model-unfolder 0.2.3

Unfold any HuggingFace transformer into an interactive architecture diagram, inline in Jupyter.

MODEL UNFOLDER

your one click model unfolder

from model_unfolder import unfold
unfold("meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B")

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Install

pip install model-unfolder

# for local development
pip install -e .
pip install transformers   # only required to load by model ID

Three ways to call it

from model_unfolder import unfold

# 1) by HuggingFace model ID — only config.json is downloaded, never weights
unfold("meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B")
unfold("deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3")

# 2) from a transformers AutoConfig
from transformers import AutoConfig
unfold(AutoConfig.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B", trust_remote_code=True))

# 3) from a raw config.json dict — no transformers install needed
import json
unfold(json.load(open("config.json")))

Built on transformers

Pass a model ID and unfold calls transformers.AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_id) under the hood (parser.py). It only retries with trust_remote_code=True when Transformers says the config requires remote code.

Auth-token from your environment

Gated models (Llama-3, Mistral, Gemma, …) need a HuggingFace token. unfold reuses whatever transformers / huggingface_hub already see:

# Either set an env var
export HF_TOKEN="hf_xxxxxxxx"            # also accepted: HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN

# or use the CLI cache (persists across sessions)
huggingface-cli login

# or load a .env in your notebook
# >>> from dotenv import load_dotenv; load_dotenv()

No extra config in model_unfolder itself.

Save / export

diagram = unfold(cfg)
diagram.save("model.html")   # standalone interactive HTML
diagram.save("model.json")   # IR (no rendering)
diagram.param_count()        # {"total": ..., "active": ..., "per_layer": [...]}
diagram.to_ir()              # full IR dict

Param estimates are close to published numbers — DeepSeek-V3 reports ~675B (~41B active), Llama-3-8B reports 8.03B.

Models supported

Transformers

Family	Models
DeepSeek	DeepSeek-V2, DeepSeek-V3, Kimi K2
Llama	Llama 3 / 3.1 / 3.2 / 3.3
Mistral	v0.1 / 0.2 / 0.3
Gemma	Gemma 3, Gemma 4 (31B, E2B, E4B)

Diffusors

Coming soon.

Custom

Drop a request in issues.

License

Apache 2.0.