For `autograd.Function`, the engine will try to allocate correctly-shaped zeros for `None` grads (i.e. in the case where the output isn't used downstream). It determines the shape of these zeros from the `VariableInfo` entry, which is derived from the forward output shape. For the NJT forward output case, the size info stored will contain a nested int, and calling `zeros()` with this size throws:
```
RuntimeError: .../build/aten/src/ATen/RegisterCPU.cpp:5260: SymIntArrayRef expected to contain only concrete integers
```
This PR fixes this by storing the full tensor in the `VariableInfo` for the nested case and calling `zeros_like()` to allocate correctly-shaped zeros. This is pretty inefficient; ideally we would want to save just the NJT shape and be able to construct zeros from it, but this requires factory function support for nested ints (WIP). So this is a short-term fix until we have that.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/136875
Approved by: https://github.com/soulitzer, https://github.com/huydhn
For `autograd.Function`, the engine will try to allocate correctly-shaped zeros for `None` grads (i.e. in the case where the output isn't used downstream). It determines the shape of these zeros from the `VariableInfo` entry, which is derived from the forward output shape. For the NJT forward output case, the size info stored will contain a nested int, and calling `zeros()` with this size throws:
```
RuntimeError: .../build/aten/src/ATen/RegisterCPU.cpp:5260: SymIntArrayRef expected to contain only concrete integers
```
This PR fixes this by storing the full tensor in the `VariableInfo` for the nested case and calling `zeros_like()` to allocate correctly-shaped zeros. This is pretty inefficient; ideally we would want to save just the NJT shape and be able to construct zeros from it, but this requires factory function support for nested ints (WIP). So this is a short-term fix until we have that.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/136875
Approved by: https://github.com/soulitzer
VariableInfo is used by both `custom_function.h` (in a templated class) and `compiled_autograd.h` (in a class with some templated methods). Another way could have been to make a `compiled_autograd.cpp` and forward declare VariableInfo, but this VariableInfo was also being used in other nodes like PyNode so it felt cleaner to do it this way.
Differential Revision: [D54287007](https://our.internmc.facebook.com/intern/diff/D54287007)
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/120732
Approved by: https://github.com/jansel
