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SmolVLM-2 and SigLIP-2 are now part of
They're added on top of the v4.49.0 release, and can be installed from the following tags:
This marks a new beginning for the release process of transformers. For the past five years, we've been doing monthly releases featuring many models (v4.49.0, the latest release, features 9 new architectures).
Starting with SmolVLM-2 & SigLIP2, we'll now additionally release tags supporting new models on a stable branch. These models are therefore directly available for use by installing from the tag itself. These tags will continue to be updated with fixes applied to these models.
Going forward, continue expecting software releases following semantic versioning: v4.50.0 will have ~10 new architectures compared to v4.49.0, as well as a myriad of new features, improvements and bug fixes. Accompanying these software releases, we'll release tags offering brand new models as fast as possible, to make them accessible to all immediately.
transformers in dedicated releases!They're added on top of the v4.49.0 release, and can be installed from the following tags:
v4.49.0-SmolVLM-2 and v4.49.0-SigLIP-2.This marks a new beginning for the release process of transformers. For the past five years, we've been doing monthly releases featuring many models (v4.49.0, the latest release, features 9 new architectures).
Starting with SmolVLM-2 & SigLIP2, we'll now additionally release tags supporting new models on a stable branch. These models are therefore directly available for use by installing from the tag itself. These tags will continue to be updated with fixes applied to these models.
Going forward, continue expecting software releases following semantic versioning: v4.50.0 will have ~10 new architectures compared to v4.49.0, as well as a myriad of new features, improvements and bug fixes. Accompanying these software releases, we'll release tags offering brand new models as fast as possible, to make them accessible to all immediately.
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I re-worked the JuptyerLab Space template recently. It's optimized for
timm use, but will work great with transformers and other libs. Updated the base image, Python 3.12, Pillow-SIMD before better CPU use with image preprocessing, and made a number of other tweaks. From the Jupyter launcher you can run the terminal and setup a timm environment in moments with setup_timm_dev or setup_timm_scripts helpers. Give it a try,
timm/jupyterlab-timm
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New
* PaliGemma2 encoders (ported from google/paligemma-2-release-67500e1e1dbfdd4dee27ba48)
* AIMv-2 encoders (ported from apple/aimv2-6720fe1558d94c7805f7688c)
A few higher resolution 384x384 ConvNeXt-Nano ImageNet-12k pretrain & finetunes. See other changes here: https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models/releases/tag/v1.0.13
And support added in both
* DFN CLIP L/14 w/ 39B samples seen - apple/DFN2B-CLIP-ViT-L-14-39B, timm/vit_large_patch14_clip_224.dfn2b_s39b
* MetaCLIP H/14 (altogether) - timm/vit_huge_patch14_clip_224.metaclip_altogether
And last, ~70-80 models that were relying on
timm 1.0.13 and OpenCLIP 2.30.0 releases to start the year. Both modest but worthwhile updates.timm added a number of new model weights, supporting loading of: * PaliGemma2 encoders (ported from google/paligemma-2-release-67500e1e1dbfdd4dee27ba48)
* AIMv-2 encoders (ported from apple/aimv2-6720fe1558d94c7805f7688c)
A few higher resolution 384x384 ConvNeXt-Nano ImageNet-12k pretrain & finetunes. See other changes here: https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models/releases/tag/v1.0.13
And support added in both
OpenCLIP and timm for two CLIP models that were missed. The DFN L/14 is 🔥* DFN CLIP L/14 w/ 39B samples seen - apple/DFN2B-CLIP-ViT-L-14-39B, timm/vit_large_patch14_clip_224.dfn2b_s39b
* MetaCLIP H/14 (altogether) - timm/vit_huge_patch14_clip_224.metaclip_altogether
