ML Intern is out of beta!
Since we launched, ML Intern has been used over 12,000 times to create hundreds of models and datasets on the HF Hub. In the process, over 300M tokens have been generated, mostly by Kimi K2.6 🤯
Introducing ml-intern, the agent that just automated the post-training team @huggingface
It's an open-source implementation of the real research loop that our ML researchers do every day. You give it a prompt, it researches papers, goes through citations, implements ideas in GPU sandboxes, iterates and builds deeply research-backed models for any use case. All built on the Hugging Face ecosystem.
It can pull off crazy things:
We made it train the best model for scientific reasoning. It went through citations from the official benchmark paper. Found OpenScience and NemoTron-CrossThink, added 7 difficulty-filtered dataset variants from ARC/SciQ/MMLU, and ran 12 SFT runs on Qwen3-1.7B. This pushed the score 10% → 32% on GPQA in under 10h. Claude Code's best: 22.99%.
In healthcare settings it inspected available datasets, concluded they were too low quality, and wrote a script to generate 1100 synthetic data points from scratch for emergencies, hedging, multilingual etc. Then upsampled 50x for training. Beat Codex on HealthBench by 60%.
For competitive mathematics, it wrote a full GRPO script, launched training with A100 GPUs on http://hf.co/spaces, watched rewards claim and then collapse, and ran ablations until it succeeded. All fully backed by papers, autonomously.
How it works?
ml-intern makes full use of the HF ecosystem: - finds papers on arxiv and http://hf.co/papers, reads them fully, walks citation graphs, pulls datasets referenced in methodology sections and on http://hf.co/datasets - browses the Hub, reads recent docs, inspects datasets and reformats them before training so it doesn't waste GPU hours on bad data - launches training jobs on HF Jobs if no local GPUs are available, monitors runs, reads its own eval outputs, diagnoses failures, retrains
ml-intern deeply embodies how researchers work and think. It knows how data should look like and what good models feel like.
Releasing it today as a CLI and a web app you can use from your phone/desktop. CLI: https://github.com/huggingface/ml-intern/tree/main Web + mobile: https://huggingface.co/spaces/smolagents/ml-intern
And the best part? We also provisioned 1k$ GPU resources and Anthropic credits for the quickest among you to use.