[WIP] Support parallel tiled vae for AutoencoderKL and AutoencoderKLWan #5
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What does this PR do?
When memory is constrained, VAE tiling serves as a critical optimization to reduce memory footprint—here’s how it works at its core:
However, the default VAE tiling workflow executes tile-wise operations sequentially - even when multiple devices are available. This leads to underutilization of hardware resources, as each tile’s VAE computation is inherently independent and can be parallelized.
To address this inefficiency, this PR introduces parallelized tiled VAE processing for AutoencoderKL and AutoencoderKLWan. By leveraging multi-device capabilities, we distribute the independent tile computations across available hardware, enabling simultaneous processing of multiple tiles. This not only maximizes resource utilization but also accelerates end-to-end VAE encoding/decoding throughput - all while retaining the memory-saving benefits of tiling for memory-constrained environments.
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