Working with community-provided models

Hugging Face has tons of community models provided by collaborators from large artificial intelligence (AI) and information technology (IT) companies such as Google and Facebook. Individuals and universities also provide many interesting models. Accessing and using them is also very easy. To start, you should visit the Transformer models directory available on their website (https://huggingface.co/models), as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.11 – An overview of Hugging Face models repository

Apart from these models, there are also many good and useful datasets available for NLP tasks. To start using some of these models, you can explore them by keyword searches, or just specify your major NLP task and pipeline.

For example, we are looking for a table QA model. After finding a model that we are interested in, a page such as the following one will be available from the Hugging Face website (https...