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Mistral GPU access and drivers are painful

2 posts from 2 people2d activeFading, +0 this weekunverified

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Posts per day2 posts, Oct 26 to Nov 9

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GitHub issuesvllm-project/vllm · hao-aaronNov 1

[Bug]: NCCL weight sync: packed transfer fails to unpack misaligned tensors (pack_tensors has no alignment)

### Your current environment Reproduces on CPU from current main (`vllm/distributed/weight_transfer/packed_tensor.py`); no GPU or model needed. ### 🐛 Describe the bug The packed NCCL weight sync (and the packed IPC path) can fail to unpack a buffer with: `pack_tensors` flattens...

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GitHub issueshuggingface/transformers · Robertboy18Oct 26

Trainer scales the loss of heads that take `**kwargs` but return a mean loss by `world_size * gradient_accumulation_steps` (BERT family, BART/T5, ...)

Hi! I was checking DDP steps of the `Trainer` against a single process on the same global batch, and BERT sequence classification came out with `world_size` times the step of one process, on 5.20.2 (I also read the same code paths on main, `b3d3a61611`, but only ran 5.20.2). My...

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Evidence

2 posts from 2 people in 2 places, about 2 a week over 7 days. Mostly on huggingface/transformers, vllm-project/vllm. Tools named alongside: Qwen, Hugging Face, vLLM, GitHub.

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How it was grouped

Posts that state a pain and match the "gpu-access" rule about Mistral. First post Oct 26, 2026, latest Nov 1, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method

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History

Momentum went from steady to fading.

Nov 8, 2026

First seen with 2 posts.

Nov 7, 2026