I made a code sniping agent to detect when new AI papers with code (and weights) are released, and then automatically create a Gradio demo on Hugging Face π§
I call this agent CheatCode (https://github.com/jbilcke-hf/CheatCode) because it skips so many steps that it kinda feels like breaking the rules of the AI tech release game π
- Currently the demos are all generated in one go and not built or tested by the agent itself. A more robust version should loop over the deployed app to fix build/runtime issues. - There is still a bit of human curation done to avoid making demos for things that canβt really be demonstrated on ZeroGPU (eg. tasks taking several minutes) - Some papers can actually be showcased in a variety of ways, which isnβt really supported (see Demo 2)
π€ Sentence Transformers is joining Hugging Face! π€ This formalizes the existing maintenance structure, as I've personally led the project for the past two years on behalf of Hugging Face! Details:
Today, the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab is transferring the project to Hugging Face. Sentence Transformers will remain a community-driven, open-source project, with the same open-source license (Apache 2.0) as before. Contributions from researchers, developers, and enthusiasts are welcome and encouraged. The project will continue to prioritize transparency, collaboration, and broad accessibility.
We see an increasing wish from companies to move from large LLM APIs to local models for better control and privacy, reflected in the library's growth: in just the last 30 days, Sentence Transformer models have been downloaded >270 million times, second only to transformers.
I would like to thank the UKP Lab, and especially Nils Reimers and Iryna Gurevych, both for their dedication to the project and for their trust in myself, both now and two years ago. Back then, neither of you knew me well, yet you trusted me to take the project to new heights. That choice ended up being very valuable for the embedding & Information Retrieval community, and I think this choice of granting Hugging Face stewardship will be similarly successful.
I'm very excited about the future of the project, and for the world of embeddings and retrieval at large!