huggingface
Work with Hugging Face's ecosystem for machine learning — transformers library, model hub, tokenizers, inference pipelines, and fine-tuning. Covers downloading pre-trained models, running inference, training custom models, and publishing to the Hub.
What this skill does
# Hugging Face
## Installation
```bash
# Install core libraries
pip install transformers datasets tokenizers accelerate huggingface_hub
```
```bash
# Login to Hugging Face Hub
huggingface-cli login
# Or set token as environment variable
export HF_TOKEN="hf_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
```
## Quick Inference with Pipelines
```python
# quick_inference.py — Run inference using built-in pipelines
from transformers import pipeline
# Text classification
classifier = pipeline("sentiment-analysis")
result = classifier("I love using Hugging Face!")
print(result) # [{'label': 'POSITIVE', 'score': 0.9998}]
# Text generation
generator = pipeline("text-generation", model="meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf")
output = generator("Explain transformers in one sentence:", max_new_tokens=50)
print(output[0]["generated_text"])
# Named entity recognition
ner = pipeline("ner", grouped_entities=True)
entities = ner("Hugging Face is based in New York City.")
print(entities)
```
## Loading Models and Tokenizers
```python
# load_model.py — Load a model and tokenizer manually for more control
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch
model_name = "mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_name,
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
device_map="auto", # Automatically distribute across GPUs
load_in_4bit=True, # Quantized loading for less VRAM
)
inputs = tokenizer("What is machine learning?", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=100, temperature=0.7)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
```
## Tokenizer Usage
```python
# tokenizer_basics.py — Understand tokenization for debugging and preprocessing
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-base-uncased")
text = "Hugging Face makes NLP easy!"
encoded = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt", padding=True, truncation=True, max_length=512)
print(f"Input IDs: {encoded['input_ids']}")
print(f"Tokens: {tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(encoded['input_ids'][0])}")
print(f"Token count: {len(encoded['input_ids'][0])}")
# Batch encoding
texts = ["First sentence.", "Second longer sentence here."]
batch = tokenizer(texts, padding=True, truncation=True, return_tensors="pt")
```
## Fine-Tuning with Trainer API
```python
# fine_tune.py — Fine-tune a model on a custom dataset using the Trainer API
from transformers import (
AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification,
TrainingArguments, Trainer
)
from datasets import load_dataset
import numpy as np
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score
model_name = "distilbert-base-uncased"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_name, num_labels=2)
dataset = load_dataset("imdb")
def tokenize(batch):
return tokenizer(batch["text"], padding="max_length", truncation=True, max_length=256)
tokenized = dataset.map(tokenize, batched=True)
def compute_metrics(eval_pred):
logits, labels = eval_pred
preds = np.argmax(logits, axis=-1)
return {"accuracy": accuracy_score(labels, preds)}
training_args = TrainingArguments(
output_dir="./results",
num_train_epochs=3,
per_device_train_batch_size=16,
per_device_eval_batch_size=64,
eval_strategy="epoch",
save_strategy="epoch",
learning_rate=2e-5,
weight_decay=0.01,
logging_steps=100,
fp16=True,
push_to_hub=False,
)
trainer = Trainer(
model=model,
args=training_args,
train_dataset=tokenized["train"].select(range(5000)),
eval_dataset=tokenized["test"].select(range(1000)),
compute_metrics=compute_metrics,
)
trainer.train()
trainer.evaluate()
```
## LoRA / PEFT Fine-Tuning
```python
# lora_finetune.py — Parameter-efficient fine-tuning with LoRA
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from peft import LoraConfig, get_peft_model, TaskType
import torch
model_name = "meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf"
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, torch_dtype=torch.float16, device_map="auto")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
lora_config = LoraConfig(
task_type=TaskType.CAUSAL_LM,
r=16,
lora_alpha=32,
lora_dropout=0.05,
target_modules=["q_proj", "v_proj", "k_proj", "o_proj"],
)
model = get_peft_model(model, lora_config)
model.print_trainable_parameters()
# trainable params: 4,194,304 || all params: 6,742,609,920 || trainable%: 0.062
```
## Datasets Library
```python
# datasets_usage.py — Load, process, and create custom datasets
from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset
# Load from Hub
squad = load_dataset("squad", split="train[:1000]")
print(squad[0])
# Load custom CSV/JSON
dataset = Dataset.from_dict({
"text": ["Hello world", "Goodbye world"],
"label": [1, 0],
})
# Save and load locally
dataset.save_to_disk("./my_dataset")
loaded = Dataset.load_from_disk("./my_dataset")
# Push to Hub
dataset.push_to_hub("my-username/my-dataset", private=True)
```
## Publishing Models to Hub
```python
# push_to_hub.py — Save and share your trained model on Hugging Face Hub
from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer
model_name = "my-org/my-fine-tuned-model"
# After training, push model and tokenizer
model.push_to_hub(model_name, private=True)
tokenizer.push_to_hub(model_name, private=True)
# Create a model card
from huggingface_hub import ModelCard
card = ModelCard.from_template(
card_data={"license": "mit", "datasets": ["imdb"], "language": "en"},
template_str="# My Model\n\nFine-tuned DistilBERT on IMDB.\n\n{{ card_data }}",
)
card.push_to_hub(model_name)
```
## Inference API
```python
# inference_api.py — Use the serverless Inference API for quick model access
from huggingface_hub import InferenceClient
client = InferenceClient(token="hf_xxxxxxxxxxxx")
# Text generation
response = client.text_generation(
"The future of AI is",
model="mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2",
max_new_tokens=100,
)
# Image generation
image = client.text_to_image("A cat wearing a space suit")
image.save("space_cat.png")
# Embeddings
embeddings = client.feature_extraction("Hello world", model="sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2")
```
## Key Concepts
- **AutoClasses**: `AutoModel`, `AutoTokenizer` automatically detect the right architecture
- **device_map="auto"**: Distributes model layers across available GPUs/CPU
- **load_in_4bit/8bit**: Quantization via bitsandbytes for reduced memory usage
- **PEFT/LoRA**: Train only a small fraction of parameters — faster and cheaper
- **Datasets streaming**: `load_dataset(..., streaming=True)` for huge datasets without downloading
- **Trainer**: High-level API handling training loops, evaluation, checkpointing, and logging
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