cant load sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 offline

[wangguan1995]

Hi there,
Because internet issue, I require to load "all-MiniLM-L6-v2" offline,
I tried:

1. download model from : https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
2. follow instruction of : https://www.sbert.net/docs/package_reference/sentence_transformer/SentenceTransformer.html
3. code check :

   sentence-transformers/sentence_transformers/SentenceTransformer.py

   Line 205 in cfb883c

   if cache_folder is None:

[wangguan1995]

Got idea from ：

1. Load model from check-points #2746
2. No sentence-transformers model found with name sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2. #2664

Trying to fix the problem

[tomaarsen]

Hello!

Apologies for the delay. I believe the latter should work, i.e. model = SentenceTransformer("path/to/all-MiniLM-L6-v2"). Have you gotten any luck with that?

The former fails because if you're using the cache_folder, then it expects the model to be in the cache format (e.g. blobs, refs, snapshots folders, folders named after git commits, etc.). You are on the right track with the second option, i.e. the path to the local model.

• Tom Aarsen