diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylance/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylance/default.nix
index 417c7b733c73..598b87e2906a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylance/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pylance/default.nix
@@ -105,18 +105,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     ++ lib.optionals (stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux && stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64) [
       # OSError: LanceError(IO): Resources exhausted: Failed to allocate additional 1245184 bytes for ExternalSorter[0]...
       "test_merge_insert_large"
-    ]
-    ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [
-      # AttributeError: module 'torch.distributed' has no attribute 'is_initialized'
-      "test_blob_api"
-      "test_convert_int_tensors"
-      "test_filtered_sampling_odd_batch_size"
-      "test_ground_truth"
-      "test_index_cast_centroids"
-      "test_index_with_no_centroid_movement"
-      "test_iter_filter"
-      "test_iter_over_dataset_fixed_shape_tensor"
-      "test_iter_over_dataset_fixed_size_lists"
     ];
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-metric-learning/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-metric-learning/default.nix
index af57233b9cf2..de7ed5ebecd2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-metric-learning/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytorch-metric-learning/default.nix
@@ -85,10 +85,6 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
       "test_list_of_text"
       "test_untrained_indexer"
     ]
-    ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [
-      # AttributeError: module 'torch.distributed' has no attribute 'init_process_group'
-      "test_single_proc"
-    ]
     ++ lib.optionals cudaSupport [
       # crashes with SIGBART
       "test_accuracy_calculator_and_faiss_with_torch_and_numpy"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/skorch/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/skorch/default.nix
index 76b9b7ef2994..e7053c8e6a2b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/skorch/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/skorch/default.nix
@@ -72,11 +72,15 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
       # tries to import `transformers` and download HuggingFace data
       "skorch/tests/test_hf.py"
     ]
-    ++ lib.optionals (stdenv.hostPlatform.system != "x86_64-linux") [
-      # torch.distributed is disabled by default in darwin
-      # aarch64-linux also failed these tests
-      "skorch/tests/test_history.py"
-    ];
+    ++ lib.optionals
+      (stdenv.hostPlatform.system != "x86_64-linux" && stdenv.hostPlatform.system != "aarch64-darwin")
+      [
+        # these tests fail when running in parallel for multiple platforms with:
+        # "RuntimeError: The server socket has failed to listen on any local
+        # network address because they use the same hardcoded port." For now,
+        # running for one platform per OS to avoid spurious failures.
+        "skorch/tests/test_history.py"
+      ];
 
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "skorch" ];