Pedro Cuenca
Machine learning engineer at Hugging Face; Diffusers co-author and builder of on-device Swift tools
- Machine learning engineer, Hugging Face12
Pedro Cuenca is a machine learning engineer at Hugging Face, according to the author bio of the book Hands-On Generative AI with Transformers and Diffusion Models, which Cuenca co-wrote, and a co-author of a June 2026 Hugging Face blog post on profiling in PyTorch. Cuenca is listed among the authors in the citation for Hugging Face's open-source Diffusers library. On Hugging Face's blog, Cuenca introduced swift-transformers, a package for running language models on Apple devices, and co-wrote the post on the open-source Diffusers app for Mac, which runs Stable Diffusion locally through Core ML. Cuenca also appears in the author list of the DALL·E mini project.123468
Work
DiffusersOpen-source code
Listed among the authors in the citation entry of the Diffusers README and its CITATION.cff file; the library is released under the Apache 2.0 license.3
swift-transformers (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Author of the 2023 Hugging Face blog post releasing swift-transformers, a Swift package with tokenizers, Hub wrappers and generation algorithms for running language models on Apple devices through Core ML; the repository is under the Apache 2.0 license.45
Diffusers for Mac (swift-coreml-diffusers) (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-author of the 2023 Hugging Face blog post on version 1.1 of the native Mac app, which runs text-to-image models converted to Core ML on the user's own machine.67
DALL·E mini (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Listed in the README's author list and citation entry for the Apache-2.0 DALL·E mini project.8
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Co-founder and CTO, LateNiteSoft1
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