Hugging Face Transformers 5.18.0: Nemotron 3 streaming diarization; NemotronH Omni; HyperCLOVAX Vision V2; GTE
Hugging Face shipped [`transformers` `v5.18.0`](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/releases/tag/v5.18.0) on 2026-09-30 (PyPI [`5.18.0`](https://pypi.org/project/transformers/5.18.0/)): NVIDIA **Nemotron 3 Diarization** (streaming/offline, up to 8 speakers, 80 ms–30.4 s buffers), **NemotronH Omni** (joint text/image/video/audio), NAVER **HyperCLOVAX Vision V2** (built-in `<think>` CoT), and **GTE** bidirectional encoders (RoPE + gated MLP; gte / snowflake-arctic-embed family). Official model_doc pages are live.
- •Release
v5.18.0at 2026-09-30T16:46:27Z; PyPI ~2026-09-30T16:45:57Z - •Nemotron 3 Diarization: streaming+offline, ≤8 speakers, 80 ms–30.4 s buffers, 10 ms frame multiples (#49056)
- •NemotronH Omni: NemotronH + RADIO + optional Parakeet for joint text/image/video/audio (#46509)
- •HyperCLOVAX Vision V2 (NAVER) + GTE encoders (RoPE/gated MLP; gte / snowflake-arctic-embed family)
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pip install -U transformers==5.18.0; docs for diarization/omni/gte linked above

