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merve

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A ton of impactful models and datasets in open AI past week, let's summarize the best 🤩 merve/releases-apr-21-and-may-2-6819dcc84da4190620f448a3

💬 Qwen made it rain! They released Qwen3: new dense and MoE models ranging from 0.6B to 235B 🤯 as well as Qwen2.5-Omni, any-to-any model in 3B and 7B!
> Microsoft AI released Phi4 reasoning models (that also come in mini and plus sizes)
> NVIDIA released new CoT reasoning datasets
🖼️ > ByteDance released UI-TARS-1.5, native multimodal UI parsing agentic model
> Meta released EdgeTAM, an on-device object tracking model (SAM2 variant)
🗣️ NVIDIA released parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2, a smol 600M automatic speech recognition model
> Nari released Dia, a 1.6B text-to-speech model
> Moonshot AI released Kimi Audio, a new audio understanding, generation, conversation model
👩🏻‍💻 JetBrains released Melium models in base and SFT for coding
> Tesslate released UIGEN-T2-7B, a new text-to-frontend-code model 🤩

merve

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A real-time object detector much faster and accurate than YOLO with Apache 2.0 license just landed to Hugging Face transformers 🔥

D-FINE is the sota real-time object detector that runs on T4 (free Colab) 🤩

> Collection with all checkpoints and demo ustc-community/d-fine-68109b427cbe6ee36b4e7352

Notebooks:
> Tracking https://github.com/qubvel/transformers-notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/DFine_tracking.ipynb
> Inference https://github.com/qubvel/transformers-notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/DFine_inference.ipynb
> Fine-tuning https://github.com/qubvel/transformers-notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/DFine_finetune_on_a_custom_dataset.ipynb
h/t @vladislavbro @qubvel-hf @ariG23498 and the authors of the paper 🎩

Regular object detectors attempt to predict bounding boxes in (x, y, w, h) pixel perfect coordinates, which is very rigid and hard to solve 🥲☹️

D-FINE formulates object detection as a distribution for bounding box coordinates, refines them iteratively, and it's more accurate 🤩

Another core idea behind this model is Global Optimal Localization Self-Distillation ⤵️

this model uses final layer's distribution output (sort of like a teacher) to distill to earlier layers to make early layers more performant.

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merve

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you can easily fine-tune, quantize, play with sota vision LM InternVL3 now 🔥
we have recently merged InternVL3 to Hugging Face transformers and released converted checkpoints 🤗

collection for converted checkpoints: merve/internvl3-hf-6814be2943b2ae0e711c92a5
notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wAQ7cyjyaCwLXbMA_OjXZe7aCxCFm6sI?usp=sharing 📖

merve

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Meta released Llama Guard 4 and new Prompt Guard 2 models 🔥

Llama Guard 4 is a new model to filter model inputs/outputs both text-only and image 🛡️ use it before and after LLMs/VLMs! meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B

Prompt Guard 2 22M & 86M are smol models to prevent model jailbreaks and prompt injections ⚔ meta-llama/Llama-Prompt-Guard-2-22M meta-llama/Llama-Guard-4-12B
Both come with new release of transformers 🤗

Try the model right away 👉🏻https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface-llama-recipes/blob/main/llama_guard_4.ipynb

Read our blog to learn more and easily get started 👉🏻 https://huggingface.co/blog/llama-guard-4 🦙

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merve

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Don't sleep on new AI at Meta Vision-Language release! 🔥

facebook/perception-encoder-67f977c9a65ca5895a7f6ba1
facebook/perception-lm-67f9783f171948c383ee7498

Meta dropped swiss army knives for vision with A2.0 license 👏
> image/video encoders for vision language modelling and spatial understanding (object detection etc) 👏
> The vision LM outperforms InternVL3 and Qwen2.5VL 👏
> They also release gigantic video and image datasets

The authors attempt to come up with single versatile vision encoder to align on diverse set of tasks.

