
HuggingFace Transformers Tools and Agents: Hands-On
Last Updated on July 15, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Darya Petrashka
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Transformers version v4.29.0, building on the concept of tools and agents, provides a natural language API on top of transformers. How to use them? Let’s dive into them having language learning as an example of usage!
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The “agent” here is a large language model, and we’re prompting it so that it has access to a specific set of tools.
LLMs are good at generating small samples of code, so this API takes advantage of that by prompting the LLM to give a small sample of code performing a task with a set of tools.
Tools are very simple:… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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