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maderix/ANE Trains Neural Networks Directly on Apple's Neural Engine via Reverse-Engineered Private APIs
ANE is trending at 7,070 stars for doing something Apple does not officially permit: training — not just inference — on the Apple Neural Engine, reached through reverse-engineered private APIs and written in Objective-C. Core ML exposes ANE for inference only, so every on-device fine-tune to date has fallen back to GPU via Metal. If this holds up it changes the power and thermal math for local training on Mac and iPhone, with the obvious caveat that private-API dependence means it can break on any OS point release.
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