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Open Source Models with Hugging Face

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Overview

The availability of models and their weights for anyone to download enables a broader range of developers to innovate and create.

In this course, you’ll select open source models from Hugging Face Hub to perform NLP, audio, image and multimodal tasks using the Hugging Face transformers library. Easily package your code into a user-friendly app that you can run on the cloud using Gradio and Hugging Face Spaces.

You will:

1. Use the transformers library to turn a small language model into a chatbot capable of multi-turn conversations to answer follow-up questions.

2. Translate between languages, summarize documents, and measure the similarity between two pieces of text, which can be used for search and retrieval.

3. Convert audio to text with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and convert text to audio using Text to Speech (TTS).

4. Perform zero-shot audio classification, to classify audio without fine-tuning the model.

5. Generate an audio narration describing an image by combining object detection and text-to-speech models.

6. Identify objects or regions in an image by prompting a zero-shot image segmentation model with points to identify the object that you want to select.

7. Implement visual question answering, image search, image captioning and other multimodal tasks.

8. Share your AI app using Gradio and Hugging Face Spaces to run your applications in a user-friendly interface on the cloud or as an API.

The course will provide you with the building blocks that you can combine into a pipeline to build your AI-enabled applications!

Syllabus 1

  1. Open Source Models with Hugging Face 1.5 hours

    The availability of models and their weights for anyone to download enables a broader range of developers to innovate and create. In this course, you’ll select open source models from Hugging Face Hub to perform NLP, audio, image and multimodal tasks using the Hugging Face transformers library. Eas…

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • Structured courses with graded quizzes, assignments and deadlines you can reset.
  • A shareable certificate from the university or company when you pay.
  • Financial aid is often approved for students in India (apply 15 days before you need it).
  • Andrew Ng and his team are among the clearest AI teachers anywhere.
  • Short courses are made with the companies building the tools (OpenAI, Google, AWS, Hugging Face).
  • From DeepLearning.AI, a well-regarded name.
  • Rated 4.8 out of 5 by 172 learners.
  • Self-paced: start any time.

Disadvantages

  • Paid after a 7-day free trial (Coursera Plus or per course).
  • Some courses can be audited for free, but graded work and certificates need payment.
  • Short courses are 1–2 hours: an introduction, not mastery.
  • Some notebooks need a paid Pro plan or your own API key.
  • Short (1 hour): an overview, not deep coverage.

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This course is paid. Here is how to take it for free

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  • Financial aid: If you cannot afford the fee for a certificate, you can apply for financial aid through the link on the course home page by filling out an application about your background and goals.

Taught by

  • Younes BelkadaMachine Learning Engineer , Hugging Face
  • Marc SunMachine Learning Engineer, Hugging Face
  • Maria KhalusovaMember of Technical Staff, Hugging Face

DeepLearning.AI is in Tier 2: excellent universities and the companies that build the technology of our institution ranking (90/100). Andrew Ng's courses.

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