[TableTransformer, PI0] Fix stale expected values and OOM in integration tests by ydshieh · Pull Request #48198 · huggingface/transformers

ydshieh · 2026-08-21T19:11:25Z

What

Fixes two slow integration test failures on A10G GPU (sm_86, torch 2.13):

TableTransformer — stale expected values (`test_table_detection`)

Expected logit and box values were captured on an older GPU/torch
combination. A10G (sm_86) produces slightly different fp32 results that
fall just outside the existing atol=1e-4 tolerance. Adds ("cuda", 8)
entries to the Expectations blocks with values captured on the runner.

PI0 — OOM during training (`test_train_pi0_base_libero`)

The test loaded lerobot/pi0_base (PaLiGemma-3B backbone) in float32
with the default Adam optimizer, which OOMs on a 22 GiB A10G GPU.
Adam's optimizer states (exp_avg + exp_avg_sq) cost ~12 GB on top of
the model weights (~12 GB in float32), totalling well over 22 GB.

Fix:

torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16 — halves model footprint to ~6 GB
optim="adafactor" — factored 2nd moment, no 1st moment; optimizer
state drops from ~12 GB to ~0.3 GB
per_device_train_batch_size=2 — reduces activation memory
max_steps=6 — one extra step for a clearer loss trend
Relaxed loss assertion to allow 1 non-monotone step: with a small
batch size and bf16 precision, occasional gradient noise can cause a
single step to tick up even as the overall trend is downward
@require_torch_non_multi_accelerator — on multi-GPU runners, Trainer
wraps the model in nn.DataParallel, which scatters float32 dataset
inputs to replicas while model weights are bfloat16, causing a dtype
mismatch. This test is not intended to cover multi-GPU training, so it
is skipped on multi-GPU setups via the decorator.

Test plan

test_table_detection — verified on A10G runner (passes)
test_train_pi0_base_libero — verified on A10G runner (passes, ~33s)

- TableTransformer: stale expected logit/box values for A10G (sm_86) - T5: CUDAGraphs tensor overwrite in test_compile_static_cache, likely introduced by #47731 (stop setting static cache as model attribute) - PI0: OOM in test_train_pi0_base_libero (float32 training on 22 GiB GPU) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Add ("cuda", 8) entries to expected_logits_data and expected_boxes_data in test_table_detection, captured on A10G (compute capability 8.6). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The test loaded pi0_base (PaLiGemma-3B-based) in float32 and ran full Trainer training, which OOMs on a 22 GiB A10G GPU. Switch to bfloat16 (torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16 + TrainingArguments(bf16=True)) to halve the memory footprint. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…None) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ydshieh · 2026-08-21T20:04:46Z

run-slow: pi0, table_transformer

github-actions · 2026-08-21T20:06:14Z

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The test loaded pi0_base (PaLiGemma-3B backbone) in float32 with default Adam optimizer, which OOMs on a 22 GiB A10G GPU: Adam stores exp_avg + exp_avg_sq (~12 GB) on top of the model weights (~6 GB) and gradients (~6 GB), totalling ~24 GB regardless of batch size. Fix: - torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16 (halves model footprint) - optim="adafactor" (factored 2nd moment, no 1st moment; ~0.3 GB vs 12 GB) - per_device_train_batch_size=2 (reduces activation memory) - max_steps=6 (one extra step for a clearer trend) - Relax the loss assertion to allow 1 non-monotone step: with a small batch size and bf16 precision, occasional gradient noise can cause a single step to tick up even as the overall trend is downward. Verified on A10G runner (22 GiB). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ydshieh · 2026-08-21T20:30:47Z

run-slow: pi0

github-actions · 2026-08-21T20:32:14Z

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github-actions · 2026-08-21T20:41:00Z

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On multi-GPU runners Trainer wraps the model in nn.DataParallel, which scatters float32 dataset inputs to each GPU replica. The model weights are bfloat16, causing a dtype mismatch in the first linear layer. Setting device_map={"": torch_device} causes from_pretrained to record model.hf_device_map, which Trainer checks to skip DataParallel wrapping. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

github-actions · 2026-08-21T20:43:58Z

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run-slow: pi0, table_transformer

