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HF Demo Space for Precalculated Embedding App #31
Description
We'd like to host the Precalculated Embedding App on HF Space to serve as a demo for the explorer tool. Reduce the installation friction for common users.
The App should cache some prepared embeddings subset from TOL-200M embeddings collection, such as the Darwin's Finches.
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NetZissou commentedon Jun 11, 2026
Preload doesn't seem to work on datasets, still an open-issue today
egrace479 commentedon Jun 12, 2026
It's unclear if they plan to fix it: huggingface/hub-docs#2415
NetZissou commentedon Jun 15, 2026
Demo can be hosted in a free-tire space.
Data was loading through mounting. Lazy load.
NetZissou commentedon Jun 15, 2026
Deployment strategy:
Have a dedicated branch for hf space demo and
git merge mainwhen changes are needed.egrace479 commentedon Jun 15, 2026
Yay!!! This is great.
NetZissou commentedon Jun 18, 2026
Updates on demo: It now includes everything merged this cycle plus some in-review PRs (#42 representative images for precalculated app, #45 cuML t-SNE exact-solver fix, #46 PCA reproducibility). It now has a demo header + footer. Deploy is still manual through
hf upload.Next step:
netzhang/demointoimageomics/TreeOfLife-200M-Embeddings. Swap the Space mounting specs afterwards.CI/Automation can be addressed at last. Currently all code lives under
feature/hf-space-precalculated-demo.