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Unable to load the LFW dataset
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Description
Short description
Unable to load the LFW dataset via TensorFlow Datasets for about a month. The download fails with a NameResolutionError for vis-www.cs.umass.edu.
Environment information
Colab
Reproduction instructions
import tensorflow_datasets as tfds
ds = tfds.load("lfw", split="train")
Full stack trace:
WARNING:urllib3.connectionpool:Retrying (Retry(total=9, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by
'NameResolutionError("<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7e382ee39cd0>: Failed to resolve 'vis-www.cs.umass.edu' ([Errno -2] Name or service not known)")': /lfw/lfw.tgz
Additional context
It appears the domain vis-www.cs.umass.edu is no longer resolving. Is there an alternate download URL or a recommended workaround so that tfds recognizes the dataset?
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Research direction
Start by running the reported tfds.load("lfw", split="train") reproduction in the stated Colab environment and trace the download failure for vis-www.cs.umass.edu. The issue names no source file or test; done means the LFW dataset loads through TFDS using a working source or documented workaround.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data, machine-learning
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100