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Came across a very nice submission from
@marcodsn
for the reasoning datasets competition (https://huggingface.co/blog/bespokelabs/reasoning-datasets-competition).
The dataset distils reasoning chains from arXiv research papers in biology and economics. Some nice features of the dataset:
- Extracts both the logical structure AND researcher intuition from academic papers
- Adopts the persona of researchers "before experiments" to capture exploratory thinking
- Provides multi-short and single-long reasoning formats with token budgets - Shows 7.2% improvement on MMLU-Pro Economics when fine-tuning a 3B model
It's created using the Curator framework with plans to scale across more scientific domains and incorporate multi-modal reasoning with charts and mathematics.
I personally am very excited about datasets like this, which involve creativity in their creation and don't just rely on $$$ to produce a big dataset with little novelty.
Dataset can be found here: marcodsn/academic-chains (give it a like!)
The dataset distils reasoning chains from arXiv research papers in biology and economics. Some nice features of the dataset:
- Extracts both the logical structure AND researcher intuition from academic papers
- Adopts the persona of researchers "before experiments" to capture exploratory thinking
- Provides multi-short and single-long reasoning formats with token budgets - Shows 7.2% improvement on MMLU-Pro Economics when fine-tuning a 3B model
It's created using the Curator framework with plans to scale across more scientific domains and incorporate multi-modal reasoning with charts and mathematics.
I personally am very excited about datasets like this, which involve creativity in their creation and don't just rely on $$$ to produce a big dataset with little novelty.
Dataset can be found here: marcodsn/academic-chains (give it a like!)
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New launch: See the energy use of chatbot conversations, in real time. =)
jdelavande/chat-ui-energy
Great work from @JulienDelavande !
jdelavande/chat-ui-energy
Great work from @JulienDelavande !
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smolagents v1.14.0 is out! 🚀
🔌 MCPClient: A sleek new client for connecting to remote MCP servers, making integrations more flexible and scalable.
🪨 Amazon Bedrock: Native support for Bedrock-hosted models.
SmolAgents is now more powerful, flexible, and enterprise-ready. 💼
Full release 👉 https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/releases/tag/v1.14.0
#smolagents #LLM #AgenticAI
🔌 MCPClient: A sleek new client for connecting to remote MCP servers, making integrations more flexible and scalable.
🪨 Amazon Bedrock: Native support for Bedrock-hosted models.
SmolAgents is now more powerful, flexible, and enterprise-ready. 💼
Full release 👉 https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/releases/tag/v1.14.0
#smolagents #LLM #AgenticAI
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Today in Privacy & AI Tooling - introducing a nifty new tool to examine where data goes in open-source apps on 🤗
HF Spaces have tons (100Ks!) of cool demos leveraging or examining AI systems - and because most of them are OSS we can see exactly how they handle user data 📚🔍
That requires actually reading the code though, which isn't always easy or quick! Good news: code LMs have gotten pretty good at automatic review, so we can offload some of the work - here I'm using Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct to generate reports and it works pretty OK 🙌
The app works in three stages:
1. Download all code files
2. Use the Code LM to generate a detailed report pointing to code where data is transferred/(AI-)processed (screen 1)
3. Summarize the app's main functionality and data journeys (screen 2)
4. Build a Privacy TLDR with those inputs
It comes with a bunch of pre-reviewed apps/Spaces, great to see how many process data locally or through (private) HF endpoints 🤗
Note that this is a POC, lots of exciting work to do to make it more robust, so:
- try it: yjernite/space-privacy
- reach out to collab: yjernite/space-privacy
HF Spaces have tons (100Ks!) of cool demos leveraging or examining AI systems - and because most of them are OSS we can see exactly how they handle user data 📚🔍
That requires actually reading the code though, which isn't always easy or quick! Good news: code LMs have gotten pretty good at automatic review, so we can offload some of the work - here I'm using Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct to generate reports and it works pretty OK 🙌
The app works in three stages:
1. Download all code files
2. Use the Code LM to generate a detailed report pointing to code where data is transferred/(AI-)processed (screen 1)
3. Summarize the app's main functionality and data journeys (screen 2)
4. Build a Privacy TLDR with those inputs
It comes with a bunch of pre-reviewed apps/Spaces, great to see how many process data locally or through (private) HF endpoints 🤗
Note that this is a POC, lots of exciting work to do to make it more robust, so:
- try it: yjernite/space-privacy
- reach out to collab: yjernite/space-privacy
davanstrien
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I've created a v1 dataset (
davanstrien/reasoning-required) and model (
davanstrien/ModernBERT-based-Reasoning-Required) to help curate "wild text" data for generating reasoning examples beyond the usual code/math/science domains.
