- R1: the face helper is constructed on the pack device (was the offload
device); load_device() explicitly places the detector and the parser with
a logged CPU fallback, offload() mirrors the restore, the YOLO .device
skew is closed (P-D1..P-D5).
- R2: detection streams per max_clip_length group (no full-clip convert-in
retention), crop is fused into a chunk-bounded restore loop with
preallocated staging, the paste tail keeps one contractual float32
buffer, the helper is released after every run; golden fixtures pin the
outputs bitwise (P-M1..P-M7).
- The diagnosis: the OOM was O(frames) whole-clip host buffers, not the
faces (the detector/landmark path was already GPU-placed);
max_clip_length never bounded convert-in or the paste tail.
- Gate: 523 passed, 6 skipped, 7 deselected, 0 failed (baseline 505).