---
title: Hugging Face
description: "Configure Hugging Face as an embedding provider in Mem0 for local embedding generation with open-source models."
---

You can use embedding models from Huggingface to run Mem0 locally.

<Note>
The TypeScript SDK supports Hugging Face only through a hosted [Text Embeddings Inference (TEI)](#using-text-embeddings-inference-tei) endpoint, or any OpenAI-compatible Hugging Face endpoint. The local `sentence-transformers` mode shown first is Python-only.
</Note>

### Usage

```python
import os
from mem0 import Memory

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your_api_key" # For LLM

config = {
    "embedder": {
        "provider": "huggingface",
        "config": {
            "model": "multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1"
        }
    }
}

m = Memory.from_config(config)
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "I'm planning to watch a movie tonight. Any recommendations?"},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "How about thriller movies? They can be quite engaging."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "I'm not a big fan of thriller movies but I love sci-fi movies."},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "Got it! I'll avoid thriller recommendations and suggest sci-fi movies in the future."}
]
m.add(messages, user_id="john")
```

### Using Text Embeddings Inference (TEI)

You can also use Hugging Face's Text Embeddings Inference service for faster and more efficient embeddings. This is the mode the TypeScript SDK uses.

<CodeGroup>
```python Python
import os
from mem0 import Memory

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your_api_key" # For LLM

# Using HuggingFace Text Embeddings Inference API
config = {
    "embedder": {
        "provider": "huggingface",
        "config": {
            "huggingface_base_url": "http://localhost:3000/v1"
        }
    }
}

m = Memory.from_config(config)
m.add("This text will be embedded using the TEI service.", user_id="john")
```

```typescript TypeScript
import { Memory } from 'mem0ai/oss';

// Point at a running TEI server, or any OpenAI-compatible HF endpoint
const config = {
  embedder: {
    provider: 'huggingface',
    config: {
      huggingfaceBaseUrl: 'http://localhost:3000/v1',
    },
  },
};

const memory = new Memory(config);
await memory.add("This text will be embedded using the TEI service.", { userId: "john" });
```
</CodeGroup>

To run the TEI service, you can use Docker:

```bash
docker run -d -p 3000:80 -v huggingfacetei:/data --platform linux/amd64 \
    ghcr.io/huggingface/text-embeddings-inference:cpu-1.6 \
    --model-id BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
```

### Config

Here are the parameters available for configuring the Hugging Face embedder:

<Tabs>
<Tab title="Python">
| Parameter | Description | Default Value |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `model` | The name of the model to use | `multi-qa-MiniLM-L6-cos-v1` |
| `embedding_dims` | Dimensions of the embedding model | `selected_model_dimensions` |
| `model_kwargs` | Additional arguments for the model | `None` |
| `huggingface_base_url` | URL to connect to Text Embeddings Inference (TEI) API | `None` |
</Tab>
<Tab title="TypeScript">
| Parameter | Description | Default Value |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `huggingfaceBaseUrl` | TEI or OpenAI-compatible endpoint URL. Required; falls back to `baseURL`, `url`, then the `HUGGINGFACE_BASE_URL` env var | `None` |
| `model` | Model name sent to the endpoint (TEI ignores it) | `tei` |
| `apiKey` | API key for the endpoint; falls back to the `HUGGINGFACE_API_KEY` env var | `"hf"` |
</Tab>
</Tabs>