# Hugging Face Hub

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## TL;DR

The Hugging Face Hub is the website where most machine-learning models and many datasets are published, with a model card, version history and, for gated models, an access request form.

## Summary

Hugging Face develops tools for machine learning and its platform lets users share models and datasets (Wikipedia); the Hub documentation describes repositories for models, datasets and demo Spaces with git versioning, model cards and gating. Pathology encoders such as UNI2 and Virchow2 and many biology models are distributed there, so the Hub page is usually the citable record of a model's licence and release date.

## Fields

- Kind: Term
- Last checked: 2026-09-24
- Also known as: Hugging Face; Hugging Face Hub; HF Hub; Hugging Face model repository; huggingface.co
- Tags: cansim-terms

## Notes

- Listed in the CanSim terms map 1.0.0 (docs/onco/terms.json, generated 2026-09-24), CC BY 4.0, attribution: CanSim project, an open, public-data-first cancer foundation-model programme; CanSim page path /terms/hugging-face-hub.

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face
- Hugging Face Hub documentation: https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/index
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face

## Connected records

- terms: [Cancer AI vocabulary (CanSim terms map)](https://onco.cc/terms/cancer-ai-vocabulary/), [Model cards and datasheets for datasets](https://onco.cc/terms/model-card/), [Open weights, open code and gated models](https://onco.cc/terms/open-weights/), [Zenodo DOIs for data and code](https://onco.cc/terms/zenodo-doi/)

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