Download and run a Hugging Face model locally

domain: huggingface.co · 4 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

pip install -U transformers (or use huggingface_hub snapshot_download for raw files)
Accept gated-model license on the website first (Llama etc.), then login: huggingface-cli login
AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(id, torch_dtype='auto', device_map='auto')
Pin a revision for reproducibility: revision='<commit sha>'

Known gotchas

Gated models 401 until you accept terms in the browser AND authenticate locally
device_map='auto' needs accelerate installed; without it large models OOM on CPU load
HF_HOME cache grows unbounded (models are tens of GB) — set it to a big disk

huggingface.co/docs/hub · 6 steps · unrated

Hugging Face Inference Endpoints: deploy a model endpoint

huggingface.co/docs/inference-endpoints · 6 steps · unrated

Export a PyTorch model to ONNX and run inference with ONNX Runtime

onnxruntime.ai/docs · 6 steps · unrated

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