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huggingface/transformers v5.20.1: Release v5.20.1

Special surprise including the new model Beam from Reflection AI :partyingface:

Key points

  • Beam is a token-efficient, frontier-scale model focused on coding and agentic use cases.
  • We broke loading models on older torch versions :cry: should be fixed now.
  • Fix HunYuan-VL image assignment during batched generation (#49557) by @Arnav66692
  • Fix DeepGEMM Mega MoE under expert parallelism(#49428) by @IlyasMoutawwakil

Sources (1)

  • [1]huggingface/transformers v5.20.1: Release v5.20.1
    GitHub: huggingface/transformers · Oct 16, 01:02 PM
    Special surprise including the new model Beam from Reflection AI :partying_face:
    Beam is a token-efficient, frontier-scale model focused on coding and agentic use cases.

Extractive summary: sentences quoted from the sources.

Before this

  1. Oct 16, 2026Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale
  2. Oct 15, 2026Granite Switch 4.1: Chat, Decisions, and Speech from One Endpoint
  3. Oct 15, 2026huggingface/transformers v5.20.0: Release v5.20.0
  4. Oct 15, 2026huggingface/trl v1.16.0
  5. Oct 15, 2026StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context
  6. Oct 15, 2026Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio

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