Repetition over Diversity: High-Signal Data Filtering for Sample-Efficient German Language Modeling
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Super excited to launch Hugging Face Sheets: Spreadsheets meet AI and unstructured data.
A few months ago, we started imagining new ways to build and transform datasets with the latest open-source models.
Today, I'm thrilled to introduce our first step in this direction.
In a nutshell:
📁 Effortlessly run prompts and models over your data.
🌐 Agentic search for accuracy and real-time information.
🖼️ Familiar, minimalistic interface for interacting with data.
🎯 Human feedback 2.0: Your input directly improves generated data.
💯 Access hundreds of open models and leading inference providers.
Go to this space to try it out!
aisheets/sheets
Leave your questions below, we're just getting started!
A few months ago, we started imagining new ways to build and transform datasets with the latest open-source models.
Today, I'm thrilled to introduce our first step in this direction.
In a nutshell:
📁 Effortlessly run prompts and models over your data.
🌐 Agentic search for accuracy and real-time information.
🖼️ Familiar, minimalistic interface for interacting with data.
🎯 Human feedback 2.0: Your input directly improves generated data.
💯 Access hundreds of open models and leading inference providers.
Go to this space to try it out!
aisheets/sheets
Leave your questions below, we're just getting started!
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philschmid
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Gemini 2.5 Flash is here! We excited launch our first hybrid reasoning Gemini model. In Flash 2.5 developer can turn thinking off.
**TL;DR:**
- 🧠 Controllable "Thinking" with thinking budget with up to 24k token
- 🌌 1 Million multimodal input context for text, image, video, audio, and pdf
- 🛠️ Function calling, structured output, google search & code execution.
- 🏦 $0.15 1M input tokens; $0.6 or $3.5 (thinking on) per million output tokens (thinking tokens are billed as output tokens)
- 💡 Knowledge cut of January 2025
- 🚀 Rate limits - Free 10 RPM 500 req/day
- 🏅Outperforms 2.0 Flash on every benchmark
Try it ⬇️
https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat?model=gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17
**TL;DR:**
- 🧠 Controllable "Thinking" with thinking budget with up to 24k token
- 🌌 1 Million multimodal input context for text, image, video, audio, and pdf
- 🛠️ Function calling, structured output, google search & code execution.
- 🏦 $0.15 1M input tokens; $0.6 or $3.5 (thinking on) per million output tokens (thinking tokens are billed as output tokens)
- 💡 Knowledge cut of January 2025
- 🚀 Rate limits - Free 10 RPM 500 req/day
- 🏅Outperforms 2.0 Flash on every benchmark
Try it ⬇️
https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat?model=gemini-2.5-flash-preview-04-17
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Wohoo 🥳 I have finished my 2025 GPU workstation build and I am very excited to train new awesome open source models on it.
I built my last GPU workstation 5 years ago featuring an AMD Ryzen 5900X, 64GB of G.SKILL Trident Z RGB on an ASRock X570 Taichi cooled by an Alphacool Eisbär 420. GPU was a Zotac RTX 3090 AMP Extreme. Unfortunately, I was never satisfied with the case - some Fractal Define 7, as it is definitely too small, airflow is not optimal as I had to open the front door all the time and it also arrived with a partly damaged side panel.
For my new build, I've used the following components: an outstanding new AMD Ryzen 9950X3D with 64GB of Corsair Dominator Titanium (what a name). As a huge Noctua fan - warm greetings to my Austrian neighbors - I am using the brand new Noctua NH-D15 G2 on an ASRock X870E Taichi in an amazing Lian Li LANCOOL III chassis. One joke that only NVIDIA Blackwell users will understand: you definitely need a tempered glass panel to check if your GPU cables/connectors start melting 😂 And the best is yet to come: I returned my previously bought Zotac RTX 5090 Solid to the eBay seller (because of... missing ROPs, only NVIDIA Blackwell users will again understand) and bought a Zotac 5090 AMP Extreme INFINITY (yes, the long name indicates that this is the flagship model from Zotac) from a more trustworthy source (NBB in Germany).
I am so happy to start training and fine-tuning new open source models - stay tuned!!!
