Hey all!
We have many exciting updates this week! 
Open Source
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Decision Transformers is now in 
transformers! https://twitter.com/huggingface/status/1508468169349992449 -
We released The Speech Bench, a leaderboard of ~700 speech recognition models and 14 datasets for dozens of languages The 🤗 Speech Bench - a Hugging Face Space by huggingface. -
Accelerate release v0.6.0 adds support for checkpointing capability, bfloat16 mixed precision training, and more.
Research 
- The 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 in Announcing the 🤗 AI Research Residency Program.
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We collaborated with Google to create XTREME-S, a benchmark for Cross-lingual Speech Representations [2203.10752] XTREME-S: Evaluating Cross-lingual Speech Representations
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Last week the BigScience AMA happened in Reddit. You can find lots of great info at https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/teu7dn/announcement_huggingface_bigscience_ama_thursday/.
Talks
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Thomas Wolf, HF co-founder, talked about Big Science and Embodied Learning. You can watch it in https://twimlai.com/big-science-and-embodied-learning-at-hugging-face-🤗-with-thomas-wolf/
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Watch this amazing interview with Meg Mitchell about inclusion & diversity in ML, model transparency, biases and more! Machine Learning Experts - Margaret Mitchell - YouTube
Misc
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Create amazing Pokemons with this amazing special Space we crafted for you -
AutoNLP became AutoTrain, with non-text task modalities coming up soon https://twitter.com/SimonBrandeis/status/1506346321795592197
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Blog post: how to save up to 90% of training cost with AWS Spot Instances https://www.philschmid.de/sagemaker-spot-instance
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Social: you can add Twitter and GitHub pages in your personal and org profiles https://twitter.com/julien_c/status/1508065997265293316
- Find about your organization activity by signing in, going to https://huggingface.co/, and clicking in “USERNAME’s activity”
Events
We have lots of events for you in the next days and week!
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Now until April 4th. A #doc-test-sprint is ongoing and is an excellent opportunity for first time Open Source contributors to collaborate! This event is happening in Discord. -
April 4th The HugGAN sprint is 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 on How Do Vision Transformers Work. This event will be happening in Discord. - April 13th. In this SageMarker Workshop, learn to Accelerate BERT Inference with Knowledge Distillation & AWS Inferentia
Have a great week!
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