Strategic Navigation or Stochastic Search? How Agents and Humans Reason Over Document Collections
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clefourrier
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AI for Scientific Discovery Won't Work Without Fixing How We Collaborate.
My co-author @cgeorgiaw and I just published a paper challenging a core assumption: that the main barriers to AI in science are technical. They're not. They're social.
Key findings:
🚨 The "AI Scientist" myth delays progress: Waiting for AGI devalues human expertise and obscures science's real purpose: cultivating understanding, not just outputs.
📊 Wrong incentives: Datasets have 100x longer impact than models, yet data curation is undervalued.
⚠️ Broken collaboration: Domain scientists want understanding. ML researchers optimize performance. Without shared language, projects fail.
🔍 Fragmentation costs years: Harmonizing just 9 cancer files took 329 hours.
Why this matters: Upstream bottlenecks like efficient PDE solvers could accelerate discovery across multiple sciences. CASP mobilized a community around protein structure, enabling AlphaFold. We need this for dozens of challenges.
Thus, we're launching Hugging Science! A global community addressing these barriers through collaborative challenges, open toolkits, education, and community-owned infrastructure. Please find all the links below!
Paper: AI for Scientific Discovery is a Social Problem (2509.06580)
Join:
hugging-science
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/VYkdEVjJ5J
My co-author @cgeorgiaw and I just published a paper challenging a core assumption: that the main barriers to AI in science are technical. They're not. They're social.
Key findings:
🚨 The "AI Scientist" myth delays progress: Waiting for AGI devalues human expertise and obscures science's real purpose: cultivating understanding, not just outputs.
📊 Wrong incentives: Datasets have 100x longer impact than models, yet data curation is undervalued.
⚠️ Broken collaboration: Domain scientists want understanding. ML researchers optimize performance. Without shared language, projects fail.
🔍 Fragmentation costs years: Harmonizing just 9 cancer files took 329 hours.
Why this matters: Upstream bottlenecks like efficient PDE solvers could accelerate discovery across multiple sciences. CASP mobilized a community around protein structure, enabling AlphaFold. We need this for dozens of challenges.
Thus, we're launching Hugging Science! A global community addressing these barriers through collaborative challenges, open toolkits, education, and community-owned infrastructure. Please find all the links below!
Paper: AI for Scientific Discovery is a Social Problem (2509.06580)
Join:
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/VYkdEVjJ5J
mlcu
authored a paper 6 months ago
gregmialz
authored a paper 6 months ago
mortimerp9
authored a paper 6 months ago
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New blog post alert! "What is the Hugging Face Community Building?", with @yjernite and @irenesolaiman
What 1.8 Million Models Reveal About Open Source Innovation: Our latest deep dive into the Hugging Face Hub reveals patterns that challenge conventional AI narratives:
🔗 Models become platforms for innovation Qwen, Llama, and Gemma models have spawned entire ecosystems of specialized variants. Looking at derivative works shows community adoption better than any single metric.
📊 Datasets reveal the foundation layer → Most downloaded datasets are evaluation benchmarks (MMLU, Squad, GLUE) → Universities and research institutions dominate foundational data → Domain-specific datasets thrive across finance, healthcare, robotics, and science → Open actors provide the datasets that power most AI development
🏛️ Research institutions lead the charge: AI2 (Allen Institute) emerges as one of the most active contributors, alongside significant activity from IBM, NVIDIA, and international organizations. The open source ecosystem spans far beyond Big Tech.
🔍 Interactive exploration tools: We've built several tools to help you discover patterns!
ModelVerse Explorer - organizational contributions
DataVerse Explorer - dataset patterns
Organization HeatMap - activity over time
Base Model Explorer - model family trees
Semantic Search - find models by capability
📚 Academic research is thriving: Researchers are already producing valuable insights, including recent work at FAccT 2025: "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Open Models." We've also made hub datasets, weekly snapshots, and other data available for your own analysis.
The bottom line: AI development is far more distributed, diverse, and collaborative than popular narratives suggest. Real innovation happens through community collaboration across specialized domains.
