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infrastructure-transformers-version-when-using-transformers-library-version-4-51-0-to--1d33625e

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When does this happen?

IF When using transformers library (version >=4.51.0) to load a pretrained model (e.g., CLIPModel.from_pretrained), a NameError for 'init_empty_weights' is raised.

How others solved it

THEN Downgrade transformers to version 4.50.3 or upgrade to a version that includes the fix from PR #37324 (e.g., >=4.51.1). The error is caused by a regression in version 4.51.0 where init_empty_weights was moved incorrectly. Ensure your environment's transformers version is compatible before loading models.

from transformers import CLIPModel; model = CLIPModel.from_pretrained('openai/clip-vit-base-patch32')

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