Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/huggingface/peft/vs/microsoft/unilm
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/huggingface/peft/vs/microsoft/unilm.md
Description: peft and unilm share 10 technologies: Gradio, peft, torch, transformers, bitsandbytes, accelerate, datasets, diffusers, torchvision, and pillow. Both are written in Python.

# peft vs unilm

peft and unilm share 10 technologies: Gradio, peft, torch, transformers, bitsandbytes, accelerate, datasets, diffusers, torchvision, and pillow. Both are written in Python.

- [huggingface/peft](https://seerepo.com/r/huggingface/peft): 🤗 PEFT: State-of-the-art Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning.
- [microsoft/unilm](https://seerepo.com/r/microsoft/unilm): Large-scale Self-supervised Pre-training Across Tasks, Languages, and Modalities

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Gradio, peft, torch, transformers, bitsandbytes, accelerate, datasets, diffusers, torchvision, pillow
- Only in peft: Hugging Face, safetensors, psutil
- Only in unilm: FastAPI, Flask, pyarrow, webdataset, OpenAI, scikit-learn, timm, opencv-python, sacrebleu, sentencepiece, deepspeed, torchaudio, tokenizers, einops, nltk, triton, tiktoken, vLLM, torchmetrics, pycocotools, lxml, boto3

## Side by side

| | peft | unilm |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 166,024 lines written, 272 code files | 769,203 lines written, 2,555 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Cursor and Claude Code | 0% of its commits signed by AI |
| Activity | Last push November 4, 2026, 1,934 commits, 21,873 stars | Last push September 21, 2026, 1,092 commits, 22,240 stars |
| Tests | 75 test files. 0.7% of its code files have a test that imports them | 163 test files. 5.1% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, peft or unilm?

unilm, with 769,203 lines written; peft has 166,024.

The proof: [microsoft/unilm's code at commit 31c5b90](https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/31c5b904ca1bf2afb4c234a6675c683a4e5fc7cd)

### Which has more GitHub stars, peft or unilm?

unilm, with 22,240 stars; peft has 21,873.

The proof: [microsoft/unilm on GitHub](https://github.com/microsoft/unilm)

### Which has more tests, peft or unilm?

unilm, with 163 test files; peft has 75.

The proof: [microsoft/unilm's code at commit 31c5b90](https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/31c5b904ca1bf2afb4c234a6675c683a4e5fc7cd)

### Which was updated more recently, peft or unilm?

peft: its last push was on November 4, 2026, and unilm's on September 21, 2026.

The proof: [huggingface/peft's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/huggingface/peft/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, peft or unilm?

peft: an AI signed 0.1% of its commits, with Cursor and Claude Code.

## Sources

- huggingface/peft: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 574c7ca (https://github.com/huggingface/peft/tree/574c7cab277827d7383ae53a0e93e22cf816f476)
- microsoft/unilm: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 31c5b90 (https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/tree/31c5b904ca1bf2afb4c234a6675c683a4e5fc7cd)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.