this is the artifactory, this is how I install these packages in the Docker image:
pip3 install --pre torch torchvision -f https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu101/torch_nightly.html

the files are used for training and evaluation (e.g., precomputed pycocotools meta-info). I could theoretically include them in the repo, but some of them might be quite heavy. what do you mean when you say that they get lost? I copy them from the host machine when I build the custom image, so they are inside the contained when it runs
using storage manager is a decent idea, the files are on S3 anyway