remove protobuf from reqs (#15502)

* relax protobuf pinning

Signed-off-by: nithinraok <nithinrao.koluguri@gmail.com>

* remove protobuf from reqs

Signed-off-by: nithinraok <nithinrao.koluguri@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: nithinraok <nithinrao.koluguri@gmail.com>

Author: nithinraok

nemo/core/classes/mixins/hf_io_mixin.py

@@ -116,9 +116,7 @@ def search_huggingface_models(cls, model_filter: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None
         # Setup extra arguments for model filtering
         all_results = []  # type: List[ModelInfo]
 
-        results = api.list_models(
-            token=hf_token, sort="lastModified", direction=-1, **model_filter
-        )  # type: Iterable[ModelInfo]
+        results = api.list_models(token=hf_token, sort="lastModified", **model_filter)  # type: Iterable[ModelInfo]
 
         return results
 

requirements/requirements.txt

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ numexpr<2.14.0 # WAR for attempted use of nonexistent numpy.typing
 numpy>=1.22
 onnx>=1.7.0
 # Align with upstream PyTorch requirements
-protobuf>=6.33
 python-dateutil
 ruamel.yaml
 scikit-learn