OpenNMT / OpenNMT/CTranslate2

MPS Support for Mac Apple Silicon?

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Description

Is MPS support on the roadmap? I wanted to use faster-whisper on my Mac computer, but it is only using CPU.

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Research direction

No source file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating CTranslate2's platform and inference-backend support for Mac Apple Silicon, then determine whether MPS can be integrated for faster-whisper; done would mean documented MPS support that uses the accelerator instead of CPU.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp, macos
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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