chore: use GH cache for HF models (#183)

Signed-off-by: Panos Vagenas <[email protected]>

Author: vagenas

.github/workflows/checks.yml

@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@
 on:
   workflow_call:
 
+env:
+  HF_HUB_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT: "60"
+  HF_HUB_ETAG_TIMEOUT: "60"
+
 jobs:
   run-checks:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
       matrix:
         python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Cache Hugging Face models
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: ~/.cache/huggingface
+          key: huggingface-cache-py${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-poetry
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}