Habana Labs and Hugging Face Partner to Accelerate Transformer Model Training

Habana® Labs, a pioneer in high-efficiency, purpose-built deep learning processors, and Hugging Face, the home of Transformer models, announced that they’re joining forces to make it easier and quicker to train high-quality transformer models. Thanks to the integration of Habana’s SynapseAI software suite with the Hugging Face Optimum open-source library, data scientists and machine learning engineers can now accelerate their Transformer training jobs on Habana processors with just a few lines of code and enjoy greater productivity as well as lower training cost.