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qgallouedecย 
posted an update 4 days ago
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TRL v1.3 ships day-one training support for Qwen 3.6 ๐Ÿš€

The new Qwen 3.6 family (Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B, Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B) reuses the Qwen3.5-MoE architecture but ships a slightly different chat template, so we updated the stack end-to-end: new training template with {% generation %} markers, tool-call response schema routing, tiny test models for the VLM matrix.

SFT with assistant-only loss works out of the box:

from trl import SFTConfig, SFTTrainer

trainer = SFTTrainer(
    model="Qwen/Qwen3.6-27B",
    args=SFTConfig(assistant_only_loss=True),
    train_dataset=dataset,
)
trainer.train()


So does GRPO tool-calling โ€” just hand tools=[...] to GRPOTrainer.

v1.3 also brings a new experimental TPO trainer (Triple Preference Optimization), speculative decoding in trl vllm-serve (Qwen3 MTP / Eagle3 drafts), 12 more KTO โ†” DPO alignment PRs (KTO promotion to stable is now in reach), three more {% generation %} chat templates (Gemma/Gemma 2, Phi-3, GLM-4-MoE), and a chunky SFT entropy bug fix.

Full release notes: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/releases/tag/v1.3.0
qgallouedecย 
posted an update 14 days ago
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TRL v1.2 introduces the SSDTrainer ๐Ÿš€

Simple Self-Distillation (SSD) from Apple's paper "Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation" is now available as an experimental trainer in TRL.

The recipe is as minimal as the name suggests: sample completions from the model itself at a training-time temperature, then fine-tune on those raw, unverified samples with plain cross-entropy. No reward model. No verifier. No teacher model. No reinforcement learning. Just prompts and the model.

from trl.experimental.ssd import SSDConfig, SSDTrainer

trainer = SSDTrainer(
    model="Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct",
    args=SSDConfig(temperature=0.6, top_k=20, top_p=0.95),
    train_dataset=dataset,
)
trainer.train()


v1.2 also ships expanded tool-calling support (LLaMA 3.1 / 3.2, DeepSeek-V3), another round of KTO โ†” DPO alignment getting us closer to promoting KTO to stable, a big GRPO simplification for overlong tool results, deprecation of use_transformers_paged, and key fixes for VLM response parsing.

Full release notes: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/releases/tag/v1.2.0
qgallouedecย 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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TRL v1.0 is out!

Hugging Face's TRL library is downloaded 3 million times a month. Over 130k models trained with it are public on the Hub, and major projects like @unsloth and @axolotl-ai-co build directly on top of it. v1.0 is the moment we acknowledged that responsibility explicitly, with a real stability contract.

The field hasn't settled. Building stable software in a domain that keeps invalidating its own assumptions is the actual problem we're solving. The answer is a design that can absorb the next shift without breaking what people rely on.

What's in v1.0:
Deep Hugging Face integration, low infrastructure burden
What's next: asynchronous GRPO, better scaling support, and making training legible enough that agents can inspect and steer it.

pip install --upgrade trl


Read more: hf.co/blog/trl-v1
qgallouedecย 
posted an update 2 months ago
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@CohereLabs just released ๐ŸŒฟ Tiny Aya: a fully open-source 3B parameter model that speaks 70+ languages ๐ŸŒ! But thereโ€™s a catch:

Tiny Aya is just a language model. It doesnโ€™t support tool calling, the key capability that turns frontier models into powerful *agents*.
So the real question is:

How hard is it to turn Tiny Aya into an agent?

Turns outโ€ฆ itโ€™s simple, thanks to Hugging Face TRL.
Weโ€™re sharing a hands-on example showing how to train Tiny Aya to turn it into a tool-calling agent using TRL, unlocking what could become the first *massively multilingual open agent*.

Small model. Global reach. Agent capabilities.

๐Ÿ‘‰ https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/sft_tool_calling.ipynb
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danieldkย 
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kernels 0.12 is out! ๐ŸŽ‰

Changes:

* Support for kernel version branches to gracefully roll out kernel API changes.
* Support for PyTorch 2.10.
* kernel-builder is now merged into the kernels repo.
* Initial support for standardized kernel benchmarks.

https://github.com/huggingface/kernels/releases/tag/v0.12.0
pcuenqย 
posted an update 4 months ago
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๐Ÿ‘‰ What happened in AI in 2025? ๐Ÿ‘ˆ

We prepared the 2025 version of the HF AI Timeline Grid, highlighting open vs API-based model releases, and allowing you to browse and filter by access, modality, and release type!

Play with it here:
2025-ai-timeline/2025-ai-timeline

Here's my personal quarterly TL;DR:

1๏ธโƒฃ Q1 โ€” Learning to Reason
Deepseek not only releases a top-notch reasoning model, but shows how to train them and compete with closed frontier models. OpenAI debuts Deep Research.

