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qgallouedec
posted an update 7 days ago
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Shipped hf-sandbox! 🥡
🧪 Running an eval that executes model-generated C on a few thousand prompts? You probably don't want any of that on your laptop.
Just shipped hf-sandbox, a Modal-style sandbox API on top of Hugging Face Jobs. Spin up an isolated, ephemeral container, run untrusted code, get the result back. No Docker on your laptop, no infra to manage.
Just pip install hf-sandbox.
Early days (v0.1); feedback and issues very welcome:
👉 https://github.com/huggingface/hf-sandbox
🧪 Running an eval that executes model-generated C on a few thousand prompts? You probably don't want any of that on your laptop.
Just shipped hf-sandbox, a Modal-style sandbox API on top of Hugging Face Jobs. Spin up an isolated, ephemeral container, run untrusted code, get the result back. No Docker on your laptop, no infra to manage.
Just pip install hf-sandbox.
Early days (v0.1); feedback and issues very welcome:
👉 https://github.com/huggingface/hf-sandbox
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qgallouedec
posted an update 8 days ago
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**TRL v1.4 is out 🚀** Chunked NLL loss for SFT and a first-class **OpenReward** integration.
**Chunked NLL loss for SFT — drops peak VRAM by up to 14×**
Standard SFT materializes a full
Peak GPU memory, AdamW fp32:
- Qwen3-14B, 8×H100 FSDP2, 16k seq: 58.9 GB → 38.9 GB
- Qwen3-4B, 1×H100 80GB, 16k seq: OOM → 63.8 GB
- Qwen3-32B, 8×H100 FSDP2, 8k seq: OOM → 71.2 GB
End-to-end it's consistently as fast or faster than
Works with PEFT and VLMs out of the box.
**Open Reward Standard environment adapter**
The new
v1.4 also brings MFU helpers for dense + MoE models, GRPO support for Liger 0.8.0 (delta clipping + VESPO + KL bias correction), Tülu 3's length-normalized DPO loss, four more training chat templates (Cohere, Cohere2, Gemma 3, Qwen3-2507), and a 5+ GB CUDA memory leak fix in activation offloading.
Full release notes: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/releases/tag/v1.4.0
**Chunked NLL loss for SFT — drops peak VRAM by up to 14×**
Standard SFT materializes a full
[batch × seq × vocab] logits tensor before computing cross-entropy, which dominates peak memory at long context lengths. The new loss_type="chunked_nll" path drops ignored-label tokens before the lm_head matmul and computes cross-entropy in checkpointed chunks of 256.Peak GPU memory, AdamW fp32:
- Qwen3-14B, 8×H100 FSDP2, 16k seq: 58.9 GB → 38.9 GB
- Qwen3-4B, 1×H100 80GB, 16k seq: OOM → 63.8 GB
- Qwen3-32B, 8×H100 FSDP2, 8k seq: OOM → 71.2 GB
End-to-end it's consistently as fast or faster than
nll, and unlocks sequence lengths that don't fit at all under the standard path.SFTConfig(loss_type="chunked_nll")Works with PEFT and VLMs out of the box.
**Open Reward Standard environment adapter**
The new
trl.experimental.openreward adapter plugs any environment speaking the [Open Reward Standard](https://openrewardstandard.io) protocol into any TRL trainer that takes an environment_factory. One string — a catalog name or a URL — wires the dataset, factory, and reward_func slots; tools are bound dynamically from JSON Schema, no per-env wrapper code:from trl import GRPOTrainer
from trl.experimental.openreward import OpenRewardSpec
spec = OpenRewardSpec("Eigent/SETA", num_tasks=64)
trainer = GRPOTrainer(
...,
train_dataset=spec.train_dataset,
environment_factory=spec.environment_factory,
reward_funcs=spec.reward_funcs,
)v1.4 also brings MFU helpers for dense + MoE models, GRPO support for Liger 0.8.0 (delta clipping + VESPO + KL bias correction), Tülu 3's length-normalized DPO loss, four more training chat templates (Cohere, Cohere2, Gemma 3, Qwen3-2507), and a 5+ GB CUDA memory leak fix in activation offloading.
Full release notes: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/releases/tag/v1.4.0
qgallouedec
posted an update 21 days ago
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TRL v1.3 ships day-one training support for Qwen 3.6 🚀
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 — 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 ↔ 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
qgallouedec
posted an update about 1 month ago
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TRL v1.2 introduces the SSDTrainer 🚀
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.
v1.2 also ships expanded tool-calling support (LLaMA 3.1 / 3.2, DeepSeek-V3), another round of KTO ↔ DPO alignment getting us closer to promoting KTO to stable, a big GRPO simplification for overlong tool results, deprecation of
Full release notes: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/releases/tag/v1.2.0
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 ↔ 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
qgallouedec
posted an update about 2 months 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.
Read more: hf.co/blog/trl-v1
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 trlRead more: hf.co/blog/trl-v1
lewtun
updated 2
models about 2 months ago
clefourrier
authored a
paper 2 months ago
alvarobartt
posted an update 2 months ago
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Learn how to deploy Microsoft Research VibeVoice ASR on Microsoft Azure Foundry with Hugging Face to generate rich audio transcriptions with Who, When, and What! 💥
> 🕒 60-minute single-pass processing, no chunking or stitching
> 👤 Customized hotwords to guide recognition on domain-specific content
> 📝 Rich transcription: joint ASR + diarization + timestamping in one pass
> 🌍 50+ languages with automatic detection and code-switching support
> 🤗 Deployed on Microsoft Foundry via an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API
https://huggingface.co/docs/microsoft-azure/foundry/examples/deploy-vibevoice-asr
> 🕒 60-minute single-pass processing, no chunking or stitching
> 👤 Customized hotwords to guide recognition on domain-specific content
> 📝 Rich transcription: joint ASR + diarization + timestamping in one pass
> 🌍 50+ languages with automatic detection and code-switching support
> 🤗 Deployed on Microsoft Foundry via an OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API
https://huggingface.co/docs/microsoft-azure/foundry/examples/deploy-vibevoice-asr
qgallouedec
posted an update 3 months ago
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@CohereLabs just released 🌿 Tiny Aya: a fully open-source 3B parameter model that speaks 70+ languages 🌍! But there’s a catch:
Tiny Aya is just a language model. It doesn’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 out… it’s simple, thanks to Hugging Face TRL.
We’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.
👉 https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/sft_tool_calling.ipynb
Tiny Aya is just a language model. It doesn’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 out… it’s simple, thanks to Hugging Face TRL.
We’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.
👉 https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/sft_tool_calling.ipynb
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lewtun
submitted 2
papers to Daily Papers 3 months ago
cfahlgren1
submitted a
paper to Daily Papers 4 months ago
alvarobartt
posted an update 4 months ago
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💥
💡 Alternatively, you can also set the
hf-mem v0.4.1 now also estimates KV cache memory requirements for any context length and batch size with the --experimental flag!uvx hf-mem --model-id ... --experimental will automatically pull the required information from the Hugging Face Hub to include the KV cache estimation, when applicable.💡 Alternatively, you can also set the
--max-model-len, --batch-size and --kv-cache-dtype arguments (à la vLLM) manually if preferred. - 1 reply
yjernite
authored a
paper 4 months ago
qgallouedec
submitted a
paper to Daily Papers 5 months ago
guipenedo
updated a
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lewtun
updated a
dataset 6 months ago
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nvidia/PhysicalAI-Autonomous-Vehicles
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nvidia/PhysicalAI-Autonomous-Vehicles