Trouble with PyTorch macos
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[Accelerator] empty_host_cache() segfaults on macOS / PyTorch 2.13.0
Calling the public `torch.accelerator.empty_host_cache()` API in a fresh Python process crashes with SIGSEGV on Apple Silicon environment. ## Reproduction Above crashes with SIGSEGV due to the null pointer dereference in...
[MPS] "Failed to created pipeline state object" due to "unsupported deferred-static-alloca-size" in cooperative_tensor during cholesky_ex on virtualized macOS runners
...on virtualised macOS environments (e.g. GitHub Actions `macos-latest` runners). I am unable to reproduce this issue locally on actual Mac hardware. Because I am unable to reproduce this locally, here is the output from one of the virtualised runners where this happened (see...
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2 posts from 2 people in 1 place, about 1 a week over 9 days. Mostly on pytorch/pytorch. Tools named alongside: vLLM, GitHub, GitHub Actions.
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Posts about PyTorch with no known issue, sharing the word "macos". First post Sep 10, 2026, latest Sep 18, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method
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