Hakim Hacid

Senior Researcher and Principal Data Scientist

[NVIDIA AI Developer @NVIDIAAIDev]

Great to see @TIIuae push the boundaries of LLM training with their Falcon‑H1 parallel hybrid design and BitNet ternary training—now integrated into NVIDIA Megatron Core.

Their work shows how foundation model builders can innovate on top of our scalable framework while improving efficiency and sharing reusable tools with the open source community. 🙌

👇 Read the full technical blog: https://t.co/2CloA8zomQ

[NVIDIA Middle East @NVIDIAME]

من الحوسبة الكمية إلى الذكاء الاصطناعي التوليدي، يواصل معهد الابتكار التكنولوجي (TII) إعادة تعريف الابتكار في الشرق الأوسط.

ومن خلال دمج سحابة الحوسبة الكمية الخاصة به مع NVIDIA CUDA-Q، وتحسين بنية Falcon-H1 باستخدام Megatron Core، يؤكد المعهد أن الشرق الأوسط يقف في طليعة مواجهة أكثر التحديات الحاسوبية تعقيدًا في العالم.

اقرأ المزيد.

🔗 https://t.co/JTty120CDC

From Quantum to Generative AI, @TIIuae is redefining regional innovation in the Middle East. By integrating its Quantum Computing Cloud with NVIDIA CUDA-Q and optimizing the Falcon-H1 architecture via Megatron Core, TII is proving that the Middle East is at the forefront of the world’s most complex computational challenges.

[Phúc Lê @lkhphuc]

Plus an API server, MLX support.
Please check us out here https://t.co/hQdjZgtxp2 and share with us what you want.
We are excited for what come next to Falcon Perception: better kvcache usage, quantization, finetuning code, integration to llama.cpp, vllm, ...

[Phúc Lê @lkhphuc]

Falcon-Perception can now be install with `pip install falcon-perception`
- 1 model file
- 2 variants Perception + OCR
- Paged / Batch +KVCache inference engine
- Torch+compile + cudagraph
- Upsampler w/ async cache for high-res mask

Plus: MLX batch inference support
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[Marktechpost AI @Marktechpost]

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) Releases Falcon Perception: A 0.6B-Parameter Early-Fusion Transformer for Open-Vocabulary Grounding and Segmentation from Natural Language Prompts

By processing image patches and text tokens in a shared parameter space from the first layer, the model allows the prompt to influence visual feature formation throughout the entire stack.

The Technical Shifts:

- Hybrid Attention Masking: Image tokens attend bidirectionally for global context, while task tokens attend causally to the full visual prefix.

- Chain-of-Perception: Instead of parallel mask queries, the model predicts objects as an autoregressive sequence: <coord> -> <size> -> <seg>. This resolves spatial ambiguity before pixel-level refinement.

- GGROPE (Golden Gate ROPE): To preserve 2D grid relationships in flattened sequences, the model uses an isotropic attention mechanism robust to rotation and aspect ratio variations.

- Muon Optimization: Specialized heads (coordinate, size, segmentation) often lag behind the backbone during training; the authors report that using the Muon optimizer specifically for these heads reduced training losses.

Key Empirical Results:

-- Spatial Understanding: On the new PBench (Level 3), Falcon Perception achieved a +21.9 point gain in Macro-F1 over SAM 3.

-- Dense Environments: The model remains stable in crowded scenes, scaling up to 600 instances per expression via an autoregressive interface.

-- OCR Efficiency: A 300M-parameter variant, FalconOCR, achieves 80.3% accuracy on olmOCR, matching or exceeding several systems an order of magnitude larger

Full analysis: https://t.co/JsnQcATjWt

Paper: https://t.co/ahp7zglfxU

Model Weight: https://t.co/piWq6VMmM2

Repo: https://t.co/V4qDBfmBpW

Technical details: https://t.co/FULIqaeFfM

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[Yasser Dahou @dahou_yasser]

Huge team effort at @TIIuae thanks to:
@lkhphuc @ChaySofian @LiAvBev @andyhuynh1111 @NarayanSanath @griffintaur wamiqpara @hhacid

Would love feedback: where does it work, and where does it break?

[Technology Innovation Institute @TIIuae]

Falcon-H1-Tiny shows intelligence can fit in extremely small models. From multilingual understanding to coding and reasoning, they match the performance of much larger systems.

Blog: https://t.co/r9LLmM0AOP
Models: https://t.co/5PmKHI648b

#TII #AI #Falcon #AIModels #AI

[Maksim Velikanov @VelikanovMaksim]

1/🧵 Happy to share our new arXiv preprint!
Learnable Multipliers: Freeing the Scale of Language Model Matrix Layers

https://t.co/WB7qYfCE59

with the amazing team @ilyas_chahed @JingweiZuo @DhiaRhayem @yb2698 @hhacid

[Technology Innovation Institute @TIIuae]

Think a 7B model can’t compete with the giants? Falcon H1R 7B outsmarts much larger models in math, code, reasoning, and instruction tasks. Compact, fast, and powerful.

Explore more: https://t.co/CmaN2WweaR

#FalconH1R #TII #AI #Innovation

[younes @yb2698]

Announcing - Falcon-Edge – a series of powerful, universal and fine-tunable Bitnet models for everyone!

We also release a Python fine-tuning toolkit library - `onebitllms`- specialized for Bitnet models.

Announcement blogpost: https://t.co/BrgkNCbas9

[Technology Innovation Institute @TIIuae]

Introducing Falcon Mamba 7B from TII! This state-of-the-art language model sets a new AI benchmark with its innovative state space architecture. This groundbreaking release marks a significant stride in AI research. Learn more on https://t.co/2BNpbKKCUn.

[Hakim Hacid @hhacid]

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