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yjernite 
posted an update 10 months ago
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Tremendous quality of life upgrade on the Hugging Face Hub - we now have auto-complete emojis 🤗 🥳 👏 🙌 🎉

Get ready for lots more very serious analysis on a whole range of topics from yours truly now that we have unlocked this full range of expression 😄 🤔 🗣 🙊
yjernite 
posted an update 12 months ago
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𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗚𝗣𝗔𝗜 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝗨 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲? 🇪🇺

With the release of the EU data transparency template this week, we finally got to see one of the most meaningful artifacts to come out of the AI Act implementation so far (haven't you heard? AI's all about the data! 📊📚)

The impact of the template will depend on how effectively it establishes a minimum meaningful transparency standard for companies that don't otherwise offer any transparency into their handling of e.g. personal data or (anti?-)competitive practices in commercial licensing - we'll see how those play out as new models are released after August 2nd 👀


In the meantime, I wanted to see how the template works for a fully open-source + commercially viable model, so I filled it out for the SmolLM3 - which my colleagues at Hugging Face earlier this month 🤗 ICYMI, it's fully open-source with 3B parameters and performance matching the best similar-size models (I've switched all my local apps from Qwen3 to it, you should too 💡)

Verdict: congrats to the European Commission AI Office for making it so straightforward! Fully open and transparent models remain a cornerstone of informed regulation and governance, but the different organizational needs of their developers aren't always properly accounted for in new regulation. In this case, it took me all of two hours to fill out and publish the template (including reading the guidelines) - so kudos for making it feasible for smaller and distributed organizations 🙌 Definitely a step forward for transparency 🔍

To learn more have a look at:

- The SmolLM3 model: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B
- Its filled out Public Summary of Training Content: hfmlsoc/smollm3-eu-data-transparency
- And if you're interested, some previous remarks on regulatory minimum meaningful standards for data disclosure: https://huggingface.co/blog/yjernite/naiac-data-transparency
yjernite 
posted an update about 1 year ago
yjernite 
posted an update about 1 year ago
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Today in Privacy & AI Tooling - introducing a nifty new tool to examine where data goes in open-source apps on 🤗

HF Spaces have tons (100Ks!) of cool demos leveraging or examining AI systems - and because most of them are OSS we can see exactly how they handle user data 📚🔍

That requires actually reading the code though, which isn't always easy or quick! Good news: code LMs have gotten pretty good at automatic review, so we can offload some of the work - here I'm using Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct to generate reports and it works pretty OK 🙌

The app works in three stages:
1. Download all code files
2. Use the Code LM to generate a detailed report pointing to code where data is transferred/(AI-)processed (screen 1)
3. Summarize the app's main functionality and data journeys (screen 2)
4. Build a Privacy TLDR with those inputs

It comes with a bunch of pre-reviewed apps/Spaces, great to see how many process data locally or through (private) HF endpoints 🤗

Note that this is a POC, lots of exciting work to do to make it more robust, so:
- try it: yjernite/space-privacy
- reach out to collab: yjernite/space-privacy
yjernite 
posted an update over 1 year ago
yjernite 
posted an update over 1 year ago
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🇪🇺 Policy Thoughts in the EU AI Act Implementation 🇪🇺

There is a lot to like in the first draft of the EU GPAI Code of Practice, especially as regards transparency requirements. The Systemic Risks part, on the other hand, is concerning for both smaller developers and for external stakeholders.

I wrote more on this topic ahead of the next draft. TLDR: more attention to immediate large-scale risks and to collaborative solutions supported by evidence can help everyone - as long as developers disclose sufficient information about their design choices and deployment contexts.

Full blog here, based on our submitted response with @frimelle and @brunatrevelin :

https://huggingface.co/blog/yjernite/eu-draft-cop-risks#on-the-proposed-taxonomy-of-systemic-risks
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yjernite 
posted an update over 2 years ago
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👷🏽‍♀️📚🔨 Announcing the Foundation Model Development Cheatsheet!

My first 🤗Post🤗 ever to announce the release of a fantastic collaborative resource to support model developers across the full development stack: The FM Development Cheatsheet available here: https://fmcheatsheet.org/

The cheatsheet is a growing database of the many crucial resources coming from open research and development efforts to support the responsible development of models. This new resource highlights essential yet often underutilized tools in order to make it as easy as possible for developers to adopt best practices, covering among other aspects:
🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼 data selection, curation, and governance;
📖 accurate and limitations-aware documentation;
⚡ energy efficiency throughout the training phase;
📊 thorough capability assessments and risk evaluations;
🌏 environmentally and socially conscious deployment strategies.

We strongly encourage developers working on creating and improving models to make full use of the tools listed here, and to help keep the resource up to date by adding the resources that you yourself have developed or found useful in your own practice 🤗

Congrats to all the participants in this effort for the release! Read more about it from:
@Shayne - https://twitter.com/ShayneRedford/status/1763215814860186005
@hails and @stellaathena - https://blog.eleuther.ai/fm-dev-cheatsheet/
@alon-albalak - http://nlp.cs.ucsb.edu/blog/a-new-guide-for-the-responsible-development-of-foundation-models.html

And also to @gabrielilharco @sayashk @kklyman @kylel @mbrauh @fauxneticien @avi-skowron @Bertievidgen Laura Weidinger, Arvind Narayanan, @VictorSanh @Davlan @percyliang Rishi Bommasani, @breakend @sasha 🔥
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