From Files to Chunks: Improving Hugging Face Storage Efficiency
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When the XetHub crew joined Hugging Face this fall,
@erinys
and I started brainstorming how to share our work to replace Git LFS on the Hub. Uploading and downloading large models and datasets takes precious time. That’s where our chunk-based approach comes in.
Instead of versioning files (like Git and Git LFS), we version variable-sized chunks of data. For the Hugging Face community, this means:
⏩ Only upload the chunks that changed.
🚀 Download just the updates, not the whole file.
🧠 We store your file as deduplicated chunks
In our benchmarks, we found that using CDC to store iterative model and dataset version led to transfer speedups of ~2x, but this isn’t just a performance boost. It’s a rethinking of how we manage models and datasets on the Hub.
We're planning on our new storage backend to the Hub in early 2025 - check out our blog to dive deeper, and let us know: how could this improve your workflows?
https://huggingface.co/blog/from-files-to-chunks
Instead of versioning files (like Git and Git LFS), we version variable-sized chunks of data. For the Hugging Face community, this means:
⏩ Only upload the chunks that changed.
🚀 Download just the updates, not the whole file.
🧠 We store your file as deduplicated chunks
In our benchmarks, we found that using CDC to store iterative model and dataset version led to transfer speedups of ~2x, but this isn’t just a performance boost. It’s a rethinking of how we manage models and datasets on the Hub.
We're planning on our new storage backend to the Hub in early 2025 - check out our blog to dive deeper, and let us know: how could this improve your workflows?
https://huggingface.co/blog/from-files-to-chunks
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What a brilliant week for Open Source AI!
Qwen 2.5 Coder by Alibaba - 0.5B / 1.5B / 3B / 7B / 14B/ 32B (Base + Instruct) Code generation LLMs, with 32B tackling giants like Gemnini 1.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet
Qwen/qwen25-coder-66eaa22e6f99801bf65b0c2f
LLM2CLIP from Microsoft - Leverage LLMs to train ultra-powerful CLIP models! Boosts performance over the previous SOTA by ~17%
microsoft/llm2clip-672323a266173cfa40b32d4c
Athene v2 Chat & Agent by NexusFlow - SoTA general LLM fine-tuned from Qwen 2.5 72B excels at Chat + Function Calling/ JSON/ Agents
Nexusflow/athene-v2-6735b85e505981a794fb02cc
Orca Agent Instruct by Microsoft - 1 million instruct pairs covering text editing, creative writing, coding, reading comprehension, etc - permissively licensed
microsoft/orca-agentinstruct-1M-v1
Ultravox by FixieAI - 70B/ 8B model approaching GPT4o level, pick any LLM, train an adapter with Whisper as Audio Encoder
reach-vb/ultravox-audio-language-model-release-67373b602af0a52b2a88ae71
JanusFlow 1.3 by DeepSeek - Next iteration of their Unified MultiModal LLM Janus with RectifiedFlow
deepseek-ai/JanusFlow-1.3B
Common Corpus by Pleais - 2,003,039,184,047 multilingual, commercially permissive and high quality tokens!
PleIAs/common_corpus
I'm sure I missed a lot, can't wait for the next week!
Put down in comments what I missed! 🤗
Qwen 2.5 Coder by Alibaba - 0.5B / 1.5B / 3B / 7B / 14B/ 32B (Base + Instruct) Code generation LLMs, with 32B tackling giants like Gemnini 1.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet
Qwen/qwen25-coder-66eaa22e6f99801bf65b0c2f
LLM2CLIP from Microsoft - Leverage LLMs to train ultra-powerful CLIP models! Boosts performance over the previous SOTA by ~17%
microsoft/llm2clip-672323a266173cfa40b32d4c
Athene v2 Chat & Agent by NexusFlow - SoTA general LLM fine-tuned from Qwen 2.5 72B excels at Chat + Function Calling/ JSON/ Agents
Nexusflow/athene-v2-6735b85e505981a794fb02cc
Orca Agent Instruct by Microsoft - 1 million instruct pairs covering text editing, creative writing, coding, reading comprehension, etc - permissively licensed
microsoft/orca-agentinstruct-1M-v1
Ultravox by FixieAI - 70B/ 8B model approaching GPT4o level, pick any LLM, train an adapter with Whisper as Audio Encoder
reach-vb/ultravox-audio-language-model-release-67373b602af0a52b2a88ae71
JanusFlow 1.3 by DeepSeek - Next iteration of their Unified MultiModal LLM Janus with RectifiedFlow
deepseek-ai/JanusFlow-1.3B
Common Corpus by Pleais - 2,003,039,184,047 multilingual, commercially permissive and high quality tokens!
PleIAs/common_corpus
I'm sure I missed a lot, can't wait for the next week!
Put down in comments what I missed! 🤗
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I was curious to see what people post here on HF so I created a dataset with all HF Posts:
maxiw/hf-posts
Some interesting stats:
Top 5 Authors by Total Impressions:
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@merve : 171,783 impressions (68 posts)
@fdaudens : 135,253 impressions (81 posts)
@singhsidhukuldeep : 122,591 impressions (81 posts)
@akhaliq : 119,526 impressions (78 posts)
@MonsterMMORPG : 112,500 impressions (45 posts)
Top 5 Users by Number of Reactions Given:
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@osanseviero : 1278 reactions
@clem : 910 reactions
@John6666 : 899 reactions
@victor : 674 reactions
@samusenps : 655 reactions
Top 5 Most Used Reactions:
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❤️: 7048 times
🔥: 5921 times
👍: 4856 times
🚀: 2549 times
🤗: 2065 times
Some interesting stats:
Top 5 Authors by Total Impressions:
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@merve : 171,783 impressions (68 posts)
@fdaudens : 135,253 impressions (81 posts)
@singhsidhukuldeep : 122,591 impressions (81 posts)
@akhaliq : 119,526 impressions (78 posts)
@MonsterMMORPG : 112,500 impressions (45 posts)
Top 5 Users by Number of Reactions Given:
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@osanseviero : 1278 reactions
@clem : 910 reactions
@John6666 : 899 reactions
@victor : 674 reactions
@samusenps : 655 reactions
Top 5 Most Used Reactions:
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❤️: 7048 times
🔥: 5921 times
👍: 4856 times
🚀: 2549 times
🤗: 2065 times
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🌍 Super cool visualization of global PUT requests to Hugging Face over 24 hours, coded by object size, thanks to
@port8080
!
