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Question: Can't download model checkpoints from Azure blob model registry

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
azure, python
Domain
cloud, machine-learning

Research direction

Start with _model_registry.py and inspect the Azure Blob paths configured for the GPT-2 checkpoints. Verify whether those locations are intended to be publicly readable and document the access requirement or repository-side change needed for checkpoint retrieval; completion requires a confirmed, reproducible access path.

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Description

I am attempting to download model checkpoints from the Azure Blob Model Registry associated with this repository. However, access denial errors appear to suggest that there's no public access to that storage, but only access via accounts that are added as external to openAI's tenant.

filename: model_registry.py

_MODEL_SPECS: dict[str, StandardModelSpec] = {
    # GPT-2 series
    "gpt2-small": StandardModelSpec(
        model_path="az://openaipublic/neuron-explainer/subject-models/gpt2/small"
    ),
    "gpt2-medium": StandardModelSpec(
        model_path="az://openaipublic/neuron-explainer/subject-models/gpt2/medium"
    ),
    "gpt2-large": StandardModelSpec(
        model_path="az://openaipublic/neuron-explainer/subject-models/gpt2/large"
    ),
    "gpt2-xl": StandardModelSpec(
        model_path="az://openaipublic/neuron-explainer/subject-models/gpt2/xl"
    ),
}
access denial error

Could you please verify whether the aforementioned Azure Blob storage is intended to be publicly accessible for model checkpoint retrieval?

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