thesps/conifer

Fix `test_backends.py`

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#98 opened on Nov 12, 2025

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Description

Some of the tests in [test_backends.py](https://github.com/thesps/conifer/blob/master/tests/test_backends.py) currently fail on the main branch due to numerical mismatches in the predictions between different backends.

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Identify the specific test cases that fail, understand the expected numerical behavior, and compare the backend implementations to find discrepancies.
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python
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backendai
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