# Can I use sentence-transformers with tensorflow?

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**Author:** ![olaffson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/olaffson/32/2416_2.png) [@olaffson](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Folaffson)%5C
**Post date:** [September 13, 2021, 2:01am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fcan-i-use-sentence-transformers-with-tensorflow%2F9921%2F1 "2021-09-13T02:01:45Z")

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Hello,

I see that the (famous) `sentence-transformer` models in hosted in the hub [sentence-transformers (Sentence Transformers)](https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers).

However, unless I am mistaken they all seem to by in `pytorch`. Is there any way to use them using `tensorflow` and `huggingface`?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![alexanderlavelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@alexanderlavelle](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Falexanderlavelle)%5C
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@olaffson Some of the models do have ONNX weights, and some models may have TF weights as well. If the models are in ONNX that makes it relatively easy to convert to TF.