Hugging Face Mirror (hf-mirror.com)

An unofficial mirror site that makes it fast to download Hugging Face models and datasets from inside China.

hf-mirror.com is a community-run mirror of Hugging Face, not an official Hugging Face service. Direct connections to huggingface.co from within China are often slow or fail outright, yet almost all VLA models, vision encoders, and LeRobot datasets are hosted on Hugging Face, so the mirror has become the standard entry point for reproducing papers there. It is simple to use: set the environment variable HF_ENDPOINT to the mirror's address, and downloads from transformers, huggingface-cli, LeRobot, and similar tools automatically route through it instead of the original site. Gated models, which require accepting a license before download, still need permission requested on the official Hugging Face site plus an access token — the mirror does not bypass that step.

ExampleAfter running export HF_ENDPOINT=https://hf-mirror.com, you can use huggingface-cli download to fetch the openvla/openvla-7b weights.

Also called

hf-mirror, HF_ENDPOINT

Related

Hugging Face · Hugging Face Transformers · ModelScope · Package Mirror Sources in China (pip / conda / apt / Docker mirrors) · LeRobot · AutoDL

Sources

HF-Mirror
Hugging Face Hub 环境变量文档（HF_ENDPOINT） (Chinese)