Setting return type of `pipeline` in TypeScript results in TS2590: Expression produces a union type that is too complex to represent.

[allout58]

System Info

@huggingface/transformers: 3.5.0
typescript: 5.6.3
Angular: 19.1.3

Environment/Platform

• Website/web-app
• Browser extension
• Server-side (e.g., Node.js, Deno, Bun)
• Desktop app (e.g., Electron)
• Other (e.g., VSCode extension)

Description

When trying to add types to my use of pipeline(), I use the following snippet

import {pipeline, AutomaticSpeechRecognitionPipeline} from '@huggingface/transformers';
...
     const instance: Promise<AutomaticSpeechRecognitionPipeline> = pipeline(
       'automatic-speech-recognition',
       'Xenova/whisper-base',
       {progress_callback},
     );

My editor now complains about the pipeline invocation with TS2590: Expression produces a union type that is too complex to represent.

Reproduction

See https://stackblitz.com/edit/vitejs-vite-bvwhnlwn?file=src%2Fmain.ts&view=editor

In a project with Typescript and @huggingface/transformers, attempt to set the type returned by pipeline

[xenova]

Hi there 👋 That's quite interesting; I've never seen that kind of issue before.

A quick search suggests that a potential reason is due to a mismatch of typescript versions
chakra-ui/chakra-ui#7526 (comment)