Hugging Face vs. TensorFlow

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hugging Face
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Hugging Face is an open-source provider of natural language processing (NLP) technologies.
$9
per month
TensorFlow
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. It was originally developed by Google.N/A
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Hugging FaceTensorFlow
Editions & Modules
Pro Account
$9
per month
Enterprise Hub
$20
per month per user
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Offerings
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Hugging FaceTensorFlow
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
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Community Pulse
Hugging FaceTensorFlow
Considered Both Products
Hugging Face
Chose Hugging Face
Hugging face is the latest technology built using transformers hence it gives better performance than other similar products.
Chose Hugging Face
I haven't tried any other product expect Hugging face yet.
TensorFlow

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Hugging FaceTensorFlow
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Medium-sized Companies
Posit
Posit
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
Hugging FaceTensorFlow
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(6 ratings)
8.6
(14 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Hugging FaceTensorFlow
Likelihood to Recommend
Hugging Face
If an organisation has more access to data and have access to high end computers like GPUs it’s recommended to use Hugging face as it will give better accuracy than any other models. If an organisation having less data and has less access to GPUsis looking for decent performance then traditional algorithms are more appropriate than hugging face
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Open Source
TensorFlow is great for most deep learning purposes. This is especially true in two domains: 1. Computer vision: image classification, object detection and image generation via generative adversarial networks 2. Natural language processing: text classification and generation. The good community support often means that a lot of off-the-shelf models can be used to prove a concept or test an idea quickly. That, and Google's promotion of Colab means that ideas can be shared quite freely. Training, visualizing and debugging models is very easy in TensorFlow, compared to other platforms (especially the good old Caffe days). In terms of productionizing, it's a bit of a mixed bag. In our case, most of our feature building is performed via Apache Spark. This means having to convert Parquet (columnar optimized) files to a TensorFlow friendly format i.e., protobufs. The lack of good JVM bindings mean that our projects end up being a mix of Python and Scala. This makes it hard to reuse some of the tooling and support we wrote in Scala. This is where MXNet shines better (though its Scala API could do with more work).
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Pros
Hugging Face
  • Model APIs
  • Hugging Face Spaces for deploying demo apps
  • Latest updated models available easily
  • Vast support for language parsing and other relevant tasks
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Open Source
  • A vast library of functions for all kinds of tasks - Text, Images, Tabular, Video etc.
  • Amazing community helps developers obtain knowledge faster and get unblocked in this active development space.
  • Integration of high-level libraries like Keras and Estimators make it really simple for a beginner to get started with neural network based models.
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Cons
Hugging Face
  • Most of the Hugging face models are of big size, hence difficult to work if there is no access to high computational system like GPU.
  • It’s good to have some visualization tool in hugging face for viewing model architecture.
  • I recommend to implement hugging face lite version so that it can run on any system with less specifications.
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Open Source
  • RNNs are still a bit lacking, compared to Theano.
  • Cannot handle sequence inputs
  • Theano is perhaps a bit faster and eats up less memory than TensorFlow on a given GPU, perhaps due to element-wise ops. Tensorflow wins for multi-GPU and “compilation” time.
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Usability
Hugging Face
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Open Source
Support of multiple components and ease of development.
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Support Rating
Hugging Face
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Open Source
Community support for TensorFlow is great. There's a huge community that truly loves the platform and there are many examples of development in TensorFlow. Often, when a new good technique is published, there will be a TensorFlow implementation not long after. This makes it quick to ally the latest techniques from academia straight to production-grade systems. Tooling around TensorFlow is also good. TensorBoard has been such a useful tool, I can't imagine how hard it would be to debug a deep neural network gone wrong without TensorBoard.
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Implementation Rating
Hugging Face
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Open Source
Use of cloud for better execution power is recommended.
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Alternatives Considered
Hugging Face
There are some other services offer similar capacity as to Hugging Face, but not entirely the same. For example, amazon web services have a machine learning service called Comprehend, which offer a set of easy to use APIs to do machine translation and entity recognition and some other common NLP use case.
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Open Source
Keras is built on top of TensorFlow, but it is much simpler to use and more Python style friendly, so if you don't want to focus on too many details or control and not focus on some advanced features, Keras is one of the best options, but as far as if you want to dig into more, for sure TensorFlow is the right choice
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Return on Investment
Hugging Face
  • Hugging Face is cost and time saving.
  • Pay is less, you pay what you use, doesn't affect much.
  • Overall positive impact on business.
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Open Source
  • Learning is s bit difficult takes lot of time.
  • Developing or implementing the whole neural network is time consuming with this, as you have to write everything.
  • Once you have learned this, it make your job very easy of getting the good result.
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