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Hugging Face Transformers v5.21.0 adds new models, including document understanding and TTS capabilities

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Hugging Face's Transformers library has released version 5.21.0, introducing several new models and updates. Notable additions include MiniCPM-OCR for document understanding, Flint, a mixture-of-experts language model with hybrid attention, and UltraVBert for visual document understanding. The release also features Gradium Phonon TTS and Kyutai's Pocket TTS for on-device text-to-speech, along with updates to their respective audio tokenizers. Separately, a GGUF version of NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B is now available for use with various local inference tools like llama.cpp and Ollama. AI

IMPACT Provides developers with new tools and models for specialized tasks like document understanding and text-to-speech, and broadens local LLM deployment options.

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