HuggingFace Transformers

Use HuggingFace Transformers for NLP, vision, and audio on Clore.ai

Use the Transformers library for NLP, vision, and audio on GPU.

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What is Transformers?

Hugging Face Transformers provides:

• 100,000+ pretrained models

• Easy model loading and inference

• Fine-tuning support

• Multi-modal capabilities

Quick Deploy

Docker Image:

pytorch/pytorch:2.11.0-cuda12.8-cudnn9-devel

Ports:

22/tcp

Command:

pip install transformers accelerate datasets huggingface_hub

Installation

pip install transformers[torch]
pip install accelerate  # For large models
pip install datasets    # For training data

Text Generation

Basic Generation

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
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"
)

prompt = "Explain quantum computing in simple terms:"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")

outputs = model.generate(
    **inputs,
    max_new_tokens=200,
    temperature=0.7,
    do_sample=True
)

response = tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)
print(response)

Chat Models

from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline(
    "text-generation",
    model="meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    device_map="auto"
)

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "What is machine learning?"}
]

outputs = pipe(
    messages,
    max_new_tokens=256,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.7
)

print(outputs[0]["generated_text"][-1]["content"])

Streaming

from transformers import TextStreamer

streamer = TextStreamer(tokenizer)

model.generate(
    **inputs,
    max_new_tokens=200,
    streamer=streamer
)

Quantization

4-bit Quantization

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, BitsAndBytesConfig
import torch

bnb_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
    load_in_4bit=True,
    bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
    bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.float16,
    bnb_4bit_use_double_quant=True
)

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "meta-llama/Llama-2-13b-hf",
    quantization_config=bnb_config,
    device_map="auto"
)

8-bit Quantization

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf",
    load_in_8bit=True,
    device_map="auto"
)

Embeddings

from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer
import torch

model_name = "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(model_name).cuda()

def get_embedding(text):
    inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt", padding=True, truncation=True).to("cuda")
    with torch.no_grad():
        outputs = model(**inputs)
    # Mean pooling
    embedding = outputs.last_hidden_state.mean(dim=1)
    return embedding

emb = get_embedding("Hello, world!")
print(f"Embedding shape: {emb.shape}")

Image Classification

from transformers import pipeline
from PIL import Image

classifier = pipeline("image-classification", model="google/vit-base-patch16-224", device=0)

image = Image.open("cat.jpg")
results = classifier(image)

for result in results:
    print(f"{result['label']}: {result['score']:.4f}")

Object Detection

from transformers import pipeline
from PIL import Image

detector = pipeline("object-detection", model="facebook/detr-resnet-50", device=0)

image = Image.open("street.jpg")
results = detector(image)

for result in results:
    print(f"{result['label']}: {result['score']:.4f} at {result['box']}")

Image Segmentation

from transformers import pipeline
from PIL import Image

segmenter = pipeline("image-segmentation", model="facebook/maskformer-swin-base-ade", device=0)

image = Image.open("scene.jpg")
results = segmenter(image)

for segment in results:
    print(f"{segment['label']}: score {segment['score']:.4f}")

Speech Recognition

from transformers import pipeline

transcriber = pipeline(
    "automatic-speech-recognition",
    model="openai/whisper-large-v3",
    device=0
)

result = transcriber("audio.mp3")
print(result["text"])

Text-to-Speech

from transformers import pipeline
import scipy

synthesizer = pipeline("text-to-speech", model="microsoft/speecht5_tts", device=0)

speech = synthesizer("Hello, this is a test of text to speech.")

scipy.io.wavfile.write("output.wav", rate=speech["sampling_rate"], data=speech["audio"])

Fine-Tuning

Prepare Dataset

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("imdb")
train_dataset = dataset["train"].select(range(1000))
eval_dataset = dataset["test"].select(range(200))

Training

from transformers import (
    AutoModelForSequenceClassification,
    AutoTokenizer,
    TrainingArguments,
    Trainer
)

model_name = "bert-base-uncased"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_name, num_labels=2)

def tokenize_function(examples):
    return tokenizer(examples["text"], padding="max_length", truncation=True)

tokenized_train = train_dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True)
tokenized_eval = eval_dataset.map(tokenize_function, batched=True)

training_args = TrainingArguments(
    output_dir="./results",
    evaluation_strategy="epoch",
    learning_rate=2e-5,
    per_device_train_batch_size=16,
    per_device_eval_batch_size=16,
    num_train_epochs=3,
    weight_decay=0.01,
    fp16=True,
)

trainer = Trainer(
    model=model,
    args=training_args,
    train_dataset=tokenized_train,
    eval_dataset=tokenized_eval,
)

trainer.train()

Pipeline Tasks

Task	Pipeline Name
Text Generation	text-generation
Fill Mask	fill-mask
Summarization	summarization
Translation	translation
Question Answering	question-answering
Sentiment Analysis	sentiment-analysis
Image Classification	image-classification
Object Detection	object-detection
Speech Recognition	automatic-speech-recognition
Text-to-Speech	text-to-speech

Multi-GPU

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM

# Automatic device placement
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "meta-llama/Llama-2-70b-hf",
    device_map="auto",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16
)

# Manual device map
device_map = {
    "model.embed_tokens": 0,
    "model.layers.0": 0,
    "model.layers.1": 0,
    # ...
    "model.layers.39": 1,
    "model.norm": 1,
    "lm_head": 1
}

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "model_name",
    device_map=device_map
)

Memory Optimization

# Flash Attention 2
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    attn_implementation="flash_attention_2",
    device_map="auto"
)

# Gradient checkpointing
model.gradient_checkpointing_enable()

Model Hub

Download Models

from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download

snapshot_download(
    repo_id="meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf",
    local_dir="./llama-2-7b"
)

Upload Models

from huggingface_hub import HfApi

api = HfApi()
api.upload_folder(
    folder_path="./my_model",
    repo_id="username/my-model",
    repo_type="model"
)

Performance Tips

Tip	Effect
Use torch_dtype=torch.float16	50% less memory
Enable Flash Attention 2	2x faster attention
Use quantization	75% less memory
Batch inference	Higher throughput

Troubleshooting

Cost Estimate

Typical CLORE.AI marketplace rates (as of 2024):

GPU	Hourly Rate	Daily Rate	4-Hour Session
RTX 3060	~$0.03	~$0.70	~$0.12
RTX 3090	~$0.06	~$1.50	~$0.25
RTX 4090	~$0.10	~$2.30	~$0.40
A100 40GB	~$0.17	~$4.00	~$0.70
A100 80GB	~$0.25	~$6.00	~$1.00

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Next Steps

• vLLM Inference - Production serving

• Fine-tune LLMs - LoRA training

• DeepSpeed Training - Distributed training