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sergiopaniego
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did you know you can train agentic models with RL deploying the environments on HF Spaces? 🤗
with TRL + OpenEnv, your training script connects to remote environments hosted as Spaces
want to train faster? → just add more Spaces (TRL handles the parallelization natively)
we used this to train a model to solve the trolley problem in CARLA. 2 HF Spaces running a full driving simulator, each on a T4 GPU
full write-up with code and results → https://huggingface.co/blog/sergiopaniego/bringing-carla-to-openenv-trl
with TRL + OpenEnv, your training script connects to remote environments hosted as Spaces
want to train faster? → just add more Spaces (TRL handles the parallelization natively)
we used this to train a model to solve the trolley problem in CARLA. 2 HF Spaces running a full driving simulator, each on a T4 GPU
full write-up with code and results → https://huggingface.co/blog/sergiopaniego/bringing-carla-to-openenv-trl
sergiopaniego
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Qwen3.5 dense (smol 🤏) models just dropped
- natively multimodal
- 0.8B · 2B · 4B · 9B (+ base variants)
- 262K context extensible to 1M
- built-in thinking
fine-tune them with TRL out of the box → SFT, GRPO, DPO and more!
examples: https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/example_overview
collection: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen35
- natively multimodal
- 0.8B · 2B · 4B · 9B (+ base variants)
- 262K context extensible to 1M
- built-in thinking
fine-tune them with TRL out of the box → SFT, GRPO, DPO and more!
examples: https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/example_overview
collection: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen35
sergiopaniego
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What happens when you make an LLM drive a car where physics are real and actions can't be undone?
I ported CARLA, the autonomous driving simulator, to OpenEnv and added training support via TRL + Hugging Face Spaces.
The model interacts with the simulator through tool calls (observe, brake, change lane) and learns from a reward signal.
In 50 training steps, Qwen 0.6B learns to swerve and brake to avoid pedestrians in emergency situations.
The project supports text and vision (VLMs can see through a camera sensor), open-world driving with traffic, and multiple driving scenarios.
This builds on the carla-env project by sinatras, which originally placed LLMs inside CARLA for evaluation. We extended it with vision, new scenarios, rubric-based rewards, and made it trainable end-to-end.
Blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/sergiopaniego/bringing-carla-to-openenv-trl/
CARLA env in OpenEnv: https://github.com/meta-pytorch/OpenEnv/tree/main/envs/carla_env
Training script: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/scripts/openenv/carla.py
I ported CARLA, the autonomous driving simulator, to OpenEnv and added training support via TRL + Hugging Face Spaces.
The model interacts with the simulator through tool calls (observe, brake, change lane) and learns from a reward signal.
In 50 training steps, Qwen 0.6B learns to swerve and brake to avoid pedestrians in emergency situations.
The project supports text and vision (VLMs can see through a camera sensor), open-world driving with traffic, and multiple driving scenarios.
This builds on the carla-env project by sinatras, which originally placed LLMs inside CARLA for evaluation. We extended it with vision, new scenarios, rubric-based rewards, and made it trainable end-to-end.
Blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/sergiopaniego/bringing-carla-to-openenv-trl/
CARLA env in OpenEnv: https://github.com/meta-pytorch/OpenEnv/tree/main/envs/carla_env
Training script: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/scripts/openenv/carla.py
qgallouedec
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@CohereLabs just released 🌿 Tiny Aya: a fully open-source 3B parameter model that speaks 70+ languages 🌍! But there’s a catch:
Tiny Aya is just a language model. It doesn’t support tool calling, the key capability that turns frontier models into powerful *agents*.
So the real question is:
How hard is it to turn Tiny Aya into an agent?
Turns out… it’s simple, thanks to Hugging Face TRL.
We’re sharing a hands-on example showing how to train Tiny Aya to turn it into a tool-calling agent using TRL, unlocking what could become the first *massively multilingual open agent*.
Small model. Global reach. Agent capabilities.
👉 https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/sft_tool_calling.ipynb
Tiny Aya is just a language model. It doesn’t support tool calling, the key capability that turns frontier models into powerful *agents*.
