SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big -- Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model
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We are reproducing the full DeepSeek R1 data and training pipeline so everybody can use their recipe. Instead of doing it in secret we can do it together in the open!
🧪 Step 1: replicate the R1-Distill models by distilling a high-quality reasoning corpus from DeepSeek-R1.
🧠 Step 2: replicate the pure RL pipeline that DeepSeek used to create R1-Zero. This will involve curating new, large-scale datasets for math, reasoning, and code.
🔥 Step 3: show we can go from base model -> SFT -> RL via multi-stage training.
Follow along: https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1
🧪 Step 1: replicate the R1-Distill models by distilling a high-quality reasoning corpus from DeepSeek-R1.
🧠 Step 2: replicate the pure RL pipeline that DeepSeek used to create R1-Zero. This will involve curating new, large-scale datasets for math, reasoning, and code.
🔥 Step 3: show we can go from base model -> SFT -> RL via multi-stage training.
Follow along: https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1
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I was initially pretty sceptical about Meta's Coconut paper [1] because the largest perf gains were reported on toy linguistic problems. However, these results on machine translation are pretty impressive!
https://x.com/casper_hansen_/status/1875872309996855343
Together with the recent PRIME method [2] for scaling RL, reasoning for open models is looking pretty exciting for 2025!
[1] Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space (2412.06769)
[2] https://huggingface.co/blog/ganqu/prime
https://x.com/casper_hansen_/status/1875872309996855343
Together with the recent PRIME method [2] for scaling RL, reasoning for open models is looking pretty exciting for 2025!
[1] Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space (2412.06769)
[2] https://huggingface.co/blog/ganqu/prime
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This paper (
HuatuoGPT-o1, Towards Medical Complex Reasoning with LLMs (2412.18925)) has a really interesting recipe for inducing o1-like behaviour in Llama models:
* Iteratively sample CoTs from the model, using a mix of different search strategies. This gives you something like Stream of Search via prompting.
* Verify correctness of each CoT using GPT-4o (needed because exact match doesn't work well in medicine where there are lots of aliases)
* Use GPT-4o to reformat the concatenated CoTs into a single stream that includes smooth transitions like "hmm, wait" etc that one sees in o1
* Use the resulting data for SFT & RL
* Use sparse rewards from GPT-4o to guide RL training. They find RL gives an average ~3 point boost across medical benchmarks and SFT on this data already gives a strong improvement.
Applying this strategy to other domains could be quite promising, provided the training data can be formulated with verifiable problems!
* Iteratively sample CoTs from the model, using a mix of different search strategies. This gives you something like Stream of Search via prompting.
* Verify correctness of each CoT using GPT-4o (needed because exact match doesn't work well in medicine where there are lots of aliases)
* Use GPT-4o to reformat the concatenated CoTs into a single stream that includes smooth transitions like "hmm, wait" etc that one sees in o1
* Use the resulting data for SFT & RL
* Use sparse rewards from GPT-4o to guide RL training. They find RL gives an average ~3 point boost across medical benchmarks and SFT on this data already gives a strong improvement.
Applying this strategy to other domains could be quite promising, provided the training data can be formulated with verifiable problems!
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We outperform Llama 70B with Llama 3B on hard math by scaling test-time compute 🔥
How? By combining step-wise reward models with tree search algorithms :)
We show that smol models can match or exceed the performance of their much larger siblings when given enough "time to think"
We're open sourcing the full recipe and sharing a detailed blog post.
In our blog post we cover:
📈 Compute-optimal scaling: How we implemented DeepMind's recipe to boost the mathematical capabilities of open models at test-time.
🎄 Diverse Verifier Tree Search (DVTS): An unpublished extension we developed to the verifier-guided tree search technique. This simple yet effective method improves diversity and delivers better performance, particularly at large test-time compute budgets.
🧭 Search and Learn: A lightweight toolkit for implementing search strategies with LLMs and built for speed with vLLM
Here's the links:
- Blog post: HuggingFaceH4/blogpost-scaling-test-time-compute
- Code: https://github.com/huggingface/search-and-learn
Enjoy!
How? By combining step-wise reward models with tree search algorithms :)
We show that smol models can match or exceed the performance of their much larger siblings when given enough "time to think"
We're open sourcing the full recipe and sharing a detailed blog post.
In our blog post we cover:
📈 Compute-optimal scaling: How we implemented DeepMind's recipe to boost the mathematical capabilities of open models at test-time.
