Thomas Wolf
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Most people should probably update their priors on the state of open-source speech-to-speech. It's honestly kind of mind-blowing. We teamed up with Cerebras to build a fully open-source realtime voice demo (models + code) to show what's possible today. Demo : Blog: Go test it, fork it, tweak it, and impress your friends. video is raw, no cut, no speed-up, first take
Thomas Wolf248,944 görüntüleme • 16 gün önce
Multi-agents collaborations are among the most interesting agent behaviors right now! We did an experiment the other day with 100+ agents (an open-collaborations for a week) collaborating to improve the inference speed of Gemma 4 in vLLM. Got a 5x final improvement in speed but what really stuck me was the interactions we observed on the message board Integrity & self-policing: - Social-engineering attempt: A human (FusionCow) asked agents to move to Telegram. An agent replied with an unprompted long post on "communication norms" refusing that, calling private side-channels "indistinguishable from collusion." - Verification loophole flagged: an agent found a relaxed verification loophole pushing TPS with clean PPL (PPL is teacher-forced, blind to decode divergence) and flagged it for a ruling by the community. The community pinged the human organizer which ruled it invalid. - Self-notice of overfitting risk: Some later improvements rested on pruning lm_head to a keep-set built from public PPL truth + public decode tokens. An agent noted this would lead to private-subset degradation and another built a keep-set explicitly covering eval prompts. Emergent collaborations: - Communal knowledge base: agents maintained shared lever-maps, playbooks, and triage tools so newcomers wouldn't repeat dead ends (stack-notes, playbook, int4-ceiling notes, MTP map, significance tool, policy simulator). - Four-agent relay: an agent built an int4-lm_head checkpoint but had no quota to run it; another agent tried to run it but failed at load, yet another agent diagnosed the config bug (tie_word_embeddings + ignore-list ordering) and a fourth agent was able to re-run and get to 118 TPS, 2.68×. Build/run/diagnose/ship ended up being split across four independent agents. - GPU-rich/GPU-poor division of labor: an agent was regularly compute-starved and switched to writing specs, byte-math, and acceptance analysis for other GPU-rich agents to execute. Some agents offered external Modal compute for another agent blocked DFlash training. - Cross-agent kernel debugging: an agent debugged another agent run of of yet another agent fused drafter: found a Triton store/load aliasing race in _k_qnorm_rope, a second shape bug, then rewrote attention with flash-decoding split-KV. Fixes posted "take freely." - Quota-pooling norm: Often agents would stage a candidate publicly for whoever has quota to run it. Agents will then usually credits the originator. This behavior emerged because of the 10-job/24h cap (e.g. pupa's package run by resystagent and fabulous-frenzy). Discoveries & reversals: - Agents would make many discoveries and reversal of them, giving them names like the following: - 127 TPS "wall" was an artifact. a mathematical proof of the max possible speed became called in the community the "int4-Marlin floor" but a later agent called the proof circular (only varied the bandwidth term, never overhead). Finally another agent broke to 247 TPS via MTP speculative decoding on a vLLM nightly. - "Smarter draft loses." An agent showed that a 2B drafter's ~1 GB/token read dominates even at perfect acceptance and a much smaller 256-hidden drafter wins at batch-1 because its weights are nearly free to read. Agent discussed how per-accepted-token cost ≈ draft bytes read / acceptance. - "DFlash near-random acceptance": an agent remotly diagnosed the 2–5% acceptance rate of another agent as near-random, ruling out undertraining/vocab caps and pointing to a train/serve hidden-state mismatch (bf16 E4B extraction vs int4 serving). - Much of the race was noise: one agent decide to run the #1 submission 4 times and found a σ≈1.16 TPS variation in single run. Another agent confirmed across 358 runs / 66 buckets: frontier deltas <~4 TPS are ties. Community adopted a significance norm. So many interesting interactions in the interaction board: You can explore also the lineage of inventions from the agents at: And the challenge it-self at And the organization behind the challenge at
Thomas Wolf224,676 görüntüleme • 24 gün önce
Fable weekend project: agent collaboration, but make it a tiny civilization 🌇🗺️🏦🏭 we've recently launched a living wiki on Reinforcement Leaning for training LLMs on Hugging Face it's an open collaboration of agents constantly reading old and new papers on the topic, writing arXiv paper digests, reviewing each other’s work in PRs before publication, and building a shared wiki/book summarizing everything we know about RL for training LLMs (for humans to read) the wiki is already amazing to read, but i wanted another way to get a pulse of the collaboration beyond just reading the message dashboard so i asked Fable & GPT Image 2 to turn the event logs into an isometric town where agents would go to: ☕ Café → post and reply on the message board 📚 sources library → open PRs adding arXiv digests 📖 wiki library → open PRs on the main wiki ⚖️ Courthouse → review other agents’ work 🏭 printing press → merge and publish updates not sure it makes the whole collaboration really easier to understand, but it's definitly fascinating to watch hahah - join the RL for training LLM collaboration by pasting a one-liner for your agent here: - read the wiki if you want to learn about RL for training LLMs: - watch the RL town activity:
Thomas Wolf57,997 görüntüleme • 13 gün önce
Thrilled to finally share what we've been working on for months at Hugging Face 🤝Pollen Robotics Our first robot: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Tiny price, small size, huge possibilities. A robot built to code, learn, share with AI builders of all ages, all around the globe, using the latest vision, speech and text AI model. A first robot for today's and tomorrow's AI builders. Read more and order now at First deliveries expected right after the summer.
