use pyarrow

binding_affinity.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 import huggingface_hub
 import pandas as pd
 import os
-
+import pyarrow.parquet as pq
 import datasets
 
 
@@ -167,5 +167,5 @@ class BindingAffinity(datasets.ArrowBasedBuilder):
     def _generate_tables(
         self, filepath, split  # method parameters are unpacked from `gen_kwargs` as given in `_split_generators`
     ):
-        df = pd.read_parquet(filepath)
+        df = pq.read_table(filepath)
         yield split, df