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title: ModelLens
emoji: 🔭
colorFrom: indigo
colorTo: pink
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 4.44.0
python_version: '3.11'
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
license: mit
short_description: Finding the Best Model for Your Task from Myriads of Models
ModelLens — Finding the Best Model for Your Task from Myriads of Models
Describe your dataset → pick a task and metric → get a ranked list of HuggingFace
models likely to perform well on it. Backed by the MLPMetric (ablation_no_id)
checkpoint trained on the unified_augmented corpus, with a candidate pool of
~47k HuggingFace models.
How it works
- Your dataset description is embedded with OpenAI
text-embedding-3-small(1536-dim, the same encoder used during training). - The MLPMetric scores every candidate model conditioned on the embedding + chosen task + chosen metric.
- We return the top-k, optionally filtered by parameter count, "official pretrained only", or "HuggingFace-hosted only".
Bring your own OpenAI key
This Space does not ship with a baked-in OpenAI key. Paste your own
sk-... key into the "OpenAI API key" field — it is sent directly to OpenAI
for that single request and is not stored, logged, or reused by this Space.
A query costs roughly $0.000001 on your account (about a millionth of a
dollar).
If you don't have a key yet: https://platform.openai.com/api-keys
Files in this Space
app.py Gradio entry point
recommend.py Recommender (loads checkpoint + model pool, embeds dataset desc)
inference_lib.py Self-contained MLPMetric implementation (no module/ tree needed)
build_model_pool.py Offline helper to (re)build assets/model_pool.npz
requirements.txt Pinned deps
assets/
model_pool.npz Pre-computed candidate pool (47k models, size+family ids, popularity, HF urls)
checkpoint/
MLPMetric.pt ~37 MB trained weights
args.json Training-time hyperparameters (model dims, num_*)
data/
task2id.json Task vocab
metric2id.json Metric vocab
The Space looks for the checkpoint at checkpoint/MLPMetric.pt and the data
JSONs at data/. Override with env vars MODEL_CKPT, MODEL_ARGS, DATA_DIR,
POOL_PATH if you lay things out differently.
Running locally
cd web
pip install -r requirements.txt
# either set OPENAI_API_KEY in env, or paste it into the UI at runtime
python app.py
# open http://localhost:7860
Rebuilding the model pool
When you bump the candidate set (e.g. add new HF models to model2id.json /
model_profile.json):
python web/build_model_pool.py \
--data-dir data/unified_augmented \
--args checkpoint/mlp/unified_augmented/ablation_no_model_id_no_dataset_id/args.json \
--out web/assets/model_pool.npz \
--min-popularity 0