Transformers

Overview

The Hugging Face Transformers library provides access to thousands of pre-trained models for tasks across NLP, computer vision, audio, and multimodal domains. Use this skill to load models, perform inference, and fine-tune on custom data.

Installation

Tested against transformers 5.12.0 (current PyPI release; June 2026). Requires Python 3.10+; the torch extra currently requires PyTorch 2.4+.

uv pip install "transformers[torch]==5.12.0" huggingface_hub==1.19.0 datasets==5.0.0 evaluate==0.4.6 accelerate==1.14.0

For vision tasks, add:

uv pip install timm==1.0.27 pillow==12.2.0