diff --git a/tests/ci/azureml_tests/aml_utils.py b/tests/ci/azureml_tests/aml_utils.py
index d24ec1361..5a4d488e3 100644
--- a/tests/ci/azureml_tests/aml_utils.py
+++ b/tests/ci/azureml_tests/aml_utils.py
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ def get_or_create_environment(
   - {conda_pkg_jdk}
   - pip
   - pip:
-    - pymanopt@https://github.com/pymanopt/pymanopt/archive/fb36a272cdeecb21992cfd9271eb82baafeb316d.zip
     - recommenders[dev{",gpu" if use_gpu else ""}{",spark" if use_spark else ""}]@git+https://github.com/recommenders-team/recommenders.git@{commit_sha}
 """
     # See https://github.com/Azure/AzureML-Containers/blob/master/base/cpu/openmpi4.1.0-ubuntu22.04
diff --git a/tests/ci/azureml_tests/test_groups.py b/tests/ci/azureml_tests/test_groups.py
index aa2d78b6e..401603ad0 100644
--- a/tests/ci/azureml_tests/test_groups.py
+++ b/tests/ci/azureml_tests/test_groups.py
@@ -217,7 +217,6 @@
         "tests/unit/recommenders/evaluation/test_python_evaluation.py::test_user_item_serendipity_item_feature_vector",
         "tests/unit/recommenders/evaluation/test_python_evaluation.py::test_user_serendipity_item_feature_vector",
         "tests/unit/recommenders/evaluation/test_python_evaluation.py::test_serendipity_item_feature_vector",
-        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_imcproblem",
         "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_tfidf_utils.py::test_init",
         "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_tfidf_utils.py::test_clean_dataframe",
         "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_tfidf_utils.py::test_fit",
@@ -228,13 +227,6 @@
         "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_tfidf_utils.py::test_get_top_k_recommendations",
         "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_cornac_utils.py::test_predict",
         "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_cornac_utils.py::test_recommend_k_items",
-        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_dataptr",
-        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_length_normalize",
-        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_mean_center",
-        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_reduce_dims",
-        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_imcproblem",
-        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_inferer_init",
-        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_inferer_infer",
         "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_sar_singlenode.py::test_init",
         "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_sar_singlenode.py::test_fit",
         "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_sar_singlenode.py::test_predict",
@@ -307,7 +299,6 @@
         "tests/integration/recommenders/utils/test_k8s_utils.py",
     ],
     "group_notebooks_cpu_001": [  # Total group time: 226.42s
-        "tests/unit/examples/test_notebooks_python.py::test_rlrmc_quickstart_runs",
         "tests/unit/examples/test_notebooks_python.py::test_sar_deep_dive_runs",
         "tests/unit/examples/test_notebooks_python.py::test_baseline_deep_dive_runs",
         "tests/unit/examples/test_notebooks_python.py::test_template_runs",
@@ -456,5 +447,14 @@
         "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_lightfm_utils.py::test_sim_users",
         "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_lightfm_utils.py::test_sim_items",
         "tests/functional/examples/test_notebooks_python.py::test_lightfm_functional",
+        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_imcproblem",
+        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_dataptr",
+        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_length_normalize",
+        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_mean_center",
+        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_reduce_dims",
+        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_imcproblem",
+        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_inferer_init",
+        "tests/unit/recommenders/models/test_geoimc.py::test_inferer_infer",
+        "tests/unit/examples/test_notebooks_python.py::test_rlrmc_quickstart_runs",
     ]
 }