test_serialization_state_norm failed during test run on Ubuntu 20.04

Environment details:
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Windows subsystem for Linux)
Miniconda 4.8.3
Python 3.8.5

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create conda environment
   conda create -n <my-env> python=3.8
   Replace <my-env> with desired environment name.

2. Activate the conda environment
   conda activate <my-env>

3. Install dependencies as mentioned in README. numpy: conda install numpy
   scipy: conda install scipy
   Pytorch: conda install pytorch torchvision cpuonly -c pytorch
   Above command for pytorch installation is generated from https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/ specific for a Linux + conda environment
   numericalunits: conda install -c conda-forge numericalunits
   matplotlib: conda install matplotlib
   svgwrite: conda install -c conda-forge svgwrite
   requests: conda install requests
   nose: conda install nose
pip3 install git+https://github.com/pulkin/dfttools.git#subdirectory=src

4. Clone the miniff repository

5. Build and install

python3 setup.py build
python3 setup.py install

6. Rnun tests

python3 setup.py nosetests

Below is an excerpt of the output after executing the command python setup.py nosetests. The full terminal log is attached.

ERROR: test_serialization_state_norm (miniff.test_ml.LJBoxTestUnalignedTwoComponentCharges)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/nagrawal/miniff/miniff/test_ml.py", line 588, in test_serialization_state_norm
    ref = ml.NNPotential.from_state_dict(torch.load(f))
  File "/home/nagrawal/miniconda3/envs/dressingupmlcode/lib/python3.8/site-packages/torch/serialization.py", line 577, in load
    with _open_zipfile_reader(opened_file) as opened_zipfile:
  File "/home/nagrawal/miniconda3/envs/dressingupmlcode/lib/python3.8/site-packages/torch/serialization.py", line 241, in __init__
    super(_open_zipfile_reader, self).__init__(torch._C.PyTorchFileReader(name_or_buffer))
RuntimeError: [enforce fail at inline_container.cc:144] . PytorchStreamReader failed reading zip archive: invalid header or archive is corrupted

errorlog.log