xgb.train crashes on Apple Macbook Pro M4

[Sutty100]

When ever calling xgb.train(...) on a Macbook Pro with an M4 Arm chip Python/Java/R crash. The same python script runs fine on an Intel based Mac. The version of MacOS is 15.4

I have tested this with

• Python 3.11, 3.12, 3.13
• Java 21, 17
• R 4.4.3

All result in a fatal crash with no useful logs e.g. Python reports:

libc++abi: terminating

Process finished with exit code 134 (interrupted by signal 6:SIGABRT)

and it is a similar picture for Java

I have tried Xgboost 3.0 and Xgboost 2.14 for Python I have both taken from pip and built from source following this guide. I have installed libomp through brew. All of the above results in the same outcome.

I have also for R followed this guide written for M3 based macs but it does not work for me.

This issue is occurring on a clean install of MacOS.

I'm stuck on exactly what to try next and/or if it is a fundamental issue with the latest mac chips that mean it can not run so any help would be greatly appreciated!

[trivialfis]

Please share how you install XGBoost.

[trivialfis]

There's no m4 instance on AWS we can test or debug yet: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/mac/ I can't be of assistance here.