We're putting this analysis to work to help us architect a more geo-distributed system for the HF storage backend.
Originally shared on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ajitbanerjee_one-of-the-joys-of-working-on-the-xethub-activity-7252688424732614656-tFGD
We're putting this analysis to work to help us architect a more geo-distributed system for the HF storage backend.
Originally shared on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ajitbanerjee_one-of-the-joys-of-working-on-the-xethub-activity-7252688424732614656-tFGD
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The Hugging Face Hub hosts over 1.5M Model, Dataset, and Space repositories. To scale to 10M+, the XetHub team (https://huggingface.co/xet-team) is replacing Git LFS with a new technology that improves storage and transfer capabilities with some future developer experience benefits to boot.
Thanks to @yuchenglow and @port8080 (for their analysis covering LFS usage from March 2022–Sept 2024), we now have insights into what we’re storing. Check out the Gradio app to explore:
- Storage growth over time
- File types over all repositories
- Some simple optimizations we're investigating
xet-team/lfs-analysis
Thanks to @yuchenglow and @port8080 (for their analysis covering LFS usage from March 2022–Sept 2024), we now have insights into what we’re storing. Check out the Gradio app to explore:
- Storage growth over time
- File types over all repositories
- Some simple optimizations we're investigating
xet-team/lfs-analysis
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This is great feedback @John6666 - and I've seen your suggestions in the other thread as well. As a non-ML engineer myself, it's been really interesting to explore HF with fresh eyes! We're doing some early exploration on HF understandability and discoverability in our team - would you be open to chatting sometime about potential approaches? We'd love to get your feedback!
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We shut down XetHub today after almost 2 years. What we learned from launching our Git-scaled product from scratch:
- Don't make me change my workflow
- Data inertia is real
- ML best practices are still evolving
Closing the door on our public product lets us focus on our new goal of scaling HF Hub's storage backend to improve devX for a larger community. We'd love to hear your thoughts on what experiences we can improve!
Read the full post: https://xethub.com/blog/shutting-down-xethub-learnings-and-takeaways
- Don't make me change my workflow
- Data inertia is real
- ML best practices are still evolving
Closing the door on our public product lets us focus on our new goal of scaling HF Hub's storage backend to improve devX for a larger community. We'd love to hear your thoughts on what experiences we can improve!
Read the full post: https://xethub.com/blog/shutting-down-xethub-learnings-and-takeaways
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If you feel like you missed out for ECCV 2024, there's an app to browse the papers, rank for popularity, filter for open models, datasets and demos 📝
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We did a thing! Eight weeks into our Hugging Face tenure, we can demo a round-trip of Xet-backed files from our local machine to a prod Hugging Face S3 bucket and back. 🚀
It’s been exciting to dive into how the Hub is built and design our steel thread through the infrastructure. Now that the thread is up, we can kick off project Capacious Extremis 🪄 to add all the other goodies: authentication, authorization, deduplication, privacy, and more.
What does this mean for you? You’re one step closer to ⚡ faster downloads, uploads, and iterative development on Hugging Face Hub! This is our first step toward replacing Git LFS as the Hub's storage backend: https://huggingface.co/blog/xethub-joins-hf
Check out the demo on LinkedIn to see the transfer in action: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/annux_youve-heard-of-blue-steel-but-have-activity-7245062126535405568-3cvJ
It’s been exciting to dive into how the Hub is built and design our steel thread through the infrastructure. Now that the thread is up, we can kick off project Capacious Extremis 🪄 to add all the other goodies: authentication, authorization, deduplication, privacy, and more.
What does this mean for you? You’re one step closer to ⚡ faster downloads, uploads, and iterative development on Hugging Face Hub! This is our first step toward replacing Git LFS as the Hub's storage backend: https://huggingface.co/blog/xethub-joins-hf
Check out the demo on LinkedIn to see the transfer in action: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/annux_youve-heard-of-blue-steel-but-have-activity-7245062126535405568-3cvJ
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In August, the XetHub team joined Hugging Face
- https://huggingface.co/blog/xethub-joins-hf - and we’ve been rolling up our sleeves to bring the best of both worlds together. We started with a deep dive into the current state of files stored with Git LFS on the Hub.
Getting this information was no small feat. We had to:
* Analyze a complete database dump of all repositories and files stored in Git LFS across Hugging Face.
* Parse through metadata on file sizes and types to accurately map the storage breakdown across Spaces, Models, and Datasets.
You can read more about the findings (with some jaw-dropping stats + charts) here https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7244486280351285248
- https://huggingface.co/blog/xethub-joins-hf - and we’ve been rolling up our sleeves to bring the best of both worlds together. We started with a deep dive into the current state of files stored with Git LFS on the Hub.
Getting this information was no small feat. We had to:
* Analyze a complete database dump of all repositories and files stored in Git LFS across Hugging Face.
* Parse through metadata on file sizes and types to accurately map the storage breakdown across Spaces, Models, and Datasets.
You can read more about the findings (with some jaw-dropping stats + charts) here https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7244486280351285248