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Transformers Brings Biology to v5 Main
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Hugging Face's flagship repo hauled two protein-folding models onto the v5 mainline, and a wav2vec2 attention fix is ready to unblock your SDPA workflows.
The bio breakthrough lands this morning: ESMC and ESMFold2 are being ported into Transformers [2], lifting protein-folding straight into the framework's core [1]. The port is the verbatim fork code, with v5 convention adaptation coming as follow-up work [1]. Meanwhile, wav2vec2 conformer and SeamlessM4T now dispatch correctly with attn_implementation="sdpa", fixing crashes during from_pretrained [4]. On the reliability front, a LongT5 and Pop2Piano embedding tie fix prevents dropped structural weights [2], and a Retry transient network errors patch finally corrals the flaky RemoteDisconnected CI tracebacks [3]. The kernels repo lays groundwork with a resolver infrastructure [5] that will recursively solve kernel dependencies in coming PRs. Finally, sentence-transformers bumps setup-uv to 10.0.0, disabling automatic caching for sensitive events [6].
Action items
- โ Test ESMC/ESMFold2 on v5 main to catch breaking changes early huggingface/transformers [plan]
- โ Upgrade wav2vec2/SDPA path to absorb the dispatch fix huggingface/transformers [immediate]
- โ Review the kernel resolver API before building on it huggingface/kernels [monitor]
- โ Bump setup-uv to 10.0.0 in CI workflows huggingface/sentence-transformers [plan]
References
- [1] Port ESMC and ESMFold2 to Transformers (#46419) โ huggingface/transformers
- [2] Always tie embeddings for LongT5 and Pop2Piano (#47620) โ huggingface/transformers
- [3] Retry transient network errors (RemoteDisconnected) in github_utils (#48124) โ huggingface/transformers
- [4] ๐จ[wav2vec2] Support attn_implementation=sdpa dispatch โ huggingface/transformers
- [5] Add kernel resolver infrastructure โ huggingface/kernels
- [6] Bump astral-sh/setup-uv from 9.0.0 to 10.0.0 in the actions group โ huggingface/sentence-transformers
