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pascal-maker

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https://pascal-maker.github.io/developedbypascalmusabyimana/

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computer vision, nlp , machine learning and deeplearning

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After training 𝐒𝐦𝐨𝐥𝐋𝐌𝟑 on 𝟑𝟖𝟒 𝐇𝟏𝟎𝟎𝐬 for nearly a month, I've come to realize something most people overlook: 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞-𝐨𝐫-𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐋𝐌 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠. 🔥 Everyone talks about model architecture and data quality. And yes, those matter immensely. But here's what nobody tells you: when your training run fails at 2 AM because of mysterious 𝐍𝐂𝐂𝐋 𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐬, or when your expensive GPU cluster is running at 𝟔𝟎% 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲, the problem isn't your model. It's most probably a 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞. 🛠️ Questions that seemed simple but had no clear answers: Why is 𝐌𝐨𝐄 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬? Which 𝐍𝐂𝐂𝐋 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐬 should we actually set? How often should we checkpoint without killing throughput? That's why we built 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐦𝐨𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 📖: a complete guide covering everything from model architecture and data curation to the SmolLM3 training marathon, post-training techniques, and crucially, the 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 that most teams get wrong. We validated real vs theoretical bandwidth across the entire stack: 𝐇𝐁𝐌𝟑 𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟑 𝐓𝐁/𝐬, 𝐍𝐕𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝟒.𝟎 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟕𝟖𝟔 𝐆𝐁/𝐬, 𝐏𝐂𝐈𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝟒 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟒.𝟐 𝐆𝐁/𝐬. Then we ran collective operations across 𝟏𝟐𝟖 𝐆𝐏𝐔𝐬 (16 nodes, 8xH100s each) and measured how performance degrades at scale: all-reduce drops from 𝟒𝟖𝟎 𝐆𝐁/𝐬 on a single node to 𝟑𝟐𝟎-𝟑𝟓𝟎 𝐆𝐁/𝐬 across 16 nodes. If you've ever wondered why your training runs are slower than they should be, or you're planning to scale up and want to avoid expensive mistakes, this guide might save you weeks of debugging. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐦𝐨𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤: https://lnkd.in/e5MKXUHS Shared with ❤️ by the HuggingFace team

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11 Fascinating new Policy Optimization techniques Policy optimization (PO) algorithms are central to training AI models with preference-based feedback. In recent weeks, numerous new PO methods have emerged that build on or replace the popular PPO and GRPO, solving their issues. Here are 11 of them: 1. BAlanced Policy Optimization (BAPO) → https://huggingface.co/papers/2510.18927 Dynamically adjusting the clipping bounds in PPO-style updates to balance positive and negative gradients and prevent entropy collapse 2. Training-Free GRPO → https://huggingface.co/papers/2510.08191 Instead of using numeric rewards, it compares rollouts semantically to distill useful knowledge as a token prior, which is then applied during inference to guide the model’s behavior 3. Asymmetric Importance Sampling Policy Optimization (ASPO) → https://huggingface.co/papers/2510.06062 Fixes imbalanced token weighting in LLM training. It flips the importance sampling ratios for positive tokens to correct over- and under-updates, and adds a soft dual-clipping step to keep gradients stable 4. In-Context Steered Policy Optimization (ICPO) → https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26519 Uses a model’s own in-context learning ability to guide training with existing data. It combines Mixed-Policy GRPO with Implicit Expert Forcing to expand exploration and adds Expert Region Reject Sampling and Annealed Expert-Bonus Reward Shaping to ensure stability and balanced expert influence 5. Graph-Enhanced Policy Optimization (GEPO) → https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26270 Builds a graph of an agent’s experiences to understand how different states connect, guide exploration and assign rewards more effectively 6. Information Gain-based Policy Optimization (IGPO) → https://huggingface.co/papers/2510.14967 Uses the model’s own belief updates to create dense, informative feedback for smoother multi-turn learning Read further below ⬇️ If you like this, also subscribe to the Turing post: https://www.turingpost.com/subscribe

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meituan-longcat/LongCat-Flash-Omni

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Medical VLM with SAM-2 and CheXagent

A comprehensive medical imaging analysis tool

Medical Imaging Analysis

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models 7

pascal-maker/unsloth_finetune

Image-to-Text • 9B • Updated 10 days ago • 29

pascal-maker/myemoji-gemma-3-270m-it

Text Generation • 0.4B • Updated 17 days ago • 29

pascal-maker/vit_base_patch16_224.augreg2_in21k_ft_in1k.lora_ft_food101

pascal-maker/vit_base_patch16_224.augreg2_in21k_ft_in1k.ft_food101

pascal-maker/qwen2-7b-instruct-trl-sft-ChartQA

Updated Dec 17, 2024

pascal-maker/paligemma_vqav2

Image-to-Text • 3B • Updated Nov 11, 2024 • 1

pascal-maker/qwen2-7b-instruct-amazon-description

Updated Oct 1, 2024

datasets 2

pascal-maker/my-single-image-dataset

Viewer • Updated May 27 • 1 • 9

pascal-maker/classification-ie-optimization

Viewer • Updated Feb 18 • 12