PyTorch and Hugging Face

We learned about parts of Hugging Face in Chapter 7, Music and Text Generation with PyTorch, as well as Chapter 10, Text-to-Image Generation. Hugging Face is an open-source platform and community-driven library that provides a comprehensive suite of AI tools, pre-trained models, and a collaborative ecosystem for developing and sharing state-of-the-art models. It has become one of the foundational platforms in the current AI landscape. We dedicate this chapter to learning more about Hugging Face and how PyTorch users can benefit from Hugging Face in researching, training, evaluating, optimizing, and deploying deep learning models.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to use Hugging Face in your deep learning projects. You will be able to use pre-trained models from the Hugging Face Hub, use the Transformers library with PyTorch, speed up model training using Accelerate, and optimize your trained PyTorch models for deployment using Optimum.

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