diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/accelerate/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/accelerate/default.nix
index 0b47f04e3e60..d38a2fe1e37f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/accelerate/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/accelerate/default.nix
@@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ buildPythonPackage (finalAttrs: {
     "CheckpointTest"
     # TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for /: 'NoneType' and 'int' (it seems cpuinfo doesn't work here)
     "test_mpi_multicpu_config_cmd"
+    # fails cpuinfo test, because /sys/devices/system/cpu/ does not exist in the sandbox
+    "test_layerwise_upcasting_inference_0"
+    "test_compute_module_sizes"
+    "test_compute_module_total_buffer_size"
+    "test_load_checkpoint_in_model_dtype"
+    "test_set_module_tensor_sets_dtype"
   ]
   ++
     lib.optionals