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huggingface-accelerate
Simplest distributed training API. 4 lines to add distributed support to any PyTorch script. Unified API for DeepSpeed/FSDP/Megatron/DDP. Automatic device placement, mixed precision (FP16/BF16/FP8). Interactive config, single launch command. HuggingFace ecosystem standard.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 1,341 stars are split between them (about 134 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 70/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 584fd06f295b, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Uses dependencies without a pinned version A later version of a dependency could change what runs.SKILL.md and 2 more
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| This onehuggingface-accelerate OpenRaiser/NanoResearch · Skill | 70 | ★ 1.3k | ≈74 always | 26d ago |
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