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by doctorpangloss 228 days ago
I see another commenter highlighted this:

> The exact same float32 code updates weights on CPU but fails on MPS

It's MPS... Exactly zero research is being impacted. Why doesn't the $3.9T corporation contribute more to torch?

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As noted near the end of the article, an Apple employee had already contributed a fix to the bug:

> Checking the latest version revealed the bug was already fixed in v2.4, patched by an ML engineer at Apple last year using almost the exact same approach I’d used.

I mean, some researchers clearly use Apple Silicon for their "cheap and cheerful" runs.