Merge branch 'latest' into latest

Author: openvino-dev-samples

.ci/check_links.py

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
     "https://llama.meta.com/llama3",
     "wikipedia.org",
     "https://huggingface.co",
+    "https://monai.io/",
 ]
 
 

notebooks/README.md

@@ -105,7 +105,10 @@
     "    pip_install(\"numpy<2.0\")\n",
     "\n",
     "pip_install(\n",
-    "    \"git+https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step.git@6ae0852b1388de6dc0cca26b31a86d711f723cb3\", \"--extra-index-url\", \"https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu\"\n",
+    "    \"git+https://github.com/ace-step/ACE-Step.git@6ae0852b1388de6dc0cca26b31a86d711f723cb3\",\n",
+    "    \"torch>=2.2.2,<2.8\",\n",
+    "    \"--extra-index-url\",\n",
+    "    \"https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu\",\n",
     ")\n",
     "\n",
     "pip_install(\"openvino>=2025.1.0\", \"openvino-tokenizers>=2025.1.0\", \"nncf>=2.16.0\")\n",

notebooks/ace-step-music-generation/ace-step-music-generation.ipynb

@@ -522,7 +522,7 @@ def load_models(self, ov_models_path: str = None, device: str = "CPU"):
             self.text_encoder_model = self.core.compile_model(ov_text_encoder_model, device)
 
             ov_text_tokenizer_path = self.core.read_model(Path(ov_models_path, TOKENIZER_MODEL_NAME))
-            self.text_tokenizer = self.core.compile_model(ov_text_tokenizer_path, device)
+            self.text_tokenizer = self.core.compile_model(ov_text_tokenizer_path, "CPU")  # tokenizer can only be inferred on CPU
 
             self.music_dcae = MusicDCAEWrapper()
             self.music_dcae.dcae = OVWrapperAutoencoderDC.from_pretrained(self.core, ov_models_path, device)

notebooks/ace-step-music-generation/ov_ace_helper.py

@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@
     "pip_install(\n",
     "    \"-q\",\n",
     "    \"gradio>=4.19\",\n",
-    "    \"torch>=2.1\",\n",
-    "    \"transformers\",\n",
+    "    \"torch>=2.1,<2.9\",\n",
+    "    \"transformers==4.55.4\",\n",
     "    \"nncf>=2.15.0\",\n",
     "    \"opencv-python\",\n",
     "    \"pillow\",\n",

notebooks/flux.1-kontext/flux.1-kontext.ipynb

@@ -67,8 +67,26 @@
     "from pathlib import Path\n",
     "import requests\n",
     "\n",
-    "%pip install -q \"kokoro>=0.8.2\" \"misaki[en]>=0.8.2\" soundfile \"transformers!=4.49.0\" --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu\n",
-    "%pip install -q -U --pre \"openvino>=2025.1.0\" --extra-index-url https://storage.openvinotoolkit.org/simple/wheels/nightly\n",
+    "if not Path(\"pip_helper.py\").exists():\n",
+    "    r = requests.get(\n",
+    "        url=\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino_notebooks/latest/utils/pip_helper.py\",\n",
+    "    )\n",
+    "    open(\"pip_helper.py\", \"w\").write(r.text)\n",
+    "\n",
+    "from pip_helper import pip_install\n",
+    "\n",
+    "pip_install(\n",
+    "    \"-q\",\n",
+    "    \"kokoro>=0.8.2\",\n",
+    "    \"misaki[en]>=0.8.2\",\n",
+    "    \"soundfile\",\n",
+    "    \"transformers==4.53.3\",\n",
+    "    \"torch<2.9\",\n",
+    "    \"gradio>=4.19\",\n",
+    "    \"openvino>=2025.3.0\",\n",
+    "    \"--extra-index-url\",\n",
+    "    \"https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu\",\n",
+    ")\n",
     "\n",
     "if platform.system() == \"Darwin\":\n",
     "    %pip install -q \"numpy<2.0\"\n",