Hugging Face FAU

Welcome to the official Hugging Face organization page for students, researchers, and enthusiasts from Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)! 🌟

Whether you're fine-tuning models, experimenting with VLMs (Vision-Language Models), building innovative datasets, or creating impactful Gradio Spaces — this is your home base for contributing to the open-source ML ecosystem as part of the FAU community. ❤️

🌍 What You Can Do Here

🧪 Fine-Tune and Share Your Models

If you're working on LLMs, VLMs, or other neural architectures, this is the place to:

• Upload your trained or fine-tuned models
• Share meaningful experiments
• Benchmark results and publish evaluations
• Collaborate with fellow FAU students

🔁 Tip: Always validate your models locally before uploading to avoid clutter and broken pipelines.

🎨 Build Amazing Hugging Face Spaces

Create interactive applications with:

• Gradio
• Hugging Face spaces SDK
• Chatbots, demo UIs, document explorers, and much more!

✅ Keep it clean, creative, and collaborative.

📊 Contribute Creative and Useful Datasets

Whether it’s research data, cleaned corpora, or synthetic datasets you've generated using simulation or AI — feel free to:

• Host them here
• Provide clear usage guides
• Include metadata and intended use-cases

📚 Document everything — what it is, how it’s used, and any ethical considerations.

🧭 Guidelines and Best Practices

To ensure high quality and easy collaboration, please follow these essential practices:

• ✅ Use clear and descriptive names for your models, datasets, and spaces
• ✅ Include thorough documentation (README files, usage examples, dataset cards, model cards, etc.)
• ✅ Test before publishing: Ensure everything works as expected before pushing
• ✅ Stick to open licenses: Use Apache 2.0, MIT, or other open-source licenses
• ❌ Avoid uploading half-working or incomplete projects without any context or documentation
• 💬 Support your peers: Comment, fork, and collaborate!

🤝 Get Involved and Contribute!

This space is only as powerful as we make it together. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned researcher:

• Contribute your work
• Ask questions
• Learn from others
• Build tools and demos that help the community

We’re here to grow FAU’s open-source AI ecosystem — one commit at a time. 🌱✨

🛠 Helpful Links

• 🔗 FAU Homepage
• 🧑‍🏫 FAU Department of Computer Science
• 🤗 Hugging Face Docs

🫂 Maintainers and Contact

For questions, ideas, or help joining the organization:
📧 Contact us here
🌐 Organization Admins: @zamal

Let’s build something great together.
Stay creative, stay kind, and keep building! 💙

— The FAU Hugging Face Org Team