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Automodel stuck in colab or kaggle at specific 21% stage

Multiple users report that Hugging Face model downloads are stuck at 21% in Google Colab and Kaggle, with the issue starting today after working yesterday. Users in the UK and elsewhere are affected, and restarting sessions has not resolved the problem.

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Automodel stuck in colab or kaggle at specific 21% stage
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Model progress bar stuck in between download, it was working yesterday, But today when i m trying to download model (roberta or bert) it get stuck everytime. I tried restart session and other possible fixes but nothing worked

same to me, I can load model in Colab yesterday but it is not working today

I am facing the same issue. Cannot download both datasets and models from Hugging Face in Google Colab, with huggingface-hub version 1.20.1. Code has been running for 9 hours+, but the datasets still cannot be downloaded. I am located in the UK.

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