(), thank you @clefourrier !
Check the release notes here ๐ https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/releases/tag/v1.7.0
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I have just released a new blogpost about kv caching and its role in inference speedup ๐
๐ https://huggingface.co/blog/not-lain/kv-caching/
some takeaways :
๐ https://huggingface.co/blog/not-lain/kv-caching/
some takeaways :
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๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฏ ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฒ๐
๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ถ๐ป๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐!
โ Hosting our own inference was not enough: now the Hub 4 new inference providers: fal, Replicate, SambaNova Systems, & Together AI.
Check model cards on the Hub: you can now, in 1 click, use inference from various providers (cf video demo)
Their inference can also be used through our Inference API client. There, you can use either your custom provider key, or your HF token, then billing will be handled directly on your HF account, as a way to centralize all expenses.
๐ธ Also, PRO users get 2$ inference credits per month!
Read more in the announcement ๐ https://huggingface.co/blog/inference-providers
โ Hosting our own inference was not enough: now the Hub 4 new inference providers: fal, Replicate, SambaNova Systems, & Together AI.
Check model cards on the Hub: you can now, in 1 click, use inference from various providers (cf video demo)
Their inference can also be used through our Inference API client. There, you can use either your custom provider key, or your HF token, then billing will be handled directly on your HF account, as a way to centralize all expenses.
๐ธ Also, PRO users get 2$ inference credits per month!
Read more in the announcement ๐ https://huggingface.co/blog/inference-providers
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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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Today we make the biggest release in smolagents so far: ๐๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐บ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น๐, ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ณ๐๐น ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐! ๐ฅณ
Our agents can now casually open up a web browser, and navigate on it by scrolling, clicking elements on the webpage, going back, just like a user would.
The demo below shows Claude-3.5-Sonnet browsing GitHub for task: "Find how many commits the author of the current top trending repo did over last year."
Hi @mlabonne !
Go try it out, it's the most cracked agentic stuff I've seen in a while ๐คฏ (well, along with OpenAI's Operator who beat us by one day)
For more detail, read our announcement blog ๐ https://huggingface.co/blog/smolagents-can-see
The code for the web browser example is here ๐ https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/blob/main/examples/vlm_web_browser.py
Our agents can now casually open up a web browser, and navigate on it by scrolling, clicking elements on the webpage, going back, just like a user would.
The demo below shows Claude-3.5-Sonnet browsing GitHub for task: "Find how many commits the author of the current top trending repo did over last year."
Hi @mlabonne !
Go try it out, it's the most cracked agentic stuff I've seen in a while ๐คฏ (well, along with OpenAI's Operator who beat us by one day)
For more detail, read our announcement blog ๐ https://huggingface.co/blog/smolagents-can-see
The code for the web browser example is here ๐ https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/blob/main/examples/vlm_web_browser.py
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Hey ๐
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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๐ฃ 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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AI was built on side projects!
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๐ง Work in Progress! ๐ง
๐ทโโ๏ธ 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
๐ทโโ๏ธ 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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we now have more than 2000 public AI models using ModelHubMixin๐ค
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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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๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐
'๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฑ๐ฒ-๐ฆ๐ผ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐
๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐๐ต ๐ฅ
This work from Chinese startup @MiniMax-AI introduces a novel architecture that achieves state-of-the-art performance while handling context windows up to 4 million tokens - roughly 20x longer than current models. The key was combining lightning attention, mixture of experts (MoE), and a careful hybrid approach.
๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐๐:
๐๏ธ MoE with novel hybrid attention:
โฃ Mixture of Experts with 456B total parameters (45.9B activated per token)
โฃ Combines Lightning attention (linear complexity) for most layers and traditional softmax attention every 8 layers
๐ Outperforms leading models across benchmarks while offering vastly longer context:
โฃ Competitive with GPT-4/Claude-3.5-Sonnet on most tasks
โฃ Can efficiently handle 4M token contexts (vs 256K for most other LLMs)
๐ฌ Technical innovations enable efficient scaling:
โฃ Novel expert parallel and tensor parallel strategies cut communication overhead in half
โฃ Improved linear attention sequence parallelism, multi-level padding and other optimizations achieve 75% GPU utilization (that's really high, generally utilization is around 50%)
๐ฏ Thorough training strategy:
โฃ Careful data curation and quality control by using a smaller preliminary version of their LLM as a judge!
Overall, not only is the model impressive, but the technical paper is also really interesting! ๐
It has lots of insights including a great comparison showing how a 2B MoE (24B total) far outperforms a 7B model for the same amount of FLOPs.
Read it in full here ๐ MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attention (2501.08313)
Model here, allows commercial use <100M monthly users ๐ MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Text-01
This work from Chinese startup @MiniMax-AI introduces a novel architecture that achieves state-of-the-art performance while handling context windows up to 4 million tokens - roughly 20x longer than current models. The key was combining lightning attention, mixture of experts (MoE), and a careful hybrid approach.
๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐๐:
๐๏ธ MoE with novel hybrid attention:
โฃ Mixture of Experts with 456B total parameters (45.9B activated per token)
โฃ Combines Lightning attention (linear complexity) for most layers and traditional softmax attention every 8 layers
๐ Outperforms leading models across benchmarks while offering vastly longer context:
โฃ Competitive with GPT-4/Claude-3.5-Sonnet on most tasks
โฃ Can efficiently handle 4M token contexts (vs 256K for most other LLMs)
๐ฌ Technical innovations enable efficient scaling:
โฃ Novel expert parallel and tensor parallel strategies cut communication overhead in half
โฃ Improved linear attention sequence parallelism, multi-level padding and other optimizations achieve 75% GPU utilization (that's really high, generally utilization is around 50%)
๐ฏ Thorough training strategy:
โฃ Careful data curation and quality control by using a smaller preliminary version of their LLM as a judge!
Overall, not only is the model impressive, but the technical paper is also really interesting! ๐
It has lots of insights including a great comparison showing how a 2B MoE (24B total) far outperforms a 7B model for the same amount of FLOPs.
Read it in full here ๐ MiniMax-01: Scaling Foundation Models with Lightning Attention (2501.08313)
Model here, allows commercial use <100M monthly users ๐ MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Text-01