ThilinaRajapakse/simpletransformers

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Simple Transformers is a Python library built on Hugging Face Transformers that lets users train, fine-tune, and evaluate Transformer models with just a few lines of code. It supports tasks including text classification, NER, question answering, language generation, T5, dense retrieval, multi-modal classification, and conversational AI.

Use cases

• fine-tune a transformer for text classification in a few lines of code
• train a named entity recognition model
• build a question answering system with BERT-style models
• fine-tune T5 for seq2seq tasks
• train dense retrieval models for information retrieval
• run language model generation and fine-tuning
• experiment with multi-modal classification
• prototype conversational AI models quickly

When to choose

• you want a simple high-level API over Hugging Face Transformers for training and evaluation
• you need quick prototyping of standard NLP tasks like classification, NER, or QA
• you want built-in experiment tracking with Weights & Biases
• you prefer minimal boilerplate over writing custom PyTorch training loops

When to avoid

• you need full control over model internals, custom architectures, or training loops
• you require the latest cutting-edge model support immediately after release
• you need production-grade inference serving rather than training workflows

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machine-learning deep-learning nlp llm-training llm-inference rag machine-learning deep-learning large-language-models artificial-intelligence python cross-platform transformers huggingface text-classification named-entity-recognition question-answering seq2seq t5 conversational-ai information-retrieval fine-tuning natural-language-processing gpu

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