🎄 Diverse Verifier Tree Search (DVTS): An unpublished extension we developed to the verifier-guided tree search technique. This simple yet effective method improves diversity and delivers better performance, particularly at large test-time compute budgets.
🧭 Search and Learn: A lightweight toolkit for implementing search strategies with LLMs and built for speed with vLLM
Here's the links:
- Blog post: HuggingFaceH4/blogpost-scaling-test-time-compute
- Code: https://github.com/huggingface/search-and-learn
Enjoy!
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We are proud to announce
HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2: A sparkling update to
HuggingFaceFW/fineweb with 1000s of 🗣️languages.
We applied the same data-driven approach that led to SOTA English performance in🍷 FineWeb to thousands of languages.
🥂 FineWeb2 has 8TB of compressed text data and outperforms other multilingual datasets in our experiments.
The dataset is released under the permissive 📜 ODC-By 1.0 license, and the 💻 code to reproduce it and our evaluations is public.
We will very soon announce a big community project, and are working on a 📝 blogpost walking you through the entire dataset creation process. Stay tuned!
In the mean time come ask us question on our chat place: HuggingFaceFW/discussion
H/t @guipenedo @hynky @lvwerra as well as @vsabolcec Bettina Messmer @negar-foroutan and @mjaggi
We applied the same data-driven approach that led to SOTA English performance in🍷 FineWeb to thousands of languages.
🥂 FineWeb2 has 8TB of compressed text data and outperforms other multilingual datasets in our experiments.
The dataset is released under the permissive 📜 ODC-By 1.0 license, and the 💻 code to reproduce it and our evaluations is public.
We will very soon announce a big community project, and are working on a 📝 blogpost walking you through the entire dataset creation process. Stay tuned!
In the mean time come ask us question on our chat place: HuggingFaceFW/discussion
H/t @guipenedo @hynky @lvwerra as well as @vsabolcec Bettina Messmer @negar-foroutan and @mjaggi
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Exponentially growing number of open-source AI models over the course of the past 30 months – from a few thousands to over 1 million and more
Interactive data viz: huggingface/open-source-ai-year-in-review-2024
Interactive data viz: huggingface/open-source-ai-year-in-review-2024
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Most liked and most downloaded open-source AI models from 2022 to 2024
Interactive viz: https://aiworld.eu/embed/model/model/treemap
Discussion: huggingface/open-source-ai-year-in-review-2024
Interactive viz: https://aiworld.eu/embed/model/model/treemap
Discussion: huggingface/open-source-ai-year-in-review-2024
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Interesting long read from
@evanmiller-anthropic
on having a better founded statistical approach to Language Model Evaluations:
https://www.anthropic.com/research/statistical-approach-to-model-evals
Worth a read if you're into LLM evaluations!
Cc @clefourrier
https://www.anthropic.com/research/statistical-approach-to-model-evals
Worth a read if you're into LLM evaluations!
Cc @clefourrier
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Very exciting new
mistralai/Pixtral-Large-Instruct-2411 model from Mistral-AI
Impressive performances, huge congrats @patrickvonplaten @sgvaze @pandora-s @devendrachaplot @sophiamyang and team!
Very nice to have SOTA Multilingual OCR and Chart understanding in an open-weights model
Impressive performances, huge congrats @patrickvonplaten @sgvaze @pandora-s @devendrachaplot @sophiamyang and team!
Very nice to have SOTA Multilingual OCR and Chart understanding in an open-weights model
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Parents in the 1990: Teach the kids to code
Parents now: Teach the kids to fix the code when it starts walking around 🤖✨
Parents now: Teach the kids to fix the code when it starts walking around 🤖✨
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thomwolf
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[New crazy blog post alert] We are releasing an extensive blog post on the science of creating high quality web-scale datasets, detailing all the steps and learnings that came in our recent 15 trillion tokens 🍷FineWeb release
Inspired by the distill.pub interactive graphics papers, we settled to write the most extensive, enjoyable and in-depth tech report we could draft on so prepare for a 45-mmin read with interactive graphics and all.
And it's not all, in this article we also introduce 📚FineWeb-Edu a filtered subset of Common Crawl with 1.3T tokens containing only web pages with very high educational content. Up to our knowledge, FineWeb-Edu out-performs all openly release web-scale datasets by a significant margin on knowledge- and reasoning-intensive benchmarks like MMLU, ARC, and OpenBookQA
We also make a number of surprising observations on the "quality" of the internet it-self which may challenge some of the general assumptions on web data (not saying more, I'll let you draw your conclusions ;)
HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fineweb-v1
Inspired by the distill.pub interactive graphics papers, we settled to write the most extensive, enjoyable and in-depth tech report we could draft on so prepare for a 45-mmin read with interactive graphics and all.
