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Transformers JS

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Use Transformers.js to run state-of-the-art machine learning models directly in JavaScript/TypeScript. Supports NLP (text classification, translation, summarization), computer vision (image classification, object detection), audio (speech recognition, audio classification), and multimodal tasks. Works in browsers and server-side runtimes (Node.js, Bun, Deno) with WebGPU/WASM using pre-trained models from Hugging Face Hub.
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Transformers.js is a library that enables the execution of machine learning models within JavaScript and TypeScript environments, including web browsers and server-side runtimes like Node.js, Bun, and Deno. It leverages WebGPU and WASM to run models locally, eliminating the need for a dedicated Python backend. The library provides a pipeline API for common tasks such as NLP, computer vision, audio processing, and multimodal applications, with support for models hosted on the Hugging Face Hub.

What it does

  • Provides a pipeline API for common machine learning tasks
  • Supports NLP, computer vision, audio, and multimodal model execution
  • Enables local model inference in browsers and server-side runtimes
  • Integrates with the Hugging Face Hub for model discovery and loading
  • Offers configuration for caching, quantization, and device selection
  • Includes tools for standalone tokenization and tensor manipulation

When to use it

  • When you need to run ML models client-side in a browser
  • When you want to avoid maintaining a separate Python backend for ML
  • When building applications in Node.js, Bun, or Deno that require AI capabilities
  • When you need to perform text, image, or audio analysis locally

Advantages

  • Runs directly in JavaScript/TypeScript environments
  • Supports both browser and server-side execution
  • Reduces infrastructure requirements by removing the need for a Python server
  • Provides flexible caching options for different environments
  • Allows for model quantization to manage memory and storage

Usage examples

“How do I run a sentiment analysis model in my browser?”
Use the pipeline API: const pipe = await pipeline('sentiment-analysis'); const result = await pipe('I love transformers!');
“How can I load a specific model from Hugging Face?”
Pass the model ID as the second argument to the pipeline: const pipe = await pipeline('sentiment-analysis', 'Xenova/bert-base-multilingual-uncased-sentiment');
“How do I enable GPU acceleration for my model?”
Set the device option in the pipeline: const pipe = await pipeline('task', 'model-id', { device: 'webgpu' });
“How do I free up memory after using a model?”
Call the dispose method on the pipeline instance: await pipe.dispose();

Install

  1. Download the skill as a ZIP:

    https://autogineer.com/agent-skills/huggingface/transformers-js/download
  2. Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

    mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip transformers-js.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by huggingface

Transformers.js - Machine Learning for JavaScript

Transformers.js enables running state-of-the-art machine learning models directly in JavaScript across browsers and server-side runtimes (Node.js, Bun, Deno), with no Python server required.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

  • Run ML models for text analysis, generation, or translation in JavaScript

  • Perform image classification, object detection, or segmentation

  • Implement speech recognition or audio processing

  • Build multimodal AI applications (text-to-image, image-to-text, etc.)

  • Run models client-side in the browser without a backend

Installation

NPM Installation
npm install @huggingface/transformers
Browser Usage (CDN)
<script type="module">
  import { pipeline } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@huggingface/transformers';
</script>

Core Concepts

1. Pipeline API

The pipeline API is the easiest way to use models. It groups together preprocessing, model inference, and postprocessing:

import { pipeline } from '@huggingface/transformers';

// Create a pipeline for a specific task
const pipe = await pipeline('sentiment-analysis');

// Use the pipeline
const result = await pipe('I love transformers!');
// Output: [{ label: 'POSITIVE', score: 0.999817686 }]

// IMPORTANT: Always dispose when done to free memory
await pipe.dispose();

⚠️ Memory Management: All pipelines must be disposed with pipe.dispose() when finished to prevent memory leaks. See examples in Code Examples for cleanup patterns across different environments.

2. Model Selection

You can specify a custom model as the second argument:

const pipe = await pipeline(
  'sentiment-analysis',
  'Xenova/bert-base-multilingual-uncased-sentiment'
);

Finding Models:

Browse available Transformers.js models on Hugging Face Hub:

Tip: Filter by task type, sort by trending/downloads, and check model cards for performance metrics and usage examples.

