Hugging News (March 28)
Hey all!We have many exciting updates this week!Open SourceDecision Transformers is now intransformers!https://twitter.com/huggingface/status/1508468169349992449We released TheSpeech Bench, a leaderboard of ~700 speech recognition models and 14 datasets for dozens of languagesThe 🤗 Speech Bench - a Hugging Face Space by huggingface.Accelerate releasev0.6.0adds support for checkpointing capability, bfloat16 mixed precision training, and more.ResearchThe AI Residency Program was announced last week. We’ll have an AMA soon in the server, but in the meantime you can read about it inAnnouncing the 🤗 AI Research Residency Program.We collaborated with Google to create XTREME-S, a benchmark for Cross-lingual Speech Representations[2203.10752] XTREME-S: Evaluating Cross-lingual Speech RepresentationsLast week the BigScience AMA happened in Reddit. You can find lots of great info athttps://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/teu7dn/announcement_huggingface_bigscience_ama_thursday/.TalksThomas Wolf, HF co-founder, talked about Big Science and Embodied Learning. You can watch it inhttps://twimlai.com/big-science-and-embodied-learning-at-hugging-face-🤗-with-thomas-wolf/Watch this amazing interview with Meg Mitchell about inclusion & diversity in ML, model transparency, biases and more!Machine Learning Experts - Margaret Mitchell - YouTubeMiscCreate amazing Pokemons with thisamazing special Spacewe crafted for youAutoNLP became AutoTrain, with non-text task modalities coming up soonhttps://twitter.com/SimonBrandeis/status/1506346321795592197Blog post: how to save up to 90% of training cost with AWS Spot Instanceshttps://www.philschmid.de/sagemaker-spot-instanceSocial: you can add Twitter and GitHub pages in your personal and org profileshttps://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1508065997265293316Find about your organization activity by signing in, going tohttps://huggingface.co/, and clicking in “USERNAME’s activity”EventsWe have lots of events for you in the next days and week!Now until April 4th. A#doc-test-sprintis ongoing and is an excellent opportunity for first time Open Source contributors to collaborate! This event is happening in Discord.April 4thThe HugGAN sprintis kicking off next week! We’ll be offering GPU, talks, and much more! Stay tuned by joining at#join-sprint. This event is happening in Discord.April 5th. The newly formed Computer Vision Study Group will do a session onHow Do Vision Transformers Work. This event will be happening in Discord.April 13th. In this SageMarker Workshop, learn toAccelerate BERT Inference with Knowledge Distillation & AWS InferentiaHave a great week!To be up to date with the latest updates, join over 5000 membersof the HF community Discord server