Cant we use models from node modules and decrease models file size?

[chaitanya71998]

Issue Description Greetings, thanks for your lib. i have two issues

1. The models are need to be maintained in public folder
   • cant we use the models that are already there in nodemodules?
2. For my use case i am solving to build a face authentication web app using facematcher api. The models are of very high mb size,and are big blocker for authentication and getting to web app.
   • how can we solve this?

Steps to Reproduce

1. In node modules

2. From network panel

Expected Behavior Fast loading of models and finish authentication **Environment Web

• Module version? "@vladmandic/face-api": "1.7.12",

• Type of module used (e.g. js, esm, esm-nobundle)?

  • esm - bundler(webpact)

• Browser or NodeJS and version (e.g. NodeJS 14.15 or Chrome 89)? browsers

• Packager (if any) (e.g, webpack, rollup, parcel, esbuild, etc.)? webpack

[vladmandic]

i really don't understand what the ask is here - model size is what is it is regardless where its downloaded from. you can download from cdn, copy to your public folder, expose node_modules directly - anything.

[chaitanya71998]

dont we have lower sized models, as these models are having very big file size

[vladmandic]

No. And this is considered quite small.