3. Device Selection

Choose where to run the model:

// Run on CPU (default for WASM)
const pipe = await pipeline('sentiment-analysis', 'model-id');

// Run on GPU (WebGPU)
const pipe = await pipeline('sentiment-analysis', 'model-id', {
  device: 'webgpu',
});
4. Quantization Options

Control model precision vs. performance:

// Use quantized model (faster, smaller)
const pipe = await pipeline('sentiment-analysis', 'model-id', {
  dtype: 'q4',  // Options: 'fp32', 'fp16', 'q8', 'q4'
});

Supported Tasks

Note: All examples below show basic usage.

Natural Language Processing
Text Classification
const classifier = await pipeline('text-classification');
const result = await classifier('This movie was amazing!');
Named Entity Recognition (NER)
const ner = await pipeline('token-classification');
const entities = await ner('My name is John and I live in New York.');
Question Answering
const qa = await pipeline('question-answering');
const answer = await qa({
  question: 'What is the capital of France?',
  context: 'Paris is the capital and largest city of France.'
});
Text Generation
const generator = await pipeline('text-generation', 'onnx-community/gemma-3-270m-it-ONNX');
const text = await generator('Once upon a time', {
  max_new_tokens: 100,
  temperature: 0.7
});

For streaming and chat: See Text Generation Guide for:

  • Streaming token-by-token output with TextStreamer

  • Chat/conversation format with system/user/assistant roles

  • Generation parameters (temperature, top_k, top_p)

  • Browser and Node.js examples

  • React components and API endpoints

Translation
const translator = await pipeline('translation', 'Xenova/nllb-200-distilled-600M');
const output = await translator('Hello, how are you?', {
  src_lang: 'eng_Latn',
  tgt_lang: 'fra_Latn'
});
Summarization
const summarizer = await pipeline('summarization');
const summary = await summarizer(longText, {
  max_length: 100,
  min_length: 30
});
Zero-Shot Classification
const classifier = await pipeline('zero-shot-classification');
const result = await classifier('This is a story about sports.', ['politics', 'sports', 'technology']);
Computer Vision
Image Classification
const classifier = await pipeline('image-classification');
const result = await classifier('https://example.com/image.jpg');
// Or with local file
const result = await classifier(imageUrl);
Object Detection
const detector = await pipeline('object-detection');
const objects = await detector('https://example.com/image.jpg');
// Returns: [{ label: 'person', score: 0.95, box: { xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax } }, ...]
Image Segmentation
const segmenter = await pipeline('image-segmentation');
const segments = await segmenter('https://example.com/image.jpg');
Depth Estimation
const depthEstimator = await pipeline('depth-estimation');
const depth = await depthEstimator('https://example.com/image.jpg');
Zero-Shot Image Classification
const classifier = await pipeline('zero-shot-image-classification');
const result = await classifier('image.jpg', ['cat', 'dog', 'bird']);
Audio Processing
Automatic Speech Recognition
const transcriber = await pipeline('automatic-speech-recognition');
const result = await transcriber('audio.wav');
// Returns: { text: 'transcribed text here' }
Audio Classification
const classifier = await pipeline('audio-classification');
const result = await classifier('audio.wav');
Text-to-Speech
const synthesizer = await pipeline('text-to-speech', 'Xenova/speecht5_tts');
const audio = await synthesizer('Hello, this is a test.', {
  speaker_embeddings: speakerEmbeddings
});
Multimodal
Image-to-Text (Image Captioning)
const captioner = await pipeline('image-to-text');
const caption = await captioner('image.jpg');
Document Question Answering
const docQA = await pipeline('document-question-answering');
const answer = await docQA('document-image.jpg', 'What is the total amount?');
Zero-Shot Object Detection
const detector = await pipeline('zero-shot-object-detection');
const objects = await detector('image.jpg', ['person', 'car', 'tree']);
Feature Extraction (Embeddings)
const extractor = await pipeline('feature-extraction');
const embeddings = await extractor('This is a sentence to embed.');
// Returns: tensor of shape [1, sequence_length, hidden_size]

// For sentence embeddings (mean pooling)
const extractor = await pipeline('feature-extraction', 'onnx-community/all-MiniLM-L6-v2-ONNX');
const embeddings = await extractor('Text to embed', { pooling: 'mean', normalize: true });

