---
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.

### 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:

```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")
```

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 Huggingface embedder:

| 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` |