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PyTorch reserves the PrivateUse1 device type, which vendors can register as their own accelerator; they only need to implement aten operator dispatch and device guards to run most models.

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10/12/2026
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The Next Piece of the PyTorch Hardware Ecosystem: Progress from the Accelerator Integration Working Group

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UnverifiedPyTorch reserves a private namespace called PrivateUse1 in its device type enumeration, allowing hardware vendors to bind their own devices to that namespace through a registration mechanism without forking or modifying the PyTorch main codebase, thereby obtaining a real DeviceType.77% similar

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