---
title: AI Research Hub - Complete HuggingFace Demo
emoji: 🚀
colorFrom: blue
colorTo: purple
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.32.0
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: mit
short_description: Complete HuggingFace Inference API demo platform
tags:
- nlp
- computer-vision
- text-generation
- question-answering
- text-classification
- zero-shot-classification
- named-entity-recognition
- text-to-image
- sentiment-analysis
- translation
- summarization
- feature-extraction
- huggingface
- inference-api
- gradio
- ai-demo
---

# 🚀 AI Research Hub - Complete HuggingFace Demo

A comprehensive demonstration of HuggingFace's Inference API capabilities, optimized for Hugging Face Spaces.

## ✨ Features

### 📝 Text Processing
- **💬 Chat** - Conversational AI with advanced language models
- **🎭 Fill Mask** - Text completion and prediction
- **❓ Question Answering** - Extract answers from context
- **📝 Summarization** - Automatic text summarization

### 🏷️ Classification & Analysis
- **🏷️ Sentiment Analysis** - Emotion and sentiment detection
- **🎯 Zero-Shot Classification** - Classify with custom labels
- **🏷️ Named Entity Recognition** - Extract people, places, organizations
- **🧮 Text Similarity** - Compare semantic similarity between texts

### 🎨 Multimodal Capabilities
- **🌐 Translation** - English to French translation
- **🖼️ Image Classification** - Identify objects and scenes in images
- **🎨 Text-to-Image** - Generate images from text descriptions

## 🔧 Setup Instructions

### For Hugging Face Spaces:

1. **Fork/Duplicate this Space**
2. **Set up your HuggingFace Token:**
   - Go to **Settings** → **Repository secrets**
   - Add a new secret: `HF_TOKEN`
   - Value: Your HuggingFace token from [here](https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens)

3. **That's it!** The Space will automatically restart and all features will be available.

### For Local Development:

```bash
# Clone the repository
git clone <your-repo-url>
cd <repo-name>

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Set environment variable
export HF_TOKEN="your_token_here"

# Run the application
python app.py
```

## 🎯 Key Improvements

### ✅ Fixed Issues
- **Question Answering**: Proper input format for API calls
- **Text Classification**: Working models with proper error handling
- **Zero-Shot Classification**: Correct API method usage
- **Named Entity Recognition**: Fixed entity extraction and labeling
- **Image Classification**: Better error handling for uploads

### 🚀 Enhanced Features
- **Spaces Optimization**: Memory and performance optimized for HF Spaces
- **Robust Error Handling**: Clear error messages and fallback strategies
- **Modern UI**: Clean, responsive interface with organized tabs
- **Token Management**: Multiple token source detection for Spaces
- **Text Similarity**: Semantic comparison with cosine similarity scores

## 📊 Models Used

| Task | Model | Description |
|------|-------|-------------|
| Chat | `microsoft/DialoGPT-medium` | Conversational AI |
| Fill Mask | `distilbert-base-uncased` | Lightweight BERT model |
| Q&A | `distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad` | SQuAD-trained model |
| Summarization | `facebook/bart-large-cnn` | CNN-trained BART |
| Sentiment | `cardiffnlp/twitter-roberta-base-sentiment-latest` | Twitter sentiment |
| Zero-Shot | `facebook/bart-large-mnli` | MNLI-trained BART |
| NER | `dslim/bert-base-NER` | CoNLL-trained BERT |
| Translation | `Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-fr` | English-French translator |
| Embeddings | `sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2` | Sentence embeddings |
| Image Classification | `google/vit-base-patch16-224` | Vision Transformer |
| Text-to-Image | `runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5` | Stable Diffusion |

## 🔒 Privacy & Security

- **No Data Storage**: All processing happens in real-time, no data is stored
- **Secure Token Handling**: Tokens are handled securely through Spaces secrets
- **API Rate Limiting**: Built-in handling for API rate limits and quotas

## 🚨 Troubleshooting

### Common Issues:

1. **"API client not available"**
   - Solution: Set `HF_TOKEN` in Spaces settings

2. **"Rate limit reached"**
   - Solution: Wait a moment and try again

3. **"Model loading"**
   - Solution: Some models need time to load, retry after a few seconds

4. **"Service unavailable"**
   - Solution: Temporary HuggingFace service issue, try again later

## 🛠️ Technical Details

### Architecture
- **Frontend**: Gradio with custom CSS
- **Backend**: HuggingFace Inference API
- **Deployment**: Optimized for HF Spaces environment
- **Error Handling**: Comprehensive error catching and user feedback

### Performance Optimizations
- **Memory Efficient**: Minimal memory footprint for Spaces
- **Fast Models**: Selected for quick response times
- **Graceful Degradation**: Features degrade gracefully if dependencies missing
- **Connection Pooling**: Efficient API client management

## 📈 Future Enhancements

- **Advanced Visualization**: Interactive embedding plots
- **Batch Processing**: Multiple text processing
- **Custom Model Support**: User-specified models
- **Audio Processing**: Speech-to-text capabilities
- **Real-time Streaming**: Live text generation

## 🤝 Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch
3. Make your changes
4. Test thoroughly
5. Submit a pull request

## 📄 License

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.

## 🙏 Acknowledgments

- **HuggingFace** for the amazing Inference API and Spaces platform
- **Gradio** for the intuitive interface framework
- **Open Source Community** for the incredible model ecosystem

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