Use Metal Performance Shaders when training SDV synthesizers on Apple Silicon machines

[liuup]

Problem Description

I have saw the CUDA support in SDV, but it only works on Nvidia GPU. Mac with Apple Silicon now have MPS backend to accelerate the computing process. Could SDV R&D team consider to add the support of MPS?

Some offical docs may help:
Apple: https://developer.apple.com/metal/pytorch/
PyTorch: https://pytorch.org/docs/master/notes/mps.html

[srinify]

Hi there @liuup 👋

This is a neat idea and I'll leave this open as a feature request! We are a small team so we appreciate your patience as we triage the different requests. We will typically prioritize based on demand and importance to your use case.

To help us prioritize this one, it would be great it if you could describe more about your project. Which synthesizer you're using, what you plan to do with the synthetic data, etc. 🙏