Add SeaCache support for Cosmos3 pipelines

[yzhautouskay]

What does this PR do?

• Enable SeaCache by default with linear extrapolation, threshold 0.25, and at most 2 consecutive cached steps. This provides 2-3x speedup depending on inference params with on-par quality.
• Use FP32 sampling state by default while keeping transformer execution in the model dtype, improving numerical stability and consistency, especially when caching is enabled
• Add tests and documentation, including how to disable SeaCache.

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Self-review: yzhautouskay/cosmos3_diffusion_caching

The branch bundles three things: (1) a new SeaCache cache hook (hooks/sea_cache.py, 989 lines), (2) a use_fp32_sampling_state sampling-precision option across the Cosmos3 pipelines, and (3) a _get_execution_device group-offload fix. Paper link (2602.18993) verified — real (SeaCache, CVPR 2026).

Blocking (fix before submitting)

1. PR is not laser-focused — three unrelated changes in one PR. Per How to write a good PR + cosine schedule and unet config #2: "A pull request should solve one problem and one problem only." SeaCache caching, FP32 sampling state, and the _get_execution_device group-offload fix (pipeline_cosmos3_omni.py:~530) are independent and each reviewable on its own. The group-offload fix in particular has nothing to do with caching. Split into separate PRs (or at minimum call out why they're coupled in the description).

2. Heavy defensive / fail-open code contradicts the style guide. Per code_style.md: "No defensive code, unused code paths, or legacy stubs — do not add fallback paths, safety checks... 'just in case'." sea_cache.py is dominated by fail-open guards: autograd check (sea_cache.py:730), missing-context check (:735), shape/device/dtype equality checks on indicators and residual history (:459, :949), _is_parameter_sharded FSDP/DTensor probing (:687), non-adjacent-step detection (:435). Some fail-open is legitimately needed for a cache that must never corrupt output, but the current volume will draw review fire. Prune the guards for states that can't actually occur under the supported call path, and keep only the ones protecting real, reachable conditions.

3. Generic "advanced adapter" config params carried for a single-model integration. metadata_callback and raw_vision_callback on SeaCacheConfig (sea_cache.py:315-322) exist only to let future non-Cosmos3 models plug in. Per code_style.md: "do not carry unused method parameters 'for API consistency'... only keep the inference path you are actually integrating." Only Cosmos3 is wired up; drop these until a second model needs them.

Non-blocking (raise with reviewer)

• indicator_source="first_block" is a whole second indicator path that the default never uses (default is "raw_vision_latents"). It pulls in _prepare_cosmos3_vision_metadata (~60 lines), hidden_states_norm_module_name plumbing in _helpers.py, and the norm-based branch in _build_indicator. If it isn't needed for the shipping config, consider dropping it. (See dead-code table.)
• use_fp32_sampling_state=True by default changes generated outputs vs. prior behavior. Documented in cosmos3.md, but flag it explicitly to the maintainer as an intentional default change (ties to pitfalls Add UNet for Latent Diffusion #5/Unet for Grad TTS and pipeline #9/Pros and cons of the configuration setup #11 on precision — this is the correct direction, just call it out).
• _cache_context helper is duplicated verbatim in denoise.py and pipeline_cosmos3_omni.py. Minor; consider a shared location.
• Paper claims "no additional hyperparameters to tune", yet the config exposes threshold, retention_steps, cache_end_steps, max_consecutive_cached, power_exp, residual_order. Worth a one-line rationale in the PR for why the port diverges.

Dead code (advisory)

location	status	reason
sea_cache.py:555 _prepare_cosmos3_vision_metadata + first_block branch in _build_indicator	Likely-dead under default	only runs when indicator_source="first_block"; default is raw_vision_latents
SeaCacheConfig.metadata_callback / raw_vision_callback	Likely-dead	no caller passes them; Cosmos3 uses native adapters
_helpers.py hidden_states_norm_module_name	Used only by first_block	tied to the non-default indicator

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• Uncommitted/untracked files in your worktree are NOT in the pushed diff but shouldn't get added: check_cosmos3_transfer_workflow.py, run_cosmos3_modular_transfer.sh, assets/, examples/cosmos3/inference_cosmos3_modular_distilled.py, and an unstaged encoders.py edit. The dev scripts/assets are ephemeral (per review-rules "Ephemeral context") — keep them out of the PR.
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Verdict: NEEDS CHANGES

Primary asks: split the three features (#1), trim defensive/unused paths (#2, #3). Tests are strong — real Cosmos3 model at tiny config, per-context cache isolation, fail-open, and dtype coverage all exercised, consistent with testing.md

[sayakpaul]

Thanks! The design looks mostly good. My major comment is that we're adding utilities to enable caching at the pipeline-level which is not something we typically do in the library.

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[yzhautouskay]

@yiyixuxu @sayakpaul Thanks for the review! I addressed moving caching to the transformer level instead of pipeline, and refactored tests

Few thing I will address next:

• Verify always upcast sampling state to fp32 impact once again before making the final change: Benchmarked FP32 sampling across T2I, T2V, and I2V: runtime overhead was 0.3–2.7%, with only ~111 MiB extra peak live memory for video. FP32 was perceptually better and closer to the reference PyTorch implementation, so I removed the flag and made FP32 sampling unconditional
• Add the benchmarking results for speed and quality with caching to update the docs.
• Document if SeaCache is Cosmos3 specific method or if it can be extended to other models

[sayakpaul]

Thanks for the updates! This looks much better!

[sayakpaul]

Nice, thanks for the note! From a quick skim of the paper, it doesn't look like it needs to be Cosmos3 specific no?

[yzhautouskay]

I will try running SeaCache with other models, and will update the docs accordingly

[sayakpaul]

/diffusers-bot pytest tests/models -k "seacache"

[github-actions]

✅ pytest tests/models -k "seacache" passed on GPU — view logs.