- I developed a "Reasoning Required" dataset with a 0-4 scoring system for reasoning complexity
- I used educational content from HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu, adding annotations for domains, reasoning types, and example questions
My approach enables a more efficient workflow: filter text with small models first, then use LLMs only on high-value content.
This significantly reduces computation costs while expanding reasoning dataset domain coverage.
- I developed a "Reasoning Required" dataset with a 0-4 scoring system for reasoning complexity
- I used educational content from HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu, adding annotations for domains, reasoning types, and example questions
My approach enables a more efficient workflow: filter text with small models first, then use LLMs only on high-value content.
This significantly reduces computation costs while expanding reasoning dataset domain coverage.
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🚀 New smolagents update: Safer Local Python Execution! 🦾🐍
With the latest release, we've added security checks to the local Python interpreter: every evaluation is now analyzed for dangerous builtins, modules, and functions. 🔒
Here's why this matters & what you need to know! 🧵👇
1️⃣ Why is local execution risky? ⚠️
AI agents that run arbitrary Python code can unintentionally (or maliciously) access system files, run unsafe commands, or exfiltrate data.
2️⃣ New Safety Layer in smolagents 🛡️
We now inspect every return value during execution:
✅ Allowed: Safe built-in types (e.g., numbers, strings, lists)
⛔ Blocked: Dangerous functions/modules (e.g., os.system, subprocess, exec, shutil)
3️⃣ Immediate Benefits 💡
- Prevent agents from accessing unsafe builtins
- Block unauthorized file or network access
- Reduce accidental security vulnerabilities
4️⃣ Security Disclaimer ⚠️
🚨 Despite these improvements, local Python execution is NEVER 100% safe. 🚨
If you need true isolation, use a remote sandboxed executor like Docker or E2B.
5️⃣ The Best Practice: Use Sandboxed Execution 🔐
For production-grade AI agents, we strongly recommend running code in a Docker or E2B sandbox to ensure complete isolation.
6️⃣ Upgrade Now & Stay Safe! 🚀
Check out the latest smolagents release and start building safer AI agents today.
🔗 https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents
What security measures do you take when running AI-generated code? Let’s discuss! 👇
#AI #smolagents #Python #Security
With the latest release, we've added security checks to the local Python interpreter: every evaluation is now analyzed for dangerous builtins, modules, and functions. 🔒
Here's why this matters & what you need to know! 🧵👇
1️⃣ Why is local execution risky? ⚠️
AI agents that run arbitrary Python code can unintentionally (or maliciously) access system files, run unsafe commands, or exfiltrate data.
2️⃣ New Safety Layer in smolagents 🛡️
We now inspect every return value during execution:
✅ Allowed: Safe built-in types (e.g., numbers, strings, lists)
⛔ Blocked: Dangerous functions/modules (e.g., os.system, subprocess, exec, shutil)
3️⃣ Immediate Benefits 💡
- Prevent agents from accessing unsafe builtins
- Block unauthorized file or network access
- Reduce accidental security vulnerabilities
4️⃣ Security Disclaimer ⚠️
🚨 Despite these improvements, local Python execution is NEVER 100% safe. 🚨
If you need true isolation, use a remote sandboxed executor like Docker or E2B.
5️⃣ The Best Practice: Use Sandboxed Execution 🔐
For production-grade AI agents, we strongly recommend running code in a Docker or E2B sandbox to ensure complete isolation.
6️⃣ Upgrade Now & Stay Safe! 🚀
Check out the latest smolagents release and start building safer AI agents today.
🔗 https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents
What security measures do you take when running AI-generated code? Let’s discuss! 👇
#AI #smolagents #Python #Security
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albertvillanova
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🚀 Big news for AI agents! With the latest release of smolagents, you can now securely execute Python code in sandboxed Docker or E2B environments. 🦾🔒
Here's why this is a game-changer for agent-based systems: 🧵👇
1️⃣ Security First 🔐
Running AI agents in unrestricted Python environments is risky! With sandboxing, your agents are isolated, preventing unintended file access, network abuse, or system modifications.
2️⃣ Deterministic & Reproducible Runs 📦
By running agents in containerized environments, you ensure that every execution happens in a controlled and predictable setting—no more environment mismatches or dependency issues!
3️⃣ Resource Control & Limits 🚦
Docker and E2B allow you to enforce CPU, memory, and execution time limits, so rogue or inefficient agents don’t spiral out of control.
4️⃣ Safer Code Execution in Production 🏭
Deploy AI agents confidently, knowing that any generated code runs in an ephemeral, isolated environment, protecting your host machine and infrastructure.
