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876: Hugging Face’s smolagents: Agentic AI in Python Made Easy

2025/4/4
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Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

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我今天介绍了 Hugging Face 新推出的 Small Agents 库,它是一个用于创建 AI 智能体的 Python 库。Small Agents 的设计目标是简洁易用,其核心逻辑只有几千行代码,这使得开发者可以轻松理解和修改智能体的行为。它支持代码代理方法,允许 AI 智能体通过生成 Python 代码来执行任务,并提供沙箱环境以确保安全。Small Agents 还具有优秀的一流工具集成,允许开发者轻松地将 Python 函数转换为智能体可用的工具,并通过 Hugging Face Hub 共享和加载这些工具。此外,Small Agents 支持任何大型语言模型,无论是开源模型还是 API 模型,这为开发者提供了极大的灵活性。Small Agents 的主要特点包括简洁性、最小抽象、基于代码的行动、工具集成和共享、以及任何模型的支持和开箱即用的可用性。Small Agents 的应用场景非常广泛,例如复杂问答、旅行规划、数据分析等。它可以帮助企业更快速、更经济高效地实现 AI 自动化,为数据科学家提供一个强大而通用的工具,并为研究人员提供一个方便的平台来研究 AI 模型的行为。总而言之,Small Agents 是一个方便的新框架,它以一种小型、简单和易访问的形式将 AI 智能体的概念带入主流。虽然 Small Agents 功能强大,但它并非唯一的选择,还有其他一些框架可用于开发和部署 AI 智能体,例如 Langchain、Llama Index、Pydantic AI、Microsoft AutoGen 和 Crew AI,它们各有优缺点。

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This chapter introduces Hugging Face's Small Agents, a new Python library that simplifies the creation of AI agents. It explains its core functionality, design principles (minimal complexity and ease of use), and its relationship to previous Hugging Face projects.
  • Small Agents is a Python library from Hugging Face.
  • It simplifies the creation of AI agents.
  • It's designed with minimal complexity, using only a few thousand lines of code.
  • It's the successor to Hugging Face's earlier Transformers.Agents module.
  • It aims to make building AI agents easier for developers and data scientists.

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Small, simple, accessible: Hugging Face makes a huge contribution to the agentic AI wave with its smolagents. Jon Krohn explores how this small-but-mighty new Python library can act as the best personal assistant you never had. Hear about its features and use cases in this five-minute Friday.

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