And last, ~70-80 models that were relying on
timm remapping from OpenCLIP got their own timm hub instances to allow use with the upcoming Transformers TimmWrapperModel
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VLMs are going through quite an open revolution AND on-device friendly sizes:
1. Google DeepMind w/ PaliGemma2 - 3B, 10B & 28B: google/paligemma-2-release-67500e1e1dbfdd4dee27ba48
2. OpenGVLabs w/ InternVL 2.5 - 1B, 2B, 4B, 8B, 26B, 38B & 78B: https://huggingface.co/collections/OpenGVLab/internvl-25-673e1019b66e2218f68d7c1c
3. Qwen w/ Qwen 2 VL - 2B, 7B & 72B: Qwen/qwen2-vl-66cee7455501d7126940800d
4. Microsoft w/ FlorenceVL - 3B & 8B: @jiuhai
5. Moondream2 w/ 0.5B: https://huggingface.co/vikhyatk/
What a time to be alive! 🔥
1. Google DeepMind w/ PaliGemma2 - 3B, 10B & 28B: google/paligemma-2-release-67500e1e1dbfdd4dee27ba48
2. OpenGVLabs w/ InternVL 2.5 - 1B, 2B, 4B, 8B, 26B, 38B & 78B: https://huggingface.co/collections/OpenGVLab/internvl-25-673e1019b66e2218f68d7c1c
3. Qwen w/ Qwen 2 VL - 2B, 7B & 72B: Qwen/qwen2-vl-66cee7455501d7126940800d
4. Microsoft w/ FlorenceVL - 3B & 8B: @jiuhai
5. Moondream2 w/ 0.5B: https://huggingface.co/vikhyatk/
What a time to be alive! 🔥
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There's a new
New optimizers include:
* AdafactorBigVision -
* ADOPT -
* MARS -
* LaProp -
* Cautious Optimizers - a modification to all of the above, prefix with
I shared some caution comparisons in this model repo: rwightman/timm-optim-caution
For details, references, see the code: https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models/tree/main/timm/optim
timm release, v 1.0.12, with a focus on optimizers. The optimizer factory has been refactored, there's now a timm.optim.list_optimizers() and new way to register optimizers and their attributes. As always you can use an timm optimizer like a torch one, just replace torch.optim with timm.optimNew optimizers include:
* AdafactorBigVision -
adfactorbv* ADOPT -
adopt / adoptw (decoupled decay)* MARS -
mars* LaProp -
laprop* Cautious Optimizers - a modification to all of the above, prefix with
c as well as cadamw, cnadamw, csgdw, clamb, crmsproptf I shared some caution comparisons in this model repo: rwightman/timm-optim-caution
For details, references, see the code: https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models/tree/main/timm/optim
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Massive week for Open AI/ ML:
Mistral Pixtral & Instruct Large - ~123B, 128K context, multilingual, json + function calling & open weights
mistralai/Pixtral-Large-Instruct-2411
mistralai/Mistral-Large-Instruct-2411
Allen AI Tülu 70B & 8B - competive with claude 3.5 haiku, beats all major open models like llama 3.1 70B, qwen 2.5 and nemotron
allenai/tulu-3-models-673b8e0dc3512e30e7dc54f5
allenai/tulu-3-datasets-673b8df14442393f7213f372
Llava o1 - vlm capable of spontaneous, systematic reasoning, similar to GPT-o1, 11B model outperforms gemini-1.5-pro, gpt-4o-mini, and llama-3.2-90B-vision
Xkev/Llama-3.2V-11B-cot
Black Forest Labs Flux.1 tools - four new state of the art model checkpoints & 2 adapters for fill, depth, canny & redux, open weights
reach-vb/black-forest-labs-flux1-6743847bde9997dd26609817
Jina AI Jina CLIP v2 - general purpose multilingual and multimodal (text & image) embedding model, 900M params, 512 x 512 resolution, matroyoshka representations (1024 to 64)
jinaai/jina-clip-v2
Apple AIM v2 & CoreML MobileCLIP - large scale vision encoders outperform CLIP and SigLIP. CoreML optimised MobileCLIP models
apple/aimv2-6720fe1558d94c7805f7688c
apple/coreml-mobileclip
A lot more got released like, OpenScholar (https://huggingface.co/collections/OpenScholar/openscholar-v1-67376a89f6a80f448da411a6), smoltalk ( HuggingFaceTB/smoltalk), Hymba ( nvidia/hymba-673c35516c12c4b98b5e845f), Open ASR Leaderboard ( hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard) and much more..