I built my last GPU workstation 5 years ago featuring an AMD Ryzen 5900X, 64GB of G.SKILL Trident Z RGB on an ASRock X570 Taichi cooled by an Alphacool Eisbär 420. GPU was a Zotac RTX 3090 AMP Extreme. Unfortunately, I was never satisfied with the case - some Fractal Define 7, as it is definitely too small, airflow is not optimal as I had to open the front door all the time and it also arrived with a partly damaged side panel.
For my new build, I've used the following components: an outstanding new AMD Ryzen 9950X3D with 64GB of Corsair Dominator Titanium (what a name). As a huge Noctua fan - warm greetings to my Austrian neighbors - I am using the brand new Noctua NH-D15 G2 on an ASRock X870E Taichi in an amazing Lian Li LANCOOL III chassis. One joke that only NVIDIA Blackwell users will understand: you definitely need a tempered glass panel to check if your GPU cables/connectors start melting 😂 And the best is yet to come: I returned my previously bought Zotac RTX 5090 Solid to the eBay seller (because of... missing ROPs, only NVIDIA Blackwell users will again understand) and bought a Zotac 5090 AMP Extreme INFINITY (yes, the long name indicates that this is the flagship model from Zotac) from a more trustworthy source (NBB in Germany).
I am so happy to start training and fine-tuning new open source models - stay tuned!!!
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philschmid
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Gemini 2.5 Pro, thinking by default! We excited launch our best Gemini model for reasoning, multimodal and coding yet! #1 on LMSYS, Humanity’s Last Exam, AIME and GPQA and more!
TL;DR:
- 💻 Best Gemini coding model yet, particularly for web development (excels on LiveCodeBench).
- 🧠 Default "Thinking" with up to 64k token output
- 🌌 1 Million multimodal input context for text, image, video, audio, and pdf
- 🛠️ Function calling, structured output, google search & code execution.
- 🏆 #1 on LMArena & sota on AIME, GPQA, Humanity's Last Exam
- 💡 Knowledge cut of January 2025
- 🤗 Available for free as Experimental in AI Studio, Gemini API & Gemini APP
- 🚀 Rate limits - Free 2 RPM 50 req/day
Try it ⬇️
https://aistudio.google.com/?model=gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25
TL;DR:
- 💻 Best Gemini coding model yet, particularly for web development (excels on LiveCodeBench).
- 🧠 Default "Thinking" with up to 64k token output
- 🌌 1 Million multimodal input context for text, image, video, audio, and pdf
- 🛠️ Function calling, structured output, google search & code execution.
- 🏆 #1 on LMArena & sota on AIME, GPQA, Humanity's Last Exam
- 💡 Knowledge cut of January 2025
- 🤗 Available for free as Experimental in AI Studio, Gemini API & Gemini APP
- 🚀 Rate limits - Free 2 RPM 50 req/day
Try it ⬇️
https://aistudio.google.com/?model=gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25
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🇹🇷 😍 I'm very happy to finally announce my new Turkish LM called "BERT5urk":
stefan-it/bert5urk
It is a 1.42B T5-based model, trained with UL2 pretraining objective on the Turkish part of the awesome HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2 dataset.
Feel free to check it out!
stefan-it/bert5urk
It is a 1.42B T5-based model, trained with UL2 pretraining objective on the Turkish part of the awesome HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2 dataset.
Feel free to check it out!
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After running some 3DMark and FurMark benchmarks on Windows to make sure that my new 5090 is not causing melting cables [1] and some nice shots with a thermal camera (I don't think that's too much), running some fine-tuning experiments with my favorite Flair & Transformers libraries are very easy to perform.
Important steps:
Good idea is to start with a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 installation with latest CUDA 12.8 and the open NVIDIA driver - follow more advices from [2]:
I tried update from an existing Ubuntu installation with an older CUDA and driver version and it resulted in a non-startable system.
If you are using PyTorch 2.6 with built CUDA 12.6 it will result in:
But no worries! For PyTorch you need just to use a nightly 2.7 version that was built with CUDA 12.8. This can easily done via:
After that the latest Flair version can be installed and fine-tuning will work!
