SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics
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👏 Congrats
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adding TimesFM times series forecasting to Transformers!
Learn how to use TimesFM in this blog post by the Nutanix team: https://huggingface.co/blog/Nutanix/introducing-timesfm-for-time-series-forcasting
Learn how to use TimesFM in this blog post by the Nutanix team: https://huggingface.co/blog/Nutanix/introducing-timesfm-for-time-series-forcasting
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Wrapping up a week of shipping and announcements with Dell Enterprise Hub now featuring AI Applications, on-device models for AI PCs, a new CLI and Python SDK... all you need for building AI on premises!
Blog post has all the details: https://huggingface.co/blog/dell-ai-applications
Blog post has all the details: https://huggingface.co/blog/dell-ai-applications
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Diffusers supports a good variety of quantization backends. It can be challenging to navigate through them, given the complex nature of diffusion pipelines in general.
So, @derekl35 set out to write a comprehensive guide that puts users in the front seat. Explore the different backends we support, learn the trade-offs they offer, and finally, check out the cool space we built that lets you compare quantization results.
Give it a go here:
https://lnkd.in/gf8Pi4-2
So, @derekl35 set out to write a comprehensive guide that puts users in the front seat. Explore the different backends we support, learn the trade-offs they offer, and finally, check out the cool space we built that lets you compare quantization results.
Give it a go here:
https://lnkd.in/gf8Pi4-2
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Despite the emergence of combining LLM and DiT architectures for T2I synthesis, its design remains severely understudied.
This was done long ago and got into CVPR25 -- super excited to finally share it now, along with the data and code ♥️
We explore several architectural choices that affect this design. We provide an open & reproducible training recipe that works at scale.
Works like Playground v3 have already explored a deep fusion between an LLM and a DiT, sharing their representations through layerwise attention. They exhibit excellent performance on T2I.
Despite its compelling results and other performance virtues, it remains unexplored, which is what we want to improve in our work. Specifically, we take a pre-trained LLM (Gemma-2B) and trainable DiT, and set out to explore what makes a "good deep fusion" between the two for T2I.
We explore several key questions in the work, such as:
Q1: How should we do attention? We considered several alternatives. PixArt-Alpha like attention (cross-attention) is very promising.
Q2: Should we incorporate additional text modulation?
Q3: Can we eliminate timestep conditioning?
Q4: How do we do positional encodings?
Q5: Do instruction-tuned LLMs help deep fusion?
Q6: Would using a decoder LLM from a multimodal model be helpful?
Q7: Does using a better variant of Gemma help?
Based on the above findings, we arrive at FuseDiT with the following components on top of the base architecture from the findings of our experiments.
* No AdaLN-Zero modules
* 1D + 2D-RoPE
* Gemma 2 2B, adjusting DiT configurations accordingly
We trained FuseDiT on a mixture from CC12M, JourneyDB, & SA (~26M image-text pairs) for 800 steps. While not the best model, it's encouraging to develop something in a guided manner using open datasets.
To know more (code, models, all are available), please check out the paper:
https://lnkd.in/gg6qyqZX.
This was done long ago and got into CVPR25 -- super excited to finally share it now, along with the data and code ♥️
We explore several architectural choices that affect this design. We provide an open & reproducible training recipe that works at scale.
Works like Playground v3 have already explored a deep fusion between an LLM and a DiT, sharing their representations through layerwise attention. They exhibit excellent performance on T2I.
Despite its compelling results and other performance virtues, it remains unexplored, which is what we want to improve in our work. Specifically, we take a pre-trained LLM (Gemma-2B) and trainable DiT, and set out to explore what makes a "good deep fusion" between the two for T2I.
We explore several key questions in the work, such as:
Q1: How should we do attention? We considered several alternatives. PixArt-Alpha like attention (cross-attention) is very promising.
Q2: Should we incorporate additional text modulation?
Q3: Can we eliminate timestep conditioning?
Q4: How do we do positional encodings?
Q5: Do instruction-tuned LLMs help deep fusion?
Q6: Would using a decoder LLM from a multimodal model be helpful?
Q7: Does using a better variant of Gemma help?
