ImportError: cannot import name 'cached_download' from 'huggingface_hub'

[martina-zxy]

huggingface_hub had a new release yesterday that removes cached_download and causes an ImportError

/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/sentence_transformers/__init__.py:3: in <module>
    from .datasets import SentencesDataset, ParallelSentencesDataset
/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/sentence_transformers/datasets/__init__.py:3: in <module>
    from .ParallelSentencesDataset import ParallelSentencesDataset
/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/sentence_transformers/datasets/ParallelSentencesDataset.py:4: in <module>
    from .. import SentenceTransformer
/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/sentence_transformers/SentenceTransformer.py:12: in <module>
    from huggingface_hub import HfApi, HfFolder, Repository, hf_hub_url, cached_download
E   ImportError: cannot import name 'cached_download' from 'huggingface_hub' (/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/__init__.py)

[tomaarsen]

Hello!

I believe cached_download was removed in Sentence Transformers in the v2.3.0 release, so if you upgrade Sentence Transformers to v2.3.0 or newer then you shouldn't have any issues.
P.s. on the inference side, the v3 release from a few months back shouldn't have introduced anything breaking, so it should be safe to upgrade.

• Tom Aarsen

[martina-zxy]

Thanks @tomaarsen!