Storage of Downloaded Models from HuggingFace

[kadir-gunel]

Hello,

I was wondering if there is any special reason that the downloaded models are stored in cache folders? Since models are downloaded from HuggingFace wouldn't be nice to save each downloaded model under the /home/user_name/.cache/huggingface/hub?

Best Regards

[chengchingwen]

There were a few reasons that we did not share the cache with huggingface/hub (but I'm not sure if they still hold now). To put it simply, I want to 1. avoid storing duplicate files 2. make sure the files are read-only, and 3. ease the development pressure of tracking the changes of their cache format/specification.