Add ViT gradient checkpointing - #2058
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds opt-in gradient checkpointing to ChangesViT gradient checkpointing
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change adds opt-in gradient checkpointing while preserving the default execution path and has passed the reported checks. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness that the new tests should more completely verify per-block checkpointing and intermediate-output counts. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BenchmarkCLI
participant MaskedVisionTransformerTIMM
participant checkpoint_seq
BenchmarkCLI->>MaskedVisionTransformerTIMM: enable set_grad_checkpointing(enable=True)
BenchmarkCLI->>MaskedVisionTransformerTIMM: run encode or forward_intermediates
MaskedVisionTransformerTIMM->>checkpoint_seq: execute transformer blocks
checkpoint_seq-->>MaskedVisionTransformerTIMM: return encoded output or intermediates
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The changes implement opt-in gradient checkpointing for MaskedVisionTransformerTIMM, cover encode() and forward_intermediates(), add the ViT-B/16 benchmark flag, and test output consistency and gradient flow. The changes also keep ResNet50 and decoder checkpointing out of scope. [
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In `@tests/models/modules/test_masked_vision_transformer_timm.py`:
- Line 120: Strengthen the test around the encode and intermediate-forward
mocks: assert exactly one checkpoint call for encode, assert
forward_intermediates was called once per block, and verify the expected and
actual intermediate collections have equal lengths before comparing elements in
the loop. Update the assertions near mock_checkpoint_seq and the intermediate
comparison to cover missing or extra blocks.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Assert complete checkpoint and intermediate coverage.
Line 120 accepts one checkpoint call. Lines 126-129 compare only the shared intermediate prefix. A regression that checkpoints only one block, or adds or drops an intermediate, can pass this test.
Assert one call for encode, assert one call per block for forward_intermediates, and assert equal intermediate counts before the loop.
Proposed test change
- mock_checkpoint_seq.assert_called()
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if method_name == "forward_intermediates":
expected_output, expected_intermediates = expected
actual_output, actual_intermediates = actual
+ assert mock_checkpoint_seq.call_count == len(model.vit.blocks)
torch.testing.assert_close(actual_output, expected_output)
+ assert len(actual_intermediates) == len(expected_intermediates)
for actual_intermediate, expected_intermediate in zip(
actual_intermediates, expected_intermediates
):
torch.testing.assert_close(actual_intermediate, expected_intermediate)
actual_output.sum().backward()
else:
+ mock_checkpoint_seq.assert_called_once()
torch.testing.assert_close(actual, expected)
actual.sum().backward()Also applies to: 126-129
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In `@tests/models/modules/test_masked_vision_transformer_timm.py` at line 120,
Strengthen the test around the encode and intermediate-forward mocks: assert
exactly one checkpoint call for encode, assert forward_intermediates was called
once per block, and verify the expected and actual intermediate collections have
equal lengths before comparing elements in the loop. Update the assertions near
mock_checkpoint_seq and the intermediate comparison to cover missing or extra
blocks.
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Closes #2054
Description
MaskedVisionTransformerTIMMfor bothencode()andforward_intermediates().--grad-checkpointingto the ViT-B/16 ImageNet benchmark and enable it across compatible model modules before compilation.Tests
Verification:
MaskedVisionTransformerTIMM.set_grad_checkpointing()did not exist.uv run --frozen --extra timm pytest -q tests/models/modules/test_masked_vision_transformer_timm.py -k gradient_checkpointing— 2 passed.make format— passed.make all-checksreached 1,543 passed / 234 skipped with one pre-existing failure intests/utils/test_dist__gather__losses.py::TestGatherLayer_Losses::test_loss_dcl. The same test fails with the same resulting parameters in a clean worktree at0a6a3a3, without this patch.python benchmarks/imagenet/vitb16/main.py --helpexposes--grad-checkpointing.Documentation
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MaskedVisionTransformerTIMMforencode()andforward_intermediates().--grad-checkpointingto the ViT-B/16 ImageNet benchmark.