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Machine learning practitioners looking for a tool to train and deploy state-of-the-art models across NLP, vision, and audio tasks
About Hugging Face Transformers
Transformers is a library of pretrained natural language processing, computer vision, audio, and multimodal models for inference and training. Use Transformers to train models on your data, build inference applications, and generate text with large language models. Explore the Hugging Face Hub today to find a model and use Transformers to help you get started right away. Simple and optimized inference class for many machine learning tasks like text generation, image segmentation, automatic speech recognition, document question answering, and more. A comprehensive trainer that supports features such as mixed precision, torch.compile, and FlashAttention for training and distributed training for PyTorch models. Fast text generation with large language models and vision language models. Every model is implemented from only three main classes (configuration, model, and preprocessor) and can be quickly used for inference or training.
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Founded: 2016
United States
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