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[Flamingo] Fix the memory usage of 2x checkpoint size after loading #1201
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As titled. The Flamingo model was initialized in meta. Then
So for a model with 21 GB weight size, the memory usage is 42 GB after model loading.
Context:
Buffers in rotary embedding are not included in the checkpoint.
Instead, they are calculated in initialization. Since buffers on meta device
does not host any actual values, need to reinitialize them in the actual
device.
Fix:
Only do those buffer initialization, without initializing the entire model.
Peak memory:
max_seq_len = 128: Before: 43.57 GB after: 28.55 GB
max_seq_len = 8192: Before: 45.47 GB after: 30.5 GB