From 57f92f321676d802948e7d3a421ec85de9408f1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AnnaTz <111577222+AnnaTz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:45:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(ivy): fixed value errors of ivy.scatter_nd paddle
 backend, occurring in cases where the indices contain duplicates

---
 ivy/functional/backends/paddle/general.py                    | 5 +++++
 ivy_tests/test_ivy/test_functional/test_core/test_general.py | 1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ivy/functional/backends/paddle/general.py b/ivy/functional/backends/paddle/general.py
index 4f3d5563dab70..7d0176b332935 100644
--- a/ivy/functional/backends/paddle/general.py
+++ b/ivy/functional/backends/paddle/general.py
@@ -407,6 +407,11 @@ def scatter_nd(
     )
     updates = _broadcast_to(updates, expected_shape)._data
 
+    if indices.ndim > 1:
+        indices, unique_idxs = ivy.unique_all(indices, axis=0)[:2]
+        indices, unique_idxs = indices.data, unique_idxs.data
+        updates = ivy.gather(updates, unique_idxs, axis=0).data
+
     # implementation
     target_given = ivy.exists(out)
     if target_given:
diff --git a/ivy_tests/test_ivy/test_functional/test_core/test_general.py b/ivy_tests/test_ivy/test_functional/test_core/test_general.py
index 848aebf804098..90fc5aab7c587 100644
--- a/ivy_tests/test_ivy/test_functional/test_core/test_general.py
+++ b/ivy_tests/test_ivy/test_functional/test_core/test_general.py
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ def test_set_item(
         on_device=on_device,
         backend_to_test=backend_fw,
         fn_name=fn_name,
+        rtol_=1e-03,   # needed only for the paddle backend
         x=x,
         query=query,
         val=val,