Finding and Choosing Models

Browsing the Hugging Face Hub

Discover compatible Transformers.js models on Hugging Face Hub:

Base URL (all models):

https://huggingface.co/models?library=transformers.js&sort=trending

Filter by task using the pipeline_tag parameter:

TaskURL
Text Generationhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-generation&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Text Classificationhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-classification&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Translationhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=translation&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Summarizationhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=summarization&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Question Answeringhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=question-answering&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Image Classificationhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=image-classification&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Object Detectionhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=object-detection&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Image Segmentationhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=image-segmentation&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Speech Recognitionhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=automatic-speech-recognition&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Audio Classificationhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=audio-classification&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Image-to-Texthttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=image-to-text&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Feature Extractionhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=feature-extraction&library=transformers.js&sort=trending
Zero-Shot Classificationhttps://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=zero-shot-classification&library=transformers.js&sort=trending

Sort options:

  • &sort=trending - Most popular recently

  • &sort=downloads - Most downloaded overall

  • &sort=likes - Most liked by community

  • &sort=modified - Recently updated

Choosing the Right Model

Consider these factors when selecting a model:

1. Model Size

  • Small (< 100MB): Fast, suitable for browsers, limited accuracy

  • Medium (100MB - 500MB): Balanced performance, good for most use cases

  • Large (> 500MB): High accuracy, slower, better for Node.js or powerful devices

2. Quantization Models are often available in different quantization levels:

  • fp32 - Full precision (largest, most accurate)

  • fp16 - Half precision (smaller, still accurate)

  • q8 - 8-bit quantized (much smaller, slight accuracy loss)

  • q4 - 4-bit quantized (smallest, noticeable accuracy loss)

3. Task Compatibility Check the model card for:

  • Supported tasks (some models support multiple tasks)

  • Input/output formats

  • Language support (multilingual vs. English-only)

  • License restrictions

4. Performance Metrics Model cards typically show:

  • Accuracy scores

  • Benchmark results

  • Inference speed

  • Memory requirements

Example: Finding a Text Generation Model
// 1. Visit: https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-generation&library=transformers.js&sort=trending

// 2. Browse and select a model (e.g., onnx-community/gemma-3-270m-it-ONNX)

// 3. Check model card for:
//    - Model size: ~270M parameters
//    - Quantization: q4 available
//    - Language: English
//    - Use case: Instruction-following chat

// 4. Use the model:
import { pipeline } from '@huggingface/transformers';

const generator = await pipeline(
  'text-generation',
  'onnx-community/gemma-3-270m-it-ONNX',
  { dtype: 'q4' } // Use quantized version for faster inference
);

const output = await generator('Explain quantum computing in simple terms.', {
  max_new_tokens: 100
});

await generator.dispose();
Tips for Model Selection
  1. Start Small: Test with a smaller model first, then upgrade if needed

  2. Check ONNX Support: Ensure the model has ONNX files (look for onnx folder in model repo)

  3. Read Model Cards: Model cards contain usage examples, limitations, and benchmarks

  4. Test Locally: Benchmark inference speed and memory usage in your environment

  5. Filter by Library: Use library=transformers.js to find compatible models: https://huggingface.co/models?library=transformers.js

  6. Version Pin: Use specific git commits in production for stability:

    const pipe = await pipeline('task', 'model-id', { revision: 'abc123' });

Advanced Configuration

Environment Configuration (env)

The env object provides comprehensive control over Transformers.js execution, caching, and model loading.

Quick Overview:

import { env, LogLevel } from '@huggingface/transformers';

// View version
console.log(env.version); // e.g., '4.x'

// Common settings
env.allowRemoteModels = true;  // Load from Hugging Face Hub
env.allowLocalModels = false;  // Load from file system
env.localModelPath = '/models/'; // Local model directory
env.useFSCache = true;         // Cache models on disk (Node.js)
env.useBrowserCache = true;    // Cache models in browser
env.cacheDir = './.cache';     // Cache directory location
// Optional: override logging level (default is LogLevel.WARNING)
env.logLevel = LogLevel.INFO;

// Optional: custom fetch for auth headers, retries, abort signals, etc.
env.fetch = (url, options) =>
  fetch(url, {
    ...options,
    headers: {
      ...options?.headers,
      Authorization: `Bearer ${HF_TOKEN}`,
    },
  });

