refactor path to root preventing circular import

[Borda]

What does this PR do?

Addressing potential issue in Lightning-AI/torchmetrics#1886

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[carmocca]

Can you explain how these changes fix the problem?

[Borda]

Can you explain how these changes fix the problem?

because it imports something you do not need