no method matching MersenneTwister(::typeof(abs2), ::Array{Complex{Float64},1})

[baggepinnen]

I suddenly got a mysterious error on CI from a call to Zygote.gradient

LoadError: MethodError: no method matching MersenneTwister(::typeof(abs2), ::Array{Complex{Float64},1})

I haven't touched the code that threw the error in a long time so something must have gone wild in Zygote or ChainRules
link to CI failure: https://github.com/baggepinnen/SpectralDistances.jl/runs/840227039#step:4:721
link to failing call: https://github.com/baggepinnen/SpectralDistances.jl/blob/master/test/test_diff.jl#L204

Probably caused by 697e7e4

julia version 1.4.2
Installed ChainRules ─────────────────── v0.7.5
Installed Zygote ─────────────────────── v0.5.2
Installed ZygoteRules ────────────────── v0.2.0

[mcabbott]

Should this package test Zygote, to catch such things?

Possibly just @test (Pkg.test("Zygote"); true), but that takes a while so perhaps better a CI task done after the others, somehow.

[willtebbutt]

Ideally we would, but Zygote has a fairly elaborate CI pipeline, so it would take some work to get this set up.

[mcabbott]

Why do you say elaborate? https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl/blob/master/.travis.yml looks standard.

Or the @test above would work so long as Zygote was a test dep.

[simeonschaub]

We could copy what we do in ChainRulesCore for ChainRules integration tests already. Would be good to have a separate runner for this, so the test suite doesn't take forever to run.

[willtebbutt]

Why do you say elaborate? https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl/blob/master/.travis.yml looks standard.

I guess I was more referring to the fact that they've got a separate gitlab CI (I believe for the benefit of GPU stuff?) run set up when you invoke bors: https://github.com/FluxML/Zygote.jl/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml

But I suppose a regular CI run that doesn't handle the GPU stuff would be an improvement over nothing.

[mcabbott]

OK, yes hooking up the GPU tests sounds harder. But the basic level would have caught this.

ChainRulesCore's Cirrus CI at https://github.com/JuliaDiff/ChainRulesCore.jl/blob/master/.cirrus.yml looks like exactly the right sort of thing.

[CarloLucibello]

I think this is also hitting me in FluxML/Flux.jl#1264
see error here:
https://travis-ci.org/github/FluxML/Flux.jl/jobs/705291614

[CarloLucibello]

+1 on running Zygote tests here as well