Thomas Wolf
The Transformers Library
Making every published model a one-line import
Rating
90Impact score
Domains
Open modelsLibrariesCommunity
Scouting report
Co-founder and chief scientist of Hugging Face, and the driving force behind the transformers library, which turned "reproduce this paper" from a week of work into an import statement. Led the BigScience collaboration that produced BLOOM, one of the first genuinely open large multilingual models, built by a thousand researchers in the open.
Curator’s note
Compressed the distance between a paper and a working model to nothing.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Thomas Wolf by Thomas Wolf, supplied by the subject.
Sources
- 01Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing (2020) aclanthology.org
- 02huggingface/transformers github.com