Repository: huggingface/lighteval
Issue: [BUG] Failed downloads / 429 rate limiting for concurrent evaluations sharing cache
Root cause: Configuration Error

## Describe the bug
When running many evals in parallel, we are seeing rate limit throttling from Huggingface (429 errors). Digging in, it appears that despite the `~/.cache/huggingface` cache directory generally containing all of our cached datasets, but traffic is still being sent to Huggingface servers, resulting in throttling and throttling-related failures.

## To Reproduce
Execute numerous lighteval task evals across multiple tasks (e.g. all of MMLU) for multiple workers on the same IP (e.g. 1-GPU eval jobs sharing the same 8-GPU node) while sharing the underlying cache directory across eval jobs.

## Expected behavior
I would expect that once a dataset is locally available in the cache directory, `lighteval` would load the cached data in such a way as to never send traffic to Huggingface's servers. 

## Version info
Please provide your operating system, lighteval version or commit if you installed from main, and pip/conda environment if your problem concerns dependencies.

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OS: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

pip environment:
```
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aenum==3.1.15
aiobotocore==2.22.0
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aiohttp==3.12.4
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aiosignal==1.3.2
annotated-types==0.7.0
antlr4-python3-runtime==4.13.2
anyio==4.9.0
attrs==25.3.0
blis==0.7.11
boto3==1.37.3
botocore==1.37.3
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certifi==2025.4.26
chardet==5.2.0
charset-normalizer==3.4.2
click==8.2.1
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confection==0.1.5
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datasets==3.6.0
dill==0.3.8
docker-pycreds==0.4.0
docstring-parser==0.16
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filelock==3.18.0
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h11==0.16.0
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iniconfig==2.1.0
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omegaconf==2.0.6
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urllib3==2.4.0
wandb==0.19.11
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xxhash==3.5.0
yarl==1.20.0
zstd==1.5.7.0
```

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