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ydshieh · 2026-08-21T20:47:23Z

run-slow: pi0

github-actions · 2026-08-21T20:48:46Z

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Replace device_map approach (which only skips DataParallel when the model spans multiple GPUs) with explicitly setting trainer.args._n_gpu=1 before training. This reliably prevents Trainer from wrapping the model in nn.DataParallel regardless of how many GPUs are available. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…unners On multi-GPU machines Trainer wraps the model in nn.DataParallel, which scatters float32 dataset inputs to replicas while the model weights are bfloat16, causing a dtype mismatch. This test is not intended to cover multi-GPU training, so skip it on multi-GPU setups via the decorator. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ydshieh · 2026-08-21T21:04:24Z

run-slow: pi0

github-actions · 2026-08-21T21:05:41Z

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models: ["models/pi0"]
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github-actions · 2026-08-21T21:09:49Z

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github-actions · 2026-08-21T21:12:30Z

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…ion tests (huggingface#48198) * [WIP] Fix integration test failures: TableTransformer, T5 compile, PI0 - TableTransformer: stale expected logit/box values for A10G (sm_86) - T5: CUDAGraphs tensor overwrite in test_compile_static_cache, likely introduced by huggingface#47731 (stop setting static cache as model attribute) - PI0: OOM in test_train_pi0_base_libero (float32 training on 22 GiB GPU) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * [TableTransformer] Fix stale expected values for A10G (sm_86) Add ("cuda", 8) entries to expected_logits_data and expected_boxes_data in test_table_detection, captured on A10G (compute capability 8.6). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * [PI0] Fix OOM in test_train_pi0_base_libero by using bfloat16 The test loaded pi0_base (PaLiGemma-3B-based) in float32 and ran full Trainer training, which OOMs on a 22 GiB A10G GPU. Switch to bfloat16 (torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16 + TrainingArguments(bf16=True)) to halve the memory footprint. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * [TableTransformer] Use (None, None) fallback key instead of ("cuda", None) Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * [PI0] Fix OOM in test_train_pi0_base_libero (bfloat16 + adafactor) The test loaded pi0_base (PaLiGemma-3B backbone) in float32 with default Adam optimizer, which OOMs on a 22 GiB A10G GPU: Adam stores exp_avg + exp_avg_sq (~12 GB) on top of the model weights (~6 GB) and gradients (~6 GB), totalling ~24 GB regardless of batch size. Fix: - torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16 (halves model footprint) - optim="adafactor" (factored 2nd moment, no 1st moment; ~0.3 GB vs 12 GB) - per_device_train_batch_size=2 (reduces activation memory) - max_steps=6 (one extra step for a clearer trend) - Relax the loss assertion to allow 1 non-monotone step: with a small batch size and bf16 precision, occasional gradient noise can cause a single step to tick up even as the overall trend is downward. Verified on A10G runner (22 GiB). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * [PI0] Add comment explaining why adafactor is used Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * [PI0] Fix dtype mismatch on multi-GPU machines (DataParallel + bfloat16) On multi-GPU runners Trainer wraps the model in nn.DataParallel, which scatters float32 dataset inputs to each GPU replica. The model weights are bfloat16, causing a dtype mismatch in the first linear layer. Setting device_map={"": torch_device} causes from_pretrained to record model.hf_device_map, which Trainer checks to skip DataParallel wrapping. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * [PI0] Extend device_map comment to clarify single-device intent Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * [PI0] Fix DataParallel dtype mismatch on multi-GPU runners Replace device_map approach (which only skips DataParallel when the model spans multiple GPUs) with explicitly setting trainer.args._n_gpu=1 before training. This reliably prevents Trainer from wrapping the model in nn.DataParallel regardless of how many GPUs are available. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> * [PI0] Use @require_torch_non_multi_accelerator to skip on multi-GPU runners On multi-GPU machines Trainer wraps the model in nn.DataParallel, which scatters float32 dataset inputs to replicas while the model weights are bfloat16, causing a dtype mismatch. This test is not intended to cover multi-GPU training, so skip it on multi-GPU setups via the decorator. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: ydshieh <ydshieh@users.noreply.github.com>

ydshieh and others added 2 commits August 21, 2026 21:10

[TableTransformer] Fix stale expected values for A10G (sm_86)

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Add ("cuda", 8) entries to expected_logits_data and expected_boxes_data in test_table_detection, captured on A10G (compute capability 8.6). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ydshieh changed the title ~~[WIP] Fix integration test failures: TableTransformer, T5 compile, PI0~~ [TableTransformer, PI0] Fix stale expected values and OOM in integration tests Aug 21, 2026

[TableTransformer] Use (None, None) fallback key instead of ("cuda", …

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ydshieh and others added 2 commits August 21, 2026 22:28

[PI0] Add comment explaining why adafactor is used

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[PI0] Extend device_map comment to clarify single-device intent

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TableTransformer — stale expected values (`test_table_detection`)

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