So the real question is:
How hard is it to turn Tiny Aya into an agent?
Turns out… it’s simple, thanks to Hugging Face TRL.
We’re sharing a hands-on example showing how to train Tiny Aya to turn it into a tool-calling agent using TRL, unlocking what could become the first *massively multilingual open agent*.
Small model. Global reach. Agent capabilities.
👉 https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/sft_tool_calling.ipynb
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sergiopaniego
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Tiny Aya 🌿 just dropped from @CohereLabs , a really powerful multilingual small model!
To celebrate, we cooked up fresh resources to train it for tool calling 🔧
> Free Google Colab guide: https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/sft_tool_calling.ipynb
> Standalone training script: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/scripts/sft_tiny_aya_tool_calling.py
To celebrate, we cooked up fresh resources to train it for tool calling 🔧
> Free Google Colab guide: https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/sft_tool_calling.ipynb
> Standalone training script: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/scripts/sft_tiny_aya_tool_calling.py
sergiopaniego
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The latest piece by @MiniMax-AI is a must-read.
It tries to break the impossible triangle of agent RL: throughput × stability × flexibility.
A lot to learn here, go read it 🫵
https://huggingface.co/blog/MiniMax-AI/forge-scalable-agent-rl-framework-and-algorithm
It tries to break the impossible triangle of agent RL: throughput × stability × flexibility.
A lot to learn here, go read it 🫵
https://huggingface.co/blog/MiniMax-AI/forge-scalable-agent-rl-framework-and-algorithm
sergiopaniego
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if you're looking for a good first issue to get your open-source journey started, you could contribute to this TRL issue by documenting one impactful paper in the docs
we have a broad list to cover!! 🧐
https://github.com/huggingface/trl/issues/4407
we have a broad list to cover!! 🧐
https://github.com/huggingface/trl/issues/4407
sergiopaniego
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Meet the Post-Training Toolkit (PTT), which easily integrates with TRL via a single callback, by Aditya Challapally ( @microsoft ):
🔍 Detects training issues early
🛠 Lets you intervene safely
📊 Keeps long training runs stable, auditable & efficient
Microsoft blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/diagnosing-instability-in-production-scale-agent-rl/
Integration guide: https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/main/en/ptt_integration
Code: https://github.com/microsoft/post-training-toolkit
🔍 Detects training issues early
🛠 Lets you intervene safely
📊 Keeps long training runs stable, auditable & efficient
Microsoft blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/engineering-at-microsoft/diagnosing-instability-in-production-scale-agent-rl/
Integration guide: https://huggingface.co/docs/trl/main/en/ptt_integration
Code: https://github.com/microsoft/post-training-toolkit
sergiopaniego
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New TRL + OpenEnv example! 💥
Fine tune an LLM for playing Sudoku using an RL env via OpenEnv
Includes a script that runs on 1 or multiple GPUs with vLLM, plus a Colab-ready notebook.
Enjoy!
Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/openenv_sudoku_grpo.ipynb
Script: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/scripts/openenv/sudoku.py
Fine tune an LLM for playing Sudoku using an RL env via OpenEnv
Includes a script that runs on 1 or multiple GPUs with vLLM, plus a Colab-ready notebook.
Enjoy!
Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/openenv_sudoku_grpo.ipynb
Script: https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/scripts/openenv/sudoku.py
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sergiopaniego
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Date idea: read the entire Transformers v5.0.0 release notes
Officially stable now: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/releases/tag/v5.0.0
Officially stable now: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/releases/tag/v5.0.0
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sergiopaniego
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FunctionGemma Tuning Lab is a new no-code tool by @google that lets you fine-tune a model directly from the browser, with no coding knowledge required, using TRL behind the scenes.
blog: https://developers.googleblog.com/a-guide-to-fine-tuning-functiongemma/
try it out: google/functiongemma-tuning-lab
This example builds on a more advanced one for learning fine-tuning with SFT using TRL: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/functiongemma/finetuning-with-functiongemma
blog: https://developers.googleblog.com/a-guide-to-fine-tuning-functiongemma/
try it out: google/functiongemma-tuning-lab
This example builds on a more advanced one for learning fine-tuning with SFT using TRL: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/functiongemma/finetuning-with-functiongemma
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sergiopaniego
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TRL v0.27.0 is out!! 🥳
It includes GDPO, the latest variant of GRPO for multi-reward RL ✨
GDPO decouples reward normalization to avoid reward collapse and improve per-reward convergence — developed by
@sliuau @SimonX et al.
