LoRA gradients on Apple's Neural Engine at 2.8W
Details
- External ID
- 47277219
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- LoRA gradients on Apple's Neural Engine at 2.8W
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2853628536285363
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ML inference and model optimization
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- lora training on apple neural engine
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Writing backpropagation and gradient calculation routines to run on Apple's proprietary, undocumented Neural Engine (ANE) requires reverse-engineering hardware assembly/IR and specialized low-level ML compiler skills.
What it would actually take: Requires reverse-engineering Apple's proprietary MIL (Model Intermediate Language) compiler and low-level ANE instructions via PrivateFrameworks. The implementer must formulate custom backward-pass kernels for matrix multiplication and LoRA updates that bypass CoreML's forward-only constraints, requiring expert compiler and hardware reverse-engineering knowledge.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: MLX, maderix's ANE reverse engineering
Concerns raised: ANE compiler leaks handles, silently fails after ~119 compiles, ANE matmul op compiles but never executes, Spatial dimensions must be multiples of 16
Competitors
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