Getting rid of maxpooling layer causes running cuda out memory error pytorch

Video card: gtx1070ti 8Gb, batchsize 64, input image size 128*128
I had such UNET with resnet152 as encoder wich worket pretty fine:

class UNetResNet(nn.Module):
 
def __init__(self, encoder_depth, num_classes, num_filters=32, dropout_2d=0.2,
             pretrained=False, is_deconv=False):
    super().__init__()
    self.num_classes = num_classes
    self.dropout_2d = dropout_2d

    if encoder_depth == 34:
        self.encoder = torchvision.models.resnet34(pretrained=pretrained)
        bottom_channel_nr = 512
    elif encoder_depth == 101:
        self.encoder = torchvision.models.resnet101(pretrained=pretrained)
        bottom_channel_nr = 2048
    elif encoder_depth == 152:
        self.encoder = torchvision.models.resnet152(pretrained=pretrained)
        bottom_channel_nr = 2048
     
    else:
        raise NotImplementedError('only 34, 101, 152 version of Resnet are implemented')

    self.pool = nn.MaxPool2d(2, 2)

    self.relu = nn.ReLU(inplace=True)

    self.conv1 = nn.Sequential(self.encoder.conv1,
                               self.encoder.bn1,
                               self.encoder.relu,
                               self.pool) #from that pool layer I would like to get rid off

    self.conv2 = self.encoder.layer1
    self.conv3 = self.encoder.layer2
    self.conv4 = self.encoder.layer3
    self.conv5 = self.encoder.layer4
    self.center = DecoderCenter(bottom_channel_nr, num_filters * 8 *2, num_filters * 8, False)
    
    self.dec5 =  DecoderBlockV(bottom_channel_nr + num_filters * 8, num_filters * 8 * 2, num_filters * 8,   is_deconv)
    self.dec4 = DecoderBlockV(bottom_channel_nr // 2 + num_filters * 8, num_filters * 8 * 2, num_filters * 8, is_deconv)
    self.dec3 = DecoderBlockV(bottom_channel_nr // 4 + num_filters * 8, num_filters * 4 * 2, num_filters * 2, is_deconv)
    self.dec2 = DecoderBlockV(bottom_channel_nr // 8 + num_filters * 2, num_filters * 2 * 2, num_filters * 2 * 2,
                               is_deconv)
    self.dec1 = DecoderBlockV(num_filters * 2 * 2, num_filters * 2 * 2, num_filters, is_deconv)
    self.dec0 = ConvRelu(num_filters, num_filters)
    self.final = nn.Conv2d(num_filters, num_classes, kernel_size=1)

def forward(self, x):
    conv1 = self.conv1(x)
    conv2 = self.conv2(conv1)
    conv3 = self.conv3(conv2)
    conv4 = self.conv4(conv3)
    conv5 = self.conv5(conv4) 
    center = self.center(conv5)
    dec5 = self.dec5(torch.cat([center, conv5], 1))
    dec4 = self.dec4(torch.cat([dec5, conv4], 1))
    dec3 = self.dec3(torch.cat([dec4, conv3], 1))
    dec2 = self.dec2(torch.cat([dec3, conv2], 1))
    dec1 = self.dec1(dec2)
    dec0 = self.dec0(dec1)

    return self.final(F.dropout2d(dec0, p=self.dropout_2d))
# blocks
    class DecoderBlockV(nn.Module):
        def __init__(self, in_channels, middle_channels, out_channels, is_deconv=True):
            super(DecoderBlockV2, self).__init__()
            self.in_channels = in_channels
    
            if is_deconv:
                self.block = nn.Sequential(
                    ConvRelu(in_channels, middle_channels),
                    nn.ConvTranspose2d(middle_channels, out_channels, kernel_size=4, stride=2,
                                       padding=1),
                    nn.BatchNorm2d(out_channels),
    		        nn.ReLU(inplace=True)
                    
                )
            else:
                self.block = nn.Sequential(
                    nn.Upsample(scale_factor=2, mode='bilinear'),
                    ConvRelu(in_channels, middle_channels),
                    ConvRelu(middle_channels, out_channels),
                )
    
        def forward(self, x):
            return self.block(x)



class DecoderCenter(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, in_channels, middle_channels, out_channels, is_deconv=True):
        super(DecoderCenter, self).__init__()
        self.in_channels = in_channels

        
        if is_deconv:
            """
                Paramaters for Deconvolution were chosen to avoid artifacts, following
                link https://distill.pub/2016/deconv-checkerboard/
            """

            self.block = nn.Sequential(
                ConvRelu(in_channels, middle_channels),
                nn.ConvTranspose2d(middle_channels, out_channels, kernel_size=4, stride=2,
                                   padding=1),
		nn.BatchNorm2d(out_channels), 
                nn.ReLU(inplace=True)
            )
        else:
            self.block = nn.Sequential(
                ConvRelu(in_channels, middle_channels),
                ConvRelu(middle_channels, out_channels)
 
