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The Hub as Infrastructure. From Open PyTorch Models, to a Safe and Perfor...

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Talkat PyTorch Conference Europe 2026 · 2026-04-07..04-08· [open-source, devops-and-delivery]

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name:Lysandre Debut
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/ULXHfiXHHSY
slides:none on file

summary

Hugging Face runs a distribution hub with 2.74M public models and 1.44M PyTorch-compatible checkpoints, where the top 200 models drive 50% of downloads and the top 1.4M models still get ≥200 downloads each. The hub records ~4.47M uploads with ~8–9% containing malicious files, so SafeTensors moves to the PyTorch Foundation after audits and will keep a stable format. Roadmap focuses on device-aware loading, new datatypes and kernel pages on the hub to speed checkpoint loading and hardware-specific execution.

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chapters (5)

  1. 0:00Hub as Infrastructure
  2. 1:27Hugging Face Hub evolution
  3. 3:37Model usage and security
  4. 5:22Safe Tensors in PyTorch
  5. 7:51Future of execution and kernels

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