diff --git a/candle-core/src/lib.rs b/candle-core/src/lib.rs
index a0347416..3504b0a6 100644
--- a/candle-core/src/lib.rs
+++ b/candle-core/src/lib.rs
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ mod op;
 pub mod pickle;
 pub mod quantized;
 pub mod safetensors;
+pub mod scalar;
 pub mod shape;
 mod storage;
 mod strided_index;
diff --git a/candle-core/src/scalar.rs b/candle-core/src/scalar.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..43e1f4c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-core/src/scalar.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+use crate::{Result, Tensor, WithDType};
+
+pub enum TensorScalar {
+    Tensor(Tensor),
+    Scalar(Tensor),
+}
+
+pub trait TensorOrScalar {
+    fn to_tensor_scalar(self) -> Result<TensorScalar>;
+}
+
+impl TensorOrScalar for &Tensor {
+    fn to_tensor_scalar(self) -> Result<TensorScalar> {
+        Ok(TensorScalar::Tensor(self.clone()))
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T: WithDType> TensorOrScalar for T {
+    fn to_tensor_scalar(self) -> Result<TensorScalar> {
+        let scalar = Tensor::new(self, &crate::Device::Cpu)?;
+        Ok(TensorScalar::Scalar(scalar))
+    }
+}
diff --git a/candle-core/src/tensor.rs b/candle-core/src/tensor.rs
index 6bb3d740..8ad9322b 100644
--- a/candle-core/src/tensor.rs
+++ b/candle-core/src/tensor.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use crate::backend::{BackendDevice, BackendStorage};
 use crate::op::{
     BackpropOp, BinaryOp, CmpOp, CustomOp1, CustomOp2, CustomOp3, Op, ReduceOp, UnaryOp,
 };
+use crate::scalar::TensorOrScalar;
 use crate::shape::{Dim, Dims};
 use crate::{storage::Storage, DType, Device, Error, Layout, Result, Shape};
 use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
@@ -776,8 +777,15 @@ impl Tensor {
     /// comparison operation is specified by the `op` argument.
     ///
     /// The returned tensor has the same shape as the original tensors and uses `u8` elements.
-    pub fn cmp(&self, rhs: &Self, op: CmpOp) -> Result<Self> {
-        let shape = self.same_shape_binary_op(rhs, "cmp")?;
+    pub fn cmp<T: TensorOrScalar>(&self, rhs: T, op: CmpOp) -> Result<Self> {
+        let rhs = match rhs.to_tensor_scalar()? {
+            crate::scalar::TensorScalar::Tensor(rhs) => rhs,
+            crate::scalar::TensorScalar::Scalar(rhs) => rhs
+                .to_dtype(self.dtype())?
+                .to_device(self.device())?
+                .broadcast_as(self.shape())?,
+        };
+        let shape = self.same_shape_binary_op(&rhs, "cmp")?;
         let storage = self
             .storage()
             .cmp(op, &rhs.storage(), self.layout(), rhs.layout())?;
@@ -786,36 +794,36 @@ impl Tensor {
     }
 
     /// Element-wise equality.
-    pub fn eq(&self, rhs: &Self) -> Result<Self> {
+    pub fn eq<T: TensorOrScalar>(&self, rhs: T) -> Result<Self> {
         self.cmp(rhs, CmpOp::Eq)
     }
 
     /// Element-wise non-equality.
-    pub fn ne(&self, rhs: &Self) -> Result<Self> {
+    pub fn ne<T: TensorOrScalar>(&self, rhs: T) -> Result<Self> {
         self.cmp(rhs, CmpOp::Ne)
     }
 
     /// Element-wise comparison with lower-than, the returned tensor uses value 1 where `self <
     /// rhs` and 0 otherwise.
-    pub fn lt(&self, rhs: &Self) -> Result<Self> {
+    pub fn lt<T: TensorOrScalar>(&self, rhs: T) -> Result<Self> {
         self.cmp(rhs, CmpOp::Lt)
     }
 
     /// Element-wise comparison with greater-than, the returned tensor uses value 1 where `self >
     /// rhs` and 0 otherwise.
-    pub fn gt(&self, rhs: &Self) -> Result<Self> {
+    pub fn gt<T: TensorOrScalar>(&self, rhs: T) -> Result<Self> {
         self.cmp(rhs, CmpOp::Gt)
     }
 
     /// Element-wise comparison with greater-equal, the returned tensor uses value 1 where `self >=
     /// rhs` and 0 otherwise.
-    pub fn ge(&self, rhs: &Self) -> Result<Self> {
+    pub fn ge<T: TensorOrScalar>(&self, rhs: T) -> Result<Self> {
         self.cmp(rhs, CmpOp::Ge)
     }
 
     /// Element-wise comparison with lower-equal, the returned tensor uses value 1 where `self <=
     /// rhs` and 0 otherwise.
-    pub fn le(&self, rhs: &Self) -> Result<Self> {
+    pub fn le<T: TensorOrScalar>(&self, rhs: T) -> Result<Self> {
         self.cmp(rhs, CmpOp::Le)
     }
 
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/segment-anything/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/segment-anything/main.rs
index 4627248c..ce8e3bb4 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/segment-anything/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/segment-anything/main.rs
@@ -209,12 +209,17 @@ pub fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
         }
     } else {
         let point = Some((args.point_x, args.point_y));
+        let start_time = std::time::Instant::now();
         let (mask, iou_predictions) = sam.forward(&image, point, false)?;
+        println!(
+            "mask generated in {:.2}s",
+            start_time.elapsed().as_secs_f32()
+        );
         println!("mask:\n{mask}");
         println!("iou_predictions: {iou_predictions:?}");
 
         // Save the mask as an image.
-        let mask = (mask.ge(&mask.zeros_like()?)? * 255.)?;
+        let mask = (mask.ge(0f32)? * 255.)?;
         let (_one, h, w) = mask.dims3()?;
         let mask = mask.expand((3, h, w))?;
         candle_examples::save_image_resize(&mask, "sam_mask.png", initial_h, initial_w)?;
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/segment-anything/model_prompt_encoder.rs b/candle-examples/examples/segment-anything/model_prompt_encoder.rs
index 40cc6e36..7bbe8419 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/segment-anything/model_prompt_encoder.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/segment-anything/model_prompt_encoder.rs
@@ -161,21 +161,21 @@ impl PromptEncoder {
             .forward_with_coords(&points, self.input_image_size)?;
         let labels = labels.unsqueeze(2)?.broadcast_as(point_embedding.shape())?;
         let zeros = point_embedding.zeros_like()?;
-        let point_embedding = labels.lt(&labels.zeros_like()?)?.where_cond(
+        let point_embedding = labels.lt(0f32)?.where_cond(
             &self
                 .not_a_point_embed
                 .embeddings()
                 .broadcast_as(zeros.shape())?,
             &point_embedding,
         )?;
-        let labels0 = labels.eq(&labels.zeros_like()?)?.where_cond(
+        let labels0 = labels.eq(0f32)?.where_cond(
             &self.point_embeddings[0]
                 .embeddings()
                 .broadcast_as(zeros.shape())?,
             &zeros,
         )?;
         let point_embedding = (point_embedding + labels0)?;
-        let labels1 = labels.eq(&labels.ones_like()?)?.where_cond(
+        let labels1 = labels.eq(1f32)?.where_cond(
             &self.point_embeddings[1]
                 .embeddings()
                 .broadcast_as(zeros.shape())?,