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Aya by Cohere For AI can now see! 👀

C4AI community has built Maya 8B, a new open-source multilingual VLM built on SigLIP and Aya 8B 🌱 works on 8 languages! 🗣️

The authors extend Llava dataset using Aya's translation capabilities with 558k examples!
ry it here kkr5155/maya_demo

Dataset maya-multimodal/pretrain

Model maya-multimodal/maya 👏
kudos @nahidalam and team
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merve 
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Apollo is a new family of open-source video language models by Meta, where 3B model outperforms most 7B models and 7B outperforms most 30B models 🧶

✨ the models come in 1.5B https://huggingface.co/Apollo-LMMs/Apollo-1_5B-t32, 3B https://huggingface.co/Apollo-LMMs/Apollo-3B-t32 and 7B https://huggingface.co/Apollo-LMMs/Apollo-7B-t32 with A2.0 license, based on Qwen1.5 & Qwen2
✨ the authors also release a benchmark dataset https://huggingface.co/spaces/Apollo-LMMs/ApolloBench

The paper has a lot of experiments (they trained 84 models!) about what makes the video LMs work ⏯️

Try the demo for best setup here https://huggingface.co/spaces/Apollo-LMMs/Apollo-3B
they evaluate sampling strategies, scaling laws for models and datasets, video representation and more!
> The authors find out that whatever design decision was applied to small models also scale properly when the model and dataset are scaled 📈 scaling dataset has diminishing returns for smaller models
> They evaluate frame sampling strategies, and find that FPS sampling is better than uniform sampling, and they find 8-32 tokens per frame optimal
> They also compare image encoders, they try a variation of models from shape optimized SigLIP to DINOv2
they find google/siglip-so400m-patch14-384 to be most powerful 🔥
> they also compare freezing different parts of models, training all stages with some frozen parts give the best yield

They eventually release three models, where Apollo-3B outperforms most 7B models and Apollo 7B outperforms 30B models 🔥
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merve 
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A complete RAG pipeline includes a reranker, which ranks the documents to find the best document 📓
Same goes for multimodal RAG, multimodal rerankers which we can integrate to multimodal RAG pipelines!
Learn how to build a complete multimodal RAG pipeline with vidore/colqwen2-v1.0 as retriever, lightonai/MonoQwen2-VL-v0.1 as reranker, Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct as VLM in this notebook that runs on a GPU as small as L4 🔥 https://huggingface.co/learn/cookbook/multimodal_rag_using_document_retrieval_and_reranker_and_vlms
merve 
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This week in open-source AI was insane 🤠 A small recap🕺🏻 merve/dec-6-releases-67545caebe9fc4776faac0a3

Multimodal 🖼️
> Google shipped a PaliGemma 2, new iteration of PaliGemma with more sizes: 3B, 10B and 28B, with pre-trained and captioning variants 👏
> OpenGVLab released InternVL2, seven new vision LMs in different sizes, with sota checkpoint with MIT license ✨
> Qwen team at Alibaba released the base models of Qwen2VL models with 2B, 7B and 72B ckpts

LLMs 💬
> Meta released a new iteration of Llama 70B, Llama3.2-70B trained further
> EuroLLM-9B-Instruct is a new multilingual LLM for European languages with Apache 2.0 license 🔥
> Dataset: CohereForAI released GlobalMMLU, multilingual version of MMLU with 42 languages with Apache 2.0 license
> Dataset: QwQ-LongCoT-130K is a new dataset to train reasoning models
> Dataset: FineWeb2 just landed with multilinguality update! 🔥 nearly 8TB pretraining data in many languages!

Image/Video Generation 🖼️
> Tencent released HunyuanVideo, a new photorealistic video generation model
> OminiControl is a new editing/control framework for image generation models like Flux

Audio 🔊
> Indic-Parler-TTS is a new text2speech model made by community
merve 
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merve 
posted an update 20 days ago
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small but mighty 🔥
you can fine-tune SmolVLM on an L4 with batch size of 4 and it will only take 16.4 GB VRAM 🫰🏻 also with gradient accumulation simulated batch size is 16 ✨
I made a notebook that includes all the goodies: QLoRA, gradient accumulation, gradient checkpointing with explanations on how they work 💝 https://github.com/huggingface/smollm/blob/main/finetuning/Smol_VLM_FT.ipynb
merve 
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Last week we were blessed with open-source models! A recap 💝
merve/nov-29-releases-674ccc255a57baf97b1e2d31

