How to use local HF model in HuggingFaceLocalGenerator

[LiShaoyu5]

I tried to load a local HF model by:
model = HuggingFaceLocalGenerator(model="models/Qwen1.5-1.8B/")
and got the error message:
HFValidationError: Repo id must be in the form 'repo_name' or 'namespace/repo_name': './models/Qwen1.5-7B/'. Use repo_type argument if needed.

The model is downloaded from HF and the files are identical. I verified the model by loading it with transformers AutoModel.from_pretrained() and it works fine. Then I looked for the API reference:
param model: The name or path of a Hugging Face model for text generation

How to load the model with a path correctly?

[LiShaoyu5]

By doing:

from pathlib import Path
model = HuggingFaceLocalGenerator(model=Path("models/Qwen1.5-1.8B/"))