March 3, 2026

Train Transformers on Apple Neural Engine - ANE GitHub

Discover ANE Training: a groundbreaking open-source project that reverse-engineers Apple's Neural Engine to run full transformer training (forward + backward passes) directly on M4 hardware. Achieving 9.3ms/step and 1.78 TFLOPS sustained performance with pure ANE compute - no Metal, no GPU. Includes detailed benchmarks, MIL program generation, IOSurface optimization, and channel-first layouts. Perfect for Apple Silicon ML researchers pushing hardware boundaries.