DITTO critical bug: x was reassigned on every ODE step, so by the time
loss.backward() ran, x pointed to the final output tensor (grad_fn, not
a leaf) and x.grad was always None. The manual gradient transfer never
fired — x0 was never updated. The optimization was a no-op.
Fix: use a straight-through estimator after the no-grad prefix:
x = x + (x0 - x0.detach())
This adds zero value but creates a grad_fn back to x0, so backward()
propagates ∂loss/∂x (at the Phase-1/2 boundary) directly to x0.grad.
Equivalent to truncated BPTT with ∂x_prefix/∂x0 ≈ I.
Also remove unused imports (SelvaSampler, _inject_tokens, random) that
caused cascade ImportError risk, and remove dead trainable_count variable
in BigVGAN trainer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ethanfel
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