Hugging Face Transformers

Timeline

1. Oct 17, 2026 · Tutorial / explainer · 14 sources
   Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio
   In this post, we show how to run the latest frontier-class model — Muse Spark Open, with nearly a trillion parameters — right from your desk, using the latest version of MLX, released today.
2. Oct 16, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
   huggingface/transformers v5.20.1: Release v5.20.1
   Special surprise including the new model Beam from Reflection AI :partyingface:
3. Oct 15, 2026 · Opinion / analysis · 1 source
   I turned a transformer into a game console that runs Pong, Tetris, Space Invaders and 116 more games.
   I turned a CHIP-8 game console into a decoder-only transformer.
4. Oct 15, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
   huggingface/transformers v5.20.0: Release v5.20.0
   Muse Spark Open is a multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Meta that takes text, images, audio, and video as input and generates text.
5. Oct 6, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
   huggingface/transformers v5.19.0: Release v5.19.0
   EmbeddingGemma 2 is a multimodal embedding model from Google built on the Gemma 4 architecture.
6. Sep 30, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
   huggingface/transformers v5.18.0: Release 5.18.0
   Nemotron 3 Diarization is an open-weight streaming speaker diarization model designed to determine "who spoke when" in real-world audio.
7. Sep 9, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
   huggingface/transformers v5.17.0: Release 5.17.0
   Hy4-Preview is a 780B-parameter mixture-of-experts language model that activates 49B parameters per
8. Aug 26, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
   huggingface/transformers v5.16.1: Release v5.16.1
   This is a special release as we include GLM! (and a few small fixes)
9. Aug 26, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
   huggingface/transformers v5.16.0: Release: v5.16.0
   Qwen4-Exp builds on Qwen3.5's hybrid text and multimodal architecture with three key components: GatedResidual (GR), Qwen Sparse Attention (QSA), and Per-Layer Embedding (PLE).
10. Aug 19, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.15.1: Patch release: v5.15.1
    This patch most notably solves a few issues with DFlash and MTP candidate generators, as well as an issue where images could sometimes not be processed on accelerator if using Lanczos filter.
11. Aug 10, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.15.0: Release: v5.15.0
    Muse Glimmer, released today, is Meta’s new multimodal model, especially designed for agentic use cases.
12. Jul 16, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.14.1: Patch release: v5.14.1
    This patch solves a few issues which appeared when integrating Inkling model, most notably an issue affecting models using EncoderDecoderCache during assisted generation.
13. Jul 15, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.14.0: Release v5.14.0
    Inkling is a general-purpose multimodal model that accepts text, image and audio inputs and
14. Jul 11, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.13.1: Patch release v5.13.1
    This patch is focused on enabling transformers for the latest release of vllm!
15. Jul 3, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.13.0: Release v5.13.0
    Kimi K2.5 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model that advances practical capabilities in long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, proactive autonomous execution, and swarm-based task orchestration.
16. Jun 15, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.12.1: Patch release v5.12.1
    Updated the lower bound for PEFT and a fix for auto tokenizer to properly resolve the mistral tokenizer (when mistral-common is installed).
17. Jun 15, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.10.3: Patch release v5.10.4
    A few fixes needed for vLLM to sync with transformers :hugs:
18. Jun 12, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.12.0: Release v5.12.0
    MiniMax-M3-VL is the vision-language member of the MiniMax-M3 family that pairs a CLIP-style vision tower with 3D rotary position embeddings with the MiniMax-M3 text backbone.
19. Jun 10, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.11.0: Release v5.11.0
    DiffusionGemma is engineered to reduce the sequential bottlenecks of standard causal language models by employing an encoder-decoder architecture specifically optimized for inference speed.
20. Jun 9, 2026 · Model release · 1 source
    Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model
    Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model
21. Jun 4, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.10.2: Patch release v5.10.2
    There was a big bug in the model conversion of models related to clip, this affected models like sam3 and others.
22. Jun 3, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.10.1: Release v5.10.1
    Sorry everyone, this happens when we rush a release!!!
23. May 20, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.9.0: Release v5.9.0
    Command A+ is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model from Cohere that features a hybrid attention pattern combining sliding window and full attention layers.
24. May 13, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.8.1: Patch release v5.8.1
    This release is mainly to fix the Deepseek V4 integration!!!
25. May 5, 2026 · Open-source release · 1 source
    huggingface/transformers v5.8.0: Release 5.8.0
    DeepSeek-V4 is the next-generation MoE (Mixture of Experts) language model from DeepSeek that introduces several architectural innovations over DeepSeek-V3.

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