Explore the paper: GDPO: Group reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization for Multi-reward RL Optimization (2601.05242)
Explore the full set of changes here:
https://github.com/huggingface/trl/releases/tag/v0.27.0
It includes GDPO, the latest variant of GRPO for multi-reward RL ✨
GDPO decouples reward normalization to avoid reward collapse and improve per-reward convergence — developed by
@sliuau @SimonX et al.
Explore the paper: GDPO: Group reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization for Multi-reward RL Optimization (2601.05242)
Explore the full set of changes here:
https://github.com/huggingface/trl/releases/tag/v0.27.0
sergiopaniego
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New REPL environment in OpenEnv available! ✨
Used in the Recursive Language Models (RLM) paper by Alex Zhang.
Ready for inference & post-training using trajectories. Handles long contexts:
> Run Python code in a sandbox
> Make recursive calls to LMs
> Explore data programmatically
> Return final result
Docs: https://meta-pytorch.org/OpenEnv/environments/repl/
Inference script: https://github.com/meta-pytorch/OpenEnv/blob/main/examples/repl_oolong_simple.py
Used in the Recursive Language Models (RLM) paper by Alex Zhang.
Ready for inference & post-training using trajectories. Handles long contexts:
> Run Python code in a sandbox
> Make recursive calls to LMs
> Explore data programmatically
> Return final result
Docs: https://meta-pytorch.org/OpenEnv/environments/repl/
Inference script: https://github.com/meta-pytorch/OpenEnv/blob/main/examples/repl_oolong_simple.py
sergiopaniego
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Recursive Language Models (RLM) is a new interface for LLMs with cool ideas by Alex Zhang!
⚠️ LLMs struggle with long prompts → attention overload & lost info
🔄 RLMs inspect, split & call themselves on chunks, then aggregate results
✅ Handles millions of tokens, reduces noise, improves reasoning
💡 System prompt guides recursion
🎯 RLM trajectories can be used for RL training or distillation (OpenEnv+TRL!!)
We're adding it to OpenEnv (with Kashif Rasul): https://github.com/meta-pytorch/OpenEnv/pull/282
More resources:
> Paper: Recursive Language Models (2512.24601)
> Paper blog: https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2025/rlm/
> RLM repo: https://github.com/alexzhang13/rlm
⚠️ LLMs struggle with long prompts → attention overload & lost info
🔄 RLMs inspect, split & call themselves on chunks, then aggregate results
✅ Handles millions of tokens, reduces noise, improves reasoning
💡 System prompt guides recursion
🎯 RLM trajectories can be used for RL training or distillation (OpenEnv+TRL!!)
We're adding it to OpenEnv (with Kashif Rasul): https://github.com/meta-pytorch/OpenEnv/pull/282
More resources:
> Paper: Recursive Language Models (2512.24601)
> Paper blog: https://alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2025/rlm/
> RLM repo: https://github.com/alexzhang13/rlm
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sergiopaniego
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New GRPO + TRL free Colab notebook out! 🔥
Fine-tune 7B+ models on T4 GPUs thanks to a ton of memory optimizations for GRPO
7B model uses only 9.2 GB VRAM (~7× reduction) 🤯
Try the notebook here 👉 https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/grpo_trl_lora_qlora.ipynb
Fine-tune 7B+ models on T4 GPUs thanks to a ton of memory optimizations for GRPO
7B model uses only 9.2 GB VRAM (~7× reduction) 🤯
Try the notebook here 👉 https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/trl/blob/main/examples/notebooks/grpo_trl_lora_qlora.ipynb
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👉 What happened in AI in 2025? 👈
We prepared the 2025 version of the HF AI Timeline Grid, highlighting open vs API-based model releases, and allowing you to browse and filter by access, modality, and release type!
