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Stuck when trying to download any model to use in Colab

A user reports being unable to download models from Hugging Face in Google Colab, with downloads stuck at 1% despite trying workarounds like disabling HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET. The issue affects both embedding models and large language models.

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Stuck when trying to download any model to use in Colab
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Hello, Today, when I tried to download a model from Hugging Face to use in Google Colab, it kept getting stuck at 1%. I don’t know why that’s happening. I’ve tried everything, such as disabling it (HF_HUB_DISABLE_XET = 1), but it didn’t work.

Not only stuck when down the embedding model, but also the LLM

Please help. Thank you.

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