Thomas Wolf
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face; created the Transformers library
- Co-founder and Chief Science Officer (CSO), Hugging Face12
Thomas Wolf is a co-founder and the Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face. Wolf's site lists Transformers among the libraries Wolf created, and Wolf made the repository's first commit in 2018 and is first author of the paper describing the library, whose Pipeline API downloads a pretrained model, caches it for reuse, and runs it. Wolf also made the first commit to Hugging Face's Accelerate library in 2020 and is among the authors of the 2025 announcement of SmolLM3, a 3B-parameter model.1234568
Work
Transformers
Listed on Wolf's site as a library Wolf created. Wolf made the repository's initial commit in October 2018 and is first author of the Transformers paper, which the README asks users to cite. The README's quickstart loads a model through the Pipeline API, which downloads and caches it for reuse.1345
Accelerate (external site: github.com)
Made the repository's initial commit in October 2020 and is listed among the authors in the README's citation entry; Wolf's site names Accelerate among the libraries Wolf created or advised.671
SmolLM3
Listed among the authors of Hugging Face's July 2025 announcement of SmolLM3, a 3B-parameter model in the SmolLM series.8
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