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MaziyarPanahiย 
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Training mRNA Language Models Across 25 Species for $165

We built an end-to-end protein AI pipeline covering structure prediction, sequence design, and codon optimization. After comparing multiple transformer architectures for codon-level language modeling, CodonRoBERTa-large-v2 emerged as the clear winner with a perplexity of 4.10 and a Spearman CAI correlation of 0.40, significantly outperforming ModernBERT. We then scaled to 25 species, trained 4 production models in 55 GPU-hours, and built a species-conditioned system that no other open-source project offers. Complete results, architectural decisions, and runnable code below.

https://huggingface.co/blog/OpenMed/training-mrna-models-25-species
MaziyarPanahiย 
posted an update 4 months ago
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We annotated 119K medical images with two frontier VLMs (Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5), cross-validated at 93% agreement, and produced 110K training records, all for under $500. Fine-tuning 3 small models (2-3B params) improved all benchmarks: best model reaches +15.0% average exact match.

Everything is open-sourced: datasets, adapters, and code.

https://huggingface.co/blog/OpenMed/synthvision
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MaziyarPanahiย 
posted an update 4 months ago
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DNA, mRNA, proteins, AI. I spent the last year going deep into computational biology as an ML engineer. This is Part I of what I found. ๐Ÿงฌ

In 2024, AlphaFold won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

By 2026, the open-source community had built alternatives that outperform it.

That's the story I find most interesting about protein AI right now. Not just the science (which is incredible), but the speed at which open-source caught up. Multiple teams, independently, reproduced and then exceeded AlphaFold 3's accuracy with permissive licenses. The field went from prediction to generation: we're not just modeling known proteins anymore, we're designing new ones.

I spent months mapping this landscape for ML engineers. What the architectures actually are (spoiler: transformers and diffusion models), which tools to use for what, and which ones you can actually ship commercially.

New post on the Hugging Face blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/MaziyarPanahi/protein-ai-landscape

Hope you all enjoy! ๐Ÿค—
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MaziyarPanahiย 
posted an update 5 months ago
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Announcing: OpenMed Multilingual PII Detection Models

Today I am releasing 105 open-source models for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) detection in French, German, and Italian.

All Apache 2.0 licensed. Free for commercial use. No restrictions.

Performance:

- French: 97.97% F1 (top model)
- German: 97.61% F1 (top model)
- Italian: 97.28% F1 (top model)

All top-10 models per language exceed 96% F1

Coverage:

55+ PII entity types per language
Native ID formats: NSS (French), Sozialversicherungsnummer (German), Codice Fiscale (Italian)
Language-specific address, phone, and name patterns

Training Data:

French: 49,580 samples
German: 42,250 samples
Italian: 40,944 samples

Why Multilingual?

European healthcare operates in European languages. Clinical notes, patient records, and medical documents are generated in French, German, Italian, and other languages.

Effective de-identification requires:

- Native language understanding โ€” not translation
- Local ID format recognition โ€” each country has unique patterns
- Cultural context awareness โ€” names, addresses, and formats vary
- These models deliver production-ready accuracy without requiring data to leave your infrastructure or language.

HIPAA & GDPR Compliance
Built for US and European privacy regulations:

- On-premise deployment: Process data locally with zero external dependencies
- Data sovereignty: No API calls, no cloud services, no cross-border transfers
- Air-gapped capable: Deploy in fully isolated environments if required
- Regulatory-grade accuracy: Supporting Expert Determination standards
- HIPAA and GDPR compliance across languages, without compliance gaps.

Use Cases
- Hospital EHR systems: Automated patient record de-identification
- Clinical research: Multilingual dataset preparation for studies
- Insurance companies: Claims processing across

https://huggingface.co/collections/OpenMed/multilingual-pii-and-de-identification
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MaziyarPanahiย 
posted an update 5 months ago
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From Golden Gate Bridge to Broken JSON: Why Anthropic's SAE Steering Fails for Structured Output

I ran 6 experiments trying to use Anthropic's SAE steering for JSON generation.

