Problem with Tensorflow package when it's used by Lucid package

Question

So I am trying to use the code in this link:

https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/lucid/blob/master/notebooks/differentiable-parameterizations/style_transfer_2d.ipynb#scrollTo=FsFc1mE51tCd

it's giving some errors when Lucid is trying to use Tensorflow at the first part where it tries to import. I tried to install some different Tensorflow versions and some different Lucid versions but still could not get it working.

Here are some of errors I get:

when I try

from lucid.modelzoo import vision_models

I get this

 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/lucid/misc/io/reading.py in <module>()
 31 from urllib.parse import urlparse, urljoin
 32 from future.moves.urllib import request
 33 from tensorflow import gfile
 34 from tempfile import gettempdir
 35 from io import BytesIO, StringIO

 ImportError: cannot import name 'gfile'

when I try:

 import lucid.optvis.param as param

I get this error:

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/lucid/optvis/param/cppn.py in <module>()
 19 import numpy as np
 20 import tensorflow as tf
 21 from tensorflow.contrib import slim
 22 
 23 

 ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tensorflow.contrib'

Answer 1

As for today, lucid does not work with tensorflow2.0 and later versions. However, you can use tf1.15 or any older version and this should solve it.