References:
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1inpox7/rtx_50_series_12vhpwr_megathread/
[2]: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&Distribution=Ubuntu&target_version=24.04&target_type=deb_network
Important steps:
Good idea is to start with a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 installation with latest CUDA 12.8 and the open NVIDIA driver - follow more advices from [2]:
sudo apt -y install cuda-toolkit-12-8 nvidia-openI tried update from an existing Ubuntu installation with an older CUDA and driver version and it resulted in a non-startable system.
If you are using PyTorch 2.6 with built CUDA 12.6 it will result in:
NVIDIA Graphics Device with CUDA capability sm_120 is not compatible with the current PyTorch installation.
The current PyTorch install supports CUDA capabilities sm_50 sm_60 sm_70 sm_75 sm_80 sm_86 sm_90.But no worries! For PyTorch you need just to use a nightly 2.7 version that was built with CUDA 12.8. This can easily done via:
pip install --pre torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu128After that the latest Flair version can be installed and fine-tuning will work!
References:
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/1inpox7/rtx_50_series_12vhpwr_megathread/
[2]: https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Linux&target_arch=x86_64&Distribution=Ubuntu&target_version=24.04&target_type=deb_network
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She arrived 😍
[Expect more models soon...]
[Expect more models soon...]
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My latest project is the outcome of the last 2+ years working with TPUs from the amazing TPU Research Cloud (TRC) program and training Encoder-only LMs with the TensorFlow Model Garden library.
👉 Link: https://github.com/stefan-it/model-garden-lms
An overview of some features:
- Cheatsheet for setting-up a TPU VM Pod (with all necessary dependencies) to pretrain LMs with TF Model Garden
- Conversion scripts that convert TF Model Garden weights to Hugging Face Transformers-compatible models
- Supported architectures include BERT, BERT with Token Dropping and TEAMS
I also released BERT-based models pretrained on the great Hugging Face FineWeb and FineWeb-Edu datasets (10BT subset). With more to come!
👉 Model Hub Link:
model-garden-lms
If you find these resources useful, please give them a like!
Made from Bavarian Oberland with ❤️ and 🥨.
👉 Link: https://github.com/stefan-it/model-garden-lms
An overview of some features:
- Cheatsheet for setting-up a TPU VM Pod (with all necessary dependencies) to pretrain LMs with TF Model Garden
- Conversion scripts that convert TF Model Garden weights to Hugging Face Transformers-compatible models
- Supported architectures include BERT, BERT with Token Dropping and TEAMS
I also released BERT-based models pretrained on the great Hugging Face FineWeb and FineWeb-Edu datasets (10BT subset). With more to come!
👉 Model Hub Link:
If you find these resources useful, please give them a like!
Made from Bavarian Oberland with ❤️ and 🥨.
dvilasuero
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dvilasuero
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🌐 Announcing Global-MMLU: an improved MMLU Open dataset with evaluation coverage across 42 languages, built with Argilla and the Hugging Face community.
Global-MMLU is the result of months of work with the goal of advancing Multilingual LLM evaluation. It's been an amazing open science effort with collaborators from Cohere For AI, Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, EPFL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AI Singapore, National University of Singapore, KAIST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Carnegie Mellon University, CONICET, and University of Buenos Aires.
🏷️ +200 contributors used Argilla MMLU questions where regional, dialect, or cultural knowledge was required to answer correctly. 85% of the questions required Western-centric knowledge!
Thanks to this annotation process, the open dataset contains two subsets:
1. 🗽 Culturally Agnostic: no specific regional, cultural knowledge is required.
2. ⚖️ Culturally Sensitive: requires dialect, cultural knowledge or geographic knowledge to answer correctly.
Moreover, we provide high quality translations of 25 out of 42 languages, thanks again to the community and professional annotators leveraging Argilla on the Hub.
I hope this will ensure a better understanding of the limitations and challenges for making open AI useful for many languages.
Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/CohereForAI/Global-MMLU
Global-MMLU is the result of months of work with the goal of advancing Multilingual LLM evaluation. It's been an amazing open science effort with collaborators from Cohere For AI, Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, EPFL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AI Singapore, National University of Singapore, KAIST, Instituto Superior Técnico, Carnegie Mellon University, CONICET, and University of Buenos Aires.
