The first attempt installed only mlx + mlx-lm + pytest +
unsloth_zoo with --no-deps + unsloth -e --no-deps. That ladder
under-specifies what the MLX import branch in unsloth/__init__.py
actually needs:
- The studio backend hardware module imports structlog at module
top level. Without it tests/studio/test_hardware_dispatch_matrix.py
fails at the very first `from utils.hardware import hardware as hw`
with ModuleNotFoundError.
- unsloth/__init__.py loads dataprep/raw_text.py via
spec_from_file_location, which `from datasets import Dataset`. With
--no-deps on unsloth-zoo neither datasets nor transformers nor any
other shared dep got pulled in.
Mirror the Linux job's working ladder, with two MAC-specific
adjustments:
- Drop bitsandbytes (CUDA-only).
- Drop CPU torch (mlx replaces it on Apple Silicon, and unsloth-zoo
already gates torch on `sys_platform != darwin or platform_machine != arm64`).
- Install unsloth_zoo from git main WITH deps so pip resolves
mlx + mlx-lm + mlx-vlm (gated on darwin+arm64 in the zoo's
pyproject) plus the shared deps (datasets, transformers,
sentencepiece, ...).
Validated locally against a Linux mac-sim venv (platform spoofed to
Darwin/arm64 via mlx_simulation, real datasets/transformers/structlog
installed via the same ladder, fake mlx via the shim):
- Step 1 _IS_MLX activation: OK
- Step 2 import each of unsloth_zoo.mlx_{loader,trainer,compile,utils,cce}
+ unsloth_zoo.gated_delta_vjp + FastMLXModel + MLXTrainer surface: OK
- Step 3 36 tests across the three dispatch files: 36 passed in 0.43s
The Linux job (mlx-dispatch) is unchanged.
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