[Docs] Update the name of Transformers backend -> Transformers modeling backend
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…eling backend` This more accurately describes what it does. This change should prevent confusion about if vLLM is the one doing the execution. Signed-off-by: Harry Mellor <19981378+hmellor@users.noreply.github.com>
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This pull request updates the name of Transformers backend to Transformers modeling backend throughout the codebase. This change improves clarity and more accurately describes the feature's function, preventing potential confusion. The changes are applied consistently across documentation, comments, and user-facing messages. The pull request is well-executed and I approve of the changes.
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…eling backend` (vllm-project#28725) Signed-off-by: Harry Mellor <19981378+hmellor@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: George D. Torres <gdavtor@gmail.com>
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…eling backend` (vllm-project#28725) Signed-off-by: Harry Mellor <19981378+hmellor@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Bram Wasti <bwasti@meta.com>
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following Huggingface efforts in VLLM (cf vllm-project/vllm#28725), we would like to uniformize the naming and make sure that people think we use the HF models only
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This more accurately describes what it does. This change should prevent confusion about if vLLM is the one doing the execution.