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Description

Warp.get_reference_grid is meant to reuse its coordinate grid, but the cached grid has shape (batch, spatial_dims, *spatial) while the existing check compares ref_grid.shape[1:] against ddf.shape[2:]. Those tuples cannot match for 2D or 3D fields, so the grid gets rebuilt on each call.

This change restores the cache and makes its key complete:

  • full tensor shape, device and dtype;
  • whether jitter is enabled;
  • the seed when jitter is enabled (the seed cannot affect a regular grid).

A shape-only fix would make the cache reachable, but a stale grid could still pass after a dtype, device, jitter or jitter-seed change. So the key has to be complete, and the test covers a cache hit plus each of these invalidations.

This shows up the most in DVF2DDF, which reuses one Warp instance across the default seven scaling-and-squaring steps. I measured it with tests/testing_data/anatomical.nii, one Torch thread and interleaved baseline/candidate runs:

CPU Before After Paired improvement
Intel Core i9-13900HX 8.740 ms 8.010 ms 7.86% (6.14–12.46%, 21/21 groups)
ARM Neoverse-N1 29.043 ms 26.988 ms 6.92% (6.69–7.04%, 5/5 processes)
Intel Xeon Platinum 8481C 16.421 ms 14.750 ms 9.98% (9.54–11.61%, 5/5 processes)

Cache-miss and cache-hit outputs, image gradients, displacement gradients and the real anatomical volume output are bit-identical to the original grid construction, and the jitter path keeps the caller's RNG state untouched. I also checked memory with five fresh-process peak-RSS pairs at 64 cubed, there was no regression.

Validation:

  • python -m tests.networks.blocks.warp.test_warp: 10 tests passed, 1 skipped.
  • python -m tests.networks.blocks.warp.test_dvf2ddf: 4 tests passed.
  • python -m tests.networks.nets.test_voxelmorph: 19 tests passed.
  • The same three modules passed from the exact HEAD archive on an ephemeral Intel Sapphire Rapids
    VM, Python 3.10.12, Torch 2.8.0+cpu.
  • The new regression test fails on the same origin/dev revision and passes with this patch.
  • bin/monai_lint.sh --check --pyrefly .: passed, including pyrefly with zero errors.
  • The full quick unit phase ran 14822 tests. 35 nonpasses are confined to six unrelated modules and
    reproduce with the same test identities and counts on pristine origin/dev. 31/31 remaining distributed tests pass, and the one LMDB distributed failure also reproduces on origin/dev.

Types of changes

  • Non-breaking change (fix or new feature that would not break existing functionality).
  • New tests added to cover the changes.
  • Quick tests passed locally by running ./runtests.sh --quick --unittests --disttests.

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Warp.get_reference_grid now caches grids by full DDF shape, device, dtype, jitter, and seed. It records the parameters used for the cached grid. Tests cover cache reuse and regeneration across changes to these inputs, including float64 and meta-device grids.

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This change restores reference-grid reuse while invalidating the cache for shape, device, dtype, jitter, and seed changes; the supplied validation indicates no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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115-115: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a Google-style docstring to get_reference_grid.

Document ddf, jitter, and seed in Args. Document the returned tensor in Returns.

Proposed docstring
     def get_reference_grid(self, ddf: torch.Tensor, jitter: bool = False, seed: int = 0) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Return a reference grid matching the DDF shape and generation parameters.
+
+        Args:
+            ddf: Dense displacement field tensor that defines the grid shape, device, and dtype.
+            jitter: Whether to add deterministic random offsets to the grid.
+            seed: Random seed used when `jitter` is enabled.
+
+        Returns:
+            The cached or newly generated reference grid.
+        """

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In `@monai/networks/blocks/warp.py` at line 115, Add a Google-style docstring to
the get_reference_grid method documenting ddf, jitter, and seed under Args and
describing the returned reference-grid tensor under Returns; include raised
exceptions only if this method explicitly raises them.

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JESUSROYETH force-pushed the perf/warp-reference-grid-cache branch from 1d7d772 to 25bc363 Compare September 1, 2026 15:08
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