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We're thrilled to announce the launch of our comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) Course! This free program is designed to take learners from foundational understanding to practical application of MCP in AI.
Follow the course on the hub:
mcp-course
In this course, you will:
📖 Study Model Context Protocol in theory, design, and practice.
🧑💻 Learn to use established MCP SDKs and frameworks.
💾 Share your projects and explore applications created by the community.
🏆 Participate in challenges and evaluate your MCP implementations.
🎓 Earn a certificate of completion.
At the end of this course, you'll understand how MCP works and how to build your own AI applications that leverage external data and tools using the latest MCP standards.
Follow the course on the hub:
mcp-course
In this course, you will:
📖 Study Model Context Protocol in theory, design, and practice.
🧑💻 Learn to use established MCP SDKs and frameworks.
💾 Share your projects and explore applications created by the community.
🏆 Participate in challenges and evaluate your MCP implementations.
🎓 Earn a certificate of completion.
At the end of this course, you'll understand how MCP works and how to build your own AI applications that leverage external data and tools using the latest MCP standards.
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Qwen 3 Fine tuning >> MoE. Update the experiment thread to include config and script for fine-tuning the Qwen3-30B-A3B model.
The goal is to make a low latency non-thinking model for a daily driver coding, so 3 billion parameters active should be perfect.
✔️ training running
✔️ evals running
⏭️ improve dataset
The moe isn't going to fit into colab's A100 even with quantization (🙏 @UnslothAI ). So I've been working on HF spaces' H100s for this. Everything is available in the tread and I'll share more tomorrow.
burtenshaw/Qwen3-Code-Lite#1
The goal is to make a low latency non-thinking model for a daily driver coding, so 3 billion parameters active should be perfect.
✔️ training running
✔️ evals running
⏭️ improve dataset
The moe isn't going to fit into colab's A100 even with quantization (🙏 @UnslothAI ). So I've been working on HF spaces' H100s for this. Everything is available in the tread and I'll share more tomorrow.
burtenshaw/Qwen3-Code-Lite#1
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The rebooted LLM course starts today with an overhauled chapter 1 on Transformers:
👉 Follow the org to join the course:
huggingface-course
We’re starting from the foundations of modern generative AI by looking at transformers. This chapter is expanded in depth and features so contains new material like:
FREE and CERTIFIED exam on fundamentals of transformers
deeper exploration of transformer architectures and attention mechanisms
end -to-end exploration of inference strategies for prefill and decode steps
The course has leveled up in complexity and depth, so this a great time to join in if you want to build you own AI models.
👉 Follow the org to join the course:
huggingface-course
We’re starting from the foundations of modern generative AI by looking at transformers. This chapter is expanded in depth and features so contains new material like:
FREE and CERTIFIED exam on fundamentals of transformers
deeper exploration of transformer architectures and attention mechanisms
end -to-end exploration of inference strategies for prefill and decode steps
The course has leveled up in complexity and depth, so this a great time to join in if you want to build you own AI models.
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Hacked my presentation building with inference providers, Cohere command a, and sheer simplicity. Use this script if you’re burning too much time on presentations:
🔗 https://github.com/burtenshaw/course_generator/blob/main/scripts/create_presentation.py
This is what it does:
- uses command a to generates slides and speaker notes based on some material.
- it renders the material in remark open format and imports all images, tables, etc
- you can then review the slides as markdown and iterate
- export to either pdf or pptx using backslide
🚀 Next steps are: add text to speech for the audio and generate a video. This should make Hugging Face educational content scale to a billion AI Learners.
🔗 https://github.com/burtenshaw/course_generator/blob/main/scripts/create_presentation.py
This is what it does:
- uses command a to generates slides and speaker notes based on some material.
- it renders the material in remark open format and imports all images, tables, etc
- you can then review the slides as markdown and iterate
- export to either pdf or pptx using backslide
🚀 Next steps are: add text to speech for the audio and generate a video. This should make Hugging Face educational content scale to a billion AI Learners.
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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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thomwolf
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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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burtenshaw
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NEW UNIT in the Hugging Face Reasoning course. We dive deep into the algorithm behind DeepSeek R1 with an advanced and hands-on guide to interpreting GRPO.
