New post-training example: SFT on agent traces with TRL
→ A large model works as a coding agent in OpenCode, run through OpenEnv → The tasks it solves become the training data → A 2B model goes from 5.5% to 34.4% on held-out tasks
About 500 traces get most of the gain. Five times more add only 3 to 4 points, so SFT gets the agent working and RL has to do the rest
Idol, a new Apache-2.0 image-to-3D model from @speridlabs, makes a 3D Gaussian splat from one image in 7.2 GB of peak VRAM. It is the #1 trending model on the Hub with 1,057 likes.
It writes a standard 3DGS .ply with up to 1,048,576 Gaussians, including sides the picture never showed, and does background removal and framing itself. The catch: the only quality evidence is the authors' own benchmark, on a repo created 2026-10-28.
📊 The numbers • Authors' benchmark, 1 x H100: best in 6 of 8 columns vs TripoSplat, TRELLIS and LGM (SSIM 0.726, LPIPS 0.213, DINOv2 0.781, CLIP 0.885) • LGM wins PSNR (12.46 vs 12.25) and speed (1.1 s). Idol takes 6.8 s vs 7.1 s for TRELLIS and 9.9 s for TripoSplat • 262,144 Gaussians, 50 steps: 3.4 s on B300, 6.7 s on H100, 19.1 s on RTX 4090, 46.2 s on a 10 GB RTX 3080
🛠️ Try it • Install idol-sdk, accept the terms of the gated DINOv3 and FLUX.2-dev models, run hf auth login • python -m idol.sample --image photo.jpg --mode real • --num_gaussians runs from 32,768 (0.4 MB) to 1,048,576 (12.2 MB)
⚠️ Caveats • Test set and size are not named, and no independent evaluation exists yet • The card says "under 2 seconds", but the timing table shows 3.4 s at best • Single objects only, NVIDIA CUDA required, no failure cases shown