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Example notebooks break on import and Colab

Example notebooks fail on import or in Google Colab because of missing code or dependency version conflicts.

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3 public reports · first reported 8 January 2025 · last reported 29 March 2026

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What's going wrong

Users who clone the hub's example notebooks and scripts hit import failures: a helper function referenced in the code was never committed, a dependency version breaks an import, and some notebooks will not start in Google Colab.

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