Configuration Patterns:

// Development: Fast iteration with remote models
env.allowRemoteModels = true;
env.useFSCache = true;

// Production: Local models only
env.allowRemoteModels = false;
env.allowLocalModels = true;
env.localModelPath = '/app/models/';

// Custom CDN
env.remoteHost = 'https://cdn.example.com/models';

// Disable caching (testing)
env.useFSCache = false;
env.useBrowserCache = false;

For complete documentation on all configuration options, caching strategies, cache management, pre-downloading models, and more, see:

→ Configuration Reference

ModelRegistry (v4)

ModelRegistry gives you visibility and control over model assets before loading a pipeline. Use it to estimate download size, check cache status, inspect available dtypes, and clear cached artifacts for a specific task/model/options tuple.

import { ModelRegistry } from '@huggingface/transformers';

const task = 'feature-extraction';
const modelId = 'onnx-community/all-MiniLM-L6-v2-ONNX';
const modelOptions = { dtype: 'fp32' };

// List required files for this pipeline
const files = await ModelRegistry.get_pipeline_files(task, modelId, modelOptions);

// Check if assets are already cached
const cached = await ModelRegistry.is_pipeline_cached(task, modelId, modelOptions);

// Inspect precision formats available for this model
const dtypes = await ModelRegistry.get_available_dtypes(modelId);

console.log({ files: files.length, cached, dtypes });

For production patterns and full API coverage, see ModelRegistry Reference.

Standalone Tokenization (@huggingface/tokenizers)

For tokenization-only workflows, use @huggingface/tokenizers. It is a separate lightweight package useful when you need fast tokenization/encoding without loading full model inference pipelines.

npm install @huggingface/tokenizers
import { Tokenizer } from '@huggingface/tokenizers';
Working with Tensors
import { AutoTokenizer, AutoModel } from '@huggingface/transformers';

// Load tokenizer and model separately for more control
const tokenizer = await AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('bert-base-uncased');
const model = await AutoModel.from_pretrained('bert-base-uncased');

// Tokenize input
const inputs = await tokenizer('Hello world!');

// Run model
const outputs = await model(inputs);
Batch Processing
const classifier = await pipeline('sentiment-analysis');

// Process multiple texts
const results = await classifier([
  'I love this!',
  'This is terrible.',
  'It was okay.'
]);

Runtime-Specific Considerations

WebGPU Usage

WebGPU provides GPU acceleration in browsers and server-side runtimes (when supported):

const pipe = await pipeline('text-generation', 'onnx-community/gemma-3-270m-it-ONNX', {
  device: 'webgpu',
  dtype: 'fp32'
});

Note: Use webgpu when available and fall back to WASM/CPU when not supported in the current runtime.

WASM Performance

WASM is the most compatible execution backend across runtimes:

// Optimized for browsers with quantization
const pipe = await pipeline('sentiment-analysis', 'model-id', {
  dtype: 'q8'  // or 'q4' for even smaller size
});
Progress Tracking & Loading Indicators

Models can be large (ranging from a few MB to several GB) and consist of multiple files. Track download progress by passing a callback to the pipeline() function:

import { pipeline } from '@huggingface/transformers';

// Track progress for each file
const fileProgress = {};

function onProgress(info) {
  if (info.status === 'progress_total') {
    console.log(`Total: ${info.progress.toFixed(1)}%`);
    return;
  }

  console.log(`${info.status}: ${info.file ?? ''}`);
  
  if (info.status === 'progress') {
    fileProgress[info.file] = info.progress;
    console.log(`${info.file}: ${info.progress.toFixed(1)}%`);
  }
  
  if (info.status === 'done') {
    console.log(`✓ ${info.file} complete`);
  }
}

// Pass callback to pipeline
const classifier = await pipeline('sentiment-analysis', null, {
  progress_callback: onProgress
});

Progress Info Properties:

interface ProgressInfo {
  status: 'initiate' | 'download' | 'progress' | 'progress_total' | 'done' | 'ready';
  name: string;      // Model id or path
  file?: string;     // File being processed (per-file events)
  progress?: number; // Percentage (0-100, for 'progress' and 'progress_total')
  loaded?: number;   // Bytes downloaded (only for 'progress' status)
  total?: number;    // Total bytes (only for 'progress' status)
}

