sentence-transformers/LaBSE · Why was .safetensors variant removed?

Aug 25

In commit history, I can see https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/LaBSE/commit/e34fab64a3011d2176c99545a93d5cbddc9a91b7.
Safetensors variant was added and then removed from the repo. Why so?

Sentence Transformers org 22 days ago

Hello!

My apologies for the delay, the reason is a tad complex.

The Inference Endpoints solutions on Hugging Face would only copy model.safetensors files to a fresh cloud environment if any safetensors file existed in the repository, i.e. they would ignore pytorch_model.bin files.
Sentence Transformers did not support model.safetensors files for Dense modules until version v3.0.1
The Inference toolkit would install version v2.7.0.

Because of this combination of events, this model could not be loaded by the inference endpoints. I can re-add the Safetensors files once this is merged and released: https://github.com/huggingface/huggingface-inference-toolkit/pull/91

Sentence Transformers org 15 days ago

I've re-added the safetensors files.

tomaarsen changed discussion status to closed 15 days ago