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State-of-the-art Machine Learning for the web. Run 🤗 Transformers directly in your browser, with no need for a server!

25 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 9 stories, 16 comments · first 2023-03-17 · latest 2026-10-26

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  1. …land transformers last month for in browser structured output as well, also used for tool calling. https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.js/blob/main/pac...
    comment by sroussey · 2026-10-26 · in Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM
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    Release 4.0.0 · HuggingFace/Transformers.js
    story by fagnerbrack · 2026-06-20 · 0 comments
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    HuggingFace has just released Transformer.js v4 with WebGPU support
    story by pavelai · 2026-03-30 · 1 comment
  4. …awesome examples of running different types of models in webgpu check out the examples folder here. https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.js
    comment by dataviz1000 · 2025-08-02 · in Show HN: WebGPU enables local LLM in the browser – demo site with AI chat
  5. …the background inside a Chrome extension before notify me of anything economically significant. [0] https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.js/tree/main/exa... [1] https://github.com/adam-s/doomberg-terminal
    comment by dataviz1000 · 2025-06-25 · in OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
  6. …that you can perform them client side. ONNX models can be loaded and executed with transformer.js https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.js/ You can even build and statically host indices like hnsw for embeddings. I put together a…
    comment by jasonjmcghee · 2025-05-12 · in Embeddings are underrated (2024)
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    Transformers.js 3.0 Released with WebGPU Support
    story by victormustar · 2024-10-22 · 1 comment
  8. …): Postgres wire protocol for the server-side. MIT * transformers.js ( https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js ): Run Transformers directly in your browser
    comment by kiwicopple · 2024-08-12 · in Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface
  9. …user mode: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-postgres.html#AP... [4] transformers.js: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js [5] pg-gateway: https://github.com/supabase-community/pg-gateway
    comment by kiwicopple · 2024-08-12 · in Postgres.new
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    Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface
    story by kiwicopple · 2024-08-12 · 106 comments
  11. …https://github.com/Anush008/fastembed-js Looks like transformers.js supports embeddings in-browser: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/releases/tag/2.1.0 https://github.com/pinecone-io/semantic-search-example/blob/... Also it…
    comment by jamesmcintyre · 2024-07-22 · in Show HN: TinkerBird – A Chrome-native vector database
  12. …You can follow the progress for full WebGPU support in the v3 development branch ( https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/pull/545 ). To answer your question, while there are certain ops missing, the main limitation at the moment is for…
    comment by xenova · 2024-04-11 · in Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser
  13. …releases adds binary embedding quantization support which I'm really looking forward to trying out: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/releases/tag/2.17....
    comment by simonw · 2024-04-11 · in Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser
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    Transformers.js – Run Transformers directly in the browser
    story by victormustar · 2024-04-11 · 51 comments
  15. BTW: you might want to add support for typed arrays. See: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/blob/8804c36591d11... This is really old, but added as part of the shape of the vector as well: https://github.com/nicolaspanel/numjs/blob/m…
    comment by sroussey · 2024-03-29 · in Deep Learning in JavaScript
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    Transformers.js releases Zero-shot audio classification support
    story by correa_brian · 2023-12-05 · 0 comments
  17. …seems to contain only boilerplate and no real support for Mistral models or their weights. [1]: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/pull/379 [2]: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/releases/tag/2.8.0
    comment by woadwarrior01 · 2023-11-17 · in Show HN: Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks
  18. Original project: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js
    comment by sunshadow · 2023-11-16 · in Show HN: Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks
  19. …Whisper to the web ( https://github.com/xenova/whisper-web ) based on the Transformers.js library ( https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js ). That uses ONNX, and the standard conversion is via Hugging Face Optimum (…
    comment by albertzeyer · 2023-11-16 · in Show HN: Tiny LLMs – Browser-based private AI models for a wide array of tasks
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    Transformers.js
    story by AnhTho_FR · 2023-07-08 · 0 comments
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    Transformers.js: Run Machine Learning models directly in the browser
    story by victormustar · 2023-06-26 · 0 comments
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    Transformer.js- Transformers in the Browser
    story by gardenfelder · 2023-03-17 · 3 comments
  23. …(which stems from a bug in onnxruntime-web), and we were able to get it working in these cases: 1. https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/issues/4 2. https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/issues/19
    comment by xenova · 2023-03-17 · in Transformers.js
  24. …these inaccuracies also occur in the PyTorch models, and so, it's not the library's fault :') [1] https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js [2] https://twitter.com/xenovacom/status/1628895478749315073
    comment by xenova · 2023-03-17 · in Transformers.js
  25. Indeed, I see WebGL commented out here: https://github.com/xenova/transformers.js/blob/main/src/mode... .
    comment by sanxiyn · 2023-03-17 · in Transformers.js