Hugging Face Models and Datasets repositories are excellent for publishing final artifacts. However, in industrial machine learning processes, intermediate files such as checkpoints, optimizer states, processed chunks, logs, and traces are constantly generated. These files often change, come from multiple tasks simultaneously, and rarely require version control.

The new Storage Buckets feature, introduced by Hugging Face, is designed specifically to store such intermediate files. This allows for more effective management of data generated during model training and production, simplifying their storage and access.