Warning
This is still very at a very early stage and subject to major changes.
- π€ Straight forward way of deploying models from the Hugging Face Hub in Vertex AI
- π³ Automatically build Custom Prediction Routines (CPR) for Hugging Face Hub models using
transformers.pipeline - π¦ Everything is packaged within a single method, providing more flexibility and ease of usage than the former
google-cloud-aiplatformSDK for custom models - π Seamless integration for running inference on top of any model from the Hugging Face Hub in Vertex AI thanks to
transformers - π
Support for
diffusersmodels too! - π Includes custom
loggingmessages for better monitoring and debugging via Google Cloud Logging
Install the gcloud CLI and authenticate with your Google Cloud account as:
gcloud init
gcloud auth loginThen install vertex-ai-huggingface-inference-toolkit via pip install:
pip install vertex-ai-huggingface-inference-toolkit>=0.0.2Or via uv pip install for faster installations using uv:
uv pip install vertex-ai-huggingface-inference-toolkit>=0.0.2from vertex_ai_huggingface_inference_toolkit import TransformersModel
model = TransformersModel(
model_name_or_path="facebook/bart-large-mnli",
framework="torch",
framework_version="2.2.0",
transformers_version="4.38.2",
python_version="3.10",
cuda_version="12.3.0",
environment_variables={
"HF_TASK": "zero-shot-classification",
},
)
model.deploy(
machine_type="n1-standard-4",
accelerator_type="NVIDIA_TESLA_T4",
accelerator_count=1,
)Once deployed we can send request to it via cURL:
curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"sequences": "Messi is the GOAT", "candidate_labels": ["football", "basketball", "baseball"]}' <VERTEX_AI_ENDPOINT_URL>/predictExample on running on different versions (`torch`, CUDA, Ubuntu, etc.)
from vertex_ai_huggingface_inference_toolkit import TransformersModel
model = TransformersModel(
model_name_or_path="facebook/bart-large-mnli",
framework="torch",
framework_version="2.1.0",
python_version="3.9",
cuda_version="11.8.0",
environment_variables={
"HF_TASK": "zero-shot-classification",
},
)Example on running on existing Docker image
To ensure the consistency of the following approach, the image should have been generated using vertex_ai_huggingface_inference_toolkit in advance.
from vertex_ai_huggingface_inference_toolkit import TransformersModel
model = TransformersModel(
model_name_or_path="facebook/bart-large-mnli",
image_uri="us-east1-docker.pkg.dev/huggingface-cloud/vertex-ai-huggingface-inference-toolkit/py3.11-cu12.3.0-torch-2.2.0-transformers-4.38.2:latest",
environment_variables={
"HF_TASK": "zero-shot-classification",
},
)Example on running TinyLlama for `text-generation`
from vertex_ai_huggingface_inference_toolkit import TransformersModel
model = TransformersModel(
project_id="my-project",
location="us-east1",
model_name_or_path="TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0",
model_kwargs={"torch_dtype": "float16", "attn_implementation": "flash_attention_2"},
extra_requirements=["flash-attn --no-build-isolation"],
environment_variables={
"HF_TASK": "text-generation",
},
)This work is heavily inspired by sagemaker-huggingface-inference-toolkit early work from Philipp Schmid, Hugging Face, and Amazon Web Services.
