Training Models on the Pelican Benchmark: A Fun Use Case with TRL and HF Jobs
SergioPaniego · x · 2026-07-30
Developer Sergio Paniego shared an engaging experiment: transforming Simon Willison's famous "pelican riding a bicycle" prompt—often dubbed a deeply unscientific benchmark—into a functional AI evaluation and training environment.
The article details how to set up this system using OpenEnv, TRL, and HF Jobs. The benchmark scores AI-generated SVG drawings across three layers and provides two core commands: one to evaluate existing models on an HF Space, and another to fine-tune a model against the benchmark on a GPU.
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