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Summary:
rlx_arbitrary_image_stylization fails in the ExecuTorch emitter: InternalError: Tensor has a memory_format that is unsupported in ExecuTorch: torch.channels_last (exir/tensor.py memory_format_enum raises KeyError: torch.channels_last). Its export carries clone(memory_format=torch.channels_last) on ops that stay on the CPU.

Cadence lowers with _skip_dim_order=True, and so does Helios, which runs Cadence's remove passes. Every edge tensor is therefore contiguous and a memory format has no runtime representation. The emitter accepts only contiguous and preserve. The upstream RemoveCloneOpsTransform deliberately keeps clones that change memory format, because with dim order they carry a real layout, and Cadence's wrapper RemoveCloneOpsTransformImported ran it unchanged. Nothing removed the clone.

The wrapper becomes one pass, renamed RemoveCloneOpsPass: a RemoveCloneOpsTransform subclass that also treats an aten.clone with any memory format as a plain copy, so the clone is removed. _clone_dim_order keeps the upstream behavior. Dead-code elimination still runs afterwards, as it did in the wrapper. The upstream transform is unchanged.

The rename touches every caller in fbcode and xplat: Cadence passes, Helios sharding transforms, Jarvis, the SAS compiler and the xr_sonic gleam export. This replaces the Helios-only StripCloneMemoryFormat pass from the earlier version of this diff.

Differential Revision: D125145150

Summary:
`rlx_arbitrary_image_stylization` fails in the ExecuTorch emitter: `InternalError: Tensor has a memory_format that is unsupported in ExecuTorch: torch.channels_last` (`exir/tensor.py` `memory_format_enum` raises `KeyError: torch.channels_last`). Its export carries `clone(memory_format=torch.channels_last)` on ops that stay on the CPU.

Cadence lowers with `_skip_dim_order=True`, and so does Helios, which runs Cadence's remove passes. Every edge tensor is therefore contiguous and a memory format has no runtime representation. The emitter accepts only contiguous and preserve. The upstream `RemoveCloneOpsTransform` deliberately keeps clones that change memory format, because with dim order they carry a real layout, and Cadence's wrapper `RemoveCloneOpsTransformImported` ran it unchanged. Nothing removed the clone.

The wrapper becomes one pass, renamed `RemoveCloneOpsPass`: a `RemoveCloneOpsTransform` subclass that also treats an `aten.clone` with any memory format as a plain copy, so the clone is removed. `_clone_dim_order` keeps the upstream behavior. Dead-code elimination still runs afterwards, as it did in the wrapper. The upstream transform is unchanged.

The rename touches every caller in fbcode and xplat: Cadence passes, Helios sharding transforms, Jarvis, the SAS compiler and the xr_sonic gleam export. This replaces the Helios-only `StripCloneMemoryFormat` pass from the earlier version of this diff.

Differential Revision: D125145150
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