[Feature request] Mobile Browsers Support about transformers.js HOT 2 CLOSED

Well, I would say that is up to the user of the library... 😅 It should be their responsibility to choose models that run on their desired platforms.

There are some ways to produce smaller models (e.g., quantization and pruning), but they can only get you so far...

That said, it probably would be good to build up a larger collection of small models (like facebook/detr-resnet-50, which is only 43MB, but can be used for object detection).

If you have some candidates, you can post links to them here

from transformers.js.

Closing issue as there are models which are able to work on mobile devices. For an example, I have tested Whisper Web on my phone and it can run the tiny, quantized versions of whisper (~61MB in size).

Overall, if a user of the library wishes to deploy a version of their app to run in mobile browsers, it is their responsibility to choose models which can run in a mobile browser.

Alternatively, some users have found ways to get Transformers.js running natively via react-native. For more information, see this PR.

from transformers.js.