diff --git a/nemo_curator/modules/fuzzy_dedup.py b/nemo_curator/modules/fuzzy_dedup.py
index 22134a11..782fd825 100644
--- a/nemo_curator/modules/fuzzy_dedup.py
+++ b/nemo_curator/modules/fuzzy_dedup.py
@@ -33,10 +33,9 @@
 from cugraph import MultiGraph
 from dask import dataframe as dd
 from dask.utils import M
-from packaging.version import parse as parse_version
-from regex import F
 from tqdm import tqdm
 
+from nemo_curator._compat import MINHASH_PERMUTED_AVAILABLE
 from nemo_curator.datasets import DocumentDataset
 from nemo_curator.log import create_logger
 from nemo_curator.modules.config import FuzzyDuplicatesConfig
@@ -66,12 +65,6 @@
     write_partitioned_file,
 )
 
-CURRENT_CUDF_VERSION = parse_version(cudf.__version__)
-MINHASH_PERMUTED_AVAILABLE = CURRENT_CUDF_VERSION >= parse_version("24.12.0") or (
-    CURRENT_CUDF_VERSION.is_prerelease
-    and CURRENT_CUDF_VERSION.base_version >= "24.12.0"
-)
-
 
 class MinHash:
     """