Serving models on Hugging Face is harder than it should be
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[RFC] Native adapt for Biren SUPA accelerator in transformers
### Feature request Hi maintainers and community members, Thanks to the Hugging Face team and all Transformers maintainers and contributors for your continued work on the project. Its rich model ecosystem, consistent APIs, and open community collaboration have made it much...
[Bug]: Hugging Face rerank without api_base still calls api-inference.huggingface.co, which no longer resolves
## Description `litellm.rerank` with a `huggingface/` model and no `api_base` (and no `HF_API_BASE` or `HUGGINGFACE_API_BASE`) posts to `https://api-inference.huggingface.co/rerank`. Hugging Face retired that serverless host and moved its inference to `router.huggingface.co`,...
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2 posts from 2 people in 2 places, about 2 a week over 3 days. Mostly on huggingface/transformers, BerriAI/litellm. Tools named alongside: PyTorch, NVIDIA, GitHub, BerriAI.
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Posts that state a pain and match the "model-serving" rule about Hugging Face. First post Nov 2, 2026, latest Nov 4, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method
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