Commit a2be897
Switch torch dependency from ~=2.9.1 to ~=2.10.0 (silent bfloat16 memory regression) (#118)
## Summary
This PR updates the torch dependency from ~=2.9.1 to ~=2.10.0 to fix a
silent bfloat16 memory regression introduced in torch 2.9.0.
## The problem
torch 2.9.0 and 2.9.1 contain a cuDNN regression that inflates the
nn.Conv3d bfloat16 forward-pass workspace by 26x -- from ~77 MB to
~2,053 MB -- relative to both the preceding (2.8.0) and following
(2.10.0) releases. These numbers were measured on a fixed tensor of
shape [1, 32, 64, 64, 64] with a Conv3d(in=32, out=32, k=5, padding=2)
layer. float32 memory is completely unaffected (stable at ~123 MB across
all versions), confirming the bug is specific to the bfloat16 cuDNN
kernel selection path.
This matters because we use (or plan to use) bf16-mixed precision
training. This regression would silently consume an extra ~2 GB per
Conv3d layer, directly undermining the memory savings that bf16 is
supposed to provide -- without any crash or warning.
This issue has been raised in the PyTorch community:
- pytorch/pytorch#166643 (issue)
- pytorch/pytorch#166480 (fix)
## Benchmark results (A100-SXM4-80GB, CUDA 12.8, input shape [1, 32, 64,
64, 64])
### Peak GPU memory — `float32`
| torch | cuDNN | Fwd peak (MB) | Bwd peak (MB) |
|-------|-------|:-------------:|:-------------:|
| 2.8.0 | 9.1.0.2 | 123 | 212 |
| 2.9.0 | 9.1.0.2 | 123 | 212 |
| 2.9.1 | 9.1.0.2 | 123 | 212 |
| 2.10.0 | 9.1.0.2 | 123 | 212 |
| 2.11.0 | 9.1.9.0 | 123 | 209 |
### Peak GPU memory — `bfloat16`
| torch | cuDNN | Fwd peak (MB) | Bwd peak (MB) |
|-------|-------|---------------|---------------|
| 2.8.0 | 9.1.0.2 | 77 | 111 |
| **2.9.0** | 9.1.0.2 | **2053** | **2081** |
| **2.9.1** | 9.1.0.2 | **2053** | **2081** |
| 2.10.0 | 9.1.0.2 | 77 | 111 |
| 2.11.0 | 9.1.9.0 | 77 | 111 |
The benchmark script is included at scripts/benchmark_conv3d_memory.py
and can be run standalone on any CUDA node.
## Decision: 2.10.0 vs 2.11.0
Both 2.10.0 and 2.11.0 are clean. This PR pins to 2.10.0 for now.
Upgrading to 2.11.0 is possible but introduces a CUDA 13.0 dependency
(vs 12.8 for all prior versions), which pulls in a new set of
nvidia-*-cu13 libraries and we have not tested it against our full stack
(lightning, etc.). Once our ecosystem catches up to CUDA 13.0, bumping
to ~=2.11.0 is an option worth revisiting.
## Files changed
- pyproject.toml -- torch~=2.9.1 to torch~=2.10.0
- uv.lock -- regenerated
- scripts/benchmark_conv3d_memory.py -- standalone benchmark used to
produce the results above
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Co-authored-by: Hananeh Oliaei <ho0950@della-vis2.princeton.edu>
Co-authored-by: Betsy Cannon <betsy@openathena.ai>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Betsy Cannon <forklady42@users.noreply.github.com>1 parent ffb70db commit a2be897
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