They trained Perception Encoder (PE) Core: a new state-of-the-art family of vision encoders that can be aligned for both vision-language and spatial tasks. For zero-shot image tasks, it outperforms latest sota SigLIP2 👏

> Among fine-tuned ones, first one is PE-Spatial. It's a model to detect bounding boxes, segmentation, depth estimation and it outperforms all other models 😮

> Second one is PLM, Perception Language Model, where they combine PE-Core with Qwen2.5 LM 7B. it outperforms all other models (including InternVL3 which was trained with Qwen2.5LM too!)

The authors release the following checkpoints in sizes base, large and giant:

> 3 PE-Core checkpoints (224, 336, 448)
> 2 PE-Lang checkpoints (L, G)
> One PE-Spatial (G, 448)
> 3 PLM (1B, 3B, 8B)
> Datasets

Authors release following datasets 📑
> PE Video: Gigantic video datasete of 1M videos with 120k expert annotations ⏯️
> PLM-Video and PLM-Image: Human and auto-annotated image and video datasets on region-based tasks
> PLM-VideoBench: New video benchmark on MCQA

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merve

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New foundation model on image and video captioning just dropped by NVIDIA AI 🔥

Describe Anything Model (DAM) is a 3B vision language model to generate detailed captions with localized references 😮

The team released the models, the dataset, a new benchmark and a demo 🤩 nvidia/describe-anything-680825bb8f5e41ff0785834c

Most of the vision LMs focus on image as a whole, lacking localized references in captions, and not taking in visual prompts (points, boxes, drawings around objects)

DAM addresses this on two levels: new vision backbone that takes in focal crops and the image itself, and a large scale dataset 👀

They generate a dataset by extending existing segmentation and referring expression generation datasets like REFCOCO, by passing in the images and classes to VLMs and generating captions.

Lastly, they also release a new benchmark again with self-supervision, they use an LLM to evaluate the detailed captions focusing on localization 👏

merve

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sooo many open AI releases past week, let's summarize! 🤗
merve/april-11-releases-67fcd78be33d241c0977b9d2

multimodal
> Moonshot AI released Kimi VL Thinking, first working open-source multimodal reasoning model and Kimi VL Instruct, both 16B MoEs with 3B active params (OS)
> InternVL3 released based on Qwen2.5VL, 7 ckpts with various sizes (1B to 78B)

LLMs
> NVIDIA released Llama-3_1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 an LLM built on Llama 405B for reasoning, chat and tool use
> Agentica released DeepCoder-14B-Preview, fine-tuned version of DeepSeek-R1-Distilled-Qwen-14B on problem-test pairs, along with the compiled dataset
> Zyphra/ZR1-1.5B is a new small reasoning LLM built on R1-Distill-1.5B (OS)
> Skywork-OR1-32B-Preview is a new reasoning model by Skywork

Image Generation
> HiDream releases three new models, HiDream I1 Dev, I1 Full, and I1 fast for image generation (OS)

*OS ones have Apache 2.0 or MIT licenses

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pcuenq

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SmolVLM: Redefining small and efficient multimodal models

Paper • 2504.05299 • Published Apr 7 • 180

reach-vb

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SmolVLM: Redefining small and efficient multimodal models

Paper • 2504.05299 • Published Apr 7 • 180

merve

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So many open releases at Hugging Face past week 🤯 recapping all here ⤵️ merve/march-21-releases-67dbe10e185f199e656140ae

👀 Multimodal
> Mistral AI released a 24B vision LM, both base and instruction FT versions, sota 🔥 (OS)
> with IBM we released SmolDocling, a sota 256M document parser with Apache 2.0 license (OS)
> SpatialLM is a new vision LM that outputs 3D bounding boxes, comes with 0.5B (QwenVL based) and 1B (Llama based) variants
> SkyWork released SkyWork-R1V-38B, new vision reasoning model (OS)

💬 LLMs
> NVIDIA released new Nemotron models in 49B and 8B with their post-training dataset
> LG released EXAONE, new reasoning models in 2.4B, 7.8B and 32B
> Dataset: Glaive AI released a new reasoning dataset of 22M+ examples
> Dataset: NVIDIA released new helpfulness dataset HelpSteer3
> Dataset: OpenManusRL is a new agent dataset based on ReAct framework (OS)
> Open-R1 team released OlympicCoder, new competitive coder model in 7B and 32B
> Dataset: GeneralThought-430K is a new reasoning dataset (OS)