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reasoning-course
This unit is super useful if you’re tuning models with reinforcement learning. It will help with:
- interpreting loss and reward progression during training runs
- selecting effective parameters for training
- reviewing and defining effective reward functions
This unit also works up smoothly toward the existing practical exercises form @mlabonne and Unsloth.
📣 Shout out to @ShirinYamani who wrote the unit. Follow for more great content.
🔗
reasoning-course
This unit is super useful if you’re tuning models with reinforcement learning. It will help with:
- interpreting loss and reward progression during training runs
- selecting effective parameters for training
- reviewing and defining effective reward functions
This unit also works up smoothly toward the existing practical exercises form @mlabonne and Unsloth.
📣 Shout out to @ShirinYamani who wrote the unit. Follow for more great content.
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burtenshaw
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The Hugging Face Agents Course now includes three major agent frameworks!
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agents-course
This includes LlamaIndex, LangChain, and our very own smolagents. We've worked to integrate the three frameworks in distinctive ways so that learners can reflect on when and where to use each.
This also means that you can follow the course if you're already familiar with one of these frameworks, and soak up some of the fundamental knowledge in earlier units.
Hopefully, this makes the agents course as open to as many people as possible.
🔗
agents-course
This includes LlamaIndex, LangChain, and our very own smolagents. We've worked to integrate the three frameworks in distinctive ways so that learners can reflect on when and where to use each.
This also means that you can follow the course if you're already familiar with one of these frameworks, and soak up some of the fundamental knowledge in earlier units.
Hopefully, this makes the agents course as open to as many people as possible.
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✂️ AutoAbliteration
I made a Colab notebook to automatically abliterate models.
It's quite general, so you can do interesting stuff like blocking a given language in the model outputs.
💻 Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1RmLv-pCMBBsQGXQIM8yF-OdCNyoylUR1?usp=sharing
I made a Colab notebook to automatically abliterate models.
It's quite general, so you can do interesting stuff like blocking a given language in the model outputs.
💻 Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1RmLv-pCMBBsQGXQIM8yF-OdCNyoylUR1?usp=sharing
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✂️ Gemma 3 Abliterated
I noticed that Gemma 3 was much more resilient to refusal removal than other models like Qwen 2.5.
I experimented with different recipes and improved the abliteration technique I wrote about last year.
It's still experimental but the refusal rate is super low in my tests. Enjoy!
mlabonne/gemma-3-4b-it-abliterated
mlabonne/gemma-3-12b-it-abliterated
mlabonne/gemma-3-27b-it-abliterated
I noticed that Gemma 3 was much more resilient to refusal removal than other models like Qwen 2.5.
I experimented with different recipes and improved the abliteration technique I wrote about last year.
It's still experimental but the refusal rate is super low in my tests. Enjoy!
mlabonne/gemma-3-4b-it-abliterated
mlabonne/gemma-3-12b-it-abliterated
mlabonne/gemma-3-27b-it-abliterated
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The open LLM leaderboard is completed, retired, dead, ‘ascended to a higher plane’. And in its shadow we have an amazing range of leaderboards built and maintained by the community.
In this post, I just want to list some of those great leaderboards that you should bookmark for staying up to date:
- Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard is the first port of call for checking out the best model. It’s not the fastest because humans will need to use the models to get scores, but it’s worth the wait. lmarena-ai/chatbot-arena-leaderboard
- OpenVLM Leaderboard is great for getting scores on vision language models opencompass/open_vlm_leaderboard
- Ai2 are doing a great job on RewardBench and I hope they keep it up because reward models are the unsexy workhorse of the field. allenai/reward-bench
- The GAIA leaderboard is great for evaluating agent applications. gaia-benchmark/leaderboard
🤩 This seems like such a sustainable way of building for the long term, where rather than leaning on a single company to evaluate all LLMs, we share the load.
In this post, I just want to list some of those great leaderboards that you should bookmark for staying up to date:
- Chatbot Arena LLM Leaderboard is the first port of call for checking out the best model. It’s not the fastest because humans will need to use the models to get scores, but it’s worth the wait. lmarena-ai/chatbot-arena-leaderboard
- OpenVLM Leaderboard is great for getting scores on vision language models opencompass/open_vlm_leaderboard
- Ai2 are doing a great job on RewardBench and I hope they keep it up because reward models are the unsexy workhorse of the field. allenai/reward-bench
- The GAIA leaderboard is great for evaluating agent applications. gaia-benchmark/leaderboard
🤩 This seems like such a sustainable way of building for the long term, where rather than leaning on a single company to evaluate all LLMs, we share the load.
