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Make sure the code is resilient against failures.
Made logging info optional so that we don't incur cost with the model manager by default.
Also tries to reduce testing flakes by adding a try catch statement on model deletion.


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This pull request significantly enhances the robustness of the RunInference transform within Apache Beam's ML inference capabilities. By introducing a dedicated Out-Of-Memory (OOM) protection mechanism, it ensures that model loading and inference execution can gracefully handle CUDA OOM errors, attempting memory cleanup and guaranteeing resource release to prevent system instability and improve overall reliability.

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  • OOM Protection Mechanism: Introduced a new OOMProtectedFn class designed to wrap functions and catch CUDA Out-Of-Memory exceptions. Upon catching such an exception, it attempts to clean up memory using gc.collect() and torch.cuda.empty_cache() before re-raising the original exception.
  • Robust Model Loading: The loader_func used for acquiring models via MultiProcessShared is now wrapped with OOMProtectedFn, ensuring that model loading operations are resilient to CUDA OOM errors.
  • Resilient Inference Execution: The _model_handler.run_inference method, responsible for executing inference, is now also wrapped with OOMProtectedFn to handle potential CUDA OOM errors during the inference process.
  • Guaranteed Model Release: Modified the _run_inference method to use a try...finally block around the inference execution. This ensures that the model is always released, even if an exception (including OOM) occurs during run_inference.

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  • sdks/python/apache_beam/ml/inference/base.py
    • Added OOMProtectedFn class to handle CUDA OOM exceptions and perform memory cleanup.
    • Wrapped loader_func with OOMProtectedFn for resilient model loading.
    • Wrapped _model_handler.run_inference with OOMProtectedFn for robust inference execution.
    • Refactored model release logic into a try...finally block to ensure consistent resource cleanup.
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This pull request introduces valuable improvements for handling out-of-memory errors in RunInference when using the model manager. The OOMProtectedFn wrapper is a neat way to encapsulate the cleanup logic without adding hard dependencies. Making the logging in the model manager optional is also a great change for reducing operational costs and log noise. The added exception handling for model deletion will certainly help with robustness.

My main feedback is on the new test case for OOM handling, which appears to be non-deterministic and doesn't fully exercise the new CUDA OOM cleanup path. I've left a specific comment with a suggestion to make the test more robust and comprehensive.

Comment on lines 2345 to 2362
class OOMFakeModelHandler(SimpleFakeModelHandler):
def run_inference(
self,
batch: Sequence[int],
model: FakeModel,
inference_args=None) -> Iterable[int]:
if random.random() < 0.8:
raise MemoryError("Simulated OOM")
for example in batch:
yield model.predict(example)

with self.assertRaises(Exception):
with TestPipeline() as pipeline:
examples = [1, 5, 3, 10]
pcoll = pipeline | 'start' >> beam.Create(examples)
actual = pcoll | base.RunInference(
OOMFakeModelHandler(), use_model_manager=True)
assert_that(actual, equal_to([2, 6, 4, 11]), label='assert:inferences')
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medium

This new test has a few issues that could be improved:

  1. Non-determinism: The use of random.random() makes this test non-deterministic, which can lead to flaky builds. It's better to make tests deterministic.

  2. Confusing structure: The assert_that call is inside the with self.assertRaises(Exception): block. This means the assertion is only checked if the test is about to fail anyway because no exception was raised. It's clearer to have separate tests for success and failure cases.

  3. Incomplete test coverage: The OOMProtectedFn specifically looks for 'out of memory' and 'CUDA' in the exception string to trigger the memory cleanup logic. The MemoryError("Simulated OOM") raised here does not contain 'out of memory', so the cleanup path is not actually being tested.

I'm suggesting a change to make this test deterministic and to correctly test the OOM cleanup path by raising a more specific error. This will make the test more reliable and ensure the new functionality is properly verified.

    class OOMFakeModelHandler(SimpleFakeModelHandler):
      def run_inference(
          self,
          batch: Sequence[int],
          model: FakeModel,
          inference_args=None) -> Iterable[int]:
        # This will always raise to test the OOM path.
        raise MemoryError("CUDA out of memory. Simulated OOM.")

    with self.assertRaises(MemoryError):
      with TestPipeline() as pipeline:
        examples = [1, 5, 3, 10]
        pcoll = pipeline | 'start' >> beam.Create(examples)
        # The pipeline will fail, so we don't need to check the output.
        _ = pcoll | base.RunInference(
            OOMFakeModelHandler(), use_model_manager=True)

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I don't think the suggestion is good, but there is a 20% chance this test succeeds. Could we drop the batch size to 1? That would help since we'd get 4 run_inference calls instead of just one

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Ah yes good catch! I didn't notice the batch size, so was assuming 0.2^4, will update!

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Outside of the gemini comment thread, this LGTM

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