Avoid keeping redundant copies of model weights in memory during load #42
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Before this change,
whisper.load_model
keeps the whole weights file in scope until after tensors are moved to the device.This might not seem important for sample code, but this change makes it possible to load the
large
model on a free Colab instance, which otherwise runs out of memory (inference afterwards is no problem)!