And it's not all, in this article we also introduce 📚FineWeb-Edu a filtered subset of Common Crawl with 1.3T tokens containing only web pages with very high educational content. Up to our knowledge, FineWeb-Edu out-performs all openly release web-scale datasets by a significant margin on knowledge- and reasoning-intensive benchmarks like MMLU, ARC, and OpenBookQA
We also make a number of surprising observations on the "quality" of the internet it-self which may challenge some of the general assumptions on web data (not saying more, I'll let you draw your conclusions ;)
HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fineweb-v1
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edbeeching
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Diaries of Open Source. Part 15 🤗
🕵️♀️Idefics 2 is out, a multimodal open-source model with very nice capabilities
Models, demo, and datasets: HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-661d1971b7c50831dd3ce0fe
Blog: https://hf.co/blog/idefics2
💾Snowflake released snowflake-arctic-embed, a family of powerful small embedding models
Model: Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-m
Blog: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/introducing-snowflake-arctic-embed-snowflakes-state-of-the-art-text-embedding-family-of-models/
✨Pile-T5, EleutherAI's T5 model trained on 2T tokens
Blog: https://blog.eleuther.ai/pile-t5/
Models: EleutherAI/pile-t5-65a76a0d0022dd270b385a66
GitHub: https://github.com/EleutherAI/improved-t5
🤖CodeQwen1.5-7B base and chat models. Models trained on 3T tokens strong benchmark results for code generation, editing and SQL
Blog post: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/codeqwen1.5/
Demo: Qwen/CodeQwen1.5-7b-Chat-demo
Models: Qwen/CodeQwen1.5-7B and Qwen/CodeQwen1.5-7B-Chat
Misc
🦉 DocOwl1.5: Unified Stucture Learning for OCR-free Document Understanding mPLUG/DocOwl
👀Cerule - a tiny Vision LM model Tensoic/Cerule-v0.1
ChemLLM - a LLM for chemistry and molecule science ⚗️https://hf.co/AI4Chem/ChemLLM-7B-Chat-1.5-DPO
Distil Whisper Large
📝New pdf/OCR datasets with 19 samples pixparse/pdf-document-ocr-datasets-660701430b0346f97c4bc628
🔥Gretel AI high quality text-to-sql synthetic dataset gretelai/synthetic_text_to_sql
🕵️♀️Idefics 2 is out, a multimodal open-source model with very nice capabilities
Models, demo, and datasets: HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-661d1971b7c50831dd3ce0fe
Blog: https://hf.co/blog/idefics2
💾Snowflake released snowflake-arctic-embed, a family of powerful small embedding models
Model: Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-embed-m
Blog: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/introducing-snowflake-arctic-embed-snowflakes-state-of-the-art-text-embedding-family-of-models/
✨Pile-T5, EleutherAI's T5 model trained on 2T tokens
Blog: https://blog.eleuther.ai/pile-t5/
Models: EleutherAI/pile-t5-65a76a0d0022dd270b385a66
GitHub: https://github.com/EleutherAI/improved-t5
🤖CodeQwen1.5-7B base and chat models. Models trained on 3T tokens strong benchmark results for code generation, editing and SQL
Blog post: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/codeqwen1.5/
Demo: Qwen/CodeQwen1.5-7b-Chat-demo
Models: Qwen/CodeQwen1.5-7B and Qwen/CodeQwen1.5-7B-Chat
Misc
🦉 DocOwl1.5: Unified Stucture Learning for OCR-free Document Understanding mPLUG/DocOwl
👀Cerule - a tiny Vision LM model Tensoic/Cerule-v0.1
ChemLLM - a LLM for chemistry and molecule science ⚗️https://hf.co/AI4Chem/ChemLLM-7B-Chat-1.5-DPO
Distil Whisper Large
📝New pdf/OCR datasets with 19 samples pixparse/pdf-document-ocr-datasets-660701430b0346f97c4bc628
🔥Gretel AI high quality text-to-sql synthetic dataset gretelai/synthetic_text_to_sql
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Is is time for the open-source AI robots revolution 🚀?
