Value error : sentencepiece

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Hi,

I have value error: This tokenizer cannot be instantiated. Please make sure you have sentencepiece installed in order to use this tokenizer.

I installed and updated sentencepiece (0.1.95) but still getting the same error. Can someone help?
Thank you!

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Hi @Katarina, what happens if you try installing transformers in a new environment with

pip install transformers[sentencepiece]

Does that solve the problem?

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Hi, thanks on answer…I tried with this but still the same error

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Can you please share the code you are running and the full stack trace / error message?

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Acctually it is working after I restarted my enviroment…thank you!

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This works:

pip install sentencepiece
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use this one-

pip install transformers[sentencepiece] datasets

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this has to do with you shell actually. You are probably using zsh if you are on Mac, and you are getting zsh: no matches found: transformers[sentencepiece].

Solution: pip install "transformers[sentencepiece]"

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Fix: pip install transformers[sentencepiece]
if it is installed and still getting error, restart the kernel

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Kernel Restart solved this problem.

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Thank you!

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Use pip install transformers[sentencepiece]

And restart the kernel. It will work :slight_smile:

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I also found that using conda install works. I had to do conda install sentencepiece and conda install protobuf to get it to work for me.

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Besides conda install sentencepiece, I found that I can do conda install sentence-transformers which pull in sentencepiece also.

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Yes, I met this issue either.
My platform is below:
MacOS 15.0.1
Python 3.12.6
pip 24.2

Then I executed this command:

pip3 install sentencepiece

And restarted Kernel, then it works

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