How To downgrade Torch Version for Google Colab

Question

I would like to downgrade the Torch version used in my Google Colab notebooks. How could I do that?

Answer 1

Run from your cell:

!pip install torch==version

Where version could be, for example, 1.3.0 (default is 1.4.0). You may have to downgrade torchvision appropriately as well so you would go with:

!pip install torch==1.3.0 torchvision==0.4.1

On the other hand PyTorch provides backward compatibility between major versions so there should be no need for downgrading.

Remember you have to restart your Google Colab for changes to take effect