Hugging Face Transformers Ml Library

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name: "Hugging Face Transformers — Machine Learning Model Library"
slug: "hugging-face-transformers-ml-library"
description: "Hugging Face Transformers provides 400,000+ pretrained models for NLP, computer vision, audio, and multimodal tasks with a unified API across PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX for training, fine-tuning, and deployment."
github_stars: 159189
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/huggingface/transformers"
author: "Hugging Face"
category: "Developer Tools"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "huggingface/transformers"
  github_stars: 159189
---

# Hugging Face Transformers — Machine Learning Model Library

Hugging Face Transformers provides 400,000+ pretrained models for NLP, computer vision, audio, and multimodal tasks with a unified API across PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX for training, fine-tuning, and deployment.

## Prerequisites

Python 3.9+, pip, PyTorch or TensorFlow

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- uv venv .my-env
- pip install "transformers[torch]"
- uv pip install "transformers[torch]"
- git clone https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Transformers works with Python 3.10+, and [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/) 2.4+.
- Create and activate a virtual environment with [venv](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html) or [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/), a fast Rust-based Python package and project manager.
- python -m venv .my-env

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- We pledge to help support new state-of-the-art models and democratize their usage by having their model definition be
- py
- # venv

- Source: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/transformers/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/

## Source

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