[HN Gopher] Transformer Lab
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Transformer Lab
Author : jonbaer
Score : 149 points
Date : 2025-04-12 02:58 UTC (2 days ago)
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| thenthenthen wrote:
| Mmm interesting, curious to check it out. The feature list starts
| with 'Pick a model', which I think is the hardest part in the
| first place. How do you know what mode to pick?
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| Nit: the website is cut off left and right on mobile (ios)
| gunalx wrote:
| +1 on android firefox.
| jampekka wrote:
| Seems quite comprehensive. I wonder if there's a way to "escape"
| from the system. It looks nice for getting started but in
| practice at some point you'll want programmatic access for e.g.
| advanced API features.
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| E.g. a well behaving system independent pipeline serialization
| could work. Didn't find anything about this with a quick glance
| of the docs.
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| Edit: with a bit longer glance there is a plugin system that
| allows adding custom code quite easily.
| aliasaria wrote:
| One of the maintainers here. Yes this is a big part of our
| plans. In addition to our plugin system which allows arbitrary
| Python scripts, we will soon publish how to add decorators to
| any existing script which can be run externally but logged into
| Transformer Lab. So you could do training anywhere but trigger
| evals in the app, for example.
| santiagobasulto wrote:
| Could this be run as a web interface? For example, getting a GCP
| instance with GPU and deploying it there and accessing it from
| the browser.
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| EDIT: Seems it has a client/server model and the server can be
| installed somewhere else:
| https://transformerlab.ai/docs/install/advanced-install
|
| But I'm wondering if this is an electron based app and I could
| run the client on a web interface as well.
| aliasaria wrote:
| Yes it all works as webapp, in addition to working as an
| electron app. we haven't gotten to publishing how in the docs
| as this feature is brand new.
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| Short story, run: "npm run start:cloud" in the git repo.
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| Will make this more known soon.
| santiagobasulto wrote:
| Perfect, thanks very much! It looks like an amazing tool.
| Cheers!
| woadwarrior01 wrote:
| Glad to see that the code[1] is AGPL-3.0 licensed.
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| [1]: https://github.com/transformerlab/transformerlab-app
| bguberfain wrote:
| Unfortunately, it uses Miniconda, which does not allow usage in
| companies with more than 200 employees. I think it conflicts
| with AGPL license. I created a PR to fix that.
| aliasaria wrote:
| Thanks for finding this!
|
| Will get this merged as soon as we can test across platforms.
| kevmo314 wrote:
| Is there anything like this but for analyzing thousands of
| models? Most of this type of tool seem to work best for iterating
| and experimenting, but I'd actually like to use it for tracking
| and debugging something in production.
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| We have a service that runs thousands of custom, user-defined
| models and when something goes awry having this level of insight
| would be pretty useful.
| aliasaria wrote:
| Transformer Lab maintainer here. We'd love to build this!
| Please contact us on our our Discord
| https://discord.gg/transformerlab or Twitter
| https://x.com/transformerlab and we'd love to learn more and
| collaborate.
| trkaky wrote:
| how to uninstall?
| aliasaria wrote:
| https://transformerlab.ai/docs/resources/Uninstall%20Transfo...
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