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ReferenceRunner.run() wraps the model with MARK_ALL, so every intermediate
tensor becomes a graph output. It then called Comparator.run(), which executes
every calibration sample up front and retains one full-graph activation dump
per sample; those results were copied a second time into all_batch_data before
aggregation. Peak memory therefore grew linearly with the number of calibration
samples, making real (non-random) calibration data unusable past a few dozen
samples.
Use Comparator's streaming mode and fold each batch into the running per-tensor
statistics as it arrives, so peak memory is independent of the sample count.
Aggregated absmax/min/max values and the single-batch raw-array return are
unchanged.
Measured on a model with ~14 MiB of activations per sample:
samples before after
1 8.2 MiB 8.1 MiB
8 128.4 MiB 24.2 MiB
32 448.5 MiB 32.3 MiB
64 897.4 MiB 23.5 MiB
Fixes NVIDIA#2337
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ChangesAutoCast calibration streaming
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DataLoader
participant FeedDictRecorder
participant Comparator
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DataLoader->>FeedDictRecorder: Yield feed dictionary
FeedDictRecorder->>ReferenceRunner: Record current feed
Comparator->>ReferenceRunner: Yield batch result
ReferenceRunner->>ReferenceRunner: Fold tensor statistics
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453-455: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winTrack activation arrays at the per-batch spy boundary.
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ReferenceRunnerretains during processing but releases before returning. Track a representative output array during each spy call and assert its concurrent lifetime separately from thebatch_datamappings.Suggested fix
batch_refs = [] + output_refs = [] concurrent = [] + output_concurrent = [] def spy(method): def wrapped(self, *args): batch_refs.append(weakref.ref(args[-1])) + output_refs.append(weakref.ref(args[-1]["Y1"])) gc.collect() concurrent.append(sum(ref() is not None for ref in batch_refs)) + output_concurrent.append(sum(ref() is not None for ref in output_refs)) return method(self, *args) @@ assert len(concurrent) == 5, "every batch should reach the aggregator" assert max(concurrent) == 1, f"batches were retained instead of streamed: {concurrent}" + assert max(output_concurrent) == 1, ( + f"output arrays were retained instead of streamed: {output_concurrent}" + )🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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… test The changelog entry carried root-cause detail that AGENTS.md keeps out of CHANGELOG.rst; it is now one sentence describing the user-visible effect. The streaming test tracked only the per-batch mapping. It now also weak-refs one activation array from each batch, since the arrays are the memory and could outlive the mapping that carried them. Signed-off-by: SID <99672439+SID-6921@users.noreply.github.com>
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457-457: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winTrack a known output activation in the memory assertion.
batch_datainserts input feeds before Comparator outputs. The first value is therefore an input entry, not theY1activation. The assertion can miss output arrays retained across batches.Suggested fix
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batch_data holds the input feed before the Comparator outputs, so the first value was X1 rather than the Y1 activation. Marking every tensor as an output is what makes a batch big, so the outputs are what the assertion needs to watch: retaining only the output arrays passed the previous check and fails this one. Signed-off-by: SID <99672439+SID-6921@users.noreply.github.com>
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482-486: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert the aggregated
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ReferenceRunner.run()results. It can therefore pass when input statistics are aggregated incorrectly or when input feeds are mismatched. Store the results and assert the expected extrema:Suggested fix
- reference_runner.run(temp_dir) + results = reference_runner.run(temp_dir) assert len(concurrent) == 5, "every batch should reach the aggregator" assert max(concurrent) == 1, f"batches were retained instead of streamed: {concurrent}" assert max(array_concurrent) == 1, ( f"batch activations were retained instead of streamed: {array_concurrent}" ) + assert results["X1"].absmax == 4.0 + assert results["X1"].min_val == 0.0 + assert results["X1"].max_val == 4.0 + assert results["X2"].absmax == 5.0 + assert results["X2"].min_val == 1.0 + assert results["X2"].max_val == 5.0🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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### What does this PR do? Type of change: Bug fix `MFTLoss.forward` flattens both logit tensors to `(batch * positions, vocab)` and its docstring only assumes the class dimension is last, so leading dimensions are clearly meant to be allowed: ```python soft_log_probs = soft_log_probs.view(-1, soft_log_probs.size(-1)) # (new