Transformers

🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference an

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A well-maintained, widely adopted project. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-08-24, not from hands-on testing.

🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training. The project is written primarily in Python, released under Apache-2.0, and has 164,402 stars and 34,342 forks on GitHub. 4,081 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-08-24. The latest tagged release is v5.15.1 (2026-08-19). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-08-24 and are refreshed daily; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.

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Licence: Apache-2.0
Language: Python
Last push: 2026-08-24

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v5.15.1 2026-08-19 Patch release: v5.15.1
v5.15.0 2026-08-10 Release: v5.15.0
v5.14.1 2026-07-16 Patch release: v5.14.1
v5.14.0 2026-07-15 Release v5.14.0
v5.13.1 2026-07-11 Patch release v5.13.1
v5.13.0 2026-07-03 Release v5.13.0

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