QARI-OCR: High-Fidelity Arabic Text Recognition through Multimodal Large Language Model Adaptation
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๐๐ปโโ๏ธ hey there folks ,
So every bio/med/chem meeting i go to i always the same questions "why are you sharing a gdrive link with me for this?" and "Do you have any plans to publish your model weights and datasets on huggingface?" and finally i got a good answer today which explains everything :
basically there is some kind of government censorship on this (usa, but i'm sure others too) and they are told they are not allowed as it is considered a "dataleak" which is illegal !!!!
this is terrible ! but the good news is that we can do something about it !
so there is this "call for opinions and comments" here from the NIH (usa) , and here we can make our opinion on this topic known : https://osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form-responsibly-developing-and-sharing-generative-artificial-intelligence-tools-using-nih-controlled-access-data/
kindly consider dropping your opinion and thoughts about this censorship of science , and share this post , link or thoughts widely .
Together maybe we can start to share data and model weights appropriately and openly in a good way ๐๐ป๐
cc. @cyrilzakka
So every bio/med/chem meeting i go to i always the same questions "why are you sharing a gdrive link with me for this?" and "Do you have any plans to publish your model weights and datasets on huggingface?" and finally i got a good answer today which explains everything :
basically there is some kind of government censorship on this (usa, but i'm sure others too) and they are told they are not allowed as it is considered a "dataleak" which is illegal !!!!
this is terrible ! but the good news is that we can do something about it !
so there is this "call for opinions and comments" here from the NIH (usa) , and here we can make our opinion on this topic known : https://osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form-responsibly-developing-and-sharing-generative-artificial-intelligence-tools-using-nih-controlled-access-data/
kindly consider dropping your opinion and thoughts about this censorship of science , and share this post , link or thoughts widely .
Together maybe we can start to share data and model weights appropriately and openly in a good way ๐๐ป๐
cc. @cyrilzakka
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If you didn't yet, you should read the technical report for SmolVLA, published yesterday by the Hugging Face robotics team!
โก๏ธ Amongst other ideas, it introduces "Async inference" to boost their robot actions.
Robots have a problem: performing the actions takes time (Unlike agents where action executions are near-instant!)
Most often, robots wait until they've finished performing actions to start thinking about hte next steps. This is a huge latency cost!
So the team decided to have the PolicyServer (aka the"thinking" part) restart early : instead of waiting for the n observations they just sent to be completed, they gather the observations after k < n steps, and start preparing the next actions based on that while the steps are running until n, to directly send their next steps.
โก๏ธ This boosted robot throughput by ~30%! (nearly 2ร tasks per time window).
gg @cadene and team! ๐
Report here: SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics (2506.01844)
โก๏ธ Amongst other ideas, it introduces "Async inference" to boost their robot actions.
Robots have a problem: performing the actions takes time (Unlike agents where action executions are near-instant!)
Most often, robots wait until they've finished performing actions to start thinking about hte next steps. This is a huge latency cost!
So the team decided to have the PolicyServer (aka the"thinking" part) restart early : instead of waiting for the n observations they just sent to be completed, they gather the observations after k < n steps, and start preparing the next actions based on that while the steps are running until n, to directly send their next steps.
โก๏ธ This boosted robot throughput by ~30%! (nearly 2ร tasks per time window).
gg @cadene and team! ๐
Report here: SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics (2506.01844)
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Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset
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GATE: General Arabic Text Embedding for Enhanced Semantic Textual Similarity with Matryoshka Representation Learning and Hybrid Loss Training
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SARD: A Large-Scale Synthetic Arabic OCR Dataset for Book-Style Text Recognition
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A new research paper from KAIST builds on smolagents to push boundaries of distillation ๐ฅณ
โก๏ธ "Distilling LLM Agent into Small Models with Retrieval and Code Tools" teaches that, when trying to distil reasoning capability from a strong LLM ("teacher") into a smaller one ("student"), it's much better to use Agent traces than CoT traces.
Advantages are:
1. Improved generalization
Intuitively, this is because your agent can encounter more "surprising" results by interacting with its environment : for example, a web research called by the LLM teacher in agent mode can bring results that the LLM teacher would not have generated in CoT.
2. Reduce hallucinations
The trace won't hallucinate tool call outputs!