🖼️ Image Generation/Computer Vision
> Roboflow released RF-DETR, new real-time sota object detector (OS) 🔥
> YOLOE is a new real-time zero-shot object detector with text and visual prompts 🥹
> Stability AI released Stable Virtual Camera, a new novel view synthesis model
> Tencent released Hunyuan3D-2mini, new small and fast 3D asset generation model
> ByteDance released InfiniteYou, new realistic photo generation model
> StarVector is a new 8B model that generates svg from images
> FlexWorld is a new model that expands 3D views (OS)

🎤 Audio
> Sesame released CSM-1B new speech generation model (OS)

🤖 Robotics
> NVIDIA released GR00T, new robotics model for generalized reasoning and skills, along with the dataset

*OS ones have Apache 2.0 or MIT license

lysandre

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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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merve

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Google just released PaliGemma 2 Mix: new versatile instruction vision language models 🔥

> Three new models: 3B, 10B, 28B with res 224, 448 💙
> Can do vision language tasks with open-ended prompts, understand documents, and segment or detect anything 🤯

Read more https://huggingface.co/blog/paligemma2mix
Try the demo google/paligemma2-10b-mix
All models are here google/paligemma-2-mix-67ac6a251aaf3ee73679dcc4

merve

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Your weekly recap of open AI is here, and it's packed with models! merve/feb-14-releases-67af876b404cc27c6d837767

👀 Multimodal
> OpenGVLab released InternVideo 2.5 Chat models, new video LMs with long context
> AIDC released Ovis2 model family along with Ovis dataset, new vision LMs in different sizes (1B, 2B, 4B, 8B, 16B, 34B), with video and OCR support
> ColQwenStella-2b is a multilingual visual retrieval model that is sota in it's size
> Hoags-2B-Exp is a new multilingual vision LM with contextual reasoning, long context video understanding

💬 LLMs
A lot of math models!
> Open-R1 team released OpenR1-Math-220k large scale math reasoning dataset, along with Qwen2.5-220K-Math fine-tuned on the dataset, OpenR1-Qwen-7B
> Nomic AI released new Nomic Embed multilingual retrieval model, a MoE with 500 params with 305M active params, outperforming other models
> DeepScaleR-1.5B-Preview is a new DeepSeek-R1-Distill fine-tune using distributed RL on math
> LIMO is a new fine-tune of Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct on Math

🗣️ Audio
> Zonos-v0.1 is a new family of speech recognition models, which contains the model itself and embeddings

🖼️ Vision and Image Generation
> We have ported DepthPro of Apple to transformers for your convenience!
> illustrious-xl-v1.0 is a new illustration generation model

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merve

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Interesting releases in open AI this week, let's recap 🤠 merve/feb-7-releases-67a5f7d7f172d8bfe0dd66f4

🤖 Robotics
> Pi0, first open-source foundation vision-language action model was released in Le Robot (Apache 2.0)

💬 LLMs
> Groundbreaking: s1 is simpler approach to test-time scaling, the release comes with small s1K dataset of 1k question-reasoning trace pairs (from Gemini-Thinking Exp) they fine-tune Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct to get s1-32B, outperforming o1-preview on math 🤯 s1-32B and s1K is out!
> Adyen released DABstep, a new benchmark along with it's leaderboard demo for agents doing data analysis
> Krutrim released Krutrim-2 instruct, new 12B model based on NeMo12B trained and aligned on Indic languages, a new multilingual sentence embedding model (based on STSB-XLM-R), and a translation model for Indic languages

👀 Multimodal
> PKU released Align-DS-V, a model aligned using their new technique called LLF for all modalities (image-text-audio), along with the dataset Align Anything
> OLA-7B is a new any-to-any model by Tencent that can take text, image, video, audio data with context window of 32k tokens and output text and speech in English and Chinese
> Krutrim released Chitrarth, a new vision language model for Indic languages and English

🖼️ Vision
> BiRefNet_HR is a new higher resolution BiRefNet for background removal

