diff --git a/fastvideo/api/inference_resolution.py b/fastvideo/api/inference_resolution.py
index 75dfbaf97..e1cda9454 100644
--- a/fastvideo/api/inference_resolution.py
+++ b/fastvideo/api/inference_resolution.py
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ from typing import Any, get_args
 
 import fastvideo.envs as envs
 from fastvideo.api.parser import parse_config
-from fastvideo.api.resolution import ResolutionStep, ResolutionView, ResolvedGeneratorConfig, resolve_generator_config
+from fastvideo.api.resolution import (ResolutionStep, ResolutionView, ResolvedGeneratorConfig, resolve_generator_config,
+                                      thaw)
 from fastvideo.api.schema import ExecutionMode, GeneratorConfig, WorkloadType
 from fastvideo.logger import init_logger
 
@@ -303,6 +304,21 @@ def warn_deprecated_environment_variables(view: ResolutionView) -> dict[str, Any
     return {}
 
 
+def torch_compile_kwargs(resolved_config: ResolvedGeneratorConfig) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """The keyword arguments for ``torch.compile`` that ``engine.compile`` describes.
+
+    ``backend``, ``fullgraph``, ``mode``, and ``dynamic`` are included when they are set; ``extras`` is merged on top.
+    """
+    compile_config = resolved_config.engine.compile
+    kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}
+    for key in ("backend", "fullgraph", "mode", "dynamic"):
+        value = getattr(compile_config, key)
+        if value is not None:
+            kwargs[key] = value
+    kwargs.update(thaw(compile_config.extras))
+    return kwargs
+
+
 # Values that runtime code uses for typed fields that no earlier step decided. ``pipeline.ltx2.refine.*`` and
 # ``engine.offload.lazy_module_load`` are not listed: ``None`` there means "decide later" (the LTX-2 checkpoint defaults
 # and the device policy).
@@ -508,6 +524,7 @@ def _non_default_fields(value: Any, default: Any) -> dict[str, Any]:
 
 
 __all__ = [
+    "torch_compile_kwargs",
     "ENVIRONMENT_STEPS",
     "FLAT_INPUT_STEPS",
     "VALIDATION_STEPS",
diff --git a/fastvideo/api/resolution.py b/fastvideo/api/resolution.py
index cd92c0afa..727f3f3fd 100644
--- a/fastvideo/api/resolution.py
+++ b/fastvideo/api/resolution.py
@@ -139,6 +139,17 @@ def _freeze(value: Any) -> Any:
     return deepcopy(value)
 
 
+def thaw(value: Any) -> Any:
+    """Mutable copy of a value read from a resolved config: mapping proxies become dicts, tuples become lists."""
+    if isinstance(value, Mapping):
+        return {key: thaw(child) for key, child in value.items()}
+    if isinstance(value, tuple):
+        return [thaw(child) for child in value]
+    if isinstance(value, frozenset):
+        return {thaw(child) for child in value}
+    return deepcopy(value)
+
+
 def _split(path: str) -> list[str] | None:
     """Dotted path parts, or ``None`` when ``path`` is not a non-empty dotted string."""
     if not isinstance(path, str) or not path or any(not part for part in path.split(".")):
@@ -564,4 +575,5 @@ __all__ = [
     "ResolvedRequest",
     "resolve_generation_request",
     "resolve_generator_config",
+    "thaw",
 ]
diff --git a/fastvideo/pipelines/component_state.py b/fastvideo/pipelines/component_state.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1b311a897
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fastvideo/pipelines/component_state.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""Runtime state of a pipeline's components: where each one was loaded from, and whether it is resident.
+
+A pipeline owns one ``ComponentState``. ``ComposedPipelineBase`` records each component's path after loading it, and
+attaches the state to every stage it registers (``PipelineStage.component_state``), so that a stage can reload a
+component that it released to save memory.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+
+
+@dataclass
+class ComponentState:
+    """Mutable per-pipeline component bookkeeping that is not configuration."""
+
+    # Local path that each component was loaded from, keyed by module name.
+    model_paths: dict[str, str] = field(default_factory=dict)
+    # Whether each releasable component is currently loaded, keyed by module name.
+    model_loaded: dict[str, bool] = field(default_factory=lambda: {
+        "transformer": True,
+        "vae": True,
+        "upsampler": True,
+    })