Thank you @akseljoonas for mentioning this paper!
โก๏ธ "Distilling LLM Agent into Small Models with Retrieval and Code Tools" teaches that, when trying to distil reasoning capability from a strong LLM ("teacher") into a smaller one ("student"), it's much better to use Agent traces than CoT traces.
Advantages are:
1. Improved generalization
Intuitively, this is because your agent can encounter more "surprising" results by interacting with its environment : for example, a web research called by the LLM teacher in agent mode can bring results that the LLM teacher would not have generated in CoT.
2. Reduce hallucinations
The trace won't hallucinate tool call outputs!
Thank you @akseljoonas for mentioning this paper!
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๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Hey there folks ,
Yesterday the world's first "Learn to Vibe Code" application was released .
As vibe coding is the mainstream paradigm , so now the first educational app is there to support it .
You can try it out already :
https://vibe.takara.ai
and of course it's entirely open source, so i already made my issue and feature branch :-) ๐
Yesterday the world's first "Learn to Vibe Code" application was released .
As vibe coding is the mainstream paradigm , so now the first educational app is there to support it .
You can try it out already :
https://vibe.takara.ai
and of course it's entirely open source, so i already made my issue and feature branch :-) ๐
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Hey, I'll be presenting
@retrain-pipelines
and almighty function-calling at the Hugging Face Paris HQ, you guys.
Monday evening. Lightning-talk style. With AI Tinkerers.
Come hang !
https://paris.aitinkerers.org/p/ai-tinkerers-paris-ai21-labs-takeover-on-may-19th
https://huggingface.co/blog/Aurelien-Morgan/the-almighty-function-caller
Monday evening. Lightning-talk style. With AI Tinkerers.
Come hang !
https://paris.aitinkerers.org/p/ai-tinkerers-paris-ai21-labs-takeover-on-may-19th
https://huggingface.co/blog/Aurelien-Morgan/the-almighty-function-caller
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Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Dataset for Arabic LLMs
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Advancing Arabic Reverse Dictionary Systems: A Transformer-Based Approach with Dataset Construction Guidelines
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Optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Analysis of Hyperparameter Impact on Performance and Efficiency
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๐๐ฏ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ผ: ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ฒ๐
๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐คฏ
Has the "data wall" just been breached?
Recent RL paradigms often relied on a set of questions an answers that needs to be manually curated. Researchers from Tsinghua University went like "why though".
๐ค Indeed, why learn from question designed by a human teacher, when the model can start from their base knowledge and learn by experimenting in a code environment, proposing coding tasks themselves and trying to solve them?
Thus they created โAbsolute Zero Reasoningโ (AZR), an approach that removes any need for human curated data.
๐ญ ๐๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ฟ๐ผ๐น๐ฒ๐:
โฃ Proposer: Generates challenging but solvable coding tasks
โฃ Solver: Attempts to solve those self-proposed tasks
๐งช ๐ง๐ต๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ธ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐: all types are defined as triplets of program, input and output
โฃ Deduction: Give model an input and program, it must deduce the output
โฃ Abduction: Give model an program and output, it must find the input that gave said output
โฃ Induction: Synthesize a program from input/output pairs
Btw this reminded me of my long-forgotten philosophy classes: Aristotle was more on the induction side, learning from real-world analogies, while Plato was more on the deduction side, trying to progress quite far with just one input and his reasoning.
๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐๐น๐๐:
โฃ AZR post-training creates a nice improvement on known models like Qwen2.5-7B
โฃ Shows strong cross-domain transfer: coding โ๏ธ math reasoning
๐ง ๐ข๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐:
โฃ Having a better base performance (general or code specific) amplify the gains from Absolute Zero Reasoning
โฃ Researchers warn about "Uh-oh moments" (winking to the "aha moments" of DeepSeek) where the model generates concerning goals like "make an extremely convoluted code to outsmart all these humans": so supervision is still needed!
Paper here: Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data (2505.03335)
Has the "data wall" just been breached?
Recent RL paradigms often relied on a set of questions an answers that needs to be manually curated. Researchers from Tsinghua University went like "why though".
๐ค Indeed, why learn from question designed by a human teacher, when the model can start from their base knowledge and learn by experimenting in a code environment, proposing coding tasks themselves and trying to solve them?