Significant milestones: DeepSeek R1 & R1-Zero, Qwen 2.5 VL, OpenAI Deep Research, Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental)

2๏ธโƒฃ Q2 โ€” Multimodality and Coding
More LLMs embrace multimodality by default, and there's a surge in coding agents. Strong vision, audio, and generative models emerge.

Significant milestones: Llama 4, Qwen 3, Imagen 4, OpenAI Codex, Google Jules, Claude 4

3๏ธโƒฃ Q3 โ€” "Gold" rush, OpenAI opens up, the community goes bananas
Flagship models get gold in Math olympiads and hard benchmarks. OpenAI releases strong open source models and Google releases the much anticipated nano-banana for image generation and editing. Agentic workflows become commonplace.

Significant milestones: Gemini and OpenAI IMO Gold, gpt-oss, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Grok 4, Claude Sonnet 4.5

4๏ธโƒฃ Q4 โ€” Mistral returns, leaderboard hill-climbing
Mistral is back with updated model families. All labs release impressive models to wrap up the year!

Significant milestones: Claude Opus 4.5, DeepSeek Math V2, FLUX 2, GPT 5.1, Kimi K2 Thinking, Nano Banana Pro, GLM 4.7, Gemini 3, Mistral 3, MiniMax M2.1 ๐Ÿคฏ

Credits
๐Ÿ™ NHLOCAL for the source data https://github.com/NHLOCAL/AiTimeline

๐Ÿซก @reach-vb for the original idea, design and recipe

๐Ÿ™Œ @ariG23498 and yours truly for compiling and verifying the 2025 edition

๐Ÿฅณ Here's to 2026, wishing it becomes the best year ever for open releases and on-device-first use-cases! ๐Ÿฅ‚
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nouamanetaziย 
posted an update 6 months ago
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After training ๐’๐ฆ๐จ๐ฅ๐‹๐Œ๐Ÿ‘ on ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ’ ๐‡๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐ฌ for nearly a month, I've come to realize something most people overlook: ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž-๐จ๐ซ-๐›๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ค ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐‹๐‹๐Œ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ . ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Everyone talks about model architecture and data quality. And yes, those matter immensely. But here's what nobody tells you: when your training run fails at 2 AM because of mysterious ๐๐‚๐‚๐‹ ๐ž๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ, or when your expensive GPU cluster is running at ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŽ% ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ฒ, the problem isn't your model. It's most probably a ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž. ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ

Questions that seemed simple but had no clear answers: Why is ๐Œ๐จ๐„ ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ? Which ๐๐‚๐‚๐‹ ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐š๐ ๐ฌ should we actually set? How often should we checkpoint without killing throughput?

That's why we built ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฆ๐จ๐ฅ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐Ÿ“–: a complete guide covering everything from model architecture and data curation to the SmolLM3 training marathon, post-training techniques, and crucially, the ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ that most teams get wrong.

We validated real vs theoretical bandwidth across the entire stack: ๐‡๐๐Œ๐Ÿ‘ ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ‘ ๐“๐/๐ฌ, ๐๐•๐‹๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐Ÿ’.๐ŸŽ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿ–๐Ÿ” ๐†๐/๐ฌ, ๐๐‚๐ˆ๐ž ๐†๐ž๐ง๐Ÿ’ ๐š๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’.๐Ÿ ๐†๐/๐ฌ. Then we ran collective operations across ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ– ๐†๐๐”๐ฌ (16 nodes, 8xH100s each) and measured how performance degrades at scale: all-reduce drops from ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ–๐ŸŽ ๐†๐/๐ฌ on a single node to ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ-๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ ๐†๐/๐ฌ across 16 nodes.

If you've ever wondered why your training runs are slower than they should be, or you're planning to scale up and want to avoid expensive mistakes, this guide might save you weeks of debugging.

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฆ๐จ๐ฅ ๐“๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐›๐จ๐จ๐ค: https://lnkd.in/e5MKXUHS

Shared with โค๏ธ by the HuggingFace team
danieldkย 
posted an update 6 months ago
lysandreย 
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We're kick-starting the process of Transformers v5, with @ArthurZ and @cyrilvallez !

v5 should be significant: we're using it as a milestone for performance optimizations, saner defaults, and a much cleaner code base worthy of 2025.

Fun fact: v4.0.0-rc-1 came out on Nov 19, 2020, nearly five years ago!
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danieldkย 
posted an update 10 months ago
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kernels 0.8.0 is out: https://github.com/huggingface/kernels/releases/tag/v0.8.0

This release refines kernel selection in the kernelize function:

โ€ข You can now register kernels for certain CUDA capability ranges.
โ€ข Rather than doing exact mating of modes, fall back to other compatible modes. If you are kernelizing for inference, but you only registered a training + torch.compile kernel, it will use that kernel since it is compatible with inference as well.
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