Can't wait for the next week! 🤗
Mistral Pixtral & Instruct Large - ~123B, 128K context, multilingual, json + function calling & open weights
mistralai/Pixtral-Large-Instruct-2411
mistralai/Mistral-Large-Instruct-2411
Allen AI Tülu 70B & 8B - competive with claude 3.5 haiku, beats all major open models like llama 3.1 70B, qwen 2.5 and nemotron
allenai/tulu-3-models-673b8e0dc3512e30e7dc54f5
allenai/tulu-3-datasets-673b8df14442393f7213f372
Llava o1 - vlm capable of spontaneous, systematic reasoning, similar to GPT-o1, 11B model outperforms gemini-1.5-pro, gpt-4o-mini, and llama-3.2-90B-vision
Xkev/Llama-3.2V-11B-cot
Black Forest Labs Flux.1 tools - four new state of the art model checkpoints & 2 adapters for fill, depth, canny & redux, open weights
reach-vb/black-forest-labs-flux1-6743847bde9997dd26609817
Jina AI Jina CLIP v2 - general purpose multilingual and multimodal (text & image) embedding model, 900M params, 512 x 512 resolution, matroyoshka representations (1024 to 64)
jinaai/jina-clip-v2
Apple AIM v2 & CoreML MobileCLIP - large scale vision encoders outperform CLIP and SigLIP. CoreML optimised MobileCLIP models
apple/aimv2-6720fe1558d94c7805f7688c
apple/coreml-mobileclip
A lot more got released like, OpenScholar (https://huggingface.co/collections/OpenScholar/openscholar-v1-67376a89f6a80f448da411a6), smoltalk ( HuggingFaceTB/smoltalk), Hymba ( nvidia/hymba-673c35516c12c4b98b5e845f), Open ASR Leaderboard ( hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard) and much more..
Can't wait for the next week! 🤗
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I'm currently on a push to expand the scope of image based datasets on the Hub. There's certainly a lot already, but for anyone who's looked closely, there's not a whole lot of standardization. I am to fix that, datasets under the
timm
and
pixparse
orgs will serve as canonical examples for various task / modality combinations and be useable without fuss in libraries like
I just uploaded the first multi-label dataset that I'll support with
Next up object detection & segmentation! I've got an annotation spec sorted out, a lot of datasets ready to rip, and yeah that means
timm
and
pixparse
orgs will serve as canonical examples for various task / modality combinations and be useable without fuss in libraries like timm, OpenCLIP, and hopefully more.I just uploaded the first multi-label dataset that I'll support with
timm scripts soon:
timm/plant-pathology-2021 Next up object detection & segmentation! I've got an annotation spec sorted out, a lot of datasets ready to rip, and yeah that means
timm support for object detection, eventually segmentation, is finally under development :OPost
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Want to validate some hparams or figure out what
I had this sitting on my drive and forgot where I pulled it together from. It's 100 classes of imagenet, 50k train and 10k val images (from ImageNet-1k train set), and 5k test images (from ImageNet-1k val set). 7.4GB instead of > 100GB for the full ImageNet-1k. This ver is not reduced resolution like some other 'mini' versions. Super easy to use with timm train/val scripts, checkout the dataset card.
I often check fine-tuning with even smaller datasets like:
* timm/resisc45
* timm/oxford-iiit-pet
But those are a bit small to train any modest size model w/o starting from pretrained weights.
timm model to use before commiting to download or training with a large dataset? Try mini-imagenet:
timm/mini-imagenet I had this sitting on my drive and forgot where I pulled it together from. It's 100 classes of imagenet, 50k train and 10k val images (from ImageNet-1k train set), and 5k test images (from ImageNet-1k val set). 7.4GB instead of > 100GB for the full ImageNet-1k. This ver is not reduced resolution like some other 'mini' versions. Super easy to use with timm train/val scripts, checkout the dataset card.
I often check fine-tuning with even smaller datasets like:
* timm/resisc45
* timm/oxford-iiit-pet
But those are a bit small to train any modest size model w/o starting from pretrained weights.
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New MobileNetV4 weights were uploaded a few days ago -- more ImageNet-12k training at 384x384 for the speedy 'Conv Medium' models.
There are 3 weight variants here for those who like to tinker. On my hold-out eval they are ordered as below, not that different, but the Adopt 180 epochs closer to AdamW 250 than to AdamW 180.
