diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/accelerate/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/accelerate/default.nix
index 811eb965dd0c..4fecc975b934 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/accelerate/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/accelerate/default.nix
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
   writableTmpDirAsHomeHook,
 }:
 
-buildPythonPackage rec {
+buildPythonPackage (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "accelerate";
   version = "1.12.0";
   pyproject = true;
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "huggingface";
     repo = "accelerate";
-    tag = "v${version}";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
     hash = "sha256-PwwaQSLOm+8Hd3trM1P+jRhYyoWM3QxOe5XT99haEmg=";
   };
 
@@ -108,6 +108,13 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     # TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'NoneType' and 'int' (it seems cpuinfo doesn't work here)
     "test_mpi_multicpu_config_cmd"
   ]
+  ++
+    lib.optionals
+      (stdenv.hostPlatform.isLinux && stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64 && (pythonAtLeast "3.14"))
+      [
+        # RuntimeError: There is no current event loop in thread 'MainThread'
+        "test_accelerate_test"
+      ]
   ++ lib.optionals (!config.cudaSupport) [
     # requires ptxas from cudatoolkit, which is unfree
     "test_dynamo_extract_model"
@@ -187,9 +194,9 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://huggingface.co/docs/accelerate";
     description = "Simple way to train and use PyTorch models with multi-GPU, TPU, mixed-precision";
-    changelog = "https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/releases/tag/${src.tag}";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/releases/tag/${finalAttrs.src.tag}";
     license = lib.licenses.asl20;
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ bcdarwin ];
     mainProgram = "accelerate";
   };
-}
+})