Cracking Open the Hugging Face Transformers Library
A quick-start guide to using open-source LLMs
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10 min readAug 5, 2023
This is the 3rd article in a series on using large language models (LLMs) in practice. Here I will give a beginner-friendly guide to the Hugging Face Transformers library, which provides an easy and cost-free way to work with a wide variety of open-source language models. I will start by reviewing key concepts and then dive into example Python code.