* AdamW for 250 epochs - timm/mobilenetv4_conv_medium.e250_r384_in12k
* Adopt for 180 epochs - timm/mobilenetv4_conv_medium.e180_ad_r384_in12k
* AdamW for 180 epochs - timm/mobilenetv4_conv_medium.e180_r384_in12k
This was by request as a user reported impressive results using the 'Conv Large' ImagNet-12k pretrains as object detection backbones. ImageNet-1k fine-tunes are pending, the weights do behave differently with the 180 vs 250 epochs and the Adopt vs AdamW optimizer.
There are 3 weight variants here for those who like to tinker. On my hold-out eval they are ordered as below, not that different, but the Adopt 180 epochs closer to AdamW 250 than to AdamW 180.
* AdamW for 250 epochs - timm/mobilenetv4_conv_medium.e250_r384_in12k
* Adopt for 180 epochs - timm/mobilenetv4_conv_medium.e180_ad_r384_in12k
* AdamW for 180 epochs - timm/mobilenetv4_conv_medium.e180_r384_in12k
This was by request as a user reported impressive results using the 'Conv Large' ImagNet-12k pretrains as object detection backbones. ImageNet-1k fine-tunes are pending, the weights do behave differently with the 180 vs 250 epochs and the Adopt vs AdamW optimizer.
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What a brilliant week for Open Source AI!
Qwen 2.5 Coder by Alibaba - 0.5B / 1.5B / 3B / 7B / 14B/ 32B (Base + Instruct) Code generation LLMs, with 32B tackling giants like Gemnini 1.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet
Qwen/qwen25-coder-66eaa22e6f99801bf65b0c2f
LLM2CLIP from Microsoft - Leverage LLMs to train ultra-powerful CLIP models! Boosts performance over the previous SOTA by ~17%
microsoft/llm2clip-672323a266173cfa40b32d4c
Athene v2 Chat & Agent by NexusFlow - SoTA general LLM fine-tuned from Qwen 2.5 72B excels at Chat + Function Calling/ JSON/ Agents
Nexusflow/athene-v2-6735b85e505981a794fb02cc
Orca Agent Instruct by Microsoft - 1 million instruct pairs covering text editing, creative writing, coding, reading comprehension, etc - permissively licensed
microsoft/orca-agentinstruct-1M-v1
Ultravox by FixieAI - 70B/ 8B model approaching GPT4o level, pick any LLM, train an adapter with Whisper as Audio Encoder
reach-vb/ultravox-audio-language-model-release-67373b602af0a52b2a88ae71
JanusFlow 1.3 by DeepSeek - Next iteration of their Unified MultiModal LLM Janus with RectifiedFlow
deepseek-ai/JanusFlow-1.3B
Common Corpus by Pleais - 2,003,039,184,047 multilingual, commercially permissive and high quality tokens!
PleIAs/common_corpus
I'm sure I missed a lot, can't wait for the next week!
Put down in comments what I missed! 🤗
Qwen 2.5 Coder by Alibaba - 0.5B / 1.5B / 3B / 7B / 14B/ 32B (Base + Instruct) Code generation LLMs, with 32B tackling giants like Gemnini 1.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet
Qwen/qwen25-coder-66eaa22e6f99801bf65b0c2f
LLM2CLIP from Microsoft - Leverage LLMs to train ultra-powerful CLIP models! Boosts performance over the previous SOTA by ~17%
microsoft/llm2clip-672323a266173cfa40b32d4c
Athene v2 Chat & Agent by NexusFlow - SoTA general LLM fine-tuned from Qwen 2.5 72B excels at Chat + Function Calling/ JSON/ Agents
Nexusflow/athene-v2-6735b85e505981a794fb02cc
Orca Agent Instruct by Microsoft - 1 million instruct pairs covering text editing, creative writing, coding, reading comprehension, etc - permissively licensed
microsoft/orca-agentinstruct-1M-v1
Ultravox by FixieAI - 70B/ 8B model approaching GPT4o level, pick any LLM, train an adapter with Whisper as Audio Encoder
reach-vb/ultravox-audio-language-model-release-67373b602af0a52b2a88ae71
JanusFlow 1.3 by DeepSeek - Next iteration of their Unified MultiModal LLM Janus with RectifiedFlow
deepseek-ai/JanusFlow-1.3B
Common Corpus by Pleais - 2,003,039,184,047 multilingual, commercially permissive and high quality tokens!
PleIAs/common_corpus
I'm sure I missed a lot, can't wait for the next week!
Put down in comments what I missed! 🤗