- Base model: 86.8% valid JSON
- Steering only: 24.4%
- Fine-tuned: 96.6%
- FSM constrained: 100%

Steering is for semantics, not syntax.

https://huggingface.co/blog/MaziyarPanahi/sae-steering-json
MaziyarPanahiย 
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๐Ÿšจ Day 8/8: OpenMed Medical Reasoning Dataset Release - THE GRAND FINALE

Today I complete my 8-day release series with Medical-Reasoning-SFT-Mega.
The largest open medical reasoning dataset, combining 7 state-of-the-art AI models with fair distribution deduplication.

THE 7 SOURCE MODELS (Original Sample Counts):

1. Trinity-Mini: 810,284 samples
2. Qwen3-Next-80B: 604,249 samples
3. GPT-OSS-120B: 506,150 samples
4. Nemotron-Nano-30B: 444,544 samples
5. GLM-4.5-Air: 225,179 samples
6. MiniMax-M2.1: 204,773 samples
7. Baichuan-M3-235B: 124,520 samples

TOTAL BEFORE DEDUPLICATION: 2,919,699 samples

TOKEN COUNTS:
- Content tokens: 2.22 Billion
- Reasoning tokens: 1.56 Billion
- Total tokens: 3.78 Billion
- Samples with chain-of-thought: 100%

Quick Start:
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("OpenMed/Medical-Reasoning-SFT-Mega")


All datasets Apache 2.0 licensed. Free for research and commercial use.

Thank you for following OpenMed's release series. I can't wait to see what you build. ๐Ÿ”ฅ

OpenMed/Medical-Reasoning-SFT-Mega
OpenMed/Medical-Reasoning-SFT-GPT-OSS-120B-V2
OpenMed/Medical-Reasoning-SFT-Trinity-Mini
OpenMed/Medical-Reasoning-SFT-GLM_4.5_Air
OpenMed/Medical-Reasoning-SFT-MiniMax-M2.1
OpenMed/Medical-Reasoning-SFT-Qwen3-Next-80B
OpenMed/Medical-Reasoning-SFT-Nemotron-Nano-30B
OpenMed/Medical-Reasoning-SFT-Baichuan-M3-235B



https://huggingface.co/collections/OpenMed/medical-datasets
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MaziyarPanahiย 
posted an update 6 months ago
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๐ŸŽ‰ OpenMed 2025 Year in Review: 6 Months of Open Medical AI

I'm thrilled to share what the OpenMed community has accomplished since our July 2025 launch!

๐Ÿ“Š The Numbers

29,700,000 downloads Thank you! ๐Ÿ™

- 481 total models (475 medical NER models + 6 fine-tuned LLMs)
- 475 medical NER models in [OpenMed](
OpenMed
) organization
- 6 fine-tuned LLMs in [openmed-community](
openmed-community
)
- 551,800 PyPI downloads of the [openmed package](https://pypi.org/project/openmed/)
- 707 followers on HuggingFace (you!)
- 97 GitHub stars on the [toolkit repo](https://github.com/maziyarpanahi/openmed)

๐Ÿ† Top Models by Downloads

1. [OpenMed-NER-PharmaDetect-SuperClinical-434M]( OpenMed/OpenMed-NER-PharmaDetect-SuperClinical-434M) โ€” 147,305 downloads
2. [OpenMed-NER-ChemicalDetect-ElectraMed-33M]( OpenMed/OpenMed-NER-ChemicalDetect-ElectraMed-33M) โ€” 126,785 downloads
3. [OpenMed-NER-BloodCancerDetect-TinyMed-65M]( OpenMed/OpenMed-NER-BloodCancerDetect-TinyMed-65M) โ€” 126,465 downloads

๐Ÿ”ฌ Model Categories

Our 481 models cover comprehensive medical domains:

- Disease Detection (~50 variants)
- Pharmaceutical Detection (~50 variants)
- Oncology Detection (~50 variants)
- Genomics/DNA Detection (~80 variants)
- Chemical Detection (~50 variants)
- Species/Organism Detection (~60 variants)
- Protein Detection (~50 variants)
- Pathology Detection (~50 variants)
- Blood Cancer Detection (~30 variants)
- Anatomy Detection (~40 variants)
- Zero-Shot NER (GLiNER-based)


