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Summary

Reduce peak GPU memory during compiled KumoTabular fitting without changing the saved key/value cache.

Description of the change

The large model computes 16 K/V heads per layer, but main already saves only 2 heads for prediction. With PyTorch 2.14 Inductor, those smaller copies can be postponed until later in the compiled computation. The original 16-head allocations must remain alive until the copies finish, so large temporary tensors from multiple layers accumulate. The final cache is already small; the problem is temporary memory during fitting.

Put the two copies in a helper marked with torch.compiler.nested_compile_region. This gives the copies a separate compiled call boundary instead of letting the compiler schedule their individual operations throughout the larger fit graph. In the measured workload, the compact copies finish earlier, allowing the full source allocations to be released sooner. Both versions retain the same 2-head cache; dtype choices and attention computations are unchanged. The helper remains compiled.

The availability check preserves PyTorch 2.7 compatibility; the decorator exists from 2.8 onward. The measurements below use 2.14.

The measured workload uses 100,000 Covertype context rows with the default recipe:

import torch
from sdm.models import KumoTabular

model = KumoTabular(task="classification", size="large", device="cuda")
fit = torch.compile(model.fit, backend="inductor", fullgraph=False)
with torch.autocast("cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16):
    fit(context, target)  # Capture/warmup.
model.clear()
torch.cuda.synchronize()
torch.cuda.reset_peak_memory_stats()
with torch.autocast("cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16):
    fit(context, target)
torch.cuda.synchronize()
print(torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated() / 1e9)

Validation

NVIDIA L4, PyTorch 2.14, pretrained large classifier/default recipe, 100,000 Covertype context rows, FP32 weights/BF16 autocast. Compared parent 05a88d9e9 with 8512b8115; only this file differs.

Metric	Before	After
Warm peak allocated	16.276 GB	8.137 GB
Warm peak reserved	16.588 GB	10.303 GB
Warm fit median	18.846 s	19.000 s
First fit, including compilation (two trials)	125.117 / 124.534 s	123.461 / 120.610 s

Peak allocation falls 50%; warm time changes +0.81%. Each arm had three warmups and three grouped timed fits. Cold trials used fresh processes in before/after/after/before order, with unique empty compiler, Triton, CUDA driver and temporary caches. These two trials per arm do not establish a startup speedup or penalty.

All fitted cache leaves and 8,192 × 7 prediction probabilities match bitwise across every cold trial and the final warm fits; accuracy/log loss are identical. Inputs and RNG states match. Existing ICL tests, strict Inductor recording/replay with changed row layouts, gradient controls and pre-commit also passed.

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  • Cache handling now avoids unnecessary key-value tensor slicing and copying when the configured head count already matches the available heads. Configurations with fewer key-value heads continue to use copied, contiguous data. This reduces avoidable work in applicable configurations while preserving existing results.

ICL cache recording now copies sliced key and value tensors only when kv_heads is set and less than the available head count. The helper creates contiguous clones and uses torch.compiler.nested_compile_region when that API is available.

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Conditional cache tensor copying sdm/models/kumo/tabular/icl.py	ICLBlock.forward copies key and value tensors only when kv_heads is set and less than the available head count. The helper clones both tensors in contiguous format and uses torch.compiler.nested_compile_region when available.

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Pass the cache-copy inputs by keyword.

Use key= and value= in this multiline call. As per coding guidelines, “Use keyword arguments in multi-line calls.” The matching path instruction also requires keyword arguments in multi-line calls.

Proposed change

 key, value = _copy_key_value(
-    key[..., :kv_heads, :],
-    value[..., :kv_heads, :],
+    key=key[..., :kv_heads, :],
+    value=value[..., :kv_heads, :],
 )

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Review comment at @sdm/models/kumo/tabular/icl.py around lines 103 - 106:
Update the multiline _copy_key_value call to pass the sliced cache tensors using
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