When you install the necessary libraries and set up your environment on your local machine, you are preparing your development environment to build and test your AI language model locally.
Here's how the connection between your local machine and Hugging Face servers works throughout the process:
Local Development
Set Up Your Environment Locally: (Open a Command Terminal and make a directory)
You install libraries like transformers and datasets on your local machine.
You can then use these libraries to develop and train your AI models locally.
Interacting with Hugging Face Hub
Download Pre-trained Models and Datasets:
When you use commands like GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained('gpt2')
or
load_dataset('wikitext', 'wikitext-2-raw-v1'),
your local environment connects to Hugging Face servers to download pre-trained models and datasets.
Training and Fine-tuning Models Locally:
You train or fine-tune the models on your local machine using your datasets and compute resources.
Pushing to Hugging Face Hub
Upload Trained Models:
After training, you can push your trained model to Hugging Face Hub using commands like model.push_to_hub('your_model_name').
This uploads your model from your local machine to the Hugging Face server, making it available in the cloud.
Deployment on Hugging Face Spaces {Using HuggingFace Spaces as a Model Server}
Create and Deploy Space:
You create a new Space on Hugging Face, which is essentially a cloud environment provided by Hugging Face for hosting your applications.
You clone this Space repository to your local machine, add your code (e.g., a Gradio or Streamlit app), and push it back to Hugging Face.
Hugging Face then hosts your application in the cloud, making it accessible to others via a URL you provide to them.
Summary of Connections:
Downloading Models/Data:
Your local machine connects to Hugging Face servers to download pre-trained models and datasets.
Pushing Models:
Your local machine uploads trained models to Hugging Face servers.
Deploying Applications:
You push your application code to Hugging Face Spaces, and it gets hosted in the cloud.
Example Workflow {start by openning Command Terminal and making a Directory}
Install Libraries Locally:
bash
pip install transformers datasets
Download Model/Data:
python
### Make a Python Source Code file containing this code:
from transformers import GPT2LMHeadModel, GPT2Tokenizer
from datasets import load_dataset
model = GPT2LMHeadModel.from_pretrained('gpt2')
tokenizer = GPT2Tokenizer.from_pretrained('gpt2')
dataset = load_dataset('wikitext', 'wikitext-2-raw-v1')
Train Model Locally:
python
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# Your training code here
Push Model to Hub:
python
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model.push_to_hub('your_model_name')
tokenizer.push_to_hub('your_model_name')
Create and Deploy Space:
Clone the Space repository, add your code, and push it to Hugging Face:
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git clone https://huggingface.co/spaces/your_space_name
cd your_space_name
# Add your code
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push
By following these steps, you effectively connect your local development environment to Hugging Face's cloud services, enabling you to develop, train, and deploy AI models efficiently.