Tighten YuE2 VRAM use on the 5080 and empty GPU before launch.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

scripts/comfy-host-agent.mjs

@@ -856,6 +856,9 @@ const yue2 = createYue2Host({
     if (healthy) {
       const queue = await fetchLocalQueue(healthy)
       if (!queue.ok || queue.running || queue.pending) throw new Error('Comfy is busy; YuE2 cannot start.')
+    }
+    // Same gate as YuEGP: stop Comfy and refuse to launch while its Python still owns VRAM.
+    if (healthy || await processUp() || await pythonMainUp().catch(() => false)) {
       await stopComfyProcesses()
       markAsleep()
     }

scripts/yue2-worker.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """Headless YuE2 adapter: plan → generate_semantic → synthesize → decode.
 
-No Comfy imports. No score editor, covers, or auto-fallback to YuEGP.
+No Comfy imports. No score editor, covers, or auto-fallback to YuEGP / ACE.
 Stdout AIGEN_EVENT lines are consumed by the device-local host agent.
 """
 import argparse
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ import sys
 import time
 import threading
 
+# Must be set before the first torch import on this 16GB Windows host.
+os.environ.setdefault('PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF', 'expandable_segments:True')
+
 
 def emit(**event):
     print('AIGEN_EVENT ' + json.dumps(event), flush=True)
@@ -28,22 +31,15 @@ def normalize_lyrics(text):
     return '[song]\n' + text + '\n\n'
 
 
+def is_cuda_oom(error):
+    message = str(error).lower()
+    return 'out of memory' in message or ('cuda' in message and 'alloc' in message) or 'cudnn_status_alloc_failed' in message
+
+
 def resolve_attention_backend(torch_mod):
-    """Pick a non-flash attention path for the Windows CUDA wheel on the 5080."""
-    flash = False
-    try:
-        check = getattr(torch_mod.backends.cuda, 'is_flash_attention_available', None)
-        flash = bool(check()) if callable(check) else False
-    except Exception:
-        flash = False
-    # Cognito/YuE2-Windows: when flash is unavailable, fall back to cudnn.
-    # This host never enables flash: the torch wheel exposes the op without USE_FLASH_ATTENTION.
-    if sys.platform == 'win32' or not flash:
-        if torch_mod.cuda.is_available() and torch_mod.backends.cudnn.is_available():
-            return 'cudnn', 'torch'
-        return 'sdpa', 'torch-eager'
-    if torch_mod.cuda.is_available() and torch_mod.backends.cudnn.is_available():
-        return 'cudnn', 'torch'
+    """Never flash. Prefer torch-eager (no CUDA graphs) on the 16GB 5080."""
+    # Windows wheels expose flash ops without USE_FLASH_ATTENTION; never select flash.
+    # torch-eager disables GraphAR / CUDA graphs via YuE2Pipeline.backend.
     return 'sdpa', 'torch-eager'
 
 
@@ -61,6 +57,28 @@ def patch_graph_attention(attention_backend):
     GraphAR.__init__ = init
 
