diff --git a/nodes/selva_bigvgan_trainer.py b/nodes/selva_bigvgan_trainer.py
index c26455e..699a701 100644
--- a/nodes/selva_bigvgan_trainer.py
+++ b/nodes/selva_bigvgan_trainer.py
@@ -1111,6 +1111,11 @@ def _do_train(vocoder, mel_converter, clips,
         print(f"[BigVGAN] LoRA mel cropping: {_mel_segment} mel frames "
               f"per {segment_samples} audio samples", flush=True)
 
+    def _vram(label):
+        if device.type == "cuda" and step < 1:
+            a = torch.cuda.memory_allocated(device) / (1024**3)
+            print(f"  [VRAM step0] {label}: {a:.2f} GiB", flush=True)
+
     try:
         for step in range(steps):
             if lora_mel_pairs:
@@ -1153,6 +1158,7 @@ def _do_train(vocoder, mel_converter, clips,
             # Clean target mel for mel loss (always from clean audio)
             with torch.no_grad():
                 target_mel = mel_converter(target_flat.float())       # [B, n_mels, T_mel]
+            _vram("after target_mel")
 
             # Gradient checkpointing: recompute BigVGAN activations during
             # backward instead of storing them. The 512x upsampling stack
@@ -1162,12 +1168,14 @@ def _do_train(vocoder, mel_converter, clips,
             pred_wav = torch.utils.checkpoint.checkpoint(
                 vocoder, input_mel.to(dtype), use_reentrant=False
             )                                                     # [B, 1, T_wav]
+            _vram("after vocoder forward")
 
             T = min(pred_wav.shape[-1], target_wav.shape[-1])
             pred_t   = pred_wav[...,  :T]
             target_t = target_wav[..., :T]
 
             # ── Compute loss ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+            _vram("before loss")
             if mpd is not None and mrd is not None:
                 # Perceptual feature matching via frozen discriminators
                 with torch.no_grad():
@@ -1213,8 +1221,10 @@ def _do_train(vocoder, mel_converter, clips,
                 l2sp_loss = l2sp_loss * lambda_l2sp
 
             loss = primary_loss + l2sp_loss
+            _vram("after loss computation")
             optimizer.zero_grad()
             loss.backward()
+            _vram("after backward")
             torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(trainable_params, 1.0)
             optimizer.step()