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Transformers: State-of-the-Art Natural Language Processing

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Wolf, Thomas, Debut, Lysandre, Sanh, Victor, Chaumond, Julien, Delangue, Clement, Moi, Anthony, Cistac, Pierric, Rault, Tim +14 more·2020·Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

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Thomas Wolf, Lysandre Debut, Victor Sanh, Julien Chaumond, Clement Delangue, Anthony Moi, Pierric Cistac, Tim Rault, Remi Louf, Morgan Funtowicz, Joe Davison, Sam Shleifer, Patrick von Platen, Clara Ma, Yacine Jernite, Julien Plu, Canwen Xu, Teven Le Scao, Sylvain Gugger, Mariama Drame, Quentin Lhoest, Alexander Rush. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations. 2020.

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  • Almost all CLaMs have been made publicly accessible via online model repositories like HuggingFace.

    “Almost all CLaMs have been made publicly accessible via online model repositories like HuggingFace57.”

    From The shaky foundations of large language models and foundation models for electronic health records (2023) · cites this paper as [57]

    Section 4, “Community Model Hub” (page not provided), says the Hugging Face hub lets users access and download pretrained models and held 2,097 user models. It does not establish that almost all CLaMs were publicly accessible, or give a proportion of CLaMs available through repositories. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • Employing BERT, GPT-2, RoBERTa, and DistilBERT achieved robust results.

    “Employing BERT, GPT-2, RoBERTa, and DistilBERT, we achieved robust results; BERT for deep contextual insights, GPT-2 for coherent text generation, RoBERTa for performance with large data, and DistilBERT for fast, cost-effective efficiency [39].”

    From Generative AI-Powered Educational Alignment: A Framework for Matching Syllabus Course Topics with Web Description (2024) · cites this paper as [39]

    The Library Design section (page not provided) lists BERT and RoBERTa as masked models, GPT-2 as autoregressive, and DistilBERT as efficient; the References also describe DistilBERT as faster and cheaper. These passages support several model-role descriptions, but do not establish RoBERTa’s performance with large data or GPT-2’s generation of coherent text. The citing authors’ statement that they achieved robust results is their own finding, not a result attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Open-source ecosystems such as Hugging Face and BLOOM reduce technical barriers but can reproduce extractive defaults without Indigenous authority over datasets, objectives, and deployment pathways.

    “Open-source ecosystems such as Hugging Face and BLOOM reduce technical barriers but can reproduce extractive defaults without Indigenous authority over datasets, objectives, and deployment pathways (BigScience Workshop, 2022;Wolf et al., 2020).”

    From Towards a decolonial AI sovereignty model for indigenous educational settings (2026) · cites this paper as Wolf et al., 2020

    Section 4, “Community Model Hub” (page unavailable), says Hugging Face’s hub makes pretrained models easy to access and use, supporting the reduced-barriers portion. It does not address BLOOM or the claim that open-source ecosystems can reproduce extractive defaults without Indigenous authority over datasets, objectives, and deployment. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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  • BERT is a commonly used pre-trained machine learning model for NLP tasks and a ubiquitous baseline in text classification experiments of research in recent years.

    “Before the emergence of ChatGPT, BERT is a commonly used pre-trained machine learning model for NLP tasks (Wolf et al., 2020), and a ubiquitous baseline in text classification experiments of research in recent years (Rogers et al., 2021).”
  • Tamarin is implemented in roughly 9K lines of Python on top of HuggingFace Transformers; it uses no custom CUDA and does not modify model weights.

    “Tamarin is implemented in roughly 9K lines of Python on top of HuggingFace Transformers (Wolf et al., 2020); it uses no custom CUDA and does not modify model weights.”

    From Tamarin (HSQ): Reversible Hierarchical KV-Cache Compression for LLM Inference (2026) · cites this paper as Wolf et al., 2020

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  1. Alan Akbik, Tanja Bergmann, Duncan Blythe, Kashif Rasul, Stefan Schweter, and Roland Vollgraf. 2019. Flair: An easy-to-use framework for state-of-the-art nlp. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Com- putational Linguistics (Demonstrations), pages 54- 59. aclweb.org.
  2. Alec Radford, Jeffrey Wu, Rewon Child, David Luan, Dario Amodei, and Ilya Sutskever. 2019. Language models are unsupervised multitask learners. OpenAI Blog, 1(8):9.

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Wolf, T., Debut, L., Sanh, V., Chaumond, J., Delangue, C., Moi, A., Cistac, P., Rault, T., Louf, R., Funtowicz, M., Davison, J., Shleifer, S., von Platen, P., Ma, C., Jernite, Y., Plu, J., Xu, C., Le Scao, T., Gugger, S., Drame, M., Lhoest, Q., & Rush, A.
Affiliations
Hugging Face (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
Published
2020
Pages
38-45
OpenAlex
W2979826702
Cited by
8,741
References
39
Citations by year
2026: 851 · 2025: 1481 · 2024: 1405 · 2023: 2347 · 2022: 1686 · 2021: 872 · 2020: 94 · 2019: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
FWCI
477.50
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations (EMNLP) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Keywords
transformer models, natural language processing, Hugging Face

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