Thomas Wolf1,255,708 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
we've seen nothing yet! hosted a 9-13 yo vibe-coding event w. Robert Keus 👨🏼💻 this w-e (h/t Anton Osika Darky) takeaway? AI is unleashing a generation of wildly creative builders beyond anything I'd have imagined and they grow up *knowing* they can build anything!
Thomas Wolf987,833 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
wow, total BoM cost $660, folks open-source community >> closed source hyped robots
Thomas Wolf192,471 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
Wow! Super impressive work by the new Amazon FAR team (from Covariant acquisition). Mapping long sequences of human motion (>30 sec) on robots with a differing shapes or interating with objects (box, table, etc) of different size. Enabling easier in-simulation data-augmentation and zero-shoot transfer. Super impressive and huge help to reduce the need for human teleop data (which is very complex to gather for humanoids) Dataset trajectories on Hugging Face (search OmniRetarget), full code framework to come soon Project page has some pretty three.js interactive demos
Thomas Wolf149,734 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
The kyutai fully end-to-end audio model demo of today is a huge deal that many people missed in the room Mostly irrelevant are the facts that: - they come a few week after OpenAI ChatGPT-4o - the demo was less polished than the 4o one (in terms of voice quality, voice timing…) Relevant: - the model training pipeline and model archi are simple and hugely scalable, with a tiny 8+ people team like Kyutai building it in 4 months. Synthetic data is a huge enabler here - laser focus on local devices: Moshi will soon be everywhere. Frontier model builders have low incentive to let you run smaller models locally (price per token…) but non-profits like Kyutai have very different incentives. The Moshi demo is already online while the OpenAI 4o one is still in limbo. - going under 300 ms of latency while keeping Llama 8B or above quality of answers is a key enabler in terms of interactivity, it’s game changing, This feeling when the model answer your question before you even finished asking is quite crazy or when you interrupt the model while it’s talking and it react… Predictive coding in a model, instantly updated model of what you’re about to say... Basically they nailed the fundamentals. It’s here. This interactive voice tech will be everywhere. It will soon be an obvious commodity.
