There were almost 3,000 commits to the main branch in 2022! This wouldn't have been possible without the whole community: half the new architectures were added by external contributors and we had more than 500 new contributors.
INNOVATION
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Company Announces Return with New AI Models in 2023
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We're taking a bit of rest, but we'll be back with lots of new exciting models in 2023!
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Transformers Named Most Loved Framework in Stack Overflow Survey
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For the second year, Transformers was voted the most loved framework in Stack Overflow survey https://
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Doubling AI Model Architectures: New Audio, Vision and Multimodal Models
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We doubled the number of architectures (89 to 167) with new models in audio, text, vision, multiple modalities or even time seriesand protein folding Here are a few highlights in the most used of those new models
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Swin Transformer Vision Model for Image Classification Detection
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Swin Transformer is a vision model from @MSFTResearch added back in January, which can be used as backbone for a variety of tasks such as image classification, object detection or semantic segmentation. https://
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Transformers Library Triples Users, Reaches 1M Weekly Active
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It's been an exciting year for Transformers. We tripled the number of weekly active users over 2022, with over 1M users most weeks now and 300k daily pip installs on average
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Model Evaluation Trade-offs: Epochs versus Second-Order Methods
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Sure. But you only get to do 60,000*20 model evals in total either way! (i.e if the 2nd order method needs twice as many evals, you only get 10 epochs)
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Software Importance Surpasses Robotics in Future Vision
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A guess: The future used to smell more like robotics circa 2000-2010, now everyone realizes good software is more important for the future
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Apple Glasses Concept: AR/VR Innovation Expected Soon
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Awesome Apple Glasses concept by designer Iskander Utebayev
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 31 décembre 2022
Expected release in 2023… I am looking forward to it. And you?
Happy2023!#virtualreality #vrglasses #AR #VR pic.twitter.com/xgN6XXr2a6Awesome Apple Glasses concept by designer Iskander Utebayev Expected release in 2023… I am looking forward to it. And you? Happy2023! #virtualreality #vrglasses #AR #VR
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Building Fun Side Projects with AI for Creative Reset
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When I need a reset, I build a fun side project. This afternoon I built something insanely cool and unexpectedly useful with AI. When I have some time in a couple of weeks, I’ll share more about it. Reset successful.