macOS (M-series) install failing / unstable due to NumPy 2.x & PyTorch / Transformers incompatibilities

[lynnetea]

Hello! Thank you so much for making such an awesome program. I am excited to use it, but I’m having persistent issues running phold on macOS (Apple Silicon / MPS) due to dependency conflicts between NumPy 2.x, PyTorch, and Transformers.

I have a few questions:

1.	Is there an officially supported phold environment spec for Apple Silicon / macOS with known-working versions of:
-numpy
-torch
-transformers
-sentencepiece?
2.	Are current phold releases validated against NumPy 2.x, or should users pin to numpy<2?
3.	Which torch build is recommended on macOS M-series (conda cpu vs pip mps)?
4.	Would older phold versions avoid these conflicts?

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated! :)

[gbouras13]

Hi @lynnetea - good questions. I will get back to you shortly.

Q3 the torch issue is the most painful and everything is downstream from there.

My question is - do you think a specific arm64 macOS Docker container would be useful? That might be the least fragile way to ship Phold for Mac.

George