diff --git a/aten/src/ATen/native/NaiveConvolutionTranspose2d.cpp b/aten/src/ATen/native/NaiveConvolutionTranspose2d.cpp
index 799b5ffa2cd..0748194d6a0 100644
--- a/aten/src/ATen/native/NaiveConvolutionTranspose2d.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/ATen/native/NaiveConvolutionTranspose2d.cpp
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ static inline void slow_conv_transpose2d_shape_check(
 
   if (weight.defined()) {
     TORCH_CHECK(
-        weight.numel() != 0 && (weight.dim() == 2 || weight.dim() == 4),
-        "non-empty 2D or 4D weight tensor expected, but got: ",
+        (weight.dim() == 2 || weight.dim() == 4),
+        "2D or 4D weight tensor expected, but got: ",
         weight.sizes());
     if (bias.defined()) {
       check_dim_size(bias, 1, 0, weight.size(1));
diff --git a/aten/src/ATen/native/NaiveConvolutionTranspose3d.cpp b/aten/src/ATen/native/NaiveConvolutionTranspose3d.cpp
index 773eb2542ee..b6edcfd6563 100644
--- a/aten/src/ATen/native/NaiveConvolutionTranspose3d.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/ATen/native/NaiveConvolutionTranspose3d.cpp
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ static inline void slow_conv_transpose3d_shape_check(
   if (weight.defined()) {
     /* TODO: TORCH_CHECK just have 2 args: condition and message */
     TORCH_CHECK(
-        weight.numel() != 0 && weight.dim() == 5,
-        "non-empty 5D (n_output_plane x n_input_plane x kernel_depth",
+        weight.dim() == 5,
+        "5D (n_output_plane x n_input_plane x kernel_depth",
         " x kernel_height x kernel_width) tensor ",
         "expected for weight, but got: ",
         weight.sizes());
diff --git a/test/nn/test_convolution.py b/test/nn/test_convolution.py
index fbe84a71300..d920b053c25 100644
--- a/test/nn/test_convolution.py
+++ b/test/nn/test_convolution.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ from torch.testing._internal.common_device_type import (
     skipCUDAIfRocmVersionLessThan,
     skipMeta,
     skipMPS,
+    skipXLA,
 )
 from torch.testing._internal.common_dtype import (
     floating_and_complex_types_and,
@@ -1749,6 +1750,29 @@ class TestConvolutionNNDeviceType(NNTestCase):
         actual = F.conv2d(x, y, padding="same", dilation=3)
         self.assertEqual(expect, actual, rtol=rtol, atol=atol)
 
+    @dtypes(torch.float)
+    # aten/src/ATen/native/mps/OperationUtils.mm: TORCH_INTERNAL_ASSERT([srcBuf length] > 0, "Placeholder tensor is empty!"); on MPS
+    @expectedFailureMPS
+    @skipXLA
+    def test_ConvTranspose_output_channels_0(self, device, dtype):
+        class Model(nn.Module):
+            def __init__(self, operator, dim):
+                super().__init__()
+                self.op = eval(
+                    f"torch.nn.{operator}{dim}d(in_channels=1, out_channels=0, kernel_size={tuple([1] * dim)})"
+                )
+
+            def forward(self, x):
+                x = self.op(x)
+                return x
+
+        for dim in [1, 2, 3]:
+            x = torch.randn([1] * (dim + 1), device=device, dtype=dtype)
+            model = Model("ConvTranspose", dim).to(device).to(dtype=dtype)
+            y = model(x)
+            self.assertEqual(y.numel(), 0)
+            self.assertEqual(x.shape[1:], y.shape[1:])
+
     @dtypes(torch.float, torch.cfloat)
     def test_conv3d_same_padding(self, device, dtype):
         if dtype is torch.cfloat: