Is there any plan to support keras-nlp on macOs?

[alvarobartt]

Hi everyone!

I tried to reproduce the example in the README.md, but in macOS it doesn't seem feasible, as tensorflow_text is not supported for ARM and it's required by all the tokenizers here, so one is not able to actually run e.g. keras_nlp.models.BertClassifier.from_preset(...) in macOS.

Is there any plan to support it? Not talking about MPS chips, but just in general.

Thanks in advance! 🙌🏻

[jbischof]

Hi @alvarobartt unfortunately this is a tensorflow-text issue and not something we control. However, adventurous users can build the library from source (example guide). Let us know if this works for you!

The short story is that almost all machine learning takes places on linux servers and so windows and mac support never get high priority (at Google or elsewhere).

[alvarobartt]

Hi @jbischof thanks for the fast and detailed response! I'll try to look for a workaround to get it working on macOS, but for the moment Linux is OK for me, thanks!

[jbischof]

If you just want to demo our library without a lot of setup, I recommend colab.

[alvarobartt]

I was using Colab for the moment! BTW nice work with KerasNLP 🚀