 
+def free_cuda(torch_mod):
+    gc.collect()
+    if torch_mod.cuda.is_available():
+        torch_mod.cuda.empty_cache()
+        torch_mod.cuda.synchronize()
+
+
+def memory_snapshot(torch_mod, stage):
+    if not torch_mod.cuda.is_available():
+        emit(stage=stage, message=f'YuE2 {stage}', cuda=False)
+        return
+    free, total = torch_mod.cuda.mem_get_info()
+    emit(
+        stage=stage,
+        message=f'YuE2 {stage}',
+        gpuAllocatedMiB=round(torch_mod.cuda.memory_allocated() / 1024 ** 2),
+        gpuReservedMiB=round(torch_mod.cuda.memory_reserved() / 1024 ** 2),
+        gpuFreeMiB=round(free / 1024 ** 2),
+        gpuTotalMiB=round(total / 1024 ** 2),
+    )
+
+
 def main():
     import psutil
     parent = psutil.Process(os.getppid())
@@ -93,27 +111,56 @@ def main():
     import soundfile as sf
     attention_backend, pipeline_backend = resolve_attention_backend(torch)
     emit(stage='loading', progress=1, message='Loading YuE2', model=model, vae=vae,
-         duration=duration, attention_backend=attention_backend, pipeline_backend=pipeline_backend)
+         duration=duration, attention_backend=attention_backend, pipeline_backend=pipeline_backend,
+         cudaAllocConf=os.environ.get('PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF'))
     from yue2 import YuE2Pipeline
     if not torch.cuda.is_available():
         raise RuntimeError('YuE2 requires a CUDA GPU; CPU fallback is disabled.')
     patch_graph_attention(attention_backend)
-    pipe_kwargs = dict(style=style, lyrics=lyrics, cot='full', seed=seed)
-    # Duration is kept for library metadata and validation. Upstream one-shot
-    # requests do not take a seconds field; song length follows the plan.
-    with YuE2Pipeline.from_pretrained(model, vae=vae, device='cuda', backend=pipeline_backend) as pipe:
-        emit(stage='plan', message='Planning melody and chords', progress=5)
-        plan = pipe.plan(**pipe_kwargs)
-        emit(stage='semantic', message='Generating semantic tokens', progress=25)
+    free_cuda(torch)
+    memory_snapshot(torch, 'memory-before-load')
+    # 16GB card: cap budget so YuE2 leaves headroom; tiled VAE at 512 frames.
+    pipe_load = dict(
+        device='cuda',
+        backend=pipeline_backend,
+        memory_budget_gib=12,
+        vae_core_frames=512,
+        offload_ar=True,
+        progress=False,
+    )
+    cot = 'full'
+    pipe_kwargs = dict(style=style, lyrics=lyrics, cot=cot, seed=seed)
+    with YuE2Pipeline.from_pretrained(model, vae=vae, **pipe_load) as pipe:
+        memory_snapshot(torch, 'memory-loaded')
+        emit(stage='plan', message='Planning melody and chords', progress=5, cot=cot)
+        try:
+            plan = pipe.plan(**pipe_kwargs)
+        except Exception as error:
+            if cot != 'full' or not is_cuda_oom(error):
+                raise
+            free_cuda(torch)
+            cot = 'melody'
+            pipe_kwargs['cot'] = cot
+            emit(stage='plan', message='Full CoT OOM; retrying melody CoT', progress=5, cot=cot,
+                 error=str(error))
+            memory_snapshot(torch, 'memory-before-melody-plan')
+            plan = pipe.plan(**pipe_kwargs)
+        free_cuda(torch)
+        memory_snapshot(torch, 'memory-after-plan')
+        emit(stage='semantic', message='Generating semantic tokens', progress=25, cot=cot)
         semantic = pipe.generate_semantic(plan)
-        emit(stage='synthesize', message='Synthesizing acoustic latents', progress=55)
+        free_cuda(torch)
+        memory_snapshot(torch, 'memory-after-semantic')
+        emit(stage='synthesize', message='Synthesizing acoustic latents', progress=55, cot=cot)
         latents = pipe.synthesize(semantic)
-        emit(stage='decode', message='Decoding audio', progress=80)
-        audio = pipe.decode(latents)
-    # Context exit unloads the pipeline. Clear any residual CUDA cache.
-    gc.collect()
-    if torch.cuda.is_available():
-        torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+        free_cuda(torch)
+        memory_snapshot(torch, 'memory-after-synthesize')
+        emit(stage='decode', message='Decoding audio (tiled)', progress=80, cot=cot)
+        # full=False uses decode_tiled with vae_core_frames / halo; model offloads to CPU after.
+        audio = pipe.decode(latents, full=False)
+        free_cuda(torch)
+        memory_snapshot(torch, 'memory-after-decode')
+    free_cuda(torch)
     wave = audio
     if hasattr(audio, 'detach'):
         wave = audio.detach().cpu().numpy()
@@ -129,7 +176,7 @@ def main():
     info = sf.info(str(target))
     if info.frames <= 0:
         raise RuntimeError('YuE2 produced empty audio.')
-    emit(stage='complete', message='Audio ready', progress=100, duration=info.duration)
+    emit(stage='complete', message='Audio ready', progress=100, duration=info.duration, cot=cot)
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':