Based on the above findings, we arrive at FuseDiT with the following components on top of the base architecture from the findings of our experiments.
* No AdaLN-Zero modules
* 1D + 2D-RoPE
* Gemma 2 2B, adjusting DiT configurations accordingly
We trained FuseDiT on a mixture from CC12M, JourneyDB, & SA (~26M image-text pairs) for 800 steps. While not the best model, it's encouraging to develop something in a guided manner using open datasets.
To know more (code, models, all are available), please check out the paper:
https://lnkd.in/gg6qyqZX.
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Transcribing 1 hour of audio for less than $0.01 🤯
@mfuntowicz cooked with 8x faster Whisper speech recognition - whisper-large-v3-turbo transcribes at 100x real time on a $0.80/hr L4 GPU!
How they did it: https://huggingface.co/blog/fast-whisper-endpoints
1-click deploy with HF Inference Endpoints: https://endpoints.huggingface.co/new?repository=openai%2Fwhisper-large-v3-turbo&vendor=aws®ion=us-east&accelerator=gpu&instance_id=aws-us-east-1-nvidia-l4-x1&task=automatic-speech-recognition&no_suggested_compute=true
@mfuntowicz cooked with 8x faster Whisper speech recognition - whisper-large-v3-turbo transcribes at 100x real time on a $0.80/hr L4 GPU!
How they did it: https://huggingface.co/blog/fast-whisper-endpoints
1-click deploy with HF Inference Endpoints: https://endpoints.huggingface.co/new?repository=openai%2Fwhisper-large-v3-turbo&vendor=aws®ion=us-east&accelerator=gpu&instance_id=aws-us-east-1-nvidia-l4-x1&task=automatic-speech-recognition&no_suggested_compute=true
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So many orgs on HF would really benefit from security and governance built into Enterprise Hub - I wrote a guide on why and how upgrade:
jeffboudier/how-to-upgrade-to-enterprise
For instance, did you know about Resource Groups?
For instance, did you know about Resource Groups?
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If you've followed the progress of robotics in the past 18 months, you've likely noticed how robotics is increasingly becoming the next frontier that AI will unlock.
At Hugging Face—in robotics and across all AI fields—we believe in a future where AI and robots are open-source, transparent, and affordable; community-built and safe; hackable and fun. We've had so much mutual understanding and passion working with the Pollen Robotics team over the past year that we decided to join forces!
You can already find our open-source humanoid robot platform Reachy 2 on the Pollen website and the Pollen community and people here on the hub at
pollen-robotics
We're so excited to build and share more open-source robots with the world in the coming months!
At Hugging Face—in robotics and across all AI fields—we believe in a future where AI and robots are open-source, transparent, and affordable; community-built and safe; hackable and fun. We've had so much mutual understanding and passion working with the Pollen Robotics team over the past year that we decided to join forces!
You can already find our open-source humanoid robot platform Reachy 2 on the Pollen website and the Pollen community and people here on the hub at
pollen-robotics
We're so excited to build and share more open-source robots with the world in the coming months!
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Llama4 is out and Scout is already on the Dell Enterprise Hub to deploy on Dell systems 👉 dell.huggingface.co
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Enterprise orgs now enable serverless Inference Providers for all members
- includes $2 free usage per org member (e.g. an Enterprise org with 1,000 members share $2,000 free credit each month)
- admins can set a monthly spend limit for the entire org
- works today with Together, fal, Novita, Cerebras and HF Inference.
Here's the doc to bill Inference Providers usage to your org: https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing#organization-billing
- includes $2 free usage per org member (e.g. an Enterprise org with 1,000 members share $2,000 free credit each month)
- admins can set a monthly spend limit for the entire org
- works today with Together, fal, Novita, Cerebras and HF Inference.
Here's the doc to bill Inference Providers usage to your org: https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing#organization-billing
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‼️ huggingface_hub's v0.30.0 is out with our biggest update of the past two years!
Full release notes: https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/releases/tag/v0.30.0.
🚀 Ready. Xet. Go!
