I solved it by patching collections before loading deepseek_vl

Something like:

# Monkey patch collections
import collections
import collections.abc
for type_name in collections.abc.__all__:
    setattr(collections, type_name, getattr(collections.abc, type_name))

from deepseek_vl.models import VLChatProcessor, MultiModalityCausalLM

if you want to stay on Python 3.10.

I did a bit of hardway... went to each of the files in the lib folders and moded it...

• aimachine/lib/python3.10/site-packages/attrdict/default.py
• aimachine/lib/python3.10/site-packages/attrdict/merge.py
• aimachine/lib/python3.10/site-packages/attrdict/mixins.py
• aimachine/lib/python3.10/site-packages/attrdict/mapping.py

After doing it, came for posting the solution to find that, there is a smarter solution. Thanks to Fodark.

import collections.abc
for type_name in collections.abc.__all__:
    setattr(collections, type_name, getattr(collections.abc, type_name))

Fixed in #21