huggingface · Cyrilvallez · Sep 18, 2025 · Sep 9, 2025 · Sep 9, 2025 · Sep 9, 2025
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Explore the [Hub](https://huggingface.com/) today to find a model and use Transf
 
 ## Installation
 
-Transformers works with Python 3.9+ [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/) 2.1+, [TensorFlow](https://www.tensorflow.org/install/pip) 2.6+, and [Flax](https://flax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) 0.4.1+.
+Transformers works with Python 3.9+, and [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/) 2.1+.
 
 Create and activate a virtual environment with [venv](https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html) or [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/), a fast Rust-based Python package and project manager.
 

diff --git a/conftest.py b/conftest.py
@@ -67,8 +67,6 @@
     "test_mismatched_shapes_have_properly_initialized_weights",
     "test_matched_shapes_have_loaded_weights_when_some_mismatched_shapes_exist",
     "test_model_is_small",
-    "test_tf_from_pt_safetensors",
-    "test_flax_from_pt_safetensors",
     "ModelTest::test_pipeline_",  # None of the pipeline tests from PipelineTesterMixin (of which XxxModelTest inherits from) are running on device
     "ModelTester::test_pipeline_",
     "/repo_utils/",

diff --git a/docker/consistency.dockerfile b/docker/consistency.dockerfile
@@ -6,10 +6,8 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y time git g++ pkg-config make git-lfs
 ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
 RUN pip install uv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools GitPython
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade 'torch' 'torchaudio' 'torchvision' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
-# tensorflow pin matching setup.py
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir pypi-kenlm
-RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir "tensorflow-cpu<2.16" "tf-keras<2.16"
-RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[flax,quality,testing,torch-speech,vision]"
+RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[quality,testing,torch-speech,vision]"
 RUN git lfs install
 
 RUN uv pip uninstall transformers

diff --git a/docker/transformers-all-latest-gpu/Dockerfile b/docker/transformers-all-latest-gpu/Dockerfile
@@ -26,9 +26,7 @@ RUN git clone https://github.com/huggingface/transformers && cd transformers &&
 # 1. Put several commands in a single `RUN` to avoid image/layer exporting issue. Could be revised in the future.
 # 2. Regarding `torch` part, We might need to specify proper versions for `torchvision` and `torchaudio`.
 #    Currently, let's not bother to specify their versions explicitly (so installed with their latest release versions).
-RUN python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -e ./transformers[dev,onnxruntime] && [ ${#PYTORCH} -gt 0 -a "$PYTORCH" != "pre" ] && VERSION='torch=='$PYTORCH'.*' ||  VERSION='torch'; echo "export VERSION='$VERSION'" >> ~/.profile && echo torch=$VERSION && [ "$PYTORCH" != "pre" ] && python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -U $VERSION torchvision torchaudio torchcodec --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/$CUDA || python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -U --pre torch torchvision torchaudio torchcodec --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/$CUDA && python3 -m pip uninstall -y tensorflow tensorflow_text tensorflow_probability
-
-RUN python3 -m pip uninstall -y flax jax
+RUN python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -e ./transformers[dev,onnxruntime] && [ ${#PYTORCH} -gt 0 -a "$PYTORCH" != "pre" ] && VERSION='torch=='$PYTORCH'.*' ||  VERSION='torch'; echo "export VERSION='$VERSION'" >> ~/.profile && echo torch=$VERSION && [ "$PYTORCH" != "pre" ] && python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -U $VERSION torchvision torchaudio torchcodec --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/$CUDA || python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -U --pre torch torchvision torchaudio torchcodec --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/$CUDA
 
 RUN python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -U timm
 

diff --git a/docker/transformers-gpu/Dockerfile b/docker/transformers-gpu/Dockerfile
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ RUN apt update && \
 RUN python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip && \
     python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir \
     jupyter \
-    tensorflow \
     torch
 RUN python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir git+https://github.com/huggingface/kernels@main#egg=kernels
 

diff --git a/docker/transformers-past-gpu/Dockerfile b/docker/transformers-past-gpu/Dockerfile
diff --git a/docker/transformers-pytorch-amd-gpu/Dockerfile b/docker/transformers-pytorch-amd-gpu/Dockerfile
@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@ RUN git clone https://github.com/huggingface/transformers && cd transformers &&
 # Install transformers
 RUN python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -e ./transformers[dev-torch,testing,video,audio]
 
