Colab Environment Completely Unusable #879
Description
The result of an upgrade to tensorflow 2.18 or augmentation to the Google Colab environment, has caused all my QML models to be unusable. Specific issue is with the inability to import the tensorflow-quantum library.
RecursionError Traceback (most recent call last)
in <cell line: 0>()
----> 1 import tensorflow as tf
2 import tensorflow_quantum as tfq
3 import cirq
4 import numpy as np
5 import sympy
16 frames
... last 4 frames repeated, from the frame below ...
/usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/numpy/core/_dtype.py in repr(dtype)
44
45 def repr(dtype):
---> 46 arg_str = _construction_repr(dtype, include_align=False)
47 if dtype.isalignedstruct:
48 arg_str = arg_str + ", align=True"
RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while getting the repr of an object
I’ve had to rewrite all my code to implement QML models using only Cirq and TensorFlow, a process that has been technically challenging and unpleasant. Even then, it is using a workaround.
Hope a fix is coming soon via a patch. I'll periodically check the basic tutorial page, suffering the same issue, to verify tensorflow-quantum functionality, but until then I've cancelled my colab pro plan. ;'(