Framework & Tool
HuggingFace Transformers
Python library providing thousands of pre-trained transformer models with a unified API.
Definition
transformers is HuggingFace's library that exposes nearly every published transformer — BERT, Llama, Whisper, Stable Diffusion — through a uniform AutoModel/AutoTokenizer interface. The accompanying Hub hosts 800k+ public models and datasets, making it the central artefact repository in open ML.
Common use cases
- Research
- Fine-tuning
- Self-hosting