diff --git a/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/3_prune.py b/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/3_prune.py
index 8730f23464..5067a7aa7e 100644
--- a/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/3_prune.py
+++ b/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/3_prune.py
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@
 from scipy.cluster.hierarchy import fcluster, linkage
 from utils import attach_ray_client_args, centroid_id, create_ray_client, list_centroid_dirs
 
-import nemo_curator.stages.text.io.writer.utils as writer_utils
 from nemo_curator.pipeline.pipeline import Pipeline
 from nemo_curator.stages.text.filters import DocumentFilter, Score
 from nemo_curator.stages.text.io.reader import JsonlReader, ParquetReader
 from nemo_curator.stages.text.io.writer import JsonlWriter
 from nemo_curator.tasks import DocumentBatch, FileGroupTask
 from nemo_curator.utils.client_utils import is_remote_url
+from nemo_curator.utils.hash_utils import get_deterministic_hash
 
 
 def preprocess_text(text: str) -> str:
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ def process(self, task: DocumentBatch) -> FileGroupTask:
             if centroid is None:
                 msg = f"source_file {source_file} parent dir is not centroid=<int>"
                 raise RuntimeError(msg)
-            filename = f"centroid={centroid}/{writer_utils.get_deterministic_hash(source_files, task.task_id)}"
+            filename = f"centroid={centroid}/{get_deterministic_hash(source_files, task.task_id)}"
         else:
             msg = "The task either does not have source_files in metadata or source_files does not contain a 'centroid=' directory"
             raise RuntimeError(msg)
diff --git a/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/README.md b/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/README.md
index 0ac6f42100..e81bf5a5a3 100644
--- a/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/README.md
+++ b/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Nemotron-Climb Data Curation
+# Nemotron-CLIMB Data Curation
 
 [CLustering-based Iterative Data Mixture Bootstrapping (Nemotron-CLIMB)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13161) is an automated framework that discovers, evaluates, and refines data mixtures in a pretraining setting. Specifically, Nemotron-CLIMB embeds and clusters large-scale datasets in a semantic space and then iteratively searches for optimal mixtures using a smaller proxy model and a predictor.
 
diff --git a/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/utils.py b/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/utils.py
index ac4dd672a9..bd532e224b 100644
--- a/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/utils.py
+++ b/tutorials/text/nemotron-climb-data-curation/utils.py
@@ -15,19 +15,22 @@
 import argparse
 import os
 from pathlib import Path
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
-from nemo_curator.core.client import RayClient
-from nemo_curator.core.constants import (
-    DEFAULT_RAY_CLIENT_SERVER_PORT,
-    DEFAULT_RAY_DASHBOARD_HOST,
-    DEFAULT_RAY_DASHBOARD_PORT,
-    DEFAULT_RAY_METRICS_PORT,
-    DEFAULT_RAY_PORT,
-    DEFAULT_RAY_TEMP_DIR,
-)
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from nemo_curator.core.client import RayClient
 
 
 def attach_ray_client_args(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser) -> None:
+    from nemo_curator.core.constants import (
+        DEFAULT_RAY_CLIENT_SERVER_PORT,
+        DEFAULT_RAY_DASHBOARD_HOST,
+        DEFAULT_RAY_DASHBOARD_PORT,
+        DEFAULT_RAY_METRICS_PORT,
+        DEFAULT_RAY_PORT,
+        DEFAULT_RAY_TEMP_DIR,
+    )
+
     parser.add_argument("--ray-port", type=int, default=DEFAULT_RAY_PORT)
     parser.add_argument("--ray-dashboard-port", type=int, default=DEFAULT_RAY_DASHBOARD_PORT)
     parser.add_argument("--ray-client-server-port", type=int, default=DEFAULT_RAY_CLIENT_SERVER_PORT)
@@ -42,7 +45,9 @@ def attach_ray_client_args(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser) -> None:
     parser.add_argument("--metrics-dir", type=str, default=None)
 
 
-def create_ray_client(args: argparse.Namespace) -> RayClient:
+def create_ray_client(args: argparse.Namespace) -> "RayClient":
+    from nemo_curator.core.client import RayClient
+
     return RayClient(
         ray_port=args.ray_port,
         ray_dashboard_port=args.ray_dashboard_port,