No Tooling for Multimodal Audio Fine-Tuning on Apple Silicon
Developers with Apple Silicon machines who want to fine-tune multimodal models (including audio) locally have no mature tooling — MLX lacks audio fine-tuning support, forcing workarounds. Compounding this, streaming large remote datasets (e.g., from cloud storage) during local training is unsupported out of the box, and memory constraints cause frequent OOM failures on longer sequences. This is a niche but real gap for ML practitioners constrained by budget or data-sovereignty requirements who want to avoid cloud GPU costs.
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