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Hugging Face

Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL

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Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow

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NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder

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BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?

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Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI

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The Open ASR Leaderboard Adds Its First Global South Language

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Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built

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Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio

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How Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code

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Measuring benchmark optimization in speech recognition

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Up to 3.2x Faster Inference with LFM2.5-DSpark

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Microsoft Research

Aurora 1.5: Extending open foundation models for weather and Earth-system applications

At a glance Aurora 1.5 is a major extension of Microsoft’s Aurora Earth System foundation model that adds 22 more weather variables relevant to energy, agriculture, transport, and climate risk, along with hourly temporal resolution and probabilistic ensemble forecasting. Released as open source on GitHub with model checkpoints on Hugging Face, Aurora 1.5 enables researchers and developers to use, evaluate, and build on the model. Aurora 1.5 connects open research to Microsoft Weather services, linking the model wit

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