5️⃣ Easy to Integrate 🛠️
With smolagents, you can simply configure your agent to use Docker or E2B as its execution backend—no need for complex security setups!
6️⃣ Perfect for Autonomous AI Agents 🤖
If your AI agents generate and execute code dynamically, this is a must-have to avoid security pitfalls while enabling advanced automation.
⚡ Get started now: https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents
What will you build with smolagents? Let us know! 🚀💡
Here's why this is a game-changer for agent-based systems: 🧵👇
1️⃣ Security First 🔐
Running AI agents in unrestricted Python environments is risky! With sandboxing, your agents are isolated, preventing unintended file access, network abuse, or system modifications.
2️⃣ Deterministic & Reproducible Runs 📦
By running agents in containerized environments, you ensure that every execution happens in a controlled and predictable setting—no more environment mismatches or dependency issues!
3️⃣ Resource Control & Limits 🚦
Docker and E2B allow you to enforce CPU, memory, and execution time limits, so rogue or inefficient agents don’t spiral out of control.
4️⃣ Safer Code Execution in Production 🏭
Deploy AI agents confidently, knowing that any generated code runs in an ephemeral, isolated environment, protecting your host machine and infrastructure.
5️⃣ Easy to Integrate 🛠️
With smolagents, you can simply configure your agent to use Docker or E2B as its execution backend—no need for complex security setups!
6️⃣ Perfect for Autonomous AI Agents 🤖
If your AI agents generate and execute code dynamically, this is a must-have to avoid security pitfalls while enabling advanced automation.
⚡ Get started now: https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents
What will you build with smolagents? Let us know! 🚀💡
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📊 Introducing "Hugging Face Dataset Spotlight" 📊
I'm excited to share the first episode of our AI-generated podcast series focusing on nice datasets from the Hugging Face Hub!
This first episode explores mathematical reasoning datasets:
- SynthLabsAI/Big-Math-RL-Verified: Over 250,000 rigorously verified problems spanning multiple difficulty levels and mathematical domains
- open-r1/OpenR1-Math-220k: 220,000 math problems with multiple reasoning traces, verified for accuracy using Math Verify and Llama-3.3-70B models.
- facebook/natural_reasoning: 1.1 million general reasoning questions carefully deduplicated and decontaminated from existing benchmarks, showing superior scaling effects when training models like Llama3.1-8B-Instruct.
Plus a bonus segment on bespokelabs/bespoke-manim!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TgmRq45tW4
I'm excited to share the first episode of our AI-generated podcast series focusing on nice datasets from the Hugging Face Hub!
This first episode explores mathematical reasoning datasets:
- SynthLabsAI/Big-Math-RL-Verified: Over 250,000 rigorously verified problems spanning multiple difficulty levels and mathematical domains
- open-r1/OpenR1-Math-220k: 220,000 math problems with multiple reasoning traces, verified for accuracy using Math Verify and Llama-3.3-70B models.
- facebook/natural_reasoning: 1.1 million general reasoning questions carefully deduplicated and decontaminated from existing benchmarks, showing superior scaling effects when training models like Llama3.1-8B-Instruct.
Plus a bonus segment on bespokelabs/bespoke-manim!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TgmRq45tW4
davanstrien
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Quick POC: Turn a Hugging Face dataset card into a short podcast introducing the dataset using all open models.
I think I'm the only weirdo who would enjoy listening to something like this though 😅
Here is an example for eth-nlped/stepverify
I think I'm the only weirdo who would enjoy listening to something like this though 😅
Here is an example for eth-nlped/stepverify
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Hacked together a way to log trl GRPO training completions to a 🤗 dataset repo. This allows you to:
- Track rewards from multiple reward functions
- Treat the completion and rewards from training as a "proper" dataset and do EDA
- Share results for open science
The implementation is super hacky, but I'm curious if people would find this useful.
To push completions to the Hub, you just need two extra parameters:
Example dataset: davanstrien/test-logs
Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wzBFPVthRYYTp-mEYlznLg_e_0Za1M3g
- Track rewards from multiple reward functions
- Treat the completion and rewards from training as a "proper" dataset and do EDA
- Share results for open science
The implementation is super hacky, but I'm curious if people would find this useful.
To push completions to the Hub, you just need two extra parameters:
log_completions=True
log_completions_hub_repo='your-username/repo-name'Example dataset: davanstrien/test-logs
Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wzBFPVthRYYTp-mEYlznLg_e_0Za1M3g
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Dataset descriptions for trending Hugging Face datasets? Powered by a Smol model
davanstrien/Smol-Hub-tldr