We’re excited to announce a partnership with DataCamp to bring comprehensive and interactive Hugging Face courses to AI/ML engineers and software engineers.
The brand new Hugging Face Fundamentals skill track combines hands-on courses with a real-world project designed to allow you to master constructing modern AI workflows with the Hugging Face ecosystem.
All courses feature interactive, real-world exercises that run directly in your browser, no local setup required, ensuring you gain practical skills applicable to your AI projects immediately.
[!TIP] In the event you’re latest to Hugging Face, or working with folks who’re, this skill track works through progressive courses from using the Hub to constructing multi-modal applications and AI agents. Plus, the primary course is free until the tip of 2025. Start learning today with zero cost or commitment!
The Learning Track
In-built collaboration with the Hugging Face team, the basic skill track consists of 4 comprehensive courses and an actual world project that progressively construct your expertise.
1. Working with Hugging Face
This 2-hour beginner course is your comprehensive introduction to the Hugging Face ecosystem. Perfect for newcomers to AI and machine learning, it walks you thru the basics of working with pre-trained models and datasets. Covered on this course:
- Navigate and search the Hugging Face Hub effectively
- Load and use pre-trained models with the transformers library
- Download and prepare datasets for various NLP tasks
- Construct production-ready pipelines for text classification, summarization, and query answering (QA)
- Deploy models for real-world inference scenarios
2. Introduction to LLMs in Python
Take a deeper dive into LLMs, their transformer architecture, and Hugging Face’s transformer library. This course moves inference into custom fine-tuning and evaluation to set you up for real-world projects.
- The nuts and bolts of transformer architecture
- Working with large language models for various NLP tasks
- High quality-tuning models for custom use cases
- Understanding model parameters and optimization techniques
- Working with custom datasets to enhance model performance
3. Multi-Modal Models with Hugging Face
This advanced course expands your AI toolkit beyond text to modalities including mages, audio, video, and their combos. As AI applications increasingly require understanding and generating content across multiple modalities, this course positions you on the forefront of contemporary AI development. What you’ll explore within the course:
- Construct computer vision applications for image classification and evaluation
- Process and analyze audio and video content with specialized models
- Create images and videos using state-of-the-art generative models
- Develop multi-modal workflows integrating text, images, audio, and video
- Implement image-text-to-image and image-text-to-text conversion pipelines
- Construct visual query answering (VQA) systems that understand and reason about images
4. AI Agents with Hugging Face smolagents
This cutting-edge course introduces you to the longer term of AI: autonomous agents that may reason, plan, and execute complex tasks independently. Using Hugging Face’s lightweight smolagents framework, you may learn to construct AI systems that go far beyond easy question-answering to turn out to be true digital assistants able to interacting with the world. Your learning outcomes:
- Construct autonomous agents that reason through complex multi-step tasks
- Create coding agents that generate and execute Python code independently
- Design and orchestrate multi-agent systems for stylish workflows
- Implement web browsing capabilities for real-time information gathering
- Deploy agent systems with proper security, sandboxing, and execution controls
Real World Project
The skill track finishes with a real-world project to construct a food image classification with the hub, transformers, and all the pieces you’ve learnt!
Next Steps
Your complete track is designed for progressive learning, but you can even take individual courses based in your specific skill level, interests, and goals. Try the Hugging Face Fundamentals Track to start.
