huggingface/transformers

huggingface/transformers provides the standard API for thousands of pre-trained models from BERT to Llama, gathering 159,977 stars. It ranks fourth because it remains the essential glue for deploying transformer models in production, being 40% younger than the #1 repo yet already half its star count. Its 2,100 weekly stars this period indicate it still outpaces #5 by a 25% margin in growth rate.