# The diffusers memory guide says the Wan VAE does not support tiling or slicing, but the class has enable_tiling: how can a newcomer tell which statement is out of date without running anything?

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- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=metadata_checked, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T06, T09 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T23:36:31.875Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5NHZ2W9GC0Z3MSD73WF2YJJ

Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S1, S2, S6, S4, S12, S13, S14, S16, S17 rest on the producer's pinned reading. A newcomer can compare dates: in diffusers, the two Wan warnings in the memory guide were added on 2025-05-01, and the Wan VAE tiling/slicing code was merged on 2025-05-05, so the code is newer than the warnings; the guide's tiling sentence has not changed since. The class defines enable_tiling itself and gets enable_slicing from a shared mixin, and slicing only helps when decoding more than one video at once. Treat the warning as likely stale but unconfirmed until a short run on your own hardware, because several merged bug-fix PRs show Wan2.2 tiling had errors that were later fixed and two related PRs are still open.

Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S1, S2, S6, S4, S12, S13, S14, S16, S17 rest on the producer's pinned reading.

A newcomer can compare dates: in diffusers, the two Wan warnings in the memory guide were added on 2025-05-01, and the Wan VAE tiling/slicing code was merged on 2025-05-05, so the code is newer than the warnings; the guide's tiling sentence has not changed since. The class defines enable_tiling itself and gets enable_slicing from a shared mixin, and slicing only helps when decoding more than one video at once. Treat the warning as likely stale but unconfirmed until a short run on your own hardware, because several merged bug-fix PRs show Wan2.2 tiling had errors that were later fixed and two related PRs are still open.

Curator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S1, S2, S6, S4, S12, S13, S14, S16, S17 rest on the producer's pinned reading. Curator GET 2026-10-23 of the sources not re-read (mechanical source evidence, not semantic verification): S1: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S2: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S6: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S4: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S12: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S13: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S14: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S16: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin; S17: HTTP 200, bytes differ from the producer pin.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/086bf9578c0f4acbc66e48cd1e7cc26befd9e10f/docs/source/en/optimization/memory.md",
      "note": "memory.md at v0.41.0 L192, L217; autoencoder_kl_wan.py at v0.41.0 L1180, L1237"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/b848d479b10fb2fb1970c46c2ef8b924a55df592/docs/source/en/optimization/memory.md",
      "note": "memory.md at v0.41.0 L192, L217; autoencoder_kl_wan.py at v0.41.0 L1180, L1237"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/8520d496f05f897d351171315e92669cb2088a69/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_wan.py",
      "note": "memory.md at v0.41.0 L192, L217; autoencoder_kl_wan.py at v0.41.0 L1180, L1237"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/086bf9578c0f4acbc66e48cd1e7cc26befd9e10f/src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_wan.py",
      "note": "memory.md at v0.41.0 L192, L217; autoencoder_kl_wan.py at v0.41.0 L1180, L1237"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/12753",
      "note": "memory.md at v0.41.0 L192, L217; autoencoder_kl_wan.py at v0.41.0 L1180, L1237"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/12335",
      "note": "memory.md at v0.41.0 L192, L217; autoencoder_kl_wan.py at v0.41.0 L1180, L1237"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/pull/12191",
      "note": "memory.md at v0.41.0 L192, L217; autoencoder_kl_wan.py at v0.41.0 L1180, L1237"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/huggingface/diffusers/commits?path=src/diffusers/models/autoencoders/autoencoder_kl_wan.py&per_page=25",
      "note": "memory.md at v0.41.0 L192, L217; autoencoder_kl_wan.py at v0.41.0 L1180, L1237"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/086bf9578c0f4acbc66e48cd1e7cc26befd9e10f/docs/source/en/api/models/autoencoder_kl_wan.md",
      "note": "memory.md at v0.41.0 L192, L217; autoencoder_kl_wan.py at v0.41.0 L1180, L1237"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] A newcomer can compare dates: in diffusers, the two Wan warnings in the memory guide were added on 2025-05-01, and the Wan VAE tiling/slicing code was merged on 2025-05-05, so the code is newer than the warnings; the guide's tiling sentence has not changed since. The class defines enable_tiling itself and gets enable_slicing from a shared mixin, and slicing only helps when decoding more than one video at once. Treat the warning as likely stale but unconfirmed until a short run on your own hardware, because several merged bug-fix PRs show Wan2.2 tiling had errors that were later fixed and two related PRs are still open. · locator: memory.md at v0.41.0 L192, L217; autoencoder_kl_wan.py at v0.41.0 L1180, L1237 · source: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/086bf9578c0f4acbc66e48cd1e7cc26befd9e10f/docs/source/en/optimization/memory.md

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