-# Remove tensorflow and flax as they are no longer supported by transformers
-RUN python3 -m pip uninstall -y tensorflow flax
-
 # When installing in editable mode, `transformers` is not recognized as a package.
 # this line must be added in order for python to be aware of transformers.
 RUN cd transformers && python3 setup.py develop

diff --git a/docker/transformers-pytorch-gpu/Dockerfile b/docker/transformers-pytorch-gpu/Dockerfile
@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ RUN [ ${#PYTORCH} -gt 0 ] && VERSION='torch=='$PYTORCH'.*' ||  VERSION='torch';
 RUN [ ${#TORCH_VISION} -gt 0 ] && VERSION='torchvision=='TORCH_VISION'.*' ||  VERSION='torchvision'; python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -U $VERSION --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/$CUDA
 RUN [ ${#TORCH_AUDIO} -gt 0 ] && VERSION='torchaudio=='TORCH_AUDIO'.*' ||  VERSION='torchaudio'; python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir -U $VERSION --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/$CUDA
 
-RUN python3 -m pip uninstall -y tensorflow flax
-
 RUN python3 -m pip install --no-cache-dir git+https://github.com/facebookresearch/detectron2.git pytesseract
 RUN python3 -m pip install -U "itsdangerous<2.1.0"
 

diff --git a/docker/transformers-tensorflow-gpu/Dockerfile b/docker/transformers-tensorflow-gpu/Dockerfile
diff --git a/docs/source/ar/_toctree.yml b/docs/source/ar/_toctree.yml
@@ -123,8 +123,6 @@
     title: تشغيل التدريب على Amazon SageMaker
   - local: serialization
     title: التصدير إلى ONNX
-  - local: tflite
-    title: التصدير إلى TFLite
   - local: torchscript
     title: التصدير إلى TorchScript
   - local: notebooks
@@ -184,8 +182,6 @@
 #       title: التدريب الفعال على وحدة المعالجة المركزية (CPU)
 #     - local: perf_train_cpu_many
 #       title: التدريب الموزع لوحدة المعالجة المركزية (CPU)
-#     - local: perf_train_tpu_tf
-#       title: التدريب على (TPU) باستخدام TensorFlow
 #     - local: perf_train_special
 #       title: تدريب PyTorch على Apple silicon
 #     - local: perf_hardware
@@ -203,8 +199,6 @@
 #     title: إنشاء نموذج كبير
 #   - local: debugging
 #     title: تصحيح الأخطاء البرمجية
-#   - local: tf_xla
-#     title: تكامل XLA لنماذج TensorFlow
 #   - local: perf_torch_compile
 #     title: تحسين الاستدلال باستخدام `torch.compile()`
 #   title: الأداء وقابلية التوسع
@@ -260,8 +254,6 @@
 #       title: التكوين
 #     - local: main_classes/data_collator
 #       title: مجمع البيانات
-#     - local: main_classes/keras_callbacks
-#       title: استدعاءات Keras
 #     - local: main_classes/logging
 #       title: التسجيل
 #     - local: main_classes/model

diff --git a/docs/source/ar/tflite.md b/docs/source/ar/tflite.md
diff --git a/docs/source/en/_toctree.yml b/docs/source/en/_toctree.yml
@@ -220,8 +220,6 @@
   sections:
   - local: serialization
     title: ONNX
-  - local: tflite
-    title: LiteRT
   - local: executorch
     title: ExecuTorch
   - local: torchscript
@@ -336,8 +334,6 @@
       title: Configuration
     - local: main_classes/data_collator
       title: Data Collator
-    - local: main_classes/keras_callbacks
-      title: Keras callbacks
     - local: main_classes/logging
       title: Logging
     - local: main_classes/model

diff --git a/docs/source/en/main_classes/keras_callbacks.md b/docs/source/en/main_classes/keras_callbacks.md
diff --git a/docs/source/en/tflite.md b/docs/source/en/tflite.md
diff --git a/docs/source/es/_toctree.yml b/docs/source/es/_toctree.yml
@@ -64,8 +64,6 @@
     title: Entrenador
   - local: sagemaker
     title: Ejecutar el entrenamiento en Amazon SageMaker
-  - local: converting_tensorflow_models
-    title: Convertir checkpoints de TensorFlow
   - local: serialization
     title: Exportar a ONNX
   - local: torchscript