Avoid dtype change of buffer/param and fix softmax dtype

Author: Julius Berner

physicsnemo/models/diffusion/song_unet.py

@@ -857,9 +857,6 @@ def forward(
                     "Cannot provide both embedding_selector and global_index."
                 )
 
-            if x.dtype != self.pos_embd.dtype:
-                self.pos_embd = self.pos_embd.to(x.dtype)
-
             # Append positional embedding to input conditioning
             if self.pos_embd is not None:
                 # Select positional embeddings with a selector function
@@ -947,15 +944,16 @@ def positional_embedding_indexing(
         """
         # If no global indices are provided, select all embeddings and expand
         # to match the batch size of the input
-        if x.dtype != self.pos_embd.dtype:
-            self.pos_embd = self.pos_embd.to(x.dtype)
+        pos_embd = self.pos_embd
+        if x.dtype != pos_embd.dtype:
+            pos_embd = pos_embd.to(x.dtype)
 
         if global_index is None:
             if self.lead_time_mode:
                 selected_pos_embd = []
-                if self.pos_embd is not None:
+                if pos_embd is not None:
                     selected_pos_embd.append(
-                        self.pos_embd[None].expand((x.shape[0], -1, -1, -1))
+                        pos_embd[None].expand((x.shape[0], -1, -1, -1))
                     )
                 if self.lt_embd is not None:
                     selected_pos_embd.append(
@@ -972,7 +970,7 @@ def positional_embedding_indexing(
                 if len(selected_pos_embd) > 0:
                     selected_pos_embd = torch.cat(selected_pos_embd, dim=1)
             else:
-                selected_pos_embd = self.pos_embd[None].expand(
+                selected_pos_embd = pos_embd[None].expand(
                     (x.shape[0], -1, -1, -1)
                 )  # (B, C_{PE}, H, W)
 
@@ -985,11 +983,11 @@ def positional_embedding_indexing(
             global_index = torch.reshape(
                 torch.permute(global_index, (1, 0, 2, 3)), (2, -1)
             )  # (P, 2, X, Y) to (2, P*X*Y)
-            selected_pos_embd = self.pos_embd[
+            selected_pos_embd = pos_embd[
                 :, global_index[0], global_index[1]
             ]  # (C_pe, P*X*Y)
             selected_pos_embd = torch.permute(
-                torch.reshape(selected_pos_embd, (self.pos_embd.shape[0], P, H, W)),
+                torch.reshape(selected_pos_embd, (pos_embd.shape[0], P, H, W)),
                 (1, 0, 2, 3),
             )  # (P, C_pe, X, Y)
 
@@ -1000,7 +998,7 @@ def positional_embedding_indexing(
             # Append positional and lead time embeddings to input conditioning
             if self.lead_time_mode:
                 embeds = []
-                if self.pos_embd is not None:
+                if pos_embd is not None:
                     embeds.append(selected_pos_embd)  # reuse code below
                 if self.lt_embd is not None:
                     lt_embds = self.lt_embd[
@@ -1086,15 +1084,12 @@ def positional_embedding_selector(
         ...     return patching.apply(emb[None].expand(batch_size, -1, -1, -1))
         >>>
         """
-        if x.dtype != self.pos_embd.dtype:
-            self.pos_embd = self.pos_embd.to(x.dtype)
+        embeddings = self.pos_embd
+        if x.dtype != embeddings.dtype:
+            embeddings = embeddings.to(x.dtype)
         if lead_time_label is not None:
             # all patches share same lead_time_label
-            embeddings = torch.cat(
-                [self.pos_embd, self.lt_embd[lead_time_label[0].int()]]
-            )
-        else:
-            embeddings = self.pos_embd
+            embeddings = torch.cat([embeddings, self.lt_embd[lead_time_label[0].int()]])
         return embedding_selector(embeddings)  # (B, N_pe, H, W)
 
     def _get_positional_embedding(self):