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TRANSFORMERS SHIPS FSDP DISTRIBUTED TRAINING STACK, HUB LIBRARY PLUGS REDOS HOLE

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Hugging Face landed distributed training orchestration in transformers while plugging a regex vulnerability that could stall untrusted card parsing for minutes.

The transformers team merged full FSDP CI infrastructure and end-to-end distributed tests [1], introducing DistributedMixin and wiring DistributedConfig through from_pretrained and save_pretrained in the first two phases of the orchestration rollout. On the inference side, DiffusionGemma now supports gradient checkpointing [2] with exact loss/gradient reproduction, and Gemma 4 switched to explicit per_layer_config for heterogeneous attention patterns [3]. AXK1, a new Deepseek-derived MoE model, landed with TP bug fixes and modernized configuration [4], while a bugfix resolved fully offloaded model saving [5]. In the SDK layer, huggingface_hub patched catastrophic backtracking in REGEX_YAML_BLOCK [6], a ReDoS vulnerability that could pin CPU cores for seconds parsing untrusted README frontmatter. The hub_upload pipeline now forwards authentication tokens through _final_commit_info lookups [7], fixing 401 errors on private repos. Research-agent stripped deployment files and locked down configuration [8], and funes added a remove command [9] to undo fuses add operations. JavaScript tasks shipped v0.21.28 [10] with resourceGroupId support for organization-owned collections [11] and NInfer model library registration for the fastest documented Qwen35B inference engine [12].

Action items

References

  1. [1] Add FSDP CI and end-to-end FSDP tests + save fsdp (#47357) ↗ huggingface/transformers
  2. [2] [DiffusionGemma] Support gradient checkpointing (#46572) ↗ huggingface/transformers
  3. [3] Use new `per_layer_config` for Gemma 4 so that heterogeneous attention config is explicit (#47384) ↗ huggingface/transformers
  4. [4] add_axk1 (#46867) ↗ huggingface/transformers
  5. [5] [Offloading] [Bugfix] Fix fully offloaded model saving (#47336) ↗ huggingface/transformers
  6. [6] [Repocard] Fix catastrophic backtracking (ReDoS) in REGEX_YAML_BLOCK (#4526) ↗ huggingface/huggingface_hub
  7. [7] [Upload] Forward token in _final_commit_info repo_info lookup ↗ huggingface/huggingface_hub
  8. [8] remove deploy files ↗ huggingface/research-agent
  9. [9] feat: add funes remove command ↗ huggingface/funes
  10. [10] tasks-v0.21.28 ↗ huggingface/huggingface.js
  11. [11] Support resourceGroupId when creating a collection (#2308) ↗ huggingface/huggingface.js
  12. [12] Register NInfer model library ↗ huggingface/huggingface.js

Quick answers

What shipped in Hugging Face on July 24, 2026?
Hugging Face landed distributed training orchestration in transformers while plugging a regex vulnerability that could stall untrusted card parsing for minutes. In total, 34 commits, 26 pull requests, and 1 releases landed.
Who contributed to Hugging Face on July 24, 2026?
14 developers shipped this update, including evalstate, Ferdinand Mom, Kashif Rasul, Harry Mellor, Minsang Kim, Kyle Sayers, dacorvo, and github-actions[bot], and 6 more.
What were the notable Hugging Face updates?
Add FSDP CI and end-to-end FSDP tests + save fsdp (#47357), [DiffusionGemma] Support gradient checkpointing (#46572), and Use new `per_layer_config` for Gemma 4 so that heterogeneous attention config is explicit (#47384).