Hugging Face: A Simple Guide for Finance Professionals
Hugging Face is a technology company that has created a powerful and easy-to-use platform for Natural Language Processing (NLP), the technology that allows computers to understand, generate, and respond to human language.
As financial professionals, you may be wondering how this technology is relevant to you, and how you can leverage it for your business.
This article aims to provide an overview of Hugging Face and its applications in the finance sector.
Understanding Hugging Face
Hugging Face, based in New York and Paris, is best known for their open-source library, Transformers, which provides state-of-the-art general-purpose architectures (BERT, GPT-2, RoBERTa, etc.) for NLP tasks like language understanding, language generation, translation, summarization, and more.
This library has been widely adopted by researchers and developers alike, given its ease of use and the high performance of its models.
