Graphcore and Hugging Face Launch New Lineup of IPU-Ready Transformers

This post announces the expansion of Hugging Face Optimum's support for Graphcore IPUs, adding 10 new Transformer models across computer vision (ViT), NLP (GPT-2, RoBERTa, DeBERTa, BART, LXMERT, T5), and speech (HuBERT, Wav2Vec2). It highlights the seamless integration with Graphcore's latest hardware (Bow IPU) and software (Poplar SDK v2.5), allowing users to leverage IPU performance with minimal code changes. The post also emphasizes the partnership's goal of lowering barriers to AI innovation and provides resources for getting started.