NameError: name '_create_mkl_sparse' is not defined

[abhijit57]

@grandmaster-ethereal
I have followed all the steps starting from cloning the repository to editable install and additional installation of sparse_dot_mkl as well as intel mkl as mentioned in the Readme.md file in the GitHub repo.

I was trying this code:

from xlr8.similarity import cosine_similarity
import numpy as np

A = np.random.rand(1000,1000)
B = np.random.rand(1000,1000)

cosine_similarity(A, B, blas="mkl")

And encountered this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "e:\data science\iub projects\gra_foundations and grantees\scripts and notebooks\python scripts\xlr8\similarity.py", line 84, in cosine_similarity
kernel_matrix = sparse_dot_product(
File "e:\data science\iub projects\gra_foundations and grantees\scripts and notebooks\python scripts\xlr8\linalg.py", line 198, in sparse_dot_product
a_b = dot_product(a, b)
File "e:\data science\iub projects\gra_foundations and grantees\scripts and notebooks\python scripts\xlr8\linalg.py", line 46, in mkl_dot
mkl_a, a_dbl = _create_mkl_sparse(matrix_a)
NameError: name '_create_mkl_sparse' is not defined

I also manually executed these statements:
from sparse_dot_mkl._mkl_interface._common import (MKL,
_check_return_value,
_create_mkl_sparse,
_destroy_mkl_handle,
_empty_output_check,
_is_allowed_sparse_format,
_order_mkl_handle, _type_check,
debug_print, debug_timer,
sparse_matrix_t)
from sparse_dot_mkl._sparse_sparse import _matmul_mkl

and successfully imported these statements too. But I am still encountering that NameError: '_create_mkl_sparse' is not defined.

Could you please help me with this or look into this issue?
Thanks in advance.