[Bug]: Flair not working with latest pytorch version #3671
Description
Describe the bug
Im using torch version 2.6.0 on windows and I get this error
"ImportError: cannot import name 'LayoutLMv2FeatureExtractor' from 'transformers'"
To Reproduce
from flair.models import SequenceTaggerExpected behavior
Logs and Stack traces
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ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[3], line 1
----> 1 from flair.models import SequenceTagger
File \.venv\Lib\site-packages\flair\__init__.py:43
40 # global variable: arrow symbol
41 _arrow = " → "
---> 43 from . import ( # noqa: E402 import after setting device
44 data,
45 models,
46 nn,
47 trainers,
48 visual,
49 )
51 logging.config.dictConfig(
52 {
53 "version": 1,
(...) 65 }
66 )
68 logger = logging.getLogger("flair")
File \.venv\Lib\site-packages\flair\models\__init__.py:1
----> 1 from .entity_linker_model import SpanClassifier
2 from .entity_mention_linking import EntityMentionLinker
3 from .language_model import LanguageModel
File \.venv\Lib\site-packages\flair\models\entity_linker_model.py:11
8 import torch
9 from deprecated.sphinx import deprecated
---> 11 import flair.embeddings
12 import flair.nn
13 from flair.data import Dictionary, Sentence, Span
File g\.venv\Lib\site-packages\flair\embeddings\__init__.py:2
1 # Expose base classses
----> 2 from flair.embeddings.transformer import (
3 TransformerEmbeddings,
4 TransformerJitDocumentEmbeddings,
5 TransformerJitWordEmbeddings,
6 TransformerOnnxDocumentEmbeddings,
7 TransformerOnnxWordEmbeddings,
8 )
10 from .base import Embeddings, ScalarMix
12 # Expose document embedding classes
File \.venv\Lib\site-packages\flair\embeddings\transformer.py:17
15 from packaging.version import Version
16 from torch.jit import ScriptModule
---> 17 from transformers import (
18 CONFIG_MAPPING,
19 AutoConfig,
20 AutoFeatureExtractor,
21 AutoModel,
22 AutoTokenizer,
23 FeatureExtractionMixin,
24 LayoutLMTokenizer,
25 LayoutLMTokenizerFast,
26 LayoutLMv2FeatureExtractor,
27 PretrainedConfig,
28 PreTrainedTokenizer,
29 T5TokenizerFast,
30 )
31 from transformers.tokenization_utils_base import LARGE_INTEGER
32 from transformers.utils import PaddingStrategy
ImportError: cannot import name 'LayoutLMv2FeatureExtractor' from 'transformers' (\.venv\Lib\site-packages\transformers\__init__.py)
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Environment
accelerate==1.7.0
annotated-types==0.7.0
asttokens==3.0.0
attrs==25.3.0
beautifulsoup4==4.13.4
bioc==2.1
blis==1.3.0
boto3==1.38.31
botocore==1.38.31
catalogue==2.0.10
certifi==2025.4.26
charset-normalizer==3.4.2
click==8.2.1
cloudpathlib==0.21.1
colorama==0.4.6
comm==0.2.2
confection==0.1.5
conllu==4.5.3
contourpy==1.3.2
cycler==0.12.1
cymem==2.0.11
datasketch==1.6.5
debugpy==1.8.14
decorator==5.2.1
Deprecated==1.2.18
docopt==0.6.2
executing==2.2.0
filelock==3.13.1
flair==0.15.1
fonttools==4.58.2
fsspec==2024.6.1
ftfy==6.3.1
gdown==5.2.0
huggingface-hub==0.32.4
idna==3.10
intervaltree==3.1.0
ipykernel==6.29.5
ipython==9.3.0
ipython_pygments_lexers==1.1.1
ipywidgets==8.1.7
jedi==0.19.2
Jinja2==3.1.4
jmespath==1.0.1
joblib==1.5.1
jsonlines==4.0.0
jupyter_client==8.6.3
jupyter_core==5.8.1
jupyterlab_widgets==3.0.15
kiwisolver==1.4.8
langcodes==3.5.0
langdetect==1.0.9
language_data==1.3.0
lxml==5.4.0
marisa-trie==1.2.1
Markdown==3.8
markdown-it-py==3.0.0
MarkupSafe==2.1.5
matplotlib==3.10.3
matplotlib-inline==0.1.7
mdurl==0.1.2
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mpld3==0.5.10
mpmath==1.3.0
murmurhash==1.0.13
nest-asyncio==1.6.0
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nltk==3.9.1
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parso==0.8.4
phonenumbers==8.13.55
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pptree==3.1
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presidio_analyzer==2.2.358
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protobuf==6.31.1
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pure_eval==0.2.3
pydantic==2.11.5
pydantic_core==2.33.2
Pygments==2.19.1
pyparsing==3.2.3
PySocks==1.7.1
python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
pytorch_revgrad==0.2.0
pywin32==310
PyYAML==6.0.2
pyzmq==26.4.0
regex==2024.11.6
requests==2.32.3
requests-file==2.1.0
rich==14.0.0
s3transfer==0.13.0
safetensors==0.5.3
scikit-learn==1.7.0
scipy==1.15.3
segtok==1.5.11
sentencepiece==0.2.0
shellingham==1.5.4
six==1.17.0
smart-open==7.1.0
sortedcontainers==2.4.0
soupsieve==2.7
spacy==3.8.7
spacy-legacy==3.0.12
spacy-loggers==1.0.5
sqlitedict==2.1.0
srsly==2.5.1
stack-data==0.6.3
sympy==1.13.1
tabulate==0.9.0
thinc==8.3.6
threadpoolctl==3.6.0
tldextract==5.3.0
tokenizers==0.21.1
torch==2.6.0
torchaudio==2.7.1+cu128
torchvision==0.22.1+cu128
tornado==6.5.1
tqdm==4.67.1
traitlets==5.14.3
transformer-smaller-training-vocab==0.4.1
transformers==4.52.4
typer==0.16.0
typing-inspection==0.4.1
typing_extensions==4.14.0
urllib3==2.4.0
wasabi==1.1.3
wcwidth==0.2.13
weasel==0.4.1
widgetsnbextension==4.0.14
Wikipedia-API==0.8.1
wrapt==1.17.2