# Inference Widget “Model doesn’t exist” error for public model (was working before)

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**Category:** Models\
**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/inference-widget-model-doesn-t-exist-error-for-public-model-was-working-before/145252 "2025-03-11T17:48:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![unfavalen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/unfavalen/32/43042_2.png) [@unfavalen](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/unfavalen)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/inference-widget-model-doesn-t-exist-error-for-public-model-was-working-before/145252/1 "2025-03-11T17:48:24Z")

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Hi,

I have a public model here: [robiai/picasoe · Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/robiai/picasoe)

The Inference API works properly, but the Inference widget on the model page shows “model doesn’t exist”.

What’s strange is that the widget was working fine previously, and no changes were made on my end when this issue started.

The model uses pipeline\_tag: text-to-image and is adapter-based (Lora/adapter model), in case that’s relevant.

Can you help investigate? This seems like a backend or caching issue on the widget side.

Thanks a lot!  
robiai

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 8:21am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/inference-widget-model-doesn-t-exist-error-for-public-model-was-working-before/145252/2 "2025-03-12T08:21:36Z")

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I’m getting the same error elsewhere too. I think it was working a day or two ago, so I suspect a temporary malfunction with Hugging Face.  
On a different note, I’ve been struggling with a problem that seems to be related to this one all day…  
It looks like the problem on my end has fixed itself.😅

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**Author:** ![rockmatas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@rockmatas](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/rockmatas)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/inference-widget-model-doesn-t-exist-error-for-public-model-was-working-before/145252/3 "2025-04-14T12:10:14Z")

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I’m having the same problem with [stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-refiner-1.0 · Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-refiner-1.0)  
It was working fine, until it wasn’t without any changes in the code on my end.