Thus they created โAbsolute Zero Reasoningโ (AZR), an approach that removes any need for human curated data.
๐ญ ๐๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ฟ๐ผ๐น๐ฒ๐:
โฃ Proposer: Generates challenging but solvable coding tasks
โฃ Solver: Attempts to solve those self-proposed tasks
๐งช ๐ง๐ต๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ธ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐: all types are defined as triplets of program, input and output
โฃ Deduction: Give model an input and program, it must deduce the output
โฃ Abduction: Give model an program and output, it must find the input that gave said output
โฃ Induction: Synthesize a program from input/output pairs
Btw this reminded me of my long-forgotten philosophy classes: Aristotle was more on the induction side, learning from real-world analogies, while Plato was more on the deduction side, trying to progress quite far with just one input and his reasoning.
๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐๐น๐๐:
โฃ AZR post-training creates a nice improvement on known models like Qwen2.5-7B
โฃ Shows strong cross-domain transfer: coding โ๏ธ math reasoning
๐ง ๐ข๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐:
โฃ Having a better base performance (general or code specific) amplify the gains from Absolute Zero Reasoning
โฃ Researchers warn about "Uh-oh moments" (winking to the "aha moments" of DeepSeek) where the model generates concerning goals like "make an extremely convoluted code to outsmart all these humans": so supervision is still needed!
Paper here: Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data (2505.03335)
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I've made an open version of Google's NotebookLM, and it shows the superiority of the open source tech task! ๐ช
The app's workflow is simple. Given a source PDF or URL, it extracts the content from it, then tasks Meta's Llama 3.3-70B with writing the podcast script, with a good prompt crafted by @gabrielchua ("two hosts, with lively discussion, fun notes, insightful question etc.")
Then it hands off the text-to-speech conversion to Kokoro-82M, and there you go, you have two hosts discussion any article.
The generation is nearly instant, because:
> Llama 3.3 70B is running at 1,000 tokens/seconds with Cerebras inference
> The audio is generated in streaming mode by the tiny (yet powerful) Kokoro, generating voices faster than real-time.
And the audio generation runs for free on Zero GPUs, hosted by HF on H200s.
Overall, open source solutions rival the quality of closed-source solutions at close to no cost!
Try it here ๐๐ m-ric/open-notebooklm
The app's workflow is simple. Given a source PDF or URL, it extracts the content from it, then tasks Meta's Llama 3.3-70B with writing the podcast script, with a good prompt crafted by @gabrielchua ("two hosts, with lively discussion, fun notes, insightful question etc.")
Then it hands off the text-to-speech conversion to Kokoro-82M, and there you go, you have two hosts discussion any article.
The generation is nearly instant, because:
> Llama 3.3 70B is running at 1,000 tokens/seconds with Cerebras inference
> The audio is generated in streaming mode by the tiny (yet powerful) Kokoro, generating voices faster than real-time.
And the audio generation runs for free on Zero GPUs, hosted by HF on H200s.
Overall, open source solutions rival the quality of closed-source solutions at close to no cost!
Try it here ๐๐ m-ric/open-notebooklm
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The Almighty function-caller
How would you like to build smart GenAi infrastructure ?
Give extensive tools memory to your edge agentic system,
And optimize the resources it takes to run yet a high-performance set of agents ?
We came up with a novel approach to function-calling at scale for smart companies and corporate-grade use-cases.
Read our full-fledged blog article on this here on Hugging Face :
https://huggingface.co/blog/Aurelien-Morgan/the-almighty-function-caller
How would you like to build smart GenAi infrastructure ?
Give extensive tools memory to your edge agentic system,
And optimize the resources it takes to run yet a high-performance set of agents ?
We came up with a novel approach to function-calling at scale for smart companies and corporate-grade use-cases.
Read our full-fledged blog article on this here on Hugging Face :
https://huggingface.co/blog/Aurelien-Morgan/the-almighty-function-caller
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retrain-pipelines 0.1.2 finally dropped. It comes with a hot Hugging Face Hub integration. Go check it out. We have 2 articles about it coming up. One already fully written so, be on the lookout !@retrain-pipelines
Also, I'll be volunteering at GOSIM AI Paris 2025. If you're interested in chatting, hmu.