            )

    def forward(self, x):
        return self.block(x)

Then I edited my class looks to make it work without pooling layer:

class UNetResNet(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, encoder_depth, num_classes, num_filters=32, dropout_2d=0.2,
                 pretrained=False, is_deconv=False):
        super().__init__()
        self.num_classes = num_classes
        self.dropout_2d = dropout_2d

        if encoder_depth == 34:
            self.encoder = torchvision.models.resnet34(pretrained=pretrained)
            bottom_channel_nr = 512
        elif encoder_depth == 101:
            self.encoder = torchvision.models.resnet101(pretrained=pretrained)
            bottom_channel_nr = 2048
        elif encoder_depth == 152:
            self.encoder = torchvision.models.resnet152(pretrained=pretrained)
            bottom_channel_nr = 2048
        else:
            raise NotImplementedError('only 34, 101, 152 version of Resnet are implemented')

        self.relu = nn.ReLU(inplace=True)

        self.input_adjust = nn.Sequential(self.encoder.conv1,
                                          self.encoder.bn1,
                                          self.encoder.relu)

        self.conv1 = self.encoder.layer1
        self.conv2 = self.encoder.layer2
        self.conv3 = self.encoder.layer3
        self.conv4 = self.encoder.layer4

        self.dec4 = DecoderBlockV(bottom_channel_nr, num_filters * 8 * 2, num_filters * 8, is_deconv)
        self.dec3 = DecoderBlockV(bottom_channel_nr // 2 + num_filters * 8, num_filters * 8 * 2, num_filters * 8,    is_deconv)
        self.dec2 = DecoderBlockV(bottom_channel_nr // 4 + num_filters * 8, num_filters * 4 * 2, num_filters * 2,    is_deconv)
        self.dec1 = DecoderBlockV(bottom_channel_nr // 8 + num_filters * 2, num_filters * 2 * 2, num_filters * 2 * 2,is_deconv)
        self.final = nn.Conv2d(num_filters * 2 * 2, num_classes, kernel_size=1)

    def forward(self, x):
        input_adjust = self.input_adjust(x)
        conv1 = self.conv1(input_adjust)
        conv2 = self.conv2(conv1)
        conv3 = self.conv3(conv2)
        center = self.conv4(conv3)
        dec4 = self.dec4(center) #now without centblock
        dec3 = self.dec3(torch.cat([dec4, conv3], 1))
        dec2 = self.dec2(torch.cat([dec3, conv2], 1))
        dec1 = F.dropout2d(self.dec1(torch.cat([dec2, conv1], 1)), p=self.dropout_2d)
        return self.final(dec1)

is_deconv - in both cases True. After changing it stop to work with batchsize 64, only with with size of 16 or with batchsize 64 but with resnet16 only - otherwise out of cuda memory. What am I doing wrong?

Full stack of error:

~/Desktop/ml/salt/open-solution-salt-identification-master/common_blocks/unet_models.py in forward(self, x)
    418         conv1 = self.conv1(input_adjust)
    419         conv2 = self.conv2(conv1)
--> 420         conv3 = self.conv3(conv2)
    421         center = self.conv4(conv3)
    422         dec4 = self.dec4(center)

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py in __call__(self, *input, **kwargs)
    355             result = self._slow_forward(*input, **kwargs)
    356         else:
--> 357             result = self.forward(*input, **kwargs)
    358         for hook in self._forward_hooks.values():
    359             hook_result = hook(self, input, result)

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/container.py in forward(self, input)
     65     def forward(self, input):
     66         for module in self._modules.values():
---> 67             input = module(input)
     68         return input
     69 

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py in __call__(self, *input, **kwargs)
    355             result = self._slow_forward(*input, **kwargs)
    356         else:
--> 357             result = self.forward(*input, **kwargs)
    358         for hook in self._forward_hooks.values():
    359             hook_result = hook(self, input, result)

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torchvision-0.2.0-py3.6.egg/torchvision/models/resnet.py in forward(self, x)
     79 
     80         out = self.conv2(out)
---> 81         out = self.bn2(out)
     82         out = self.relu(out)

This is because without the pooling, your inputs are larger.
You could try your luck with checkpointing.

Best regards

Thomas

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