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🤗 Optimum is an extension of Hugging Face Transformers that provides performance optimization tools for training and running models on specialized hardware. It enables developers to efficiently use platforms like NVIDIA, AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and Intel hardware with the same ease as standard Transformers.
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Hugging Face Optimum / Distilabel: Best-in-class for generating the synthetic instruction and preference datasets needed to train your smaller student model from a frontier teacher.

Hugging Face Optimum: Currently the standard for distilling Transformer-based models.