diff --git a/.github/workflows/checks.yml b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
index 1c322d9..b2a295d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/checks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 on:
   workflow_call:
 
+env:
+  HF_HUB_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT: "60"
+  HF_HUB_ETAG_TIMEOUT: "60"
+
 jobs:
   run-checks:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
@@ -14,6 +18,11 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set TESSDATA_PREFIX
         run: |
           echo "TESSDATA_PREFIX=$(dpkg -L tesseract-ocr-eng | grep tessdata$)" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+      - name: Cache Hugging Face models
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: ~/.cache/huggingface
+          key: huggingface-cache-py${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-poetry
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}