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AI models · Hugging Face Blog

Google Releases Open-Source Multimodal Model PaliGemma ↗

Google has released PaliGemma, an open-source vision-language model family consisting of a SigLIP-So400m image encoder and a Gemma-2B text decoder, which is now available on the Hugging Face Hub.

Research · Hugging Face Blog

Hugging Face Releases Open Leaderboard for Hebrew Large Language Models ↗

Hugging Face has released an open leaderboard dedicated to Hebrew large language models, featuring four tasks: Hebrew question answering, sentiment analysis, Winograd coreference resolution, and English-Hebrew translation, all using few-shot prompting formats. The evaluations are based on datasets constructed from HeQ, Hebrew Sentiment, a translated version of Hebrew Winograd, and NeuLabs-TedTalks corpora, executed automatically via Inference Endpoints and lighteval.

Research · Hugging Face Blog

StarCoder2-15B-Instruct-v0.1 Released: The First Fully Transparent and Freely Usable Self-Aligned Code Large Language Model ↗

Hugging Face released StarCoder2-15B-Instruct-v0.1, the first fully self-aligned open-source code large language model. It was fine-tuned using 50k instruction-response pairs generated by StarCoder2-15B itself, achieving a HumanEval score of 72.6, surpassing CodeLlama-70B-Instruct. The entire data generation and training pipeline is open-sourced, supporting free commercial use and redistribution.

Research · Hugging Face Blog

Hugging Face Releases Open Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Leaderboard ↗

Hugging Face has launched the Open CoT Leaderboard, which evaluates large language models' ability to generate effective reasoning chains by calculating the difference in accuracy before and after applying chain-of-thought (Δ = accuracy with CoT – accuracy without CoT). It covers multiple choice-based reasoning tasks such as LogiQA and LSAT, employs two prompting strategies—Classic and Reflect—and six decoding configurations. Currently, 30 open-source models have been evaluated.

AI models · Hugging Face Blog

Meta Releases Llama 3 Open-Source Large Language Models (8B/70B Dual Versions) ↗

Meta has released the Llama 3 open-source large language model, featuring two parameter sizes: 8B and 70B. Each size is available in base and instruct-tuned versions, totaling 4 main models; additionally, a safety model named Llama Guard 2, fine-tuned based on Llama 3 8B, was also released.

Practical tips · Hugging Face Blog

Gradio Releases Reload Mode to Support Rapid Iteration of AI Applications ↗

Gradio has introduced reload mode, allowing developers to load code changes in real time without restarting the server. This mode is implemented via custom reloading logic to achieve faster responses and selective reloading (such as skipping model loading). The article uses a document question-answering application based on the Hugging Face Inference API as an example to fully demonstrate the development process from UI adjustments to logic integration.

Research · Hugging Face Blog

Hugging Face Releases LiveCodeBench Leaderboard for Evaluating Large Language Models in Programming ↗

A Hugging Face blog post introduces a new programming LLM evaluation leaderboard based on LiveCodeBench. This benchmark was developed by researchers from UC Berkeley, MIT, and Cornell University. It collects problems chronologically from platforms such as LeetCode, AtCoder, and CodeForces. It supports four scenarios: code generation, self-repair, code execution, and test output prediction. All scenarios use the Pass@1 metric, and temporal evaluation prevents data contamination by leveraging problem publication dates.