Publishing is failing possibly due to timeout validating quantum_transformer.ipynb

[mitchdz]

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Describe the bug

The publishing pipeline is getting a context cancelled which is usually related to timeouts when validating the newly added quantum_transformer.ipynb in https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-quantum/actions/runs/13640844145/job/38132888363#step:5:1361. This notebook was recently added in https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuda-quantum/pull/2614

Steps to reproduce the bug

Run the publishing pipeline

Expected behavior

Publishing passes

Is this a regression? If it is, put the last known working version (or commit) here.

Not a regression

Environment

• CUDA-Q version: latest
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[mitchdz]

I've been trying to reproduce this locally, but with no luck yet.

[mitchdz]

@sacpis has mentioned the test takes a few hours, so this is likely the CI failure. I will add a commit soon to skip this validation.

[mitchdz]

This needs a longer discussion on how we handle these more involved notebooks. Perhaps we separate them into a new area that is ran on special runners every fortnite instead of during every publishing like it currently is.