With @haixuantao and @Leyo we’ve been playing with a low-cost DJI robot controlled by three local open-source AI models (Whisper, Idefics2, Parler-TTS - all Apache2) and orchestrated by Dora-cs.
Links to find all the hardware/software we used in the demo:
- robot control framework – dora-rs: https://github.com/dora-rs/dora
- speech-to-text model – whisper: openai/whisper-base
- vision-text model – Idefics2: HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b-AWQ
- text-to-speech model – ParlerTTS mini: parler-tts/parler_tts_mini_v0.1
- robot: https://dji.com/robomaster-s1
- code gist: https://gist.github.com/haixuanTao/860e1740245dc2c8dd85b496150a9320
- Larger codebase: dora-rs/dora-idefics2
- laptop/pc: any with a recent GPU card (our has a RTX 4090)
Enjoy!
With @haixuantao and @Leyo we’ve been playing with a low-cost DJI robot controlled by three local open-source AI models (Whisper, Idefics2, Parler-TTS - all Apache2) and orchestrated by Dora-cs.
Links to find all the hardware/software we used in the demo:
- robot control framework – dora-rs: https://github.com/dora-rs/dora
- speech-to-text model – whisper: openai/whisper-base
- vision-text model – Idefics2: HuggingFaceM4/idefics2-8b-AWQ
- text-to-speech model – ParlerTTS mini: parler-tts/parler_tts_mini_v0.1
- robot: https://dji.com/robomaster-s1
- code gist: https://gist.github.com/haixuanTao/860e1740245dc2c8dd85b496150a9320
- Larger codebase: dora-rs/dora-idefics2
- laptop/pc: any with a recent GPU card (our has a RTX 4090)
Enjoy!
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Introducing Zephyr 141B-A35B 🪁:
HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v0.1
Yesterday, Mistral released their latest base model (via magnet link of course 😅) and the community quickly converted it to transformers format and pushed it to the Hub: mistral-community/Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1
Early evals of this model looked extremely strong, so we teamed up with Argilla and KAIST AI to cook up a Zephyr recipe with a few new alignment techniques that came out recently:
🧑🍳 Align the base model with Odds Ratio Preference Optimisation (ORPO). This novel algorithm developed by @JW17 and @nlee-208 and @j6mes and does not require an SFT step to achieve high performance and is thus much more computationally efficient than methods like DPO and PPO.
🦫 Use a brand new dataset of 7k high-quality, multi-turn preferences that has been developed by our friends at Argilla. To create this dataset, they took the excellent Capybara SFT dataset from @LDJnr LDJnr/Capybara and converted it into a preference dataset by augmenting the final turn with responses from new LLMs that were then ranked by GPT-4.
What we find especially neat about this approach is that training on 7k samples only takes ~1.3h on 4 H100 nodes, yet produces a model that is very strong on chat benchmarks like IFEval and BBH.
Kudos to @alvarobartt @JW17 and @nlee-208 for this very nice and fast-paced collab!
For more details on the paper and dataset, checkout our collection: HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-orpo-6617eba2c5c0e2cc3c151524
HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-orpo-141b-A35b-v0.1
Yesterday, Mistral released their latest base model (via magnet link of course 😅) and the community quickly converted it to transformers format and pushed it to the Hub: mistral-community/Mixtral-8x22B-v0.1
Early evals of this model looked extremely strong, so we teamed up with Argilla and KAIST AI to cook up a Zephyr recipe with a few new alignment techniques that came out recently:
🧑🍳 Align the base model with Odds Ratio Preference Optimisation (ORPO). This novel algorithm developed by @JW17 and @nlee-208 and @j6mes and does not require an SFT step to achieve high performance and is thus much more computationally efficient than methods like DPO and PPO.
🦫 Use a brand new dataset of 7k high-quality, multi-turn preferences that has been developed by our friends at Argilla. To create this dataset, they took the excellent Capybara SFT dataset from @LDJnr LDJnr/Capybara and converted it into a preference dataset by augmenting the final turn with responses from new LLMs that were then ranked by GPT-4.
What we find especially neat about this approach is that training on 7k samples only takes ~1.3h on 4 H100 nodes, yet produces a model that is very strong on chat benchmarks like IFEval and BBH.
Kudos to @alvarobartt @JW17 and @nlee-208 for this very nice and fast-paced collab!
For more details on the paper and dataset, checkout our collection: HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-orpo-6617eba2c5c0e2cc3c151524