fix(loss): validate VICRegL feature-grid shapes

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Closes #1179

Description

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Validate the batch, height, and width dimensions of every VICRegL local feature
map against its matching grid before nearest-neighbour matching. A mismatched
grid previously reached torch.gather and raised an opaque out-of-bounds error.
The new ValueError identifies the global or local view index and both shapes.

Tests

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• My change needs new tests.
• I have added/adapted the tests accordingly.
• I have manually tested the change. CPU mismatches for global and local
  views now raise the documented ValueError; the unmodified implementation
  raises the out-of-bounds error reported in VICRegL error when grid size is too big #1179.

Documentation

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• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
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Implications / comments / further issues

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• Validate global and local