Learn HUGGINGFACE-TRANSFORMERS with Real Code Examples
Updated Nov 24, 2025
Practical Examples
Sentiment analysis on IMDB reviews
Named entity recognition with CoNLL dataset
Text summarization with BART or T5
Machine translation with MarianMT
Question answering with BERT or RoBERTa
Troubleshooting
Ensure model and tokenizer versions match
Handle tokenization errors with padding/truncation
Check GPU memory for large models
Fix shape mismatches for batch inputs
Resolve framework compatibility (PyTorch vs TensorFlow)
Testing Guide
Unit-test preprocessing and tokenization
Validate output shapes and logits
Check for correct mapping of labels
Monitor GPU utilization and performance
Evaluate on validation/test datasets
Deployment Options
Hugging Face Inference API
Transformers pipeline for real-time inference
ONNX/TensorRT optimized models
Cloud deployment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Containerized deployment with Docker
Tools Ecosystem
Datasets library for standardized datasets
Tokenizers library for fast tokenization
Accelerate for distributed and mixed-precision training
Hugging Face Hub for model sharing and downloading
Optimum for hardware-optimized model inference
Integrations
PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX backends
Datasets library for training/evaluation
Integration with MLflow or Weights & Biases for tracking
ONNX and TensorRT for optimized deployment
Integration with Gradio or Streamlit for demos
Productivity Tips
Use pipelines for rapid prototyping
Leverage pre-trained models to save time
Use Accelerate for distributed training
Batch inputs for efficient inference
Fine-tune smaller models first before scaling
Challenges
Fine-tune BERT for sentiment analysis
Use T5 for text summarization
Implement zero-shot classification with pipelines
Optimize large model inference
Deploy a transformer model to a cloud API