Config-only tuning of the temporary CPU lane (no pipeline/code change). Query chunk 512 trims ViTMatte's attention transient ~0.9 GB at 2048x2048 (8.0 -> 7.1 GB peak working set) with bitwise-identical output; 256 gives nothing more. The remaining ~7.1 GB floor is attributed to ViTMatte's detail-capture decoder (backbone stage peaks 4.6 GB, decoder 7.1 GB, pymatting only 0.08 GB), so it is not further reducible by attention chunking -- noted for a possible future decoder-tiling pass. Accepted as-is for the 8 GB box.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Urgent lightweight production profile for a CPU-only fp32 server: base ViTMatte + one BiRefNet@1024, cross-check disabled. Provisions only those two weights (no BiRefNet_HR-matting, no anime-seg) and returns to the ~14-15s/image baseline. Run with BGFILTER_CONFIG=configs/cpu-fast.yaml.
Verified end-to-end: loads exactly 2 models, cross_check resolves off, service preloads the primary segmenter and not the cross-checker.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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