Play with it here:
2025-ai-timeline/2025-ai-timeline
Here's my personal quarterly TL;DR:
1️⃣ Q1 — Learning to Reason
Deepseek not only releases a top-notch reasoning model, but shows how to train them and compete with closed frontier models. OpenAI debuts Deep Research.
Significant milestones: DeepSeek R1 & R1-Zero, Qwen 2.5 VL, OpenAI Deep Research, Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental)
2️⃣ Q2 — Multimodality and Coding
More LLMs embrace multimodality by default, and there's a surge in coding agents. Strong vision, audio, and generative models emerge.
Significant milestones: Llama 4, Qwen 3, Imagen 4, OpenAI Codex, Google Jules, Claude 4
3️⃣ Q3 — "Gold" rush, OpenAI opens up, the community goes bananas
Flagship models get gold in Math olympiads and hard benchmarks. OpenAI releases strong open source models and Google releases the much anticipated nano-banana for image generation and editing. Agentic workflows become commonplace.
Significant milestones: Gemini and OpenAI IMO Gold, gpt-oss, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Grok 4, Claude Sonnet 4.5
4️⃣ Q4 — Mistral returns, leaderboard hill-climbing
Mistral is back with updated model families. All labs release impressive models to wrap up the year!
Significant milestones: Claude Opus 4.5, DeepSeek Math V2, FLUX 2, GPT 5.1, Kimi K2 Thinking, Nano Banana Pro, GLM 4.7, Gemini 3, Mistral 3, MiniMax M2.1 🤯
Credits
🙏 NHLOCAL for the source data https://github.com/NHLOCAL/AiTimeline
🫡 @reach-vb for the original idea, design and recipe
🙌 @ariG23498 and yours truly for compiling and verifying the 2025 edition
🥳 Here's to 2026, wishing it becomes the best year ever for open releases and on-device-first use-cases! 🥂
We prepared the 2025 version of the HF AI Timeline Grid, highlighting open vs API-based model releases, and allowing you to browse and filter by access, modality, and release type!
Play with it here:
2025-ai-timeline/2025-ai-timeline
Here's my personal quarterly TL;DR:
1️⃣ Q1 — Learning to Reason
Deepseek not only releases a top-notch reasoning model, but shows how to train them and compete with closed frontier models. OpenAI debuts Deep Research.
Significant milestones: DeepSeek R1 & R1-Zero, Qwen 2.5 VL, OpenAI Deep Research, Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental)
2️⃣ Q2 — Multimodality and Coding
More LLMs embrace multimodality by default, and there's a surge in coding agents. Strong vision, audio, and generative models emerge.
Significant milestones: Llama 4, Qwen 3, Imagen 4, OpenAI Codex, Google Jules, Claude 4
3️⃣ Q3 — "Gold" rush, OpenAI opens up, the community goes bananas
Flagship models get gold in Math olympiads and hard benchmarks. OpenAI releases strong open source models and Google releases the much anticipated nano-banana for image generation and editing. Agentic workflows become commonplace.
Significant milestones: Gemini and OpenAI IMO Gold, gpt-oss, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, Grok 4, Claude Sonnet 4.5
4️⃣ Q4 — Mistral returns, leaderboard hill-climbing
Mistral is back with updated model families. All labs release impressive models to wrap up the year!
Significant milestones: Claude Opus 4.5, DeepSeek Math V2, FLUX 2, GPT 5.1, Kimi K2 Thinking, Nano Banana Pro, GLM 4.7, Gemini 3, Mistral 3, MiniMax M2.1 🤯
Credits
🙏 NHLOCAL for the source data https://github.com/NHLOCAL/AiTimeline
🫡 @reach-vb for the original idea, design and recipe
🙌 @ariG23498 and yours truly for compiling and verifying the 2025 edition
🥳 Here's to 2026, wishing it becomes the best year ever for open releases and on-device-first use-cases! 🥂
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