Hugging Face in Action

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  • October 2025
  • ISBN 9781633436718
  • 368 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • available in Korean
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Everything you need to know about using the tools, libraries, and models at Hugging Face—from transformers, to RAG, LangChain, and Gradio.

Hugging Face in Action reveals how to get the absolute best out of everything Hugging Face, from accessing state-of-the-art models to building intuitive frontends for AI apps.

With Hugging Face in Action you’ll learn:

  • Utilizing Hugging Face Transformers and Pipelines for NLP tasks
  • Applying Hugging Face techniques for Computer Vision projects
  • Manipulating Hugging Face Datasets for efficient data handling
  • Training Machine Learning models with AutoTrain functionality
  • Implementing AI agents for autonomous task execution
  • Developing LLM-based applications using LangChain and LlamaIndex
  • Constructing LangChain applications visually with LangFlow
  • Creating web-based user interfaces using Gradio
  • Building locally running LLM-based applications with GPT4ALL
  • Querying local data using Large Language Models

Want a cutting edge transformer library? Hugging Face’s open source offering is best in class. Need somewhere to host your models? Hugging Face Spaces has you covered. Do your users need an intuitive frontend for your AI app? Hugging Face’s Gradio library makes it easy to build UI using the Python skills you already have. In Hugging Face in Action you’ll learn how to take full advantage of all of Hugging Face’s amazing features to quickly and reliably prototype and productionize AI applications.

about the technology

Hugging Face is an incredible open-source ecosystem for AI engineers and data scientists, providing hundreds of pre-trained models, datasets, tools, and libraries. It’s also a central hub for collaborating on leading edge AI research. Hugging Face is a massive platform, and this book will help you take full advantage of all it has to offer.

about the book

Hugging Face in Action teaches you how to build end-to-end AI systems using resources from the Hugging Face community. In it, you’ll create multiple projects, including an object detection model, a RAG Q&A application, an LLM-powered chatbot, and more. You’ll appreciate the clear, accessible explanations, along with thoughtful introductions to key technologies like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Gradio.

what's inside

  • How to navigate the huge Hugging Face library of models and tools
  • How to run LLMs locally using GPT4ALL
  • How to create web-based user interfaces using Gradio
  • How to improve models using Hugging Face datasets

about the reader

For Python programmers familiar with NumPy and Pandas. No AI experience required.

about the author

Wei-Meng Lee is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions.

A must-read for all AI developers!

Abhinav Kimothi, Author of A Simple Guide to Retrieval Augmented Generation

Packed with valuable information!

Maja Ferle, Author of Snowflake Data Engineering

A great introduction to the foundational Hugging Face toolset.

Micheal Lanham, Brilliant Harvest

Gets you started with Hugging Face datasets and models.

Giuliano Bertoti, FATEC

A hands-on guide to one of the most important ecosystems in modern AI.

Vikram Kulothungan, Capitol Technology University
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