Make sure Kagglehub downloads models to the right place

Colab Enterprise is nice. You can define your own runtime templates for VMs to run Jupyter notebooks on. Attach persistent disks. Good stuff.

Right up until you realize certain libraries - in this case kagglehub - don’t let you specify where models get downloaded on the local file system.

You can have a 2TB disk mounted on /content but it doesn’t matter if kagglehub.model_download caches its models somewhere else.

It does.

It caches models at ~/.cache/kagglehub/models.

One thing to do:

$ cd ~/.cache/kagglehub

$ mv models /content/

$ ln -s /content/models

That’s it.

-J