ML Intern: Post-Train a Model by Chatting (Hugging Face)

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-04-23 · Open on X

Topics: Fine-tuning & Model Customization, AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP, AI Dev Tools & Productivity · Level: intermediate

Summary

Highlights Hugging Face's ML Intern, an agent that lets you train or post-train models through a chat conversation. It makes fine-tuning possible in plain language, without writing training code yourself.

Key points

• ML Intern from Hugging Face lets you train models just by chatting.
• People are using it to post-train models.
• Model customization becomes possible through natural-language instructions.

Resources mentioned

• ML Intern · tool · github.com · free
  Hugging Face's agent harness that builds ML/AI solutions from plain-language requests.
  Also in: Vibe Machine Learning with Hugging Face's ML Intern in HuggingChat (Melvin Vivas on X · notes)
• Hugging Face · website · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Platform for hosting and finding ML models, datasets and papers. The quoted post says LocateAnything was trending there.
  Also in: Using an ML agent to train an open-source TTS model on your voice (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploy Open-Source Models with Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Deploying Qwen3.8 27B on Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Using Hugging Face credits: Jobs, Inference Endpoints and Open Models (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 38 more

Try this

• Try post-training a model with ML Intern.
• Post-train a small model through chat using ML Intern.