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transformers v5 removed TensorFlow and JAX/Flax: TFAutoModel / FlaxAutoModel no longer exist — PyTorch only

transformers@5 #transformers #huggingface #tensorflow #jax #migration

Fix

Port to the PyTorch classes (AutoModel, AutoModelForCausalLM, ...) with torch installed.
If you must stay on TF/Flax, pin: pip install "transformers<5".
Replace torch.jit.trace/torch.fx export paths with torch.export or torch.compile; TrainingArguments(jit_mode_eval=...) is gone, use use_torch_compile.

Symptom

After pip install -U transformers (5.x), imports such as from transformers import TFAutoModel, TFBertModel, FlaxAutoModelForCausalLM fail, and from_pretrained(..., from_tf=True) style workflows break. Tutorials written for v4 assume TF/Keras and Flax classes exist.

Cause

transformers v5.0.0 (2026-01-26): "We're removing the TensorFlow and Jax parts of the library ... keeping torch as the only backend for now" (PR #40760). TorchScript and torch.fx support were also dropped in favour of torch.compile/dynamo and torch.export.

Verify

python -c "import transformers; print(transformers.__version__)" and your model loads via AutoModel.from_pretrained(...) with torch.

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