Revert "torch 2.9 don't ❤️ torchcodec 💔 (#41610)"

This reverts commit 96d245a83da0c5b154b98ef6559f9981cc1aefc2.

docker/consistency.dockerfile

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ARG REF=main
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y time git g++ pkg-config make git-lfs
 ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
 RUN pip install uv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools GitPython
-RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade 'torch<2.9' 'torchaudio' 'torchvision' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade 'torch' 'torchaudio' 'torchvision' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir pypi-kenlm
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[quality,testing,torch-speech,vision]"
 RUN git lfs install

docker/custom-tokenizers.dockerfile

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ RUN make install -j 10
 
 WORKDIR /
 
-RUN uv pip install --no-cache --upgrade 'torch<2.9' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+RUN uv pip install --no-cache --upgrade 'torch' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir  --no-deps accelerate --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install  --no-cache-dir "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[ja,testing,sentencepiece,spacy,ftfy,rjieba]" unidic unidic-lite
 # spacy is not used so not tested. Causes to failures. TODO fix later

docker/examples-torch.dockerfile

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ USER root
 RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git g++ cmake pkg-config openssh-client git-lfs ffmpeg curl
 ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
 RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
-RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch<2.9' 'torchaudio' 'torchvision' 'torchcodec' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch' 'torchaudio' 'torchvision' 'torchcodec' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-deps timm accelerate --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir librosa "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[sklearn,sentencepiece,vision,testing]" seqeval albumentations jiwer
 

docker/exotic-models.dockerfile

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ USER root
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git libgl1 g++ tesseract-ocr git-lfs curl
 ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
 RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
-RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch<2.9' 'torchaudio' 'torchvision' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch' 'torchaudio' 'torchvision' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir  --no-deps timm accelerate
 RUN uv pip install -U --no-cache-dir pytesseract python-Levenshtein opencv-python nltk
 # RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir natten==0.15.1+torch210cpu -f https://shi-labs.com/natten/wheels

docker/pipeline-torch.dockerfile

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ USER root
 RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git pkg-config openssh-client git ffmpeg curl
 ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
 RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
-RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch<2.9' 'torchaudio' 'torchvision' 'torchcodec' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch' 'torchaudio' 'torchvision' 'torchcodec' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-deps timm accelerate --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir librosa "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[sklearn,sentencepiece,vision,testing]"
 

docker/torch-light.dockerfile

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ USER root
 RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libsndfile1-dev espeak-ng time git g++ cmake pkg-config openssh-client git-lfs ffmpeg curl
 ENV UV_PYTHON=/usr/local/bin/python
 RUN pip --no-cache-dir install uv && uv pip install --no-cache-dir -U pip setuptools
-RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch<2.9' 'torchaudio' 'torchvision' 'torchcodec' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
+RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir 'torch' 'torchaudio' 'torchvision' 'torchcodec' --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-deps timm accelerate --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 RUN uv pip install --no-cache-dir librosa "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@${REF}#egg=transformers[sklearn,sentencepiece,vision,testing,tiktoken,num2words,video]"
 

setup.py

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ _deps = [
     "tiktoken",
     "timm<=1.0.19,!=1.0.18",
     "tokenizers>=0.22.0,<=0.23.0",
-    "torch>=2.2,<2.9",
+    "torch>=2.2",
     "torchaudio",
     "torchvision",
     "pyctcdecode>=0.4.0",

src/transformers/dependency_versions_table.py

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ deps = {
     "tiktoken": "tiktoken",
     "timm": "timm<=1.0.19,!=1.0.18",
     "tokenizers": "tokenizers>=0.22.0,<=0.23.0",
-    "torch": "torch>=2.2,<2.9",
+    "torch": "torch>=2.2",
     "torchaudio": "torchaudio",
     "torchvision": "torchvision",
     "pyctcdecode": "pyctcdecode>=0.4.0",