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Still speed running Gemma 3 to think. Today I focused on setting up gpu poor hardware to run GRPO.
This is a plain TRL and PEFT notebook which works on mac silicone or colab T4. This uses the 1b variant of Gemma 3 and a reasoning version of GSM8K dataset.
🧑🍳 There’s more still in the oven like releasing models, an Unsloth version, and deeper tutorials, but hopefully this should bootstrap your projects.
Here’s a link to the 1b notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1mwCy5GQb9xJFSuwt2L_We3eKkVbx2qSt?usp=sharing
This is a plain TRL and PEFT notebook which works on mac silicone or colab T4. This uses the 1b variant of Gemma 3 and a reasoning version of GSM8K dataset.
🧑🍳 There’s more still in the oven like releasing models, an Unsloth version, and deeper tutorials, but hopefully this should bootstrap your projects.
Here’s a link to the 1b notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1mwCy5GQb9xJFSuwt2L_We3eKkVbx2qSt?usp=sharing
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burtenshaw
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everybody and their dog is fine-tuning Gemma 3 today, so I thought I'd do a longer post on the tips and sharp edges I find. let's go!
1. has to be install everything form main and nightly. this is what I'm working with to get unsloth and TRL running
plus this with
2. will brown's code to turn GSM8k into a reasoning dataset is a nice toy experiment https://gist.github.com/willccbb/4676755236bb08cab5f4e54a0475d6fb
3. with a learning rate of 5e-6 rewards and loss stayed flat for the first 100 or so steps.
4. so far none of my runs have undermined the outputs after 1 epoch. therefore, I'm mainly experimenting with bigger LoRA adapters.
5. vision fine-tuning isn't available in TRL's GRPOTrainer, so stick to text datasets. but no need to load the model differently in transformers or Unsloth
if you want an introduction to GRPO, check out the reasoning course, it walks you through the algorithm, theory, and implementation in a smooth way.
reasoning-course
1. has to be install everything form main and nightly. this is what I'm working with to get unsloth and TRL running
git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers@main
git+https://github.com/huggingface/trl.git@main
bitsandbytes
peftplus this with
--no-depsgit+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth-zoo.git@nightly
git+https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth.git@nightly2. will brown's code to turn GSM8k into a reasoning dataset is a nice toy experiment https://gist.github.com/willccbb/4676755236bb08cab5f4e54a0475d6fb
3. with a learning rate of 5e-6 rewards and loss stayed flat for the first 100 or so steps.
4. so far none of my runs have undermined the outputs after 1 epoch. therefore, I'm mainly experimenting with bigger LoRA adapters.
from trl import GRPOConfig
training_args = GRPOConfig(
learning_rate = 5e-6,
adam_beta1 = 0.9,
adam_beta2 = 0.99,
weight_decay = 0.1,
warmup_ratio = 0.1,
lr_scheduler_type = "cosine",
optim = "adamw_8bit",
logging_steps = 1,
per_device_train_batch_size = 2,
gradient_accumulation_steps = 1,
num_generations = 2,
max_prompt_length = 256,
max_completion_length = 1024 - 256,
num_train_epochs = 1,
max_steps = 250,
save_steps = 250,
max_grad_norm = 0.1,
report_to = "none",
)5. vision fine-tuning isn't available in TRL's GRPOTrainer, so stick to text datasets. but no need to load the model differently in transformers or Unsloth
from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText
model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("google/gemma-3-4b-it)if you want an introduction to GRPO, check out the reasoning course, it walks you through the algorithm, theory, and implementation in a smooth way.
reasoning-course
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burtenshaw
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Here’s a notebook to make Gemma reason with GRPO & TRL. I made this whilst prepping the next unit of the reasoning course:
In this notebooks I combine together google’s model with some community tooling
- First, I load the model from the Hugging Face hub with transformers’s latest release for Gemma 3
- I use PEFT and bitsandbytes to get it running on Colab
- Then, I took Will Browns processing and reward functions to make reasoning chains from GSM8k
- Finally, I used TRL’s GRPOTrainer to train the model
Next step is to bring Unsloth AI in, then ship it in the reasoning course. Links to notebook below.
