Update check of core deps (#24277)

src/transformers/dependency_versions_check.py

@@ -23,9 +23,21 @@
 # order specific notes:
 # - tqdm must be checked before tokenizers
 
-pkgs_to_check_at_runtime = "python tqdm regex requests packaging filelock numpy tokenizers".split()
-if sys.version_info < (3, 7):
-    pkgs_to_check_at_runtime.append("dataclasses")
+pkgs_to_check_at_runtime = [
+    "python",
+    "tqdm",
+    "regex",
+    "requests",
+    "packaging",
+    "filelock",
+    "numpy",
+    "tokenizers",
+    "huggingface-hub",
+    "safetensors",
+    "accelerate",
+    "pyyaml",
+]
+
 if sys.version_info < (3, 8):
     pkgs_to_check_at_runtime.append("importlib_metadata")
 
@@ -37,6 +49,14 @@
 
             if not is_tokenizers_available():
                 continue  # not required, check version only if installed
+        elif pkg == "accelerate":
+            # must be loaded here, or else tqdm check may fail
+            from .utils import is_accelerate_available
+
+            # Maybe switch to is_torch_available in the future here so that Accelerate is hard dep of
+            # Transformers with PyTorch
+            if not is_accelerate_available():
+                continue  # not required, check version only if installed
 
         require_version_core(deps[pkg])
     else: