Remove tensorflow-text dependency in tf-models-official

[jrecasens]

I am getting an "ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow-text~=2.16.1" when trying to pip install tf-models-official on Windows.

Looks like the maintainers of tensorflow-text stopped providing pre-built python wheels for Windows.

Since tensorflow-text is a library for text related processing operations (for NLP) and some of us are using tf-models-official just for Vision problems (in my case Instance Segmentation with Mask R CNN). Can we just raise a warning if tensorflow-text is not available as dependecy?

[laxmareddyp]

Hi @jrecasens ,

One way to tackle this is by utilizing Colab notebooks or setting up WSL2 on your system, which would enable you to install the mentioned pip packages. Concurrently, we'll explore with our internal team the possibility of removing the tf-text dependency specifically tailored to each operating system. This investigation aims to ascertain whether such a change could potentially cause any disruptions in the packages, given that TF_NLP relies on the tensorflow-text kernels.

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

[laxmareddyp]

Hi @jrecasens ,

In an upcoming release, we're aiming to create a separate pip package for TensorFlow Official Models (tf-models-official) that won't have TensorFlow Text (TF-Text) as a dependency. This will allow users to install and use tf-models-official(for vision users) on any platform without needing TF-Text specifically.
Thanks

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[laxmareddyp]

Hi @jrecasens,

we have created a separate pip package for TensorFlow Official Models (tf-models-no-deps 2.16.0) this won't have TensorFlow Text (TF-Text) as a dependency. This will allow users to install and use tf-models-official(for vision users) on any platform without needing TF-Text specifically.
Thanks