TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

[Bai Bing]

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bin /opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/bitsandbytes-0.39.1-py3.8.egg/bitsandbytes/libbitsandbytes_cuda116.so
CUDA SETUP: CUDA runtime path found: /usr/local/cuda/lib64/libcudart.so.11.0
CUDA SETUP: Highest compute capability among GPUs detected: 8.0
CUDA SETUP: Detected CUDA version 116
CUDA SETUP: Loading binary /opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/bitsandbytes-0.39.1-py3.8.egg/bitsandbytes/libbitsandbytes_cuda116.so...
/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/torchvision/io/image.py:11: UserWarning: Failed to load image Python extension: libtorch_cuda_cu.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
warn(f"Failed to load image Python extension: {e}")
num of inst captions, masks, boxes and points: 4 4 4 4
config for evaluation: {'diffusion': {'target': 'ldm.models.diffusion.ldm.LatentDiffusion', 'params': {'linear_start': 0.00085, 'linear_end': 0.012, 'timesteps': 1000}}, 'model': {'target': 'ldm.modules.diffusionmodules.openaimodel.UNetModel', 'params': {'image_size': 64, 'in_channels': 4, 'out_channels': 4, 'model_channels': 320, 'attention_resolutions': [4, 2, 1], 'num_res_blocks': 2, 'channel_mult': [1, 2, 4, 4], 'num_heads': 8, 'transformer_depth': 1, 'context_dim': 768, 'fuser_type': 'gatedSA', 'use_checkpoint': True, 'sd_v1_5': True, 'efficient_attention': True, 'grounding_tokenizer': {'target': 'ldm.modules.diffusionmodules.text_grounding_net.UniFusion', 'params': {'in_dim': 768, 'out_dim': 768, 'mid_dim': 3072, 'train_add_boxes': True, 'train_add_points': True, 'train_add_scribbles': True, 'train_add_masks': True, 'test_drop_boxes': False, 'test_drop_points': False, 'test_drop_scribbles': True, 'test_drop_masks': True, 'use_seperate_tokenizer': True}}}}, 'autoencoder': {'target': 'ldm.models.autoencoder.AutoencoderKL', 'params': {'scale_factor': 0.18215, 'embed_dim': 4, 'ddconfig': {'double_z': True, 'z_channels': 4, 'resolution': 256, 'in_channels': 3, 'out_ch': 3, 'ch': 128, 'ch_mult': [1, 2, 4, 4], 'num_res_blocks': 2, 'attn_resolutions': [], 'dropout': 0.0}}}, 'text_encoder': {'target': 'ldm.modules.encoders.modules.FrozenCLIPEmbedder'}, 'train_dataset_names': {'Grounding': {'which_layer_text': 'before', 'image_size': 512, 'max_boxes_per_data': 30, 'prob_use_caption': 1.0, 'random_crop': False, 'random_flip': True}}, 'grounding_tokenizer_input': {'target': 'grounding_input.text_grounding_tokinzer_input.GroundingNetInput'}}
Working with z of shape (1, 4, 32, 32) = 4096 dimensions.
saved image with boxes at OUTPUT/gc7.5-seed0-alpha0.8/4_boxes.png
Loading pipeline components...: 40%|█████████████▏ | 2/5 [01:08<01:42, 34.00s/it]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "inference.py", line 310, in
run(meta, model, autoencoder, text_encoder, diffusion, clip_model, clip_processor, config, grounding_tokenizer_input, starting_noise, guidance_scale=args.guidance_scale)
File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/torch/utils/_contextlib.py", line 115, in decorate_context
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "inference.py", line 114, in run
pipe = StableDiffusionXLImg2ImgPipeline.from_pretrained(
File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_validators.py", line 118, in _inner_fn
return fn(*args, **kwargs)
File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/diffusers/pipelines/pipeline_utils.py", line 1286, in from_pretrained
loaded_sub_model = load_sub_model(
File "/opt/conda/lib/python3.8/site-packages/diffusers/pipelines/pipeline_utils.py", line 531, in load_sub_model
loaded_sub_model = load_method(os.path.join(cached_folder, name), **loading_kwargs)
File "/opt/conda/envs/transformers/src/transformers/tokenization_utils_base.py", line 1846, in from_pretrained
return cls._from_pretrained(
File "/opt/conda/envs/transformers/src/transformers/tokenization_utils_base.py", line 2009, in _from_pretrained
tokenizer = cls(*init_inputs, **init_kwargs)
File "/opt/conda/envs/transformers/src/transformers/models/clip/tokenization_clip.py", line 328, in init
with open(merges_file, encoding="utf-8") as merges_handle:
TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not NoneType

[XuDong Frank Wang]

Hi, it seems like that the `merges_file' your provided is None. merges_file should be the path of the files.