Unable to run notebook examples

[levente-murgas]

Describe the bug
When trying to run any of the 2 shared notebooks in the repository the execution fails during imports.

The error message being the same both cases:

RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
RuntimeError: module compiled against API version 0xf but this version of numpy is 0xe
RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
RuntimeError: module compiled against API version 0xf but this version of numpy is 0xe
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
ImportError: numpy.core._multiarray_umath failed to import
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
ImportError: numpy.core.umath failed to import
RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
RuntimeError: module compiled against API version 0xf but this version of numpy is 0xe
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
ImportError: numpy.core._multiarray_umath failed to import
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
ImportError: numpy.core.umath failed to import
RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
RuntimeError: module compiled against API version 0xf but this version of numpy is 0xe
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
ImportError: numpy.core._multiarray_umath failed to import
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
ImportError: numpy.core.umath failed to import
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/transformers/utils/import_utils.py in _get_module(self, module_name)
   1145         try:
-> 1146             return importlib.import_module("." + module_name, self.__name__)
   1147         except Exception as e:

27 frames
TypeError: Unable to convert function return value to a Python type! The signature was
	() -> handle

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/transformers/utils/import_utils.py in _get_module(self, module_name)
   1146             return importlib.import_module("." + module_name, self.__name__)
   1147         except Exception as e:
-> 1148             raise RuntimeError(
   1149                 f"Failed to import {self.__name__}.{module_name} because of the following error (look up to see its"
   1150                 f" traceback):\n{e}"

RuntimeError: Failed to import transformers.trainer because of the following error (look up to see its traceback):
Unable to convert function return value to a Python type! The signature was
	() -> handle

When installing the module I also receive an error from pip. Maybe this leads to the error occurring during module imports:
ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts. arviz 0.15.1 requires scipy>=1.8.0, but you have scipy 1.7.3 which is incompatible. google-colab 1.0.0 requires pandas==1.5.3, but you have pandas 1.3.5 which is incompatible. tensorflow 2.12.0 requires numpy<1.24,>=1.22, but you have numpy 1.21.6 which is incompatible.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Copy example notebook from this repository.
2. Run cell containing !pip install multimodal-transformers
3. Run cell at section "All other imports are here:"
4. See error

Expected behavior
The modules should be imported successfully.

Desktop:

• OS: Windows 11
• Python: 3.10.12
• Environment: Colab

[akashsaravanan-georgian]

Hi @levente-murgas, just to clarify - do you receive this error when you try to run notebooks/text_w_tabular_classification.ipynb on a Google Colab instance? I'm asking this since the error message mentions tensorflow but this library is built with PyTorch.

[levente-murgas]

Hi @akashsaravanan-georgian,

I think the issue is coming from that Colab notebooks automatically come with preinstalled libraries, amongst them also TensorFlow. I couldn't find a way to practically run the notebook in Colab unfortunately. But this is just an environmental issue as if I ran the notebook in my local environment it works.

[akashsaravanan-georgian]

Ah I see, I didn't know that. I'm guessing trying to uninstall tensorflow didn't help then?

[akashsaravanan-georgian]

I'm closing this issue as it seems to be an issue with Colab rather than the library. Please feel free to open it up again if this isn't the case.