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+## Offline usage (HPC clusters without internet)
+
+If your cluster doesn’t allow internet access on compute nodes, **pre-download the model on the front-end/login node** (which has internet), so it’s cached locally, then run jobs offline:
+
+```bash
+# On the front-end/login node (with internet):
+python -c "from transformers import AutoModel; AutoModel.from_pretrained('sofieneb/histaug-conch', trust_remote_code=True)"
+
+# On your compute job (no internet):
+export HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1
+export TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE=1
+```
+
+This prevents unnecessary network calls and ensures `transformers` loads HistAug from the local cache.
+
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 ## Paper