Master the Hugging Face ecosystem—the leading open-source platform for machine learning. This hands-on course teaches you to discover, evaluate, and deploy pre-trained models for text, image, and audio tasks without training from scratch.

Hugging Face Hub and Ecosystem Fundamentals

Hugging Face Hub and Ecosystem Fundamentals
This course is part of Next-Gen AI Development with Hugging Face Specialization


Instructors: Noah Gift
Access provided by Xavier School of Management, XLRI
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What you'll learn
Navigate the Hugging Face Hub to discover, evaluate, and select pre-trained models for text, image, and audio tasks
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There are 5 modules in this course
This module introduces the Hugging Face ecosystem and teaches you to find, evaluate, and select models for your projects. You'll learn to navigate the Hub's search and filtering system, understand model file structures, evaluate licensing for your use case, and configure authentication for programmatic access.
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5 videos3 readings1 assignment
This module covers discovering and loading datasets from the Hugging Face Hub. You'll learn to explore the datasets hub, load data programmatically with Python, and use streaming for datasets too large to download.
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3 videos2 readings1 assignment
Practice the core concepts of the Hugging Face Ecosystem
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This capstone project demonstrates mastery of the Hugging Face Hub and ecosystem by building a multi-modal content analysis system. You'll discover and compare models across modalities, explore datasets, build inference pipelines, and create a unified analysis workflow.
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2 readings1 assignment
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