Dependency conflict between IPEX 2.6 XPU and PyTorch 2.6 XPU

[Disty0]

Describe the bug

IPEX 2.6 XPU and PyTorch 2.6 XPU can't be installed in a single step or can't be in the same requirements.txt file because of a dependency conflict from different versions of intel-sycl-rt.

IPEX 2.6 XPU depends on intel-sycl-rt==2025.0.4 while PyTorch 2.6 XPU depends on intel-sycl-rt==2025.0.2

To reproduce:

pip install torch==2.6.0+xpu torchvision==0.21.0+xpu intel-extension-for-pytorch==2.6.10+xpu oneccl_bind_pt==2.6.0+xpu --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/xpu --extra-index-url https://pytorch-extension.intel.com/release-whl/stable/xpu/us --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple

Error message:

ERROR: Cannot install dpcpp-cpp-rt==2025.0.4 and torch==2.6.0+xpu because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

The conflict is caused by:
    torch 2.6.0+xpu depends on intel-sycl-rt==2025.0.2
    dpcpp-cpp-rt 2025.0.4 depends on intel-sycl-rt==2025.0.4

Versions

Can't provide the collect_env.py output because IPEX 2.5 and above can't be imported on the latest Arch Linux: #794

Python: 3.12.9
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.13.5-zen1-1-zen
Intel Compute Runtime: intel-compute-runtime-bin-25.05.32567.17-1
GPU: Intel Arc A770 LE 16 GB

[walkallen]

same issue wait for solution

[ZhaoqiongZ]

Hi @Disty0 @walkallen , thank you for pointing this out!

this is a known issue for v2.6.10+xpu. https://intel.github.io/intel-extension-for-pytorch/xpu/latest/tutorials/known_issues.html

In the next release, we will loosen the dependency requirements to fix this inconvenience.

[Disty0]

We can close this issue if it is already in the known issues.
It might also better to have this open so people with the same issue can click on this issue.
I will leave it to you to decide if we should close this or leave it open.

[ZhaoqiongZ]

we can leave this open till formal fix for the next release