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davanstrien 
posted an update 5 days ago
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Hacked together a way to log trl GRPO training completions to a 🤗 dataset repo. This allows you to:

- Track rewards from multiple reward functions
- Treat the completion and rewards from training as a "proper" dataset and do EDA
- Share results for open science

The implementation is super hacky, but I'm curious if people would find this useful.

To push completions to the Hub, you just need two extra parameters:

log_completions=True
log_completions_hub_repo='your-username/repo-name'

Example dataset: davanstrien/test-logs
Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wzBFPVthRYYTp-mEYlznLg_e_0Za1M3g
alielfilali01 
posted an update 6 days ago
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🚨 Arabic LLM Evaluation 🚨

Few models join the ranking of inceptionai/AraGen-Leaderboard Today.

The new MistralAI model, Saba, is quite impressive, Top10 ! Well done @arthurmensch and team.

Sadly Mistral did not follow its strategy about public weights this time, we hope this changes soon and we get the model with a permissive license.

We added other Mistral models and apparently, we have been sleeping on mistralai/Mistral-Large-Instruct-2411 !

Another impressive model that joined the ranking today is ALLaM-AI/ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview. After a long wait finally ALLaM is here and it is IMPRESSIVE given its size !

ALLaM is ranked on OALL/Open-Arabic-LLM-Leaderboard as well.
davanstrien 
posted an update 10 days ago
davanstrien 
posted an update 11 days ago
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How do you make 1M+ Hugging Face models & datasets more discoverable?

davanstrien/Smol-Hub-tldr!

I fine-tuned HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-360M to generate one-line summaries from a model or dataset README.

Its own self-description?
"A model for generating concise summaries of model & dataset cards from the Hugging Face Hub"

The goal? Make it easier to find the right models and datasets for your specific needs. It's already powering a semantic search for datasets Space.

It's still a WIP but thanks to @loubnabnl , @anton-l , @eliebak et al, for cooking such a nice base model for fine-tuning small, efficient models for specific domains and tasks. 🙏
davanstrien 
posted an update 12 days ago
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davanstrien 
posted an update 29 days ago
davanstrien 
posted an update 30 days ago
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🌍 Big step for multilingual AI data!

The Hugging Face community has rated educational content in languages spoken by 1.6 billion people! New additions:
• Japanese
• Italian
• Old High German

Learn more and contribute: https://huggingface.co/blog/davanstrien/fineweb2-community

These ratings can help enhance training data for major world languages.
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davanstrien 
posted an update about 1 month ago
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Introducing scandi-fine-web-cleaner davanstrien/scandi-fine-web-cleaner, the first model trained on FineWeb-C community annotations!

FineWeb2 is a massive multilingual dataset for pre-training language models. Like any web-scale dataset, it contains low-quality content. How can we improve it?

Over the past months, an amazing community of 400+ annotators has been labelling content quality (using Argilla) across 23 languages through the FineWeb-C initiative.

Today, I'm happy to share the first classifier trained on this data.

🔍 What we've built:

- A lightweight classifier that efficiently removes low-quality content
- 90%+ precision demonstrated on Danish & Swedish
- Can process the 43M+ documents in Danish FineWeb2 with minimal compute

🌍 Why this matters: The approach can be reproduced for any of the 23 languages in FineWeb-C ( data-is-better-together/fineweb-c). We can improve training data quality at scale without massive compute resources by starting with community annotations and training small, efficient classifiers.

Want to build a classifier for your language? Check out the full blog post with code examples and implementation details: https://danielvanstrien.xyz/posts/2025/FineWeb-c/scandinavian-content-filtering-fineweb.html
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davanstrien 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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The data-is-better-together/fineweb-c dataset is growing!

This week a few more languages have got 1,000 annotations for the educational quality of data from HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-2.

Why should you care?

The quality of pre-training data can have a big impact on the performance of downstream language models trained on that data ( HuggingFaceFW/blogpost-fineweb-v1).

Being able to filter by educational quality is on way of improving the quality of the data you use for training an LLM. Very importantly this approach can also reduce the amount of data needed for pertaining.

Why not use an LLM?

LLMs can be used to annotate educational quality for a subset of data. This data can then be used to train a smaller encoder only model to label the full dataset. However, this may not work well for languages outside of english. This is where fineweb-c (community) comes in.

The community is annotating the educational quality of fineweb2 data. Currently 114 languages have some annotations. These annotations will enable a number of things:

- Evaluate whether an LLM can label the educational quality for texts in that language well
- Directly be used for training quality classifiers
- Help discover other rules and huerisitcs for refining fineweb2 further for different languages.

This week the following languages where done:

Swedish thanks to: @Lauler @AntonVic @ohallstrom @bjarlestam @menbom @Ekgren @apsod

Ukrainian thanks to: @hannayukhymenko @robinhad @realPivo @RabotiahovDmytro @reciprocate

Assamese thanks to: @moyoor97 @Arpanjyoti @nawaf-helmi123 @pahigogoi1 @aelhence @kishorekashyap

Want to learn more: https://huggingface.co/blog/davanstrien/fineweb2-community

Contribute yourself here: data-is-better-together/fineweb-c
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alielfilali01 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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3C3H AraGen Leaderboard welcomes today deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3 and 12 other models (including the late gpt-3.5 💀) to the ranking of best LLMs in Arabic !


