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Top Transformers repositories on GitHub

Transformer model implementations, training kits, and finetuning tooling.

Ranked by stars across 906 repositories tagged transformers. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners119,993 · ⑂ 63,166

    21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

    • ai
    • chatgpt
    • dall-e
    • generativeai
    • gpt
    • azure
  2. 2
    rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch105,175 · ⑂ 16,121

    Implement a ChatGPT-like LLM in PyTorch from scratch, step by step

    • gpt
    • large-language-models
    • llm
    • python
    • pytorch
    • ai
  3. 3
    hiyouga/LlamaFactory74,848 · ⑂ 9,170

    Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)

    • fine-tuning
    • llama
    • llm
    • peft
    • transformers
    • rlhf
  4. 4

    🧑‍🏫 60+ Implementations/tutorials of deep learning papers with side-by-side notes 📝; including transformers (original, xl, switch, feedback, vit, ...), optimizers (adam, adabelief, sophia, ...), gans(cyclegan, stylegan2, ...), 🎮 reinforcement learning (ppo, dqn), capsnet, distillation, ... 🧠

    • deep-learning
    • deep-learning-tutorial
    • pytorch
    • gan
    • transformers
    • reinforcement-learning
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    Learn it. Build it. Ship it for others.

    • agents
    • ai
    • ai-agents
    • ai-engineering
    • computer-vision
    • course
  7. 6
    lucidrains/vit-pytorch25,514 · ⑂ 3,497

    Implementation of Vision Transformer, a simple way to achieve SOTA in vision classification with only a single transformer encoder, in Pytorch

    • artificial-intelligence
    • attention-mechanism
    • transformers
    • computer-vision
    • image-classification
  8. 7
    amusi/CVPR2026-Papers-with-Code22,834 · ⑂ 2,789

    CVPR 2026 论文和开源项目合集

    • cvpr
    • cvpr2020
    • computer-vision
    • deep-learning
    • machine-learning
    • object-detection
  9. 8
    huggingface/peft21,694 · ⑂ 2,507

    🤗 PEFT: State-of-the-art Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning.

    • adapter
    • diffusion
    • llm
    • parameter-efficient-learning
    • python
    • pytorch
  10. 9
    stas00/ml-engineering19,010 · ⑂ 1,246

    Machine Learning Engineering Open Book

    • pytorch
    • slurm
    • large-language-models
    • llm
    • machine-learning
    • scalability
  11. 10
    arc53/DocsGPT18,272 · ⑂ 2,152

    Private AI platform for agents, assistants and enterprise search. Built-in Agent Builder, Deep research, Document analysis, Multi-model support, and API connectivity for agents.

    • ai
    • python
    • natural-language-processing
    • react
    • chatgpt
    • docsgpt
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    NVIDIA/Megatron-LM17,938 · ⑂ 4,530

    Ongoing research training transformer models at scale

    • large-language-models
    • model-para
    • transformers
  14. 12
    huggingface/transformers.js16,301 · ⑂ 1,189

    State-of-the-art Machine Learning for the web. Run 🤗 Transformers directly in your browser, with no need for a server!

    • browser
    • javascript
    • transformers
    • webml
  15. 13
    BlinkDL/RWKV-LM14,711 · ⑂ 1,019

    RWKV (pronounced RwaKuv) is an RNN with great LLM performance, which can also be directly trained like a GPT transformer (parallelizable). We are at RWKV-7 "Goose". So it's combining the best of RNN and transformer - great performance, linear time, constant space (no kv-cache), fast training, infinite ctx_len, and free sentence embedding.

    • attention-mechanism
    • deep-learning
    • gpt
    • gpt-2
    • gpt-3
    • language-model
  16. 14
    PaddlePaddle/PaddleNLP12,977 · ⑂ 3,026

    Easy-to-use and powerful LLM and SLM library with awesome model zoo.

    • nlp
    • embedding
    • bert
    • ernie
    • paddlenlp
    • pretrained-models
  17. 15
    neuml/txtai12,959 · ⑂ 891

    💡 All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows

    • python
    • search
    • nlp
    • semantic-search
    • vector-search
    • txtai
  18. 16
    speechbrain/speechbrain11,823 · ⑂ 1,727

    A PyTorch-based Speech Toolkit

    • speech-recognition
    • speech-toolkit
    • speaker-recognition
    • speech-to-text
    • speech-enhancement
    • speech-separation
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    NielsRogge/Transformers-Tutorials11,752 · ⑂ 1,733

    This repository contains demos I made with the Transformers library by HuggingFace.

    • transformers
    • pytorch
    • bert
    • vision-transformer
    • layoutlm
    • gpt-2
  21. 18

    Semantic segmentation models with 500+ pretrained convolutional and transformer-based backbones.

    • segmentation
    • image-processing
    • pspnet
    • unet
    • unet-pytorch
    • pytorch
  22. 19
    huggingface/tokenizers11,047 · ⑂ 1,201

    💥 Fast State-of-the-Art Tokenizers optimized for Research and Production

    • nlp
    • natural-language-processing
    • natural-language-understanding
    • language-model
    • transformers
    • bert

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