Environment with restricted access to huggingface.co

[ExuCounter]

Hi guys!

My corporate laptop does not allow me to send requests to huggingface.co. That's why I can not download models from here.
I've downloaded the all-minilm-l6-v2 model from another laptop and want to use it locally on this laptop, without sending any requests to huggingface.co.

I've tried to use such a config:

{
  "reranker_params": {
    "model_name_or_path": "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2",
    "local_files_only": true
  },
  "reranker": "CrossEncoderReranker"
}

And I put the cache from another MacBook in this folder (transferred as a zip):
~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--sentence-transformers--all-MiniLM-L6-v2

But it still fails.

INFO: sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformer : Load pretrained SentenceTransformer: all-MiniLM-L6-v2
WARNING: sentence_transformers.SentenceTransformer : No sentence-transformers model found with name sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2. Creating a new one with mean pooling.

Could you help me with this? Thanks!

[Davidyz]

That looks like the embedding model, not the reranker counterpart. If that's the case, you'd need to put it in embedding_params.

For the reranker, you can either do the same but with the URL/path to the reranking model, or just disable cross encoder reranker and use NaiveReranker.