🖼️ Multimodal
> At Hugging Face we released SmolVLM, a performant and efficient smol vision language model 💗
> Show Lab released ShowUI-2B: new vision-language-action model to build GUI/web automation agents 🤖
> Rhymes AI has released the base model of Aria: Aria-Base-64K and Aria-Base-8K with their respective context length
> ViDoRe team released ColSmolVLM: A new ColPali-like retrieval model based on SmolVLM
> Dataset: Llava-CoT-o1-Instruct: new dataset labelled using Llava-CoT multimodal reasoning model📖
> Dataset: LLaVA-CoT-100k dataset used to train Llava-CoT released by creators of Llava-CoT 📕

💬 LLMs
> Qwen team released QwQ-32B-Preview, state-of-the-art open-source reasoning model, broke the internet 🔥
> AliBaba has released Marco-o1, a new open-source reasoning model 💥
> NVIDIA released Hymba 1.5B Base and Instruct, the new state-of-the-art SLMs with hybrid architecture (Mamba + transformer)

⏯️ Image/Video Generation
> Qwen2VL-Flux: new image generation model based on Qwen2VL image encoder, T5 and Flux for generation
> Lightricks released LTX-Video, a new DiT-based video generation model that can generate 24 FPS videos at 768x512 res ⏯️
> Dataset: Image Preferences is a new image generation preference dataset made with DIBT community effort of Argilla 🏷️

Audio
> OuteAI released OuteTTS-0.2-500M new multilingual text-to-speech model based on Qwen-2.5-0.5B trained on 5B audio prompt tokens
merve 
posted an update 25 days ago
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The authors of ColPali trained a retrieval model based on SmolVLM 🤠 vidore/colsmolvlm-alpha
TLDR;

- ColSmolVLM performs better than ColPali and DSE-Qwen2 on all English tasks

- ColSmolVLM is more memory efficient than ColQwen2 💗
merve 
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Small yet mighty! 💫

We are releasing SmolVLM: a new 2B small vision language made for on-device use, fine-tunable on consumer GPU, immensely memory efficient 🤠

We release three checkpoints under Apache 2.0: SmolVLM-Instruct, SmolVLM-Synthetic and SmolVLM-Base HuggingFaceTB/smolvlm-6740bd584b2dcbf51ecb1f39

Learn more from our blog here: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm
This release comes with a demo, fine-tuning code, MLX integration and TRL integration for DPO 💝
Try the demo: HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM
Fine-tuning Recipe: https://github.com/huggingface/smollm/blob/main/finetuning/Smol_VLM_FT.ipynb
Also TRL integration for DPO 💗
merve 
posted an update 30 days ago
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What a week! A recap for everything you missed ❄️
merve/nov-22-releases-673fbbcfc1c97c4f411def07
Multimodal ✨
> Mistral AI
released Pixtral 124B, a gigantic open vision language model
> Llava-CoT (formerly known as Llava-o1) was released, a multimodal reproduction of o1 model by PKU
> OpenGVLab released MMPR: a new multimodal reasoning dataset
> Jina has released Jina-CLIP-v2 0.98B multilingual multimodal embeddings
> Apple released new SotA vision encoders AIMv2

LLMs 🦙
> AllenAI dropped a huge release of models, datasets and scripts for Tülu, a family of models based on Llama 3.1 aligned with SFT, DPO and a new technique they have developed called RLVR
> Jina has released embeddings-v3: new multilingual embeddings with longer context
> Hugging Face released SmolTalk: synthetic dataset used to align SmolLM2 using supervised fine-tuning
> Microsoft released orca-agentinstruct-1M-v1: a gigantic instruction dataset of 1M synthetic instruction pairs

Image Generation 🖼️
> Black Forest Labs released Flux 1. tools: four new models for different image modifications and two LoRAs to do image conditioning and better steer generations

