Split model overhead into two constants: MODEL_OVERHEAD_MB (pure
model weights for batch-size capping) and TRIAL_VRAM_MB (total
per-trial VRAM for concurrent hyperopt planning). DQN trials
empirically consume ~7 GB each on L40S (model + GPU replay buffer +
experience collector + CUDA allocations + fragmentation), not the
200 MB previously estimated. This caused plan_hyperopt to compute
128 concurrent trials instead of the actual 5, inflating PSO
particles from 20→128 and total trials from 20→384 via .max()
instead of .min(), guaranteeing a 4h timeout kill.
Fix auto-scaling to: (1) match particles to GPU concurrency for
maximum hardware utilization on any node, (2) cap particles at
max_trials to never inflate the trial budget, (3) never auto-inflate
the total trial count.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>