🗣️ Audio
> kyutai released Hibiki, it's a real-time speech-to-speech translation model 🤯 it's available for French-English translation
> Krutrim released Dhwani, a new STT model for Indic languages
> They also release a new dataset for STT-TTS

🖼️ Image Generation
> Lumina released Lumina-Image-2.0, a 2B parameter-flow based DiT for text to image generation
> Tencent released Hunyuan3D-2, a 3D asset generation model based on DiT and Hunyuan3D-Paint
> boreal-hl-v1 is a new boring photorealistic image generation LoRA based on Hunyuan

merve

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IBM released ibm-granite/granite-vision-3.1-2b-preview, a small vision LM with impressive performance on different tasks 😮🔥

it comes with transformers and vLLM support from the get-go 💗
you can run it in Colab T4, so I built a notebook to put it to test, find it here: https://github.com/merveenoyan/smol-vision/blob/main/inference_gists/IBM_Granite_Vision.ipynb

reach-vb

authored a paper 3 months ago

SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model

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merve

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This week in open AI was 🔥 Let's recap! 🤗 merve/january-31-releases-679a10669bd4030090c5de4d
LLMs 💬
> Huge: AllenAI released new Tülu models that outperform DeepSeek R1 using Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) based on Llama 3.1 405B 🔥
> Mistral AI is back to open-source with their "small" 24B models (base & SFT), with Apache 2.0 license 😱
> Alibaba Qwen released their 1M context length models Qwen2.5-Instruct-1M, great for agentic use with Apache 2.0 license 🔥
> Arcee AI released Virtuoso-medium, 32.8B LLMs distilled from DeepSeek V3 with dataset of 5B+ tokens
> Velvet-14B is a new family of 14B Italian LLMs trained on 10T tokens in six languages
> OpenThinker-7B is fine-tuned version of Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct on OpenThoughts dataset

VLMs & vision 👀
> Alibaba Qwen is back with Qwen2.5VL, amazing new capabilities ranging from agentic computer use to zero-shot localization 🔥
> NVIDIA released new series of Eagle2 models with 1B and 9B sizes
> DeepSeek released Janus-Pro, new any-to-any model (image-text generation from image-text input) with MIT license
> BEN2 is a new background removal model with MIT license!

Audio 🗣️
> YuE is a new open-source music generation foundation model, lyrics-to-song generation

Codebase 👩🏻‍💻
> We are open-sourcing our SmolVLM training and eval codebase! https://github.com/huggingface/smollm/tree/main/vision
> Open-R1 is open-source reproduction of R1 by @huggingface science team https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1

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merve

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Oof, what a week! 🥵 So many things have happened, let's recap! merve/jan-24-releases-6793d610774073328eac67a9

Multimodal 💬
- We have released SmolVLM -- tiniest VLMs that come in 256M and 500M, with it's retrieval models ColSmol for multimodal RAG 💗
- UI-TARS are new models by ByteDance to unlock agentic GUI control 🤯 in 2B, 7B and 72B
- Alibaba DAMO lab released VideoLlama3, new video LMs that come in 2B and 7B
- MiniMaxAI released Minimax-VL-01, where decoder is based on MiniMax-Text-01 456B MoE model with long context
- Dataset: Yale released a new benchmark called MMVU
- Dataset: CAIS released Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) a new challenging MM benchmark

LLMs 📖
- DeepSeek-R1 & DeepSeek-R1-Zero: gigantic 660B reasoning models by DeepSeek, and six distilled dense models, on par with o1 with MIT license! 🤯
- Qwen2.5-Math-PRM: new math models by Qwen in 7B and 72B
- NVIDIA released AceMath and AceInstruct, new family of models and their datasets (SFT and reward ones too!)

Audio 🗣️
- Llasa is a new speech synthesis model based on Llama that comes in 1B,3B, and 8B
- TangoFlux is a new audio generation model trained from scratch and aligned with CRPO

Image/Video/3D Generation ⏯️
- Flex.1-alpha is a new 8B pre-trained diffusion model by ostris similar to Flux
- tencent released Hunyuan3D-2, new 3D asset generation from images