Lastly Hugging Face released a new library Observers: a lightweight SDK for monitoring interactions with AI APIs and easily store and browse them 📚
$ pip install observers
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merve 
posted an update 30 days ago
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Apple released AIMv2 🍏 a family of state-of-the-art open-set vision encoders
apple/aimv2-6720fe1558d94c7805f7688c
> like CLIP, but add a decoder and train on autoregression 🤯
> 19 open models come in 300M, 600M, 1.2B, 2.7B with resolutions of 224, 336, 448
> Load and use with 🤗 transformers
merve 
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your hugging face profile now has your recent activities 🤗
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merve 
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OmniVision-968M: a new local VLM for edge devices, fast & small but performant
💨 a new vision language model with 9x less image tokens, super efficient
📖 aligned with DPO for reducing hallucinations
⚡️ Apache 2.0 license 🔥

Demo hf.co/spaces/NexaAIDev/omnivlm-dpo-demo
Model https://huggingface.co/NexaAIDev/omnivision-968M
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merve 
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Amazing past days at open ML, it's raining coding models, let's have a recap 🌧️ Find all models and datasets here merve/nov-15-releases-67372d0ebdc354756a52ecd0

Models
💻 Coding: Qwen team released two Qwen2.5-Coder checkpoints of 32B and 7B. Infly released OpenCoder: 1.5B and 8B coding models with instruction SFT'd versions and their datasets! 💗

🖼️ Image/Video Gen: Alibaba vision lab released In-context LoRA -- 10 LoRA models on different themes based on Flux. Also Mochi the sota video generation model with A2.0 license now comes natively supported in diffusers 👏

🖼️ VLMs/Multimodal: NexaAIDev released Omnivision 968M a new vision language model aligned with DPO for reducing hallucinations, also comes with GGUF ckpts 👏 Microsoft released LLM2CLIP, a new CLIP-like model with longer context window allowing complex text inputs and better search

🎮 AGI?: Etched released Oasis 500M, a diffusion based open world model that takes keyboard input and outputs gameplay 🤯

Datasets
Common Corpus: A text dataset with 2T tokens with permissive license for EN/FR on various sources: code, science, finance, culture 📖
merve 
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Microsoft released LLM2CLIP: a CLIP model with longer context window for complex text inputs 🤯
All models with Apache 2.0 license here microsoft/llm2clip-672323a266173cfa40b32d4c

TLDR; they replaced CLIP's text encoder with various LLMs fine-tuned on captioning, better top-k accuracy on retrieval.
This will enable better image-text retrieval, better zero-shot image classification, better vision language models 🔥
Read the paper to learn more: LLM2CLIP: Powerful Language Model Unlock Richer Visual Representation (2411.04997)
merve 
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Another great week in open ML!
Here's a small recap 🫰🏻

Model releases
⏯️ Video Language Models
AI at Meta released Vision-CAIR/LongVU_Qwen2_7B, a new state-of-the-art long video LM model based on DINOv2, SigLIP, Qwen2 and Llama 3.2

💬 Small language models
Hugging Face released HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B, a family of new smol language models with Apache 2.0 license that come in sizes 135M, 360M and 1.7B, along with datasets.
Meta released facebook/MobileLLM-1B, a new family of on-device LLMs of sizes 125M, 350M and 600M

🖼️ Image Generation
Stability AI released stabilityai/stable-diffusion-3.5-medium, a 2B model with commercially permissive license

🖼️💬Any-to-Any
gpt-omni/mini-omni2 is closest reproduction to GPT-4o, a new LLM that can take image-text-audio input and output speech is released!

Dataset releases
🖼️ Spawning/PD12M, a new captioning dataset of 12.4 million examples generated using Florence-2
merve 
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Hugging Face Hub Python library now comes with easy inference for vision language models! ✨

$ pip install huggingface_hub 🤗
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merve 
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Microsoft released a groundbreaking model that can be used for web automation, with MIT license 🔥 microsoft/OmniParser

Interesting highlight for me was Mind2Web (a benchmark for web navigation) capabilities of the model, which unlocks agentic behavior for RPA agents.

no need for hefty web automation pipelines that get broken when the website/app design changes! Amazing work.

Lastly, the authors also fine-tune this model on open-set detection for interactable regions and see if they can use it as a plug-in for VLMs and it actually outperforms off-the-shelf open-set detectors like GroundingDINO. 👏


OmniParser is a state-of-the-art UI parsing/understanding model that outperforms GPT4V in parsing.
merve 
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Lotus 🪷 is a new foundation model on monocular depth estimation ✨
Compared to previous diffusion-based MDE models, Lotus is modified for dense prediction tasks
Authors also released a model for normal prediction 🤗
Find everything in this collection merve/lotus-6718fb957dc1c85a47ca1210