Two crash paths under "RuntimeError: Inference tensors cannot be
saved for backward":
1. clip_f / sync_f loaded from main-thread inference_mode carry the
inference flag. Clone them on entry to the worker thread so the
conditions built from them are clean non-inference tensors.
Also clone x after Phase 1 before the STE reconnection — Phase 1
runs under no_grad and produces outputs that may still carry the
flag through the conditions path.
2. net_generator.unnormalize + feature_utils.decode called outside
any checkpoint wrapper with requires_grad=True input. Backward
tried to save inference-flagged model weights. Wrapped both calls
in checkpoint(use_reentrant=False) so they recompute on backward
instead of storing activations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
EthanfelandClaude Sonnet 4.6
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