diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch/PyTorch-1.10.0-foss-2021a-CUDA-11.3.1.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch/PyTorch-1.10.0-foss-2021a-CUDA-11.3.1.eb
index cecec914c702..dbc5b0c5bfdf 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch/PyTorch-1.10.0-foss-2021a-CUDA-11.3.1.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch/PyTorch-1.10.0-foss-2021a-CUDA-11.3.1.eb
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ patches = [
     'PyTorch-1.10.0_skip_failing_ops_tests.patch',
     'PyTorch-1.10.0_skip_nan_tests_openblas.patch',
     'PyTorch-1.10.0_skip_cmake_rpath.patch',
+    'PyTorch-1.10.0_replace-highlight-assert-tests-regex.patch',
 ]
 checksums = [
     None,  # can't add proper SHA256 checksum, because source tarball is created locally after recursive 'git clone'
@@ -63,6 +64,8 @@ checksums = [
     '7d3f83e3056d9e47a460790313238f28708beb596cafaa7ae55e374d368bbedf',
     # PyTorch-1.10.0_skip_cmake_rpath.patch
     'ac05943bb205623f91ef140aa00869efc5fe844184bd666bebf5405808610448',
+    # PyTorch-1.10.0_replace-highlight-assert-tests-regex.patch
+    'e20972f465f6a42a95a61fd981889663c7ed6c3ad831ccd6d485919bd3a6c8e4',
 ]
 
 osdependencies = [OS_PKG_IBVERBS_DEV]
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch/PyTorch-1.10.0-foss-2021a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch/PyTorch-1.10.0-foss-2021a.eb
index c05632ab43ff..5d64d6ea60b9 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch/PyTorch-1.10.0-foss-2021a.eb
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch/PyTorch-1.10.0-foss-2021a.eb
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ patches = [
     'PyTorch-1.10.0_increase_zero_optimizer_test_tolerance.patch',
     'PyTorch-1.10.0_skip_failing_ops_tests.patch',
     'PyTorch-1.10.0_skip_nan_tests_openblas.patch',
+    'PyTorch-1.10.0_replace-highlight-assert-tests-regex.patch',
 ]
 checksums = [
     None,  # can't add proper SHA256 checksum, because source tarball is created locally after recursive 'git clone'
@@ -57,6 +58,8 @@ checksums = [
     '399af94ffcef4a6db5226552c46f11e9b0f0f371b2d7924b9e5764d2281581ab',
     # PyTorch-1.10.0_skip_nan_tests_openblas.patch
     '7d3f83e3056d9e47a460790313238f28708beb596cafaa7ae55e374d368bbedf',
+    # PyTorch-1.10.0_replace-highlight-assert-tests-regex.patch
+    'e20972f465f6a42a95a61fd981889663c7ed6c3ad831ccd6d485919bd3a6c8e4',
 ]
 
 osdependencies = [OS_PKG_IBVERBS_DEV]
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch/PyTorch-1.10.0_replace-highlight-assert-tests-regex.patch b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch/PyTorch-1.10.0_replace-highlight-assert-tests-regex.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4435724fa83f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyTorch/PyTorch-1.10.0_replace-highlight-assert-tests-regex.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+replace assertions by highlight on JIT tests to regular expression match
+workaround for issue: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/72516
+author: Alex Domingo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
+--- a/test/jit/test_builtins.py
++++ b/test/jit/test_builtins.py
+@@ -86,14 +86,14 @@
+ 
+         self.checkScript(fn, ([1, 2, 3],))
+ 
+-        with self.assertRaisesRegexWithHighlight(RuntimeError, "undefined value", "a"):
++        with self.assertRaisesRegex(RuntimeError, "undefined value a"):
+             @torch.jit.script
+             def fn(x):
+                 a = x ** 2
+                 del a
+                 return a
+ 
+-        with self.assertRaisesRegexWithHighlight(RuntimeError, "undefined value", "a"):
++        with self.assertRaisesRegex(RuntimeError, "undefined value a"):
+             @torch.jit.script
+             def fn(x):
+                 a = x ** 2
+@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
+                     del a
+                 return a
+ 
+-        with self.assertRaisesRegexWithHighlight(RuntimeError, "undefined value", "b"):
++        with self.assertRaisesRegex(RuntimeError, "undefined value b"):
+             @torch.jit.script
+             def fn(x):
+                 a = x ** 2
+--- a/test/test_jit.py
++++ b/test/test_jit.py
+@@ -13161,7 +13161,7 @@ dedent """
+             if isinstance(t, tuple):
+                 a, b = t
+             return a + b
+-        with self.assertRaisesRegexWithHighlight(RuntimeError, "Provided tuple is not fully defined/refined", "t"):
++        with self.assertRaisesRegex(RuntimeError, "Provided tuple is not fully defined/refined"):
+             s = torch.jit.script(fn)
+ 
+     def test_augmented_assign(self):