Hugging Face in Action (MEAP V05)

Everything you need to know about using the tools, libraries, and models at Hugging Face—from transformers, to RAG, LangChain, and Gradio.

Hugging Face is the ultimate resource for machine learning engineers and AI developers. It provides hundreds of pretrained and open source models for dozens of different domains—from natural language processing to computer vision. Plus, you’ll find a popular platform for hosting your models and datasets. Hugging Face in Action reveals how to get the absolute best out of everything Hugging Face, from accessing state-of-the-art models to building intuitive frontends for AI apps.

With Hugging Face in Action you’ll learn:

Utilizing Hugging Face Transformers and Pipelines for NLP tasks
Applying Hugging Face techniques for Computer Vision projects
Manipulating Hugging Face Datasets for efficient data handling
Training Machine Learning models with AutoTrain functionality
Implementing AI agents for autonomous task execution
Developing LLM-based applications using LangChain and LlamaIndex
Constructing LangChain applications visually with LangFlow
Creating web-based user interfaces using Gradio
Building locally running LLM-based applications with GPT4ALL
Querying local data using Large Language Models

Want a cutting edge transformer library? Hugging Face’s open source offering is best in class. Need somewhere to host your models? Hugging Face Spaces has you covered. Do your users need an intuitive frontend for your AI app? Hugging Face’s Gradio library makes it easy to build UI using the Python skills you already have. In Hugging Face in Action you’ll learn how to take full advantage of all of Hugging Face’s amazing features to quickly and reliably prototype and productionize AI applications.
about the book
Hugging Face in Action provides in-depth hands-on tutorials that will help you take advantage of all that Hugging Face offers for AI developers. You’ll build multiple different AI projects—including an object detection model, RAG applications that can answer questions based on local datasets, chatbots with web frontends, and even code-free machine learning models built with AutoTrain. Each chapter is full of step-by-step instructions and clear tips and advice. You’ll soon be productive and proficient with all of Hugging Face’s tools, pretrained models, and datasets!