Cannot install tensorflow_text in virtual environment of python 3.8 mac m1

[sijia-w]

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System information

• OS Platform and Distribution (e.g., Linux Ubuntu 16.04): Mac M1
• TensorFlow version: 2.7.0
• Python version: 3.8
• Installed using virtualenv? pip? conda?: virtualenv (see https://developer.apple.com/metal/tensorflow-plugin/)

Describe the problem
To use the xx_use_md model, I started a virtualenv.

I tried to load the model by

import spacy_universal_sentence_encoder
nlp = spacy_universal_sentence_encoder.load_model('xx_use_md')

Then, I encountered the error:

FileNotFoundError: Op type not registered 'SentencepieceOp' in binary running on MacBook-Air. Make sure the Op and Kernel are registered in the binary running in this process. Note that if you are loading a saved graph which used ops from tf.contrib, accessing (e.g.) `tf.contrib.resampler` should be done before importing the graph, as contrib ops are lazily registered when the module is first accessed.
 You may be trying to load on a different device from the computational device. Consider setting the `experimental_io_device` option in `tf.saved_model.LoadOptions` to the io_device such as '/job:localhost'.

Guided by the discussion here: #38597, I tried to install tensorflow_text in the virtualenv via pip3, but this raised another error:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow_text (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow_text

Additionally, I tried to load the model by

import spacy
nlp = spacy.load('xx_use_md')

which raised the error

OSError: [E050] Can't find model 'xx_use_md'. It doesn't seem to be a Python package or a valid path to a data directory.

Then, I used the command pip3 install https://github.com/MartinoMensio/spacy-universal-sentence-encoder-tfhub/releases/download/xx_use_md-0.2.1/xx_use_md-0.2.1.tar.gz#xx_use_md-0.2.1 on https://pypi.org/project/spacy-universal-sentence-encoder/0.2.1/ . Another error happened:

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow==2.1.0 (from spacy-universal-sentence-encoder) (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow==2.1.0

It is impossible to use the 'xx_use_md' model by import spacy or import spacy_universal_sentence_encoder in the virtualenv. However, when I tried with the same code on Colab, similar errors occurred and were resolved by installing and importing tensowflow_text.

[mohantym]

Hi @sijia-w ! Please change your command "pip install tensorflow_text" to "pip install tensorflow-text" . You can import tensorflow -text with this command "import tensorflow_text as tf_text" after that. Thanks!

[sijia-w]

Hi @mohantym Thanks a lot for your quick response! Unfortunately, still the same error.

[mohantym]

Hi @sijia-w ! Could you please post on Tensorflow-text repo ?Attaching relevant thread for reference. Thanks!

[sijia-w]

Hi @mohantym, Sure! See tensorflow/text#837. Shall I close this issue?

[mohantym]

Ok @sijia-w ! Closing this issue here as it will be tracked in Tensorflow-text repo. Thanks!

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[mohantym]

Hi @sijia-w !
Re-opening as requested.
Thank you!

[sijia-w]

@mohantym I used it in Google Colab. Is this issue re-opened automatically? Shall I close it?

[tilakrayal]

@sijia-w,
Have you got the chance to have a look at this PR tensorflow/text#756 for the similar feature for Apple Silicon support. By installing tensorflow-macos 2.6.0 and tensorflow-metal 0.2.0, TF.Text can be compiled from source code(Currently Apple does not provide a preview version of tensorflow-macos and tf-nightly, so TF.Text can only build a stable version.). The PR was also merged.

Also the similar issue was already being tracked in the tensorflow-text repo for the same. tensorflow/text#823. Thank you!

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Closing as stale. Please reopen if you'd like to work on this further.

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[luis-arellano]

I'm running into the same issue. I have a mac with M1.
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow-text (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow-text