Tried evaluate the model on a local network only machine

Well, I first use

python download_evalsets.py $download_dir

to download all the necessary datasets on an internet-accessible machine and then migrate the data to my machine with limited internet access.
All the other evaluation went well but the retrieval datasets , which use hf_cache/ directory instead.

The error goes like this :

>>> datasets.load_dataset("nlphuji/flickr_1k_test_image_text_retrieval",split="test", cache_dir=os.path.join("/mnt/data/datacom2023/evaluate_datasets", "hf_cache"))Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/root/anaconda3/envs/datacomp/lib/python3.10/site-packages/datasets/load.py", line 2129, in load_dataset
    builder_instance = load_dataset_builder(
  File "/root/anaconda3/envs/datacomp/lib/python3.10/site-packages/datasets/load.py", line 1815, in load_dataset_builder
    dataset_module = dataset_module_factory(
  File "/root/anaconda3/envs/datacomp/lib/python3.10/site-packages/datasets/load.py", line 1512, in dataset_module_factory
    raise e1 from None
  File "/root/anaconda3/envs/datacomp/lib/python3.10/site-packages/datasets/load.py", line 1468, in dataset_module_factory
    raise ConnectionError(f"Couldn't reach '{path}' on the Hub ({type(e).__name__})")
ConnectionError: Couldn't reach 'nlphuji/flickr_1k_test_image_text_retrieval' on the Hub (ConnectTimeout)

Seems like the huggingface datasets module is still trying to connect to the internet. Is there any trick I can play to skip the connection to huggingface? The evaluation command :

python evaluate.py --train_output_dir /mnt/data/datacomp2023/train_output/basic_train --data_dir /mnt/data/datacomp2023/evaluate_datasets

Start by reading download_evalsets.py and evaluate.py, then inspect how the retrieval datasets use the hf_cache directory and call datasets.load_dataset. Reproduce the command on the limited-access machine and determine what offline behavior is needed; done means retrieval evaluation completes without contacting the Hugging Face Hub.