Integration with Hugging Face’s Model Hub

You can download adapters from and upload them to Hugging Face’s Model Hub. This document describes how to interact with the Model Hub when working with adapters.

Downloading from the Hub

The Hugging Face Model Hub already provides hundreds of pre-trained adapters available for download. To search for available adapters, use the Adapters library filter on the Model Hub website or use this link: https://huggingface.co/models?library=adapter-transformers. Alternatively, all adapters on the Hugging Face Model Hub are also listed on https://adapterhub.ml/explore together with all adapters directly uploaded to AdapterHub.

After you have found an adapter you would like to use, loading it into a Transformer model is easy. For example, for loading and activating the adapter AdapterHub/roberta-base-pf-sick, write:

from adapters import AutoAdapterModel

model = AutoAdapterModel.from_pretrained("roberta-base")
adapter_name = model.load_adapter("AdapterHub/roberta-base-pf-sick")
model.active_adapters = adapter_name

Uploading to the Hub

Hugging Face’s Model Hub provides a convenient way for everyone to upload their pre-trained models and share them with the world. Of course, this is also possible with adapters now! In the following, we’ll go through the fastest way of uploading an adapter directly via Python in the adapters library. For more options and information, e.g. for managing models via the CLI and Git, refer to HugginFace’s documentation.

Prepare access credentials: Before being able to push to the Hugging Face Model Hub for the first time, we have to store our access token in the cache. This can be done via the huggingface-cli by running:
```
huggingface-cli login
```
Push an adapter: Next, we can proceed to upload our first adapter. Let’s say we have a standard pre-trained Transformers model with an existing adapter named awesome_adapter (e.g. added via model.add_adapter("awesome_adapter") and trained afterwards). We can now push this adapter to the Model Hub using model.push_adapter_to_hub() like this:
```
model.push_adapter_to_hub(
    "my-awesome-adapter",
    "awesome_adapter",
    datasets_tag="imdb"
)
```
This will create a repository my-awesome-adapter under your username, generate a default adapter card as README.md and upload the adapter named awesome_adapter together with the adapter card to the new repository. datasets_tag provides additional information for categorization.

Note

All adapters uploaded to Hugging Face’s Model Hub are automatically also listed on AdapterHub.ml. Thus, for better categorization, datasets_tag is helpful when uploading a new adapter to the Model Hub. datasets_tag specifies the dataset the adapter was trained on as an identifier from Hugging Face Datasets.

Voilà! Your first adapter is on the Hugging Face Model Hub. Anyone can now run:

model.load_adapter("<your_username>/my-awesome-adapter")

To update your adapter, simply run push_adapter_to_hub() with the same repository name again. This will push a new commit to the existing repository.

You can find the full documentation of push_adapter_to_hub() here.