1m+ Loc, 400 Models Still Afloat: the Engineering Behind Transformers
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The Hugging Face community shares insights into the engineering behind their Transformers library, which has grown to over 1M+ lines of code and 400 models, highlighting their development tenets. The discussion revolves around the impressive scale and maintenance of the library.
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I'm guessing that as we go deeper, we'll see fewer and fewer completely novel architectures that don't depend on the previous ones.