OpenMed

OpenMed NER: Open-Source, Domain-Adapted State-of-the-Art Transformers for Biomedical NER Across 12 Public Datasets (2508.01630)
https://huggingface.co/collections/OpenMed/medical-and-clinical-ner
https://huggingface.co/collections/OpenMed/zeroshot-medical-and-clinical-ner
OpenMed/Medical-Reasoning-SFT-GPT-OSS-120B
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merveย 
posted an update 9 months ago
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR is out! ๐Ÿ”ฅ my take โคต๏ธ
> pretty insane it can parse and re-render charts in HTML
> it uses CLIP and SAM features concatenated, so better grounding
> very efficient per vision tokens/performance ratio
> covers 100 languages
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merveย 
posted an update 10 months ago
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large AI labs open-sourced a ton of models last week ๐Ÿ”ฅ
here's few picks, find even more here merve/sep-16-releases-68d13ea4c547f02f95842f05 ๐Ÿค
> IBM released a new Docling model with 258M params based on Granite (A2.0) ๐Ÿ“ ibm-granite/granite-docling-258M
> Xiaomi released 7B audio LM with base and instruct variants (MIT) XiaomiMiMo/mimo-audio-68cc7202692c27dae881cce0
> DecartAI released Lucy Edit, open Nano Banana ๐ŸŒ (NC) decart-ai/Lucy-Edit-Dev
> OpenGVLab released a family of agentic computer use models (3B/7B/32B) with the dataset ๐Ÿ’ป OpenGVLab/scalecua-68c912cf56f7ff4c8e034003
> Meituan Longcat released thinking version of LongCat-Flash ๐Ÿ’ญ meituan-longcat/LongCat-Flash-Thinking
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merveย 
posted an update 10 months ago
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IBM just released small swiss army knife for the document models: granite-docling-258M on Hugging Face ๐Ÿ”ฅ

> not only a document converter but also can do document question answering, understand multiple languages ๐Ÿคฏ
> best part: released with Apache 2.0 license ๐Ÿ‘ use it with your commercial projects!
> it supports transformers, vLLM and MLX from the get-go! ๐Ÿค—
> built on SigLIP2 & granite-165M

model: ibm-granite/granite-docling-258M
demo: ibm-granite/granite-docling-258m-demo ๐Ÿ’—
merveย 
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a ton of image/video generation models and LLMs from big labs ๐Ÿ”ฅ

> Meta released facebook/mobilellm-r1-68c4597b104fac45f28f448e, smol LLMs for on-device use ๐Ÿ’ฌ
> Tencent released tencent/SRPO, high res image generation model and tencent/POINTS-Reader, cutting edge OCR ๐Ÿ“
> ByteDance released bytedance-research/HuMo, video generation from any input โฏ๏ธ

find more models, datasets, demos here merve/sep-11-releases-68c7dbfa26bea8cd921fa0ac
merveย 
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fan-favorite vision LM Florence-2 is now officially supported in transformers ๐Ÿค—

find all the models in
florence-community
org ๐Ÿซก
merveย 
posted an update 10 months ago
merveย 
posted an update 10 months ago
merveย 
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large AI labs have dropped so many open models last week ๐Ÿ”ฅ don't miss out on them

โ†’ Apple released on-device vision LMs apple/fastvlm-68ac97b9cd5cacefdd04872e & apple/mobileclip2-68ac947dcb035c54bcd20c47
โ†’ OpenGVLab released InternVL3.5, 32 new vision LMs with one based on gpt-oss! (OS) OpenGVLab/internvl35-68ac87bd52ebe953485927fb
โ†’ MSFT released a killer small TTS model (OS) microsoft/VibeVoice-1.5B

find more herehttps://huggingface.co/collections/merve/august-29-releases-68b5a3754cfb8abf59e2b486
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merveย 
posted an update 11 months ago
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first vision language model built off openai/gpt-oss-20b just dropped! ๐Ÿ”ฅ

InternVL3.5 comes with 32 models ๐Ÿคฏ pre-trained, fine-tuned, aligned in various sizes OpenGVLab/internvl35-68ac87bd52ebe953485927fb
comes with gpt-oss or Qwen3 for LLM part โคต๏ธ
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merveย 
posted an update 11 months ago
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GPT-4.1-mini level model right in your iPhone ๐Ÿคฏ

openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4 is only 4B while surpassing GPT-4.1-mini in vision benchmarks ๐Ÿ”ฅ

allows commercial use as well!