🏷️ +200 contributors used Argilla MMLU questions where regional, dialect, or cultural knowledge was required to answer correctly. 85% of the questions required Western-centric knowledge!
Thanks to this annotation process, the open dataset contains two subsets:
1. 🗽 Culturally Agnostic: no specific regional, cultural knowledge is required.
2. ⚖️ Culturally Sensitive: requires dialect, cultural knowledge or geographic knowledge to answer correctly.
Moreover, we provide high quality translations of 25 out of 42 languages, thanks again to the community and professional annotators leveraging Argilla on the Hub.
I hope this will ensure a better understanding of the limitations and challenges for making open AI useful for many languages.
Dataset: https://huggingface.co/datasets/CohereForAI/Global-MMLU
dvilasuero
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@Jesse-marqo and the Marqo team are killing it on the Hub: top embedding models and datasets!
Here's how to start using their new evaluation dataset for curation and labelling:
1. Deploy Argilla on Spaces: https://huggingface.co/new-space?template=argilla%2Fargilla-template-space
2. Load Marqo/amazon-products-eval with the UI wizard.
3. Start curating!
Here's how to start using their new evaluation dataset for curation and labelling:
1. Deploy Argilla on Spaces: https://huggingface.co/new-space?template=argilla%2Fargilla-template-space
2. Load Marqo/amazon-products-eval with the UI wizard.
3. Start curating!
dvilasuero
posted an update over 1 year ago
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Build datasets for AI on the Hugging Face Hub—10x easier than ever!
Today, I'm excited to share our biggest feature since we joined Hugging Face.
Here’s how it works:
1. Pick a dataset—upload your own or choose from 240K open datasets.
2. Paste the Hub dataset ID into Argilla and set up your labeling interface.
3. Share the URL with your team or the whole community!
And the best part? It’s:
- No code – no Python needed
- Integrated – all within the Hub
- Scalable – from solo labeling to 100s of contributors
I am incredibly proud of the team for shipping this after weeks of work and many quick iterations.
Let's make this sentence obsolete: "Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work."
Read, share, and like the HF blog post:
https://huggingface.co/blog/argilla-ui-hub
Today, I'm excited to share our biggest feature since we joined Hugging Face.
Here’s how it works:
1. Pick a dataset—upload your own or choose from 240K open datasets.
2. Paste the Hub dataset ID into Argilla and set up your labeling interface.
3. Share the URL with your team or the whole community!
And the best part? It’s:
- No code – no Python needed
- Integrated – all within the Hub
- Scalable – from solo labeling to 100s of contributors
I am incredibly proud of the team for shipping this after weeks of work and many quick iterations.
Let's make this sentence obsolete: "Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work."
Read, share, and like the HF blog post:
https://huggingface.co/blog/argilla-ui-hub
dvilasuero
posted an update over 1 year ago
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Big news! You can now build strong ML models without days of human labelling
You simply:
- Define your dataset, including annotation guidelines, labels and fields
- Optionally label some records manually.
- Use an LLM to auto label your data with a human (you? your team?) in the loop!
Get started with this blog post:
https://huggingface.co/blog/sdiazlor/custom-text-classifier-ai-human-feedback
You simply:
- Define your dataset, including annotation guidelines, labels and fields
- Optionally label some records manually.
- Use an LLM to auto label your data with a human (you? your team?) in the loop!
Get started with this blog post:
https://huggingface.co/blog/sdiazlor/custom-text-classifier-ai-human-feedback
dvilasuero
posted an update over 1 year ago
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Explore FinePersonas, visually with Argilla and black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell
Excited to share this space where the community can explore a tiny subset of FinePersonas
argilla/finepersonas
Dataset built with distilabel and Free Serveless endpoints
This is just a first step towards more interesting experiments with FinePersonas, for example can we use it to assess biases in text2image models?
If you have ideas I'd love to hear them in the comments!
Excited to share this space where the community can explore a tiny subset of FinePersonas
argilla/finepersonas
Dataset built with distilabel and Free Serveless endpoints
This is just a first step towards more interesting experiments with FinePersonas, for example can we use it to assess biases in text2image models?
If you have ideas I'd love to hear them in the comments!