David Ittah

Unfortunately it looks like the CI is getting test crashes that I don't have locally (maybe linux vs macos 🤔): ``` FAILED frontend/test/pytest/test_jax_primitives.py::TestHelpers::test_float_casting[0] FAILED frontend/test/pytest/test_jax_primitives.py::TestHelpers::test_float_casting[test_input5] FAILED frontend/test/pytest/test_jax_primitives.py::TestHelpers::test_scalar_extraction[test_input1] ```

> I'll take a look first time tomorrow 🤔 Thanks Erick! I've tried debugging this for a while on the AWS machine, but I could not make sense of it....

> @dime10 any comments about the name of the flag in the TOML files being: `skip_initial_state_prep`? Yes, skip makes no sense to me in the context of the TOML file....

> @dime10 you mentioned that we shouldn't support contextual decomposition. (I.e., if qml.StatePrep is inside grad, it is okay to emit an error). There is a demo with this. I...

> I added building wheels as I want to test macOS specifically for the use of int8_t for the basis state. Sounds good, I'm trying to test locally right now...

> > I added building wheels as I want to test macOS specifically for the use of int8_t for the basis state. > > Sounds good, I'm trying to test...

Agreed, that is weird... I wonder if some of the caching used in the ross decomposition is responsible for this 🤔 (cc @sengthai)

@erick-xanadu Can check this is resolved?

Hi @vivek-kumar9696, thanks for your interest! No one is working on this at the moment, feel free to tackle it. Let me know if you any questions along the way...

~@isaacdevlugt can you change your review?~ Nvm, Isaac is on vacation.