Read: https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/hf-hub-ecosystem-overview
What 1.8 Million Models Reveal About Open Source Innovation: Our latest deep dive into the Hugging Face Hub reveals patterns that challenge conventional AI narratives:
🔗 Models become platforms for innovation Qwen, Llama, and Gemma models have spawned entire ecosystems of specialized variants. Looking at derivative works shows community adoption better than any single metric.
📊 Datasets reveal the foundation layer → Most downloaded datasets are evaluation benchmarks (MMLU, Squad, GLUE) → Universities and research institutions dominate foundational data → Domain-specific datasets thrive across finance, healthcare, robotics, and science → Open actors provide the datasets that power most AI development
🏛️ Research institutions lead the charge: AI2 (Allen Institute) emerges as one of the most active contributors, alongside significant activity from IBM, NVIDIA, and international organizations. The open source ecosystem spans far beyond Big Tech.
🔍 Interactive exploration tools: We've built several tools to help you discover patterns!
ModelVerse Explorer - organizational contributions
DataVerse Explorer - dataset patterns
Organization HeatMap - activity over time
Base Model Explorer - model family trees
Semantic Search - find models by capability
📚 Academic research is thriving: Researchers are already producing valuable insights, including recent work at FAccT 2025: "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Open Models." We've also made hub datasets, weekly snapshots, and other data available for your own analysis.
The bottom line: AI development is far more distributed, diverse, and collaborative than popular narratives suggest. Real innovation happens through community collaboration across specialized domains.
Read: https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/hf-hub-ecosystem-overview
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The HF Policy Team submitted our response to the 2025 National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan.
Blog (with link to full pdf response):
https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/us-ai-research-strategy-rfi
Blog (with link to full pdf response):
https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/us-ai-research-strategy-rfi
clefourrier
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update 10 months ago
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Always surprised that so few people actually read the FineTasks blog, on
✨how to select training evals with the highest signal✨
If you're serious about training models without wasting compute on shitty runs, you absolutely should read it!!
An high signal eval actually tells you precisely, during training, how wel & what your model is learning, allowing you to discard the bad runs/bad samplings/...!
The blog covers in depth prompt choice, metrics, dataset, across languages/capabilities, and my fave section is "which properties should evals have"👌
(to know on your use case how to select the best evals for you)
Blog: HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fine-tasks
✨how to select training evals with the highest signal✨
If you're serious about training models without wasting compute on shitty runs, you absolutely should read it!!
An high signal eval actually tells you precisely, during training, how wel & what your model is learning, allowing you to discard the bad runs/bad samplings/...!
The blog covers in depth prompt choice, metrics, dataset, across languages/capabilities, and my fave section is "which properties should evals have"👌
(to know on your use case how to select the best evals for you)
Blog: HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fine-tasks
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evijit
authored 3 papers 11 months ago
In-House Evaluation Is Not Enough: Towards Robust Third-Party Flaw Disclosure for General-Purpose AI
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• 2503.16861 • Published
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Stop treating `AGI' as the north-star goal of AI research
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• 2502.03689 • Published
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"It's not a representation of me": Examining Accent Bias and Digital Exclusion in Synthetic AI Voice Services
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• 2504.09346 • Published
• 3
evijit
authored a paper 12 months ago
clefourrier
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Gemma3 family is out! Reading the tech report, and this section was really interesting to me from a methods/scientific fairness pov.
Instead of doing over-hyped comparisons, they clearly state that **results are reported in a setup which is advantageous to their models**.
(Which everybody does, but people usually don't say)
For a tech report, it makes a lot of sense to report model performance when used optimally!
On leaderboards on the other hand, comparison will be apples to apples, but in a potentially unoptimal way for a given model family (like some user interact sub-optimally with models)
Also contains a cool section (6) on training data memorization rate too! Important to see if your model will output the training data it has seen as such: always an issue for privacy/copyright/... but also very much for evaluation!
