Hugging Face Setup

What is Hugging Face?

Hugging Face is a online repository for model weights, datasets.

Hugging Face is also has a collection of libraries to work with models:

Transformers
Datasets
Optimum Intel
Text Generation Inference (rgi)
...
https://huggingface.co/
https://github.com/huggingface

What are we using Hugging Face for?

We will be using Hugging Face to download model weights. We will be using Hugging Face libraries such as transformers, tgi and optimum-intel.

In order to download model weights we need a Hugging Face API Key.
Also some models require you to accept an agreement on their Hugging Face repo and some models take several minutes to hours or days to be approved.

To ensure you can participate in these workshops be sure to create a Hugging Face in advanced.