Hugging Face Transformers
State-of-the-art pretrained models for PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
Why it is included
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Best for
NLP and multimodal fine-tuning at research or product scale.
Strengths
- Open source
- High community visibility
Limitations
- Verify license and support model for your use case
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