elixir-nx/bumblebee

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Bumblebee is an Elixir library providing pre-trained neural network models built on Axon, with integration for downloading models from Hugging Face. It offers high-level serving APIs to run machine learning tasks like text classification, generation, image classification, and speech recognition with a few lines of code.

Use cases

• run hugging face transformer models in elixir
• serve bert for text classification in a phoenix app
• generate text with gpt2 in elixir
• run stable diffusion image generation in elixir
• do speech-to-text with whisper in elixir
• embed text for semantic search in elixir
• deploy machine learning models in livebook notebooks

When to choose

• you are building in Elixir and want pre-trained models without leaving the ecosystem
• you want to integrate ML serving into Phoenix/LiveView apps
• you want GPU-accelerated inference via EXLA/XLA
• you want to experiment with models interactively in Livebook

When to avoid

• you need the full PyTorch/TensorFlow training ecosystem
• you need model architectures not yet supported by Bumblebee
• you are not working in the Elixir/BEAM ecosystem
• you need fine-grained low-level control over model internals

Facets

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machine-learning llm-inference nlp image-processing speech-recognition stable-diffusion transformers machine-learning deep-learning large-language-models artificial-intelligence elixir windows hugging-face axon nx pre-trained-models exla gpu serving elixir-nx natural-language-processing beam linux macos

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