Because if your model knows its evals by heart, you're not testing for generalization.
Instead of doing over-hyped comparisons, they clearly state that **results are reported in a setup which is advantageous to their models**.
(Which everybody does, but people usually don't say)
For a tech report, it makes a lot of sense to report model performance when used optimally!
On leaderboards on the other hand, comparison will be apples to apples, but in a potentially unoptimal way for a given model family (like some user interact sub-optimally with models)
Also contains a cool section (6) on training data memorization rate too! Important to see if your model will output the training data it has seen as such: always an issue for privacy/copyright/... but also very much for evaluation!
Because if your model knows its evals by heart, you're not testing for generalization.
clefourrier
authored a paper about 1 year ago
clefourrier
authored 3 papers over 1 year ago
Global MMLU: Understanding and Addressing Cultural and Linguistic Biases in Multilingual Evaluation
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• 2412.03304 • Published
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The Hallucinations Leaderboard -- An Open Effort to Measure Hallucinations in Large Language Models
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• 2404.05904 • Published
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GAIA: a benchmark for General AI Assistants
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• 2311.12983 • Published
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clefourrier
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In a basic chatbots, errors are annoyances. In medical LLMs, errors can have life-threatening consequences 🩸
It's therefore vital to benchmark/follow advances in medical LLMs before even thinking about deployment.
This is why a small research team introduced a medical LLM leaderboard, to get reproducible and comparable results between LLMs, and allow everyone to follow advances in the field.
openlifescienceai/open_medical_llm_leaderboard
Congrats to @aaditya and @pminervini !
Learn more in the blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-medicalllm
It's therefore vital to benchmark/follow advances in medical LLMs before even thinking about deployment.
This is why a small research team introduced a medical LLM leaderboard, to get reproducible and comparable results between LLMs, and allow everyone to follow advances in the field.
openlifescienceai/open_medical_llm_leaderboard
Congrats to @aaditya and @pminervini !
Learn more in the blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-medicalllm
clefourrier
posted an
update almost 2 years ago
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Contamination free code evaluations with LiveCodeBench! 🖥️
LiveCodeBench is a new leaderboard, which contains:
- complete code evaluations (on code generation, self repair, code execution, tests)
- my favorite feature: problem selection by publication date 📅
This feature means that you can get model scores averaged only on new problems out of the training data. This means... contamination free code evals! 🚀
Check it out!
Blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-livecodebench
Leaderboard: livecodebench/leaderboard
Congrats to @StringChaos @minimario @xu3kev @kingh0730 and @FanjiaYan for the super cool leaderboard!
LiveCodeBench is a new leaderboard, which contains:
- complete code evaluations (on code generation, self repair, code execution, tests)
- my favorite feature: problem selection by publication date 📅
This feature means that you can get model scores averaged only on new problems out of the training data. This means... contamination free code evals! 🚀
Check it out!
Blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-livecodebench
Leaderboard: livecodebench/leaderboard
Congrats to @StringChaos @minimario @xu3kev @kingh0730 and @FanjiaYan for the super cool leaderboard!
clefourrier
posted an
update almost 2 years ago
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🆕 Evaluate your RL agents - who's best at Atari?🏆
The new RL leaderboard evaluates agents in 87 possible environments (from Atari 🎮 to motion control simulations🚶and more)!
When you submit your model, it's run and evaluated in real time - and the leaderboard displays small videos of the best model's run, which is super fun to watch! ✨
Kudos to @qgallouedec for creating and maintaining the leaderboard!
Let's find out which agent is the best at games! 🚀
open-rl-leaderboard/leaderboard
The new RL leaderboard evaluates agents in 87 possible environments (from Atari 🎮 to motion control simulations🚶and more)!
When you submit your model, it's run and evaluated in real time - and the leaderboard displays small videos of the best model's run, which is super fun to watch! ✨
Kudos to @qgallouedec for creating and maintaining the leaderboard!
Let's find out which agent is the best at games! 🚀
open-rl-leaderboard/leaderboard