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# Appendix: Using Hugging Face for AI Quality

Skill name: `tai-ch055-appendix-using-hugging-face-for-ai-quality`

Based on **Testing AI: Engineering Confidence in Non-Deterministic Systems** by **Jason Arbon**.

## Purpose

Hugging Face is more than a model download site. It can be a practical home for models,
datasets, eval artifacts, demos, and reproducible quality work.

## Use This Workflow

- Identify the AI behavior or release decision being evaluated.
- Define realistic cases, slices, unacceptable outcomes, and evidence needed for confidence.
- Choose measurements that match the risk: rubric scores, samples, intervals, traces, human review, deterministic checks, or production monitors.
- Report uncertainty, severe failures, and decision impact instead of only a pass/fail result.

## Key Guidance

Hugging Face gives AI testers a shared place to inspect models, datasets, documentation,
licenses, evaluation results, and demos. That matters because non-deterministic testing depends
on provenance. For example, a team choosing an open-source model can compare model cards,
inspect training or eval notes, test the model in a Space, download a versioned dataset, and run
metrics through the Evaluate library before committing to a release candidate.

## Apply The Approach

Create representative cases, score them with explicit criteria, review severe failures separately, report uncertainty, and connect the evidence to a concrete decision.

## Deeper Guidance

In a real release review, Hugging Face becomes part of eval provenance, not a tool tour. Pin
revisions instead of floating names, audit model and dataset cards, store eval outputs as
versioned artifacts, document licenses, test quantized and full-precision variants separately,
and treat public benchmark scores as hypotheses to verify on your own data.