diff --git a/candle-onnx/src/eval.rs b/candle-onnx/src/eval.rs
index 036f5838..fca51ef7 100644
--- a/candle-onnx/src/eval.rs
+++ b/candle-onnx/src/eval.rs
@@ -352,8 +352,15 @@ fn simple_eval_(
             "Pow" => {
                 let input0 = get(&node.input[0])?;
                 let input1 = get(&node.input[1])?;
-                let output = input0.broadcast_pow(input1)?;
-                values.insert(node.output[0].clone(), output);
+                // HACK: current implementation of broadcast_pow cannot handle negative base,
+                // so we use powf where we can, which *does* correctly handle negative base.
+                if let Ok(exp) = (|| input1.to_dtype(DType::F64)?.to_scalar::<f64>())() {
+                    let output = input0.powf(exp as f64)?;
+                    values.insert(node.output[0].clone(), output);
+                } else {
+                    let output = input0.broadcast_pow(input1)?;
+                    values.insert(node.output[0].clone(), output);
+                }
             }
             "Exp" => {
                 let xs = get(&node.input[0])?;