Observations:
- DeepSeek-v3 ranked 3rd and only Open model among the top 5 !

- A 14B open model ( Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct) outperforms gpt-3.5-turbo-0125 (from last year). This shows how much we came in advancing and supporting Arabic presence within the LLM ecosystem !

- Contrary to what observed in likelihood-acc leaderboards (like OALL/Open-Arabic-LLM-Leaderboard) further finetuned models like maldv/Qwentile2.5-32B-Instruct actually decreased the performance compared to the original model Qwen/Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct.
It's worth to note that the decrease is statiscally insignificant which imply that at best, the out-domain finetuning do not really hurts the model original capabilities acquired during pretraining.
Previous work addressed this (finetuning VS pretraining) but more investigation in this regard is required (any PhDs here ? This could be your question ...)


Check out the latest rankings: inceptionai/AraGen-Leaderboard
alielfilali01 
posted an update about 2 months ago
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~75% on the challenging GPQA with only 40M parameters 🔥🥳

GREAT ACHIEVEMENT ! Or is it ?

This new Work, "Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation", take out the mystery about many models i personally suspected their results. Speacially on leaderboards other than the english one, Like the Open Arabic LLM Leaderbaord OALL/Open-Arabic-LLM-Leaderboard.

The authors of this work, first started by training a model on the GPQA data, which, unsurprisingly, led to the model achieving 100% performance.

Afterward, they trained what they referred to as a 'legitimate' model on legitimate data (MedMCQA). However, they introduced a distillation loss from the earlier, 'cheated' model.

What they discovered was fascinating: the knowledge of GPQA leaked through this distillation loss, even though the legitimate model was never explicitly trained on GPQA during this stage.

This raises important questions about the careful use of distillation in model training, especially when the training data is opaque. As they demonstrated, it’s apparently possible to (intentionally or unintentionally) leak test data through this method.

Find out more: Data Laundering: Artificially Boosting Benchmark Results through Knowledge Distillation (2412.15255)
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davanstrien 
posted an update 2 months ago
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🇸🇰 Hovorte po slovensky? Help build better AI for Slovak!

We only need 90 more annotations to include Slovak in the next Hugging Face FineWeb2-C dataset ( data-is-better-together/fineweb-c) release!

Your contribution will help create better language models for 5+ million Slovak speakers.

Annotate here: data-is-better-together/fineweb-c.

Read more about why we're doing it: https://huggingface.co/blog/davanstrien/fineweb2-community
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davanstrien 
posted an update 2 months ago
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Introducing FineWeb-C 🌐🎓, a community-built dataset for improving language models in ALL languages.

Inspired by FineWeb-Edu the community is labelling the educational quality of texts for many languages.

318 annotators, 32K+ annotations, 12 languages - and growing! 🌍

data-is-better-together/fineweb-c
alielfilali01 
posted an update 2 months ago
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Unpopular opinion: Open Source takes courage to do !

Not everyone is brave enough to release what they have done (the way they've done it) to the wild to be judged !
It really requires a high level of "knowing wth are you doing" ! It's kind of a super power !

Cheers to the heroes here who see this!
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alielfilali01 
posted an update 3 months ago
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Apparently i forgot to put this here !

Well, this is a bit late but consider given our recent blog a read if you are interested in Evaluation.

You don't have to be into Arabic NLP in order to read it, the main contribution we are introducing is a new evaluation measure for NLG. We made the fisrt application of this measure on Arabic for now and we will be working with colleagues from the community to expand it to other languages.

Blog:
Rethinking LLM Evaluation with 3C3H: AraGen Benchmark and Leaderboard
https://huggingface.co/blog/leaderboard-3c3h-aragen

Space:
inceptionai/AraGen-Leaderboard

Give it a read and let me know your thoughts 🤗
davanstrien 
posted an update 3 months ago
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Increasingly, LLMs are becoming very useful for helping scale annotation tasks, i.e. labelling and filtering. When combined with the structured generation, this can be a very scalable way of doing some pre-annotation without requiring a large team of human annotators.

However, there are quite a few cases where it still doesn't work well. This is a nice paper looking at the limitations of LLM as an annotator for Low Resource Languages: On Limitations of LLM as Annotator for Low Resource Languages (2411.17637).

Humans will still have an important role in the loop to help improve models for all languages (and domains).
davanstrien 
posted an update 3 months ago
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First dataset for the new Hugging Face Bluesky community organisation: https://huggingface.co/datasets/bluesky-community/one-million-bluesky-posts 🦋

📊 1M public posts from Bluesky's firehose API
🔍 Includes text, metadata, and language predictions
🔬 Perfect to experiment with using ML for Bluesky 🤗

Excited to see people build more open tools for a more open social media platform!
davanstrien 
posted an update 3 months ago
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The Bluesky AT Protocol unlocks exciting possibilities:
- Building custom feeds using ML
- Creating dashboards for data exploration
- Developing custom models for Bluesky
To gather Bluesky resources on the Hub, I've created a community org: https://huggingface.co/bluesky-community

My first rather modest contribution is a dashboard that shows the number of posts every second. Drinking straight from the firehose API 🚰

bluesky-community/bluesky-posts-over-time
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davanstrien 
posted an update 3 months ago