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Vkl69ytCS3bvOtV9_stRETMthlQXR4wX?usp=sharing
In this notebooks I combine together google’s model with some community tooling
- First, I load the model from the Hugging Face hub with transformers’s latest release for Gemma 3
- I use PEFT and bitsandbytes to get it running on Colab
- Then, I took Will Browns processing and reward functions to make reasoning chains from GSM8k
- Finally, I used TRL’s GRPOTrainer to train the model
Next step is to bring Unsloth AI in, then ship it in the reasoning course. Links to notebook below.
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Vkl69ytCS3bvOtV9_stRETMthlQXR4wX?usp=sharing
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We've kept pushing our Open-R1 project, an open initiative to replicate and extend the techniques behind DeepSeek-R1.
And even we were mind-blown by the results we got with this latest model we're releasing: ⚡️OlympicCoder ( open-r1/OlympicCoder-7B and open-r1/OlympicCoder-32B)
It's beating Claude 3.7 on (competitive) programming –a domain Anthropic has been historically really strong at– and it's getting close to o1-mini/R1 on olympiad level coding with just 7B parameters!
And the best part is that we're open-sourcing all about its training dataset, the new IOI benchmark, and more in our Open-R1 progress report #3: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1/update-3
Datasets are are releasing:
- open-r1/codeforces
- open-r1/codeforces-cots
- open-r1/ioi
- open-r1/ioi-test-cases
- open-r1/ioi-sample-solutions
- open-r1/ioi-cots
- open-r1/ioi-2024-model-solutions
And even we were mind-blown by the results we got with this latest model we're releasing: ⚡️OlympicCoder ( open-r1/OlympicCoder-7B and open-r1/OlympicCoder-32B)
It's beating Claude 3.7 on (competitive) programming –a domain Anthropic has been historically really strong at– and it's getting close to o1-mini/R1 on olympiad level coding with just 7B parameters!
And the best part is that we're open-sourcing all about its training dataset, the new IOI benchmark, and more in our Open-R1 progress report #3: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1/update-3
Datasets are are releasing:
- open-r1/codeforces
- open-r1/codeforces-cots
- open-r1/ioi
- open-r1/ioi-test-cases
- open-r1/ioi-sample-solutions
- open-r1/ioi-cots
- open-r1/ioi-2024-model-solutions
burtenshaw
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I’m super excited to work with
@mlabonne
to build the first practical example in the reasoning course.
🔗
reasoning-course
Here's a quick walk through of the first drop of material that works toward the use case:
- a fundamental introduction to reinforcement learning. Answering questions like, ‘what is a reward?’ and ‘how do we create an environment for a language model?’
- Then it focuses on Deepseek R1 by walking through the paper and highlighting key aspects. This is an old school way to learn ML topics, but it always works.
- Next, it takes to you Transformers Reinforcement Learning and demonstrates potential reward functions you could use. This is cool because it uses Marimo notebooks to visualise the reward.
- Finally, Maxime walks us through a real training notebook that uses GRPO to reduce generation length. I’m really into this because it works and Maxime took the time to validate it share assets and logging from his own runs for you to compare with.
Maxime’s work and notebooks have been a major part of the open source community over the last few years. I, like everyone, have learnt so much from them.
🔗
reasoning-course
Here's a quick walk through of the first drop of material that works toward the use case:
- a fundamental introduction to reinforcement learning. Answering questions like, ‘what is a reward?’ and ‘how do we create an environment for a language model?’
- Then it focuses on Deepseek R1 by walking through the paper and highlighting key aspects. This is an old school way to learn ML topics, but it always works.
- Next, it takes to you Transformers Reinforcement Learning and demonstrates potential reward functions you could use. This is cool because it uses Marimo notebooks to visualise the reward.
- Finally, Maxime walks us through a real training notebook that uses GRPO to reduce generation length. I’m really into this because it works and Maxime took the time to validate it share assets and logging from his own runs for you to compare with.
Maxime’s work and notebooks have been a major part of the open source community over the last few years. I, like everyone, have learnt so much from them.
burtenshaw
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I made a real time voice agent with FastRTC, smolagents, and hugging face inference providers. Check it out in this space:
🔗 burtenshaw/coworking_agent
🔗 burtenshaw/coworking_agent
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