Xet is a groundbreaking new protocol for storing large objects in Git repositories, designed to replace Git LFS. Unlike LFS, which deduplicates files, Xet operates at the chunk level—making it a game-changer for AI builders collaborating on massive models and datasets. Our Python integration is powered by [xet-core](https://github.com/huggingface/xet-core), a Rust-based package that handles all the low-level details.
You can start using Xet today by installing the optional dependency:
With that, you can seamlessly download files from Xet-enabled repositories! And don’t worry—everything remains fully backward-compatible if you’re not ready to upgrade yet.
Blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/xet-on-the-hub
Docs: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/storage-backends#xet
⚡ Inference Providers
- We’re thrilled to introduce Cerebras and Cohere as official inference providers! This expansion strengthens the Hub as the go-to entry point for running inference on open-weight models.
- Novita is now our 3rd provider to support text-to-video task after Fal.ai and Replicate.
- Centralized billing: manage your budget and set team-wide spending limits for Inference Providers! Available to all Enterprise Hub organizations.
- No more timeouts when generating videos, thanks to async calls. Available right now for Fal.ai, expecting more providers to leverage the same structure very soon!
Full release notes: https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub/releases/tag/v0.30.0.
🚀 Ready. Xet. Go!
Xet is a groundbreaking new protocol for storing large objects in Git repositories, designed to replace Git LFS. Unlike LFS, which deduplicates files, Xet operates at the chunk level—making it a game-changer for AI builders collaborating on massive models and datasets. Our Python integration is powered by [xet-core](https://github.com/huggingface/xet-core), a Rust-based package that handles all the low-level details.
You can start using Xet today by installing the optional dependency:
pip install -U huggingface_hub[hf_xet]With that, you can seamlessly download files from Xet-enabled repositories! And don’t worry—everything remains fully backward-compatible if you’re not ready to upgrade yet.
Blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/xet-on-the-hub
Docs: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/storage-backends#xet
⚡ Inference Providers
- We’re thrilled to introduce Cerebras and Cohere as official inference providers! This expansion strengthens the Hub as the go-to entry point for running inference on open-weight models.
- Novita is now our 3rd provider to support text-to-video task after Fal.ai and Replicate.
- Centralized billing: manage your budget and set team-wide spending limits for Inference Providers! Available to all Enterprise Hub organizations.
from huggingface_hub import InferenceClient
client = InferenceClient(provider="fal-ai", bill_to="my-cool-company")
image = client.text_to_image(
"A majestic lion in a fantasy forest",
model="black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell",
)
image.save("lion.png")- No more timeouts when generating videos, thanks to async calls. Available right now for Fal.ai, expecting more providers to leverage the same structure very soon!
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The new DeepSite space is really insane for vibe-coders
enzostvs/deepsite
With the wave of vibe-coding-optimized LLMs like the latest open-source DeepSeek model (version V3-0324), you can basically prompt out-of-the-box and create any app and game in one-shot.
It feels so powerful to me, no more complex framework or under-the-hood prompt engineering to have a working text-to-app tool.
AI is eating the world and *open-source* AI is eating AI itself!
PS: and even more meta is that the DeepSite app and DeepSeek model are both fully open-source code => time to start recursively improve?
PPS: you still need some inference hosting unless you're running the 600B param model at home, so check the very nice list of HF Inference Providers for this model: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324
enzostvs/deepsite
With the wave of vibe-coding-optimized LLMs like the latest open-source DeepSeek model (version V3-0324), you can basically prompt out-of-the-box and create any app and game in one-shot.
It feels so powerful to me, no more complex framework or under-the-hood prompt engineering to have a working text-to-app tool.
AI is eating the world and *open-source* AI is eating AI itself!
PS: and even more meta is that the DeepSite app and DeepSeek model are both fully open-source code => time to start recursively improve?
PPS: you still need some inference hosting unless you're running the 600B param model at home, so check the very nice list of HF Inference Providers for this model: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324
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Impressive new Image-to-3D model from Tencent!
Here's how the topology (left) compares to the open source state-of-the-art (right)
(using the
Try it out here: tencent/Hunyuan3D-2mv
Here's how the topology (left) compares to the open source state-of-the-art (right)
(using the
Simplify option for reduced poly count)Try it out here: tencent/Hunyuan3D-2mv