diff --git a/.github/workflows/beam_PostCommit_Yaml_Xlang_Direct.yml b/.github/workflows/beam_PostCommit_Yaml_Xlang_Direct.yml
index ea1c255f7cc9..afa437b64de1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/beam_PostCommit_Yaml_Xlang_Direct.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/beam_PostCommit_Yaml_Xlang_Direct.yml
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: run PostCommit Yaml Xlang Direct script
         uses: ./.github/actions/gradle-command-self-hosted-action
         with:
-          gradle-command: :sdks:python:postCommitYamlIntegrationTests -PyamlTestSet=${{ matrix.test_set }} -PbeamPythonExtra=ml_test,yaml
+          gradle-command: :sdks:python:postCommitYamlIntegrationTests -PyamlTestSet=${{ matrix.test_set }}
       - name: Archive Python Test Results
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         if: failure()
diff --git a/.github/workflows/beam_PreCommit_Yaml_Xlang_Direct.yml b/.github/workflows/beam_PreCommit_Yaml_Xlang_Direct.yml
index 7d17fd2140c9..0b8f4cd63939 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/beam_PreCommit_Yaml_Xlang_Direct.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/beam_PreCommit_Yaml_Xlang_Direct.yml
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: run PreCommit Yaml Xlang Direct script
         uses: ./.github/actions/gradle-command-self-hosted-action
         with:
-          gradle-command: :sdks:python:yamlIntegrationTests -PbeamPythonExtra=ml_test,yaml
+          gradle-command: :sdks:python:yamlIntegrationTests
       - name: Archive Python Test Results
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
         if: failure()
diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/tests/runinference_huggingface.yaml b/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/tests/runinference_huggingface.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8728a6f544ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/tests/runinference_huggingface.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+pipelines:
+  - pipeline:
+      type: chain
+      transforms:
+        - type: Create
+          config:
+            elements:
+              - text: "I love Apache Beam!"
+              - text: "I hate this error."
+        - type: RunInference
+          config:
+            model_handler:
+              type: "HuggingFacePipeline"
+              config:
+                task: "text-classification"
+                inference_fn:
+                  callable: |
+                    def real_inference(batch, pipeline, inference_args):
+                      predictions = pipeline(batch, **inference_args) 
+                      
+                      # If it's a single dictionary (batch size of 1), wrap it in a list
+                      if isinstance(predictions, dict):
+                        predictions = [predictions]
+                      
+                      return {
+                        'label': [p['label'] for p in predictions],
+                        'score': [p['score'] for p in predictions]
+                      }
+                preprocess:
+                  callable: 'lambda x: x.text'
+        - type: MapToFields
+          config:
+            language: python
+            fields:
+              text: text
+              sentiment:
+                callable: 'lambda x: x.inference.inference["label"]'
+        - type: AssertEqual
+          config:
+            elements:
+              - text: "I love Apache Beam!"
+                sentiment: "POSITIVE"
+              - text: "I hate this error."
+                sentiment: "NEGATIVE"
+
+    options:
+      yaml_experimental_features: ['ML']
diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/tests/runinference.yaml b/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/tests/runinference_vertexai.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/tests/runinference.yaml
rename to sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/tests/runinference_vertexai.yaml
diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/yaml_ml.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/yaml_ml.py
index 51f18c733046..05cbed3bd456 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/yaml_ml.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/yaml_ml.py
@@ -282,6 +282,55 @@ def inference_output_type(self):
                                           ('model_id', Optional[str])])
 
 
+@ModelHandlerProvider.register_handler_type('HuggingFacePipeline')
+class HuggingFacePipelineProvider(ModelHandlerProvider):
+  def __init__(
+      self,
+      task: Optional[str] = None,
+      model: Optional[str] = None,
+      preprocess: Optional[dict[str, str]] = None,
+      postprocess: Optional[dict[str, str]] = None,
+      device: Optional[Any] = None,
+      inference_fn: Optional[dict[str, str]] = None,
+      load_pipeline_args: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None,
+      **kwargs):
+    try:
+      from apache_beam.ml.inference.huggingface_inference import HuggingFacePipelineModelHandler
+    except ImportError:
+      raise ValueError(
+          'Unable to import HuggingFacePipelineModelHandler. Please '
+          'install transformers dependencies.')
+
+    kwargs = {k: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if not k.startswith('_')}
+
+    inference_fn_obj = self.parse_processing_transform(
+        inference_fn, 'inference_fn') if inference_fn else None
+
+    handler_kwargs = {}
+    if inference_fn_obj:
+      handler_kwargs['inference_fn'] = inference_fn_obj
+
+    _handler = HuggingFacePipelineModelHandler(
+        task=task,
+        model=model,
+        device=device,
+        load_pipeline_args=load_pipeline_args,
+        **handler_kwargs,
+        **kwargs)
+
+    super().__init__(_handler, preprocess, postprocess)
+
+  @staticmethod
+  def validate(config):
+    if not config.get('task') and not config.get('model'):
+      raise ValueError(
+          "HuggingFacePipeline requires either 'task' or "
+          "'model' to be specified.")
+
+  def inference_output_type(self):
+    return Any
+
+
 @beam.ptransform.ptransform_fn
 def run_inference(
     pcoll,
diff --git a/sdks/python/build.gradle b/sdks/python/build.gradle
index 5f09dff57e8f..e676fd110433 100644
--- a/sdks/python/build.gradle
+++ b/sdks/python/build.gradle
@@ -124,10 +124,20 @@ tasks.register("generateYamlDocs") {
   outputs.file "${buildDir}/yaml-examples.html"
 }
 
+tasks.register("installYamlIntegrationTestDeps") {
+  dependsOn installGcpTest
+  doLast {
+    exec {
+      executable 'sh'
+      args '-c', ". ${envdir}/bin/activate && pip install --pre --retries 10 ${buildDir}/apache-beam.tar.gz[ml_test,yaml,transformers]"
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 tasks.register("yamlIntegrationTests") {
   description "Runs precommit integration tests for yaml pipelines."
 
-  dependsOn installGcpTest
+  dependsOn installYamlIntegrationTestDeps
   // Need to build all expansion services referenced in apache_beam/yaml/*.*
   // grep -oh 'sdk.*Jar' sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/*.yaml | sort | uniq
   dependsOn ":sdks:java:extensions:schemaio-expansion-service:shadowJar"
@@ -146,7 +156,7 @@ tasks.register("yamlIntegrationTests") {
 tasks.register("postCommitYamlIntegrationTests") {
   description "Runs postcommit integration tests for yaml pipelines - parameterized by yamlTestSet."
 
-  dependsOn installGcpTest
+  dependsOn installYamlIntegrationTestDeps
   // Need to build all expansion services referenced in apache_beam/yaml/*.*
   // grep -oh 'sdk.*Jar' sdks/python/apache_beam/yaml/*.yaml | sort | uniq
   dependsOn ":sdks:java:extensions:schemaio-expansion-service:shadowJar"