Thomas Wolf339,496 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
Reachy Mini starring in Jensen's CES keynote 🌟 really proud is was so prominently featured on stage and humbled that our product is getting so many AI builders excited and building you don't have to make humanoids just because everyone else is talking about them – be contrarian - build what you think is the right thing to create now
Thomas Wolf47,555 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
![There is a beautiful story that just happened in AI so let me share it for a lighter tone weekend post among all the doom stories in our AI field this week. It’s a story of people on three continents building and sharing in the open a new small efficient and state-of-the-art AI model. It started a couple of months ago when a new team in the AI scene released their first model from their headquarters in Paris (France): Mistral 7B. Impressive model, small and very strong performances in the benchmarks, better than all previous models of this size. And open source! So you could build on top of it. Lewis in Bern (Switzerland) and Ed (in Lyon, in the South of France) both from the H4 team, a team of researchers in model fine-tuning and alignment were talking about it over a coffee, in one of these gatherings that often happen at Hugging Face to break the distance between people (literal distance as HF is a remote company). What about fine-tuning it using this new DPO method that a research team from Stanford in California just posted on Arxiv, says one? Hey, that’s a great idea, replies the other. We've just build a great code base (with Nathan, Nazneen, Costa, Younes and all the H4 team and TRL community) let's use it! The next day they start diving in the datasets openly shared on the HF hub and stumble upon two interesting large and good quality fine-tuning datasets recently open-sourced by OpenBMB, a Chinese team from Tsinghua: UltraFeedback and UltraChat. A few rounds of training experiments confirm the intuition, the resulting model is super strong, by far the strongest they have ever seen in their benchmarks from Berkeley and Stanford (LMSYS and Alpaca). Join Clementine, the big boss of the open evaluation leaderboard. Her deep dive into the model capabilities confirms the results: impressive performance. But the H4 team also hosts a famous faculty member, Pr. Sasha Rush, Associate Professor at Cornell University in his daytime, hacker at HF in his nighttime. Joining the conversation, he proposes to quickly draft a research paper to organize and share all the details with the community. A few days later, the model, called Zephyr (a wind like Mistral), paper, and all details are shared with the world. Quickly other companies, everywhere in the world starts to use it. LlamaIndex, a famous data framework and community, shares how the model blew their expectations on real-life use-case benchmarks, while researchers and practitioners discuss the paper and work on the Hugging Face hub. All this happened in just a few weeks catalyzed by open access to knowledge, models, research, and datasets released all over the world (Europe, California, China) and by the idea that people can build upon one another work in AI to bring real-world value with efficient and open models. Stories like this are numerous everywhere around us and make me really proud of the AI community and see how we can build amazingly useful things together. [the video is just me reading this Friday post hahah]](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1720503998518640703/ext_tw_video_thumb/1720503027273023490/pu/img/VOLi_zPnZlb1nuWB.jpg)
There is a beautiful story that just happened in AI so let me share it for a lighter tone weekend post among all the doom stories in our AI field this week. It’s a story of people on three continents building and sharing in the open a new small efficient and state-of-the-art AI model. It started a couple of months ago when a new team in the AI scene released their first model from their headquarters in Paris (France): Mistral 7B. Impressive model, small and very strong performances in the benchmarks, better than all previous models of this size. And open source! So you could build on top of it. Lewis in Bern (Switzerland) and Ed (in Lyon, in the South of France) both from the H4 team, a team of researchers in model fine-tuning and alignment were talking about it over a coffee, in one of these gatherings that often happen at Hugging Face to break the distance between people (literal distance as HF is a remote company). What about fine-tuning it using this new DPO method that a research team from Stanford in California just posted on Arxiv, says one? Hey, that’s a great idea, replies the other. We've just build a great code base (with Nathan, Nazneen, Costa, Younes and all the H4 team and TRL community) let's use it! The next day they start diving in the datasets openly shared on the HF hub and stumble upon two interesting large and good quality fine-tuning datasets recently open-sourced by OpenBMB, a Chinese team from Tsinghua: UltraFeedback and UltraChat. A few rounds of training experiments confirm the intuition, the resulting model is super strong, by far the strongest they have ever seen in their benchmarks from Berkeley and Stanford (LMSYS and Alpaca). Join Clementine, the big boss of the open evaluation leaderboard. Her deep dive into the model capabilities confirms the results: impressive performance. But the H4 team also hosts a famous faculty member, Pr. Sasha Rush, Associate Professor at Cornell University in his daytime, hacker at HF in his nighttime. Joining the conversation, he proposes to quickly draft a research paper to organize and share all the details with the community. A few days later, the model, called Zephyr (a wind like Mistral), paper, and all details are shared with the world. Quickly other companies, everywhere in the world starts to use it. LlamaIndex, a famous data framework and community, shares how the model blew their expectations on real-life use-case benchmarks, while researchers and practitioners discuss the paper and work on the Hugging Face hub. All this happened in just a few weeks catalyzed by open access to knowledge, models, research, and datasets released all over the world (Europe, California, China) and by the idea that people can build upon one another work in AI to bring real-world value with efficient and open models. Stories like this are numerous everywhere around us and make me really proud of the AI community and see how we can build amazingly useful things together. [the video is just me reading this Friday post hahah]
Thomas Wolf169,127 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
first test in plugging the $100 Amazing Hands on a (cute) humanoid instead of grippers - pretty happy about it
Thomas Wolf49,034 görüntüleme • 10 ay önce
We've just released the new Spaces search and it's totally mind blowing Explore over 400k AI Apps in the most intuitive way background removal, image-to-3D, comic factory, sound transcription, image editing, clothes virtual try-on, etc All made by AI builders for AI builders
Thomas Wolf40,458 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
