[FEEDBACK] Collections

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by victor - opened
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edited Sep 9, 2023

This discussion is dedicated to feedback about the new collection feature.
Docs are available here. Your feedback is really valuable so don't hesitate to share anything about it πŸ€—.

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It would be really nice to be able to add freeform text blocks to collections as well, so that we can write contextual information that's not a note on a specific object.

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@stellaathena so at the collection level (at the top, right below the title), not on a specific item?

victor changed discussion title from [DRAFT] [FEEDBACK] Collections to [FEEDBACK] Collections

It would be great to add some features to improve collaboration & usability:

  • Suggest additions to someone's collection (possibly via PR)
  • Preserve main page filters (datasets/languages/licenses) on the collections view to enable further filtering (e.g. select only models of a specific type in a collection of language specific models)

I think it would be nice

  • search for a collection
  • see top trending collections
  • follow a collection and get notified when it gets updated

It would be great to move collections too!

It would be great to have this information on the huggingface_hub library !
I'd love the ability to list all collections and utilize them as filters in DatasetFilter and ModelFilter.

@stellaathena so at the collection level (at the top, right below the title), not on a specific item?

Yes, but also between blocks of items. I'm thinking of something like the following:

Pythia

Pythia is a language model suite that blah blah blah.
[paper block]

The following models form the the Pythia suite. Models with the suffix -deduped have been trained on a deduplicated copy of the Pile for 1.5 epochs blah blah blah
[Model block 1]
[Model block 2]
[...]

Looking at this again, I wonder if my main piece of feedback is that often times I want to comment on a group of objects rather than a single object?

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edited Aug 29, 2025

Is there a CLI interface that allows adding model to a collection?

Sometimes one would like to add many models to HF collection. It would much faster via some bash command.

There isn't a CLI at the moment but there are python bindings for it. Check out this guide: https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/guides/collections.

@Wauplin thank you very much, that would also work

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any new feature you'd like to see in Collections?

any new feature you'd like to see in Collections?

Allow options for sorting by date added and a toggle to insert items on top rather than on bottom!

any new feature you'd like to see in Collections?

I think a good feature is show the count of items in collection on main page, not only the count of collections we have.

I think it would be great to add some sort of grouping for large collections (say, with more than 10 models).
These groups can be shown in a drop-down list that expands on user click.

I have a collection for human-written, legally-sourced (SFT/instruction) datasets.

It would be really nice if I could allow anyone to edit or make requests (like PRs/commits) to add to the collection so that it is a communal effort. I'm always looking for more high-quality data!

Opening up collaboration to the wider community would drastically improve collections as it prevents duplicates from arising and allows users to share their knowledge more efficiently.

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edited 3 days ago

yes that could be Collections v2 (but not on the prio list right now tbh)

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