[GHA] Use TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 instead of LaMini-GPT-124M (#1816)

Replaced the model causing the sporadic issues in CI

Author: mryzhov

tests/python_tests/samples/conftest.py

@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
 # - "name": the model's name or path
 # - "convert_args": a list of arguments for the conversion command
 MODELS = {
-    "LaMini-GPT-124M": { 
-        "name": "MBZUAI/LaMini-GPT-124M",
+    "TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0": { 
+        "name": "TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0",
         "convert_args": []
     },
     "SmolLM-135M": {

tests/python_tests/samples/test_greedy_causal_lm.py

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ class TestGreedyCausalLM:
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "convert_model, sample_args",
         [
-            pytest.param("LaMini-GPT-124M", "test"),
+            pytest.param("TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0", "test"),
             pytest.param("SmolLM-135M", "return 0"),
             pytest.param("Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct", "69"),
         ],

tests/python_tests/samples/test_multinomial_causal_lm.py

@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ class TestMultinomialCausalLM:
         "convert_model, sample_args",
         [
             pytest.param("SmolLM-135M", "return 0"),
-            pytest.param("LaMini-GPT-124M", "0"),
+            pytest.param(
+                "TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0", 
+                "0", 
+                marks=pytest.mark.skipif(sys.platform == "darwin", reason="CVS-163463")
+            ),
         ],
         indirect=["convert_model"],
     )

tests/python_tests/utils/network.py

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2025 Intel Corporation
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-import requests
 import time
 import logging
 from huggingface_hub.utils import HfHubHTTPError
 from subprocess import CalledProcessError # nosec B404
+from requests.exceptions import RequestException
 
 # Configure the logger
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
@@ -25,14 +25,15 @@ def retry_request(func, retries=5):
     network_error_patterns = [
         "ConnectionError",
         "Timeout",
+        "Time-out",
         "ServiceUnavailable",
         "InternalServerError"
     ]
 
     for attempt in range(retries):
         try:
             return func()
-        except (CalledProcessError, requests.exceptions.ConnectionError, requests.exceptions.Timeout, HfHubHTTPError) as e:
+        except (CalledProcessError, RequestException, HfHubHTTPError) as e:
             if isinstance(e, CalledProcessError):
                 if any(pattern in e.stderr for pattern in network_error_patterns):
                     logger.warning(f"CalledProcessError occurred: {e.stderr}")