For complete examples including browser UIs, React components, CLI progress bars, and retry logic, see:

→ Pipeline Options - Progress Callback

Error Handling

try {
  const pipe = await pipeline('sentiment-analysis', 'model-id');
  const result = await pipe('text to analyze');
} catch (error) {
  if (error.message.includes('fetch')) {
    console.error('Model download failed. Check internet connection.');
  } else if (error.message.includes('ONNX')) {
    console.error('Model execution failed. Check model compatibility.');
  } else {
    console.error('Unknown error:', error);
  }
}

Performance Tips

  1. Reuse Pipelines: Create pipeline once, reuse for multiple inferences

  2. Use Quantization: Start with q8 or q4 for faster inference

  3. Batch Processing: Process multiple inputs together when possible

  4. Cache Models: Models are cached automatically (see Caching Reference for details on browser Cache API, Node.js filesystem cache, and custom implementations)

  5. WebGPU for Large Models: Use WebGPU for models that benefit from GPU acceleration

  6. Prune Context: For text generation, limit max_new_tokens to avoid memory issues

  7. Clean Up Resources: Call pipe.dispose() when done to free memory

Memory Management

IMPORTANT: Always call pipe.dispose() when finished to prevent memory leaks.

const pipe = await pipeline('sentiment-analysis');
const result = await pipe('Great product!');
await pipe.dispose();  // ✓ Free memory (100MB - several GB per model)

When to dispose:

  • Application shutdown or component unmount

  • Before loading a different model

  • After batch processing in long-running apps

Models consume significant memory and hold GPU/CPU resources. Disposal is critical for browser memory limits and server stability.

For detailed patterns (React cleanup, servers, browser), see Code Examples

Troubleshooting

Model Not Found
  • Verify model exists on Hugging Face Hub

  • Check model name spelling

  • Ensure model has ONNX files (look for onnx folder in model repo)

Memory Issues
  • Use smaller models or quantized versions (dtype: 'q4')

  • Reduce batch size

  • Limit sequence length with max_length

WebGPU Errors
  • Check browser compatibility (Chrome 113+, Edge 113+)

  • Try dtype: 'fp16' if fp32 fails

  • Fall back to WASM if WebGPU unavailable

Reference Documentation

This Skill
Official Transformers.js

Best Practices

  1. Always Dispose Pipelines: Call pipe.dispose() when done - critical for preventing memory leaks

  2. Start with Pipelines: Use the pipeline API unless you need fine-grained control

  3. Test Locally First: Test models with small inputs before deploying

  4. Monitor Model Sizes: Be aware of model download sizes for web applications

  5. Handle Loading States: Show progress indicators for better UX

  6. Version Pin: Pin specific model versions for production stability

  7. Error Boundaries: Always wrap pipeline calls in try-catch blocks

  8. Progressive Enhancement: Provide fallbacks for unsupported browsers

  9. Reuse Models: Load once, use many times - don't recreate pipelines unnecessarily

  10. Graceful Shutdown: Dispose models on SIGTERM/SIGINT in servers

Quick Reference: Task IDs

TaskTask ID
Text classificationtext-classification or sentiment-analysis
Token classificationtoken-classification or ner
Question answeringquestion-answering
Fill maskfill-mask
Summarizationsummarization
Translationtranslation
Text generationtext-generation
Text-to-text generationtext2text-generation
Zero-shot classificationzero-shot-classification
Image classificationimage-classification
Image segmentationimage-segmentation
Object detectionobject-detection
Depth estimationdepth-estimation
Image-to-imageimage-to-image
Zero-shot image classificationzero-shot-image-classification
Zero-shot object detectionzero-shot-object-detection
Automatic speech recognitionautomatic-speech-recognition
Audio classificationaudio-classification
Text-to-speechtext-to-speech or text-to-audio
Image-to-textimage-to-text
Document question answeringdocument-question-answering
Feature extractionfeature-extraction
Sentence similaritysentence-similarity

This skill enables you to integrate state-of-the-art machine learning capabilities directly into JavaScript applications without requiring separate ML servers or Python environments.

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Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

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Needs: Needs Node.js

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