Julien BLANCHON PRO

I’ve been learning AI for several years (coming from the games industry), and along the way, I curated a list of the tools, courses, books, papers, and models that actually helped me understand things.

I turned this into a GitHub repo:
https://github.com/ArturoNereu/AI-Study-Group

If you’re just getting started, I recommend:

📘 Deep Learning – A Visual Approach: https://www.glassner.com/portfolio/deep-learning-a-visual-approach
🎥 Dive into LLMs with Andrej Karpathy: https://youtu.be/7xTGNNLPyMI?si=aUTq_qUzyUx36BsT
🧠 The 🤗 Agents course](https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/

The repo has grown with help from the community (Reddit, Discord, etc.) and I’ll keep updating it.

If you have any favorite resources, I’d love to include them.

I made a 1 minute video explaining the DeepSeek situation

R1: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
Janus Pro: deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B

📣 Looking for labeled, high-quality synthetic audio/TTS data 📣 Have you been or are you currently calling API endpoints from OpenAI, ElevenLabs, etc? Do you have labeled audio data sitting around gathering dust? Let's talk! Join https://discord.gg/QuGxSWBfQy or comment down below.

If your data exceeds quantity & quality thresholds and is approved into the next hexgrad/Kokoro-82M training mix, and you permissively DM me the data under an effective Apache license, then I will DM back the corresponding voicepacks for YOUR data if/when the next Apache-licensed Kokoro base model drops.

What does this mean? If you've been calling closed-source TTS or audio API endpoints to:
- Build voice agents
- Make long-form audio, like audiobooks or podcasts
- Handle customer support, etc
Then YOU can contribute to the training mix and get useful artifacts in return. ❤️

More details at hexgrad/Kokoro-82M#21

Introducing Moonshine Web: real-time speech recognition running 100% locally in your browser!
🚀 Faster and more accurate than Whisper
🔒 Privacy-focused (no data leaves your device)
⚡️ WebGPU accelerated (w/ WASM fallback)
🔥 Powered by ONNX Runtime Web and Transformers.js

Demo: webml-community/moonshine-web
Source code: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.js-examples/tree/main/moonshine-web

Introducing ⇆ Marigold-DC — our training-free zero-shot approach to monocular Depth Completion with guided diffusion! If you have ever wondered how else a long denoising diffusion schedule can be useful, we have an answer for you!

Depth Completion addresses sparse, incomplete, or noisy measurements from photogrammetry or sensors like LiDAR. Sparse points aren’t just hard for humans to interpret — they also hinder downstream tasks.

Traditionally, depth completion was framed as image-guided depth interpolation. We leverage Marigold, a diffusion-based monodepth model, to reframe it as sparse-depth-guided depth generation. How the turntables! Check out the paper anyway 👇

🌎 Website: https://marigolddepthcompletion.github.io/
🤗 Demo: prs-eth/marigold-dc
📕 Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13389
👾 Code: https://github.com/prs-eth/marigold-dc

Team ETH Zürich: Massimiliano Viola ( @mviola ), Kevin Qu ( @KevinQu7 ), Nando Metzger ( @nandometzger ), Bingxin Ke ( @Bingxin ), Alexander Becker, Konrad Schindler, and Anton Obukhov ( @toshas ). We thank
Hugging Face for their continuous support.

Implements from first-principle a discrete flow matching model for code generation- trained a small sized 2D dfm model on two variations of code for binary search. The result was amazing, code in comment:
Code: https://github.com/Jaykef/ai-algorithms/blob/main/dfm.ipynb

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞: 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐎𝐌 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 🗺️

Dataset: Major-TOM/Core-DEM

Today with European Space Agency - ESA and Adobe Research, we release a global expansion to Major TOM with GLO-30 DEM data.

You can now instantly access nearly 2M of Major TOM samples with elevation data to build your next AI model for EO. 🌍

🔍 Browse the data in our usual viewer app: Major-TOM/MajorTOM-Core-Viewer

Fantastic work championed by Paul Borne--Pons @NewtNewt 🚀

First Global and Dense Open Embedding Dataset of Earth! 🌍 🤗

Introducing the Major TOM embeddings dataset, created in collaboration with CloudFerro S.A. 🔶 and Φ-lab at the European Space Agency (ESA) 🛰️. Together with @mikonvergence and Jędrzej S. Bojanowski, we present the first open-access dataset of Copernicus embeddings, offering dense, global coverage across the full acquisition areas of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 sensors.

💡 Highlights:
📊 Data: Over 8 million Sentinel-1 & Sentinel-2 images processed, distilling insights from 9.368 trillion pixels of raw data.
🧠 Models: Foundation models include SigLIP, DINOv2, and SSL4EO.
📦 Scale: 62 TB of raw satellite data processed into 170M+ embeddings.

This project delivers open and free vectorized expansions of Major-TOM/README datasets, setting a new standard for embedding releases and enabling lightweight, scalable ingestion of Earth Observation (EO) data for countless applications.

🤗 Explore the datasets:
Major-TOM/Core-S2L1C-SSL4EO
Major-TOM/Core-S1RTC-SSL4EO
Major-TOM/Core-S2RGB-DINOv2
Major-TOM/Core-S2RGB-SigLIP

📖 Check paper: Global and Dense Embeddings of Earth: Major TOM Floating in the Latent Space (2412.05600)
💻 Code notebook: https://github.com/ESA-PhiLab/Major-TOM/blob/main/05-Generate-Major-TOM-Embeddings.ipynb

The Data Is Better Together community is set to release the first Apache 2 licensed image preference dataset!

Great work and let's give this a final push :)

@aashish1904 congrats on your month of HF pro. There is more to win during this sprint!

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What a great day for Open Science! @AIatMeta released models, datasets, and code for many of its research artefacts! 🔥

1. Meta Segment Anything Model 2.1: An updated checkpoint with improved results on visually similar objects, small objects and occlusion handling. A new developer suite will be added to make it easier for developers to build with SAM 2.

Model checkpoints: reach-vb/sam-21-6702d40defe7611a8bafa881

2. Layer Skip: Inference code and fine-tuned checkpoints demonstrating a new method for enhancing LLM performance.

Model checkpoints: facebook/layerskip-666b25c50c8ae90e1965727a

3. SALSA: New code enables researchers to benchmark AI-based attacks to validate security for post-quantum cryptography.

Repo: https://github.com/facebookresearch/LWE-benchmarking

4. Meta Lingua: A lightweight and self-contained codebase designed to train language models at scale.

Repo: https://github.com/facebookresearch/lingua

5. Meta Open Materials: New open source models and the largest dataset to accelerate AI-driven discovery of new inorganic materials.

Model checkpoints: https://huggingface.co/fairchem/OMAT24

6. MEXMA: A new research paper and code for our novel pre-trained cross-lingual sentence encoder covering 80 languages.

Model checkpoint: facebook/MEXMA

7. Self-Taught Evaluator: a new method for generating synthetic preference data to train reward models without relying on human annotations.

Model checkpoint: facebook/Self-taught-evaluator-llama3.1-70B

8. Meta Spirit LM: An open-source language model for seamless speech and text integration.

Repo: https://github.com/facebookresearch/spiritlm

China is advancing rapidly in AI technology while maintaining a strong focus on governance 🇨🇳📑
We've collected key AI governance documents released since 2017 and will continue updating them in this organization on the hub 👉China LLMs on Hugging Face
✨ zh-ai-community/china-ai-policy-research
Any feedback is welcome🤗