This week we are releasing the first framework unit in the course and it’s on smolagents. This is what the unit covers:
- why should you use smolagents vs another library? - how to build agents that use code - build multiagents systems - use vision language models for browser use
The team has been working flat out on this for a few weeks. Led by @sergiopaniego and supported by smolagents author @m-ric.
AGENTS + FINETUNING! This week Hugging Face learn has a whole pathway on finetuning for agentic applications. You can follow these two courses to get knowledge on levelling up your agent game beyond prompts:
NEW COURSE! We’re cooking hard on Hugging Face courses, and it’s not just agents. The NLP course is getting the same treatment with a new chapter on Supervised Fine-Tuning!
I created the Tools gallery, which makes tools specifically developed by/for smolagents searchable and visible. This will help with: - inspiration - best practices - finding cool tools
This first unit of the course sets you up with all the fundamentals to become a pro in agents.
- What's an AI Agent? - What are LLMs? - Messages and Special Tokens - Understanding AI Agents through the Thought-Action-Observation Cycle - Thought, Internal Reasoning and the Re-Act Approach - Actions, Enabling the Agent to Engage with Its Environment - Observe, Integrating Feedback to Reflect and Adapt
😍 Why do I love it? Because it facilitates teaching and learning!
Over the past few months I've engaged with (no joke) thousands of students based on SmolLM.
- People have inferred, fine-tuned, aligned, and evaluated this smol model. - People used they're own machines and they've used free tools like colab, kaggle, and spaces. - People tackled use cases in their job, for fun, in their own language, and with their friends.
Datasets on the Hugging Face Hub rely on parquet files. We can interact with these files using DuckDB as a fast in-memory database system. One of DuckDB’s features is vector similarity search which can be used with or without an index.
There's so much you could do with these developments. Especially combining them together into agentic applications or fine-tuning them on your use case.
I'm helping out on some community research to learn about the AI community. If you want to join in the conversation, head over here where I started a community discussion on the most influential model since BERT.