Abubakar Abid
Co-founder of the Gradio library and machine learning team lead at Hugging Face
- Machine learning team lead, working on Gradio, Hugging Face13
Abubakar Abid co-founded Gradio, an open-source Python library for building web interfaces and demos for machine learning models, during PhD research at Stanford; Hugging Face announced its acquisition of Gradio in December 2021. Hugging Face's LLM Course describes Abid as a machine learning team lead at Hugging Face, and Abid's GitHub profile says Abid works on Gradio at Hugging Face. Abid is first author of the 2019 Gradio paper, which presented the package as a way for researchers to generate a visual interface for a model so collaborators without ML tooling can test it and give feedback.1234
Work
Gradio (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-founded the project and is first author of "Gradio: Hassle-Free Sharing and Testing of ML Models in the Wild" (2019), which the Gradio README gives as its citation. The repository is licensed under Apache 2.0.145
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