[Trainer] training with proper offloading #12189
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In this PR I proposed a modification where the trainer and sampler preparing mechanism support force full offloading
As the vram usage in training is not easy to estimate and we need some tricky mechanism for offloading (as pytorch autograd will cache all the intermediate state for backward, the temporary GPU tensor cannot be released correctly)
In this implementation, we utilise ComfyUI's native offloading implementation but with bypass forward mode, therefore the lora/optimizer part are always in GPU and base model will be offloaded correctly.
During Test, training SDXL with 1024x1024 resolution with full offloading and bs1, we can reach ~4GB vram usage only, which is lower than inference without offloading.
Some other updates in this PR: