Installation

This guide provides instructions for installing the Transformers library. Make sure you have a compatible Python version (3.6+) before proceeding.

With pip

Transformers can be installed using pip as follows:

pip install transformers

Transformers can be installed using conda as follows:

conda install -c huggingface transformers

To install Transformers from source, follow these steps:

git clone https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git
cd transformers
pip install -e .

Depending on your use case, you might want to install additional dependencies:

You can install Transformers with these extra dependencies using:

pip install transformers[tf-cpu]  # TensorFlow
pip install transformers[torch]   # PyTorch
pip install transformers[flax]    # Flax

To verify that Transformers is installed correctly, you can run the following Python code:

from transformers import pipeline

classifier = pipeline("sentiment-analysis")
result = classifier("I love Transformers!")
print(result)

If the installation was successful, you should see output similar to:

[{'label': 'POSITIVE', 'score': 0.9998}]