[core] fix sleep mode and pytorch checkpoint compatibility (vllm-project#13001)

Signed-off-by: youkaichao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Louis Ulmer <[email protected]>

Author: youkaichao

tests/basic_correctness/test_cumem.py

@@ -115,10 +115,16 @@ def model(x):
 
 
 @fork_new_process_for_each_test
-def test_end_to_end():
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "model",
+    [
+        "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B",  # sleep mode with safetensors
+        "facebook/opt-125m"  # sleep mode with pytorch checkpoint
+    ])
+def test_end_to_end(model):
     free, total = torch.cuda.mem_get_info()
     used_bytes_baseline = total - free  # in case other process is running
-    llm = LLM("meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B", enable_sleep_mode=True)
+    llm = LLM(model, enable_sleep_mode=True)
     prompt = "How are you?"
     sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0, max_tokens=10)
     output = llm.generate(prompt, sampling_params)

vllm/model_executor/model_loader/weight_utils.py

@@ -462,7 +462,6 @@ def pt_weights_iterator(
         state = torch.load(bin_file, map_location="cpu", weights_only=True)
         yield from state.items()
         del state
-        torch.cuda.empty_cache()
 
 
 def get_gguf_extra_tensor_names(