Solved by solvingPuzzles in post #2 
              
              
                figured it out here: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/30622 

Assuming that you are indeed compiling PyTorch with NNPACK enabled … you are effectively at the mercy of the the checks in aten/src/ATen/native/Convolution.cpp:_convolution() for convolutions (and equivalent checks for other oper…