@setu4993 There will be no additional requirement for downloading models, it’s still downloading individual files like it’s working now. To publish models, yes – git-lfs is now a requirement (hopefully very widespread and easy to install)
Regarding DVC: we did investigate dvc a little bit, and discussed with some in the community. To my understanding, dvc has several “layers”, with the versioning layer being pretty close to (a slight more customizable) LFS in terms of features/concepts. The implementation of a hosting server for the file versioning part of dvc would probably be very similar to that of lfs.
For the v1 we figured it was simpler to only do LFS, but we could support DVC-enabled “repos” at some point. What do you think?