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This PR introduces support for Hugging Face's serverless Inference
Providers (documentation
[here](https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/index)), allowing
users to specify different providers for chat completion and text
generation tasks.
This PR also removes the usage of `InferenceClient.post()` method in
`HuggingFaceEndpoint`, in favor of the task-specific `text_generation`
method. `InferenceClient.post()` is deprecated and will be removed in
`huggingface_hub v0.31.0`.
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## Changes made
- bumped the minimum required version of the `huggingface-hub` package
to ensure compatibility with the latest API usage.
- added a `provider` field to `HuggingFaceEndpoint`, enabling users to
select the inference provider (e.g., 'cerebras', 'together',
'fireworks-ai'). Defaults to `hf-inference` (HF Inference API).
- replaced the deprecated `InferenceClient.post()` call in
`HuggingFaceEndpoint` with the task-specific `text_generation` method
for future-proofing, `post()` will be removed in huggingface-hub
v0.31.0.
- updated the `ChatHuggingFace` component:
- added async and streaming support.
- added support for tool calling.
- exposed underlying chat completion parameters for more granular
control.
- Added integration tests for `ChatHuggingFace` and updated the
corresponding unit tests.
✅ All changes are backward compatible.
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Co-authored-by: ccurme <chester.curme@gmail.com>