B, C) target_logits = target_logits.view(-1, target_logits.size(-1)) # (new B, C) soft_targets = self._prepare_corrected_distributions(target_logits, labels, ...) ``` The labels were passed through untouched, and `_prepare_corrected_distributions` rejects anything that is not 1-D: ``` ValueError: Logits must be a 2D tensor and labels must be a 1D tensor. ``` So the shapes a language model actually produces — `(batch, seq_len, vocab)` logits against `(batch, seq_len)` labels — cannot be used: | logits | labels | on `main` | this PR | |---|---|---|---| | `(2, 8, 50)` | `(2, 8)` | `ValueError` | converges, matches the flattened form exactly | | `(16, 50)` | `(16,)` | works | unchanged | That is the setting Minifinetuning (arXiv:2506.15702) is for, so in practice a caller had to flatten the labels themselves and nothing documented that. Flattening them alongside the logits fixes it, and the docstring now says what shape the labels are expected in. ### Testing `test_mft_loss_accepts_sequence_shaped_logits` drives `MFTLoss` at `(2, 8, 50)` / `(2, 8)` and asserts the result equals the pre-flattened `(16, 50)` / `(16,)` call. It fails on `main` with the `ValueError` above and passes here. Worth noting why this was not caught: the existing `test_distillation_model_mft` drives `MFTLoss` through a vision model, whose logits are already `(batch, classes)` and labels already `(batch,)`, so the flattening never does anything there. `tests/unit/torch/distill` is 30 passed, 1 skipped locally. The skip is `plugins/test_huggingface_kd.py`, which needs `transformers` and is not installed in my environment; it exercises `LogitsDistillationLoss`, which this change does not touch. ### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*" - Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ — already-1-D labels reshape to themselves, so existing callers are unaffected - If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A - Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ - Did you update [Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?: ✅ - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: N/A ### Additional Information Unrelated to my open ONNX PRs (#2553, #2554, #2567, #2575, #2583) — no shared files. One thing I noticed next door and did not touch, in case it is of interest: `LogitsDistillationLoss` defaults to `reduction="mean"`, while `MFTLoss` in the same file defaults to `"batchmean"`. PyTorch warns on every call that `"mean"` is not the KL divergence value and that it will be changed to behave as `"batchmean"` in a future major release, so the default path is currently a factor of the vocabulary size away from the other two reductions and will shift silently when that lands. Changing a training default is your call rather than mine, so I have left it alone — happy to open a separate issue if useful. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Improved handling of sequence-shaped labels when calculating distillation loss, ensuring results match equivalent flattened inputs. * **Tests** * Added coverage verifying consistent loss results for sequence-shaped and flattened inputs. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: Siddhardha Nanda <99672439+SID-6921@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Asha Anoosheh <aanoosheh@nvidia.com>
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Type of change: Bug fix
ReferenceRunner.run()wraps the model withMARK_ALL, so every intermediate tensor becomes a graph output. It then calledComparator.run(), which executes every calibration sample up front and retains one full-graph activation dump per sample; those results were then copied a second time intoall_batch_databefore aggregation. Peak memory therefore grew linearly with the number of calibration samples — the OOM reported in #2337.This uses
Comparator's streaming mode and folds each batch into the running per-tensor statistics as it arrives, so peak memory is independent of the sample count.streamingis available inpolygraphy>=0.53.4, which is already the floor inpyproject.toml, so no dependency change is needed.Testing
Aggregated
absmax/min_val/max_valwere compared against an independent onnxruntime run that does not go throughReferenceRunner— exact match for N=2, 5 and 16. Dumping the full statistics before and after this change over N=1, 2, 7, 16 gives identical values and identical key sets, and the single-batch raw-array return is preserved.Peak RSS on a model with ~14 MiB of activations per sample:
tests/unit/onnx/autocastpasses (232, including the new test;test_autocast.pyneedstorchvision, which is absent in my environment — it was already not collectable before this change). The new test asserts at most one batch is live at a time; revertingrun()to accumulate-then-aggregate makes it fail with[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]while all other tests still pass.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
CONTRIBUTING.md: N/AAdditional Information
Fixes #2337. The first half of that issue was already fixed by #815; this addresses the second half, which @hychiang-git confirmed was still open.
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