Bringing distributed training natively to Transformers library

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• Ferdinand Mom - Hugging Face
• Monday 16 February 2026, 14:30-15:30
• Computer Lab, LT1.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Sally Matthews.

Ferdinand Mom is a Research Engineer at Hugging Face with a background in large-scale pretraining and efficient deep learning systems. He is a contributor to the Hugging Face Transformers library: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/index—and co-author of the Ultra-Scale Playbook: https://nanotron-ultrascale-playbook.static.hf.space/index.html. Ferdinand is a leading voice and experimentalist in distributed and decentralized training, pushing the limits of scalable open-source AI.

This talk is part of the Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series series.

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