diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs-build.yml b/.github/workflows/docs-build.yml
index 656e008b667..0eb0f825f59 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs-build.yml
@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ defaults:
 
 env:
   FREEZE_REQUIREMENTS: "1"
-  TORCH_URL: "https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/"
   PYPI_CACHE: "_ci-cache_PyPI"
+  TORCH_URL: "https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/"
+  UV_TORCH_BACKEND: "cpu"
   PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION: "python"
   TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM: false
   SPHINX_MOCK_REQUIREMENTS: 0
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 7bdeb5b34ec..8edc9ba4f25 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -305,6 +305,11 @@ def _set_root_image_path(page_path: str) -> None:
 }
 nitpicky = True
 
+nitpick_ignore = [
+    ("py:class", "typing.Self"),
+    ("py:data", "typing.Union"),
+]
+
 # -- Options for to-do extension ----------------------------------------------
 
 # If true, `todo` and `todoList` produce output, else they produce nothing.
@@ -455,4 +460,7 @@ def linkcode_resolve(domain, info) -> Optional[str]:  # noqa: ANN001
     # todo: these links seems to be unstable, referring to .devcontainer
     "https://code.visualstudio.com",
     "https://code.visualstudio.com/.*",
+    # Ignore Medium articles which return 403 to automated clients
+    # Mean-Average-Precision (mAP) and Mean-Average-Recall (mAR)
+    "https://jonathan-hui.medium.com/map-mean-average-precision-for-object-detection-45c121a31173",
 ]