# Hugging Face — Total noob’s intro to Hugging Face Transformers

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2024-03-22T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: Platform
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: Phi-2
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/noob_intro_transformers
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1919-total-noob-s-intro-to-hugging-face-transformers

A tutorial on using Hugging Face Transformers, with a worked example using Microsoft's Phi-2 model.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/noob_intro_transformers:

> Welcome to "A Total Noob's Introduction to Hugging Face Transformers," a guide designed specifically for those looking to understand the bare basics of using open-source ML. Our goal is to demystify what Hugging Face Transformers is and how it works, not to turn you into a machine learning practitioner, but to enable better understanding of and collaboration with those who are. That being said, the best way to learn is by doing, so we'll walk through a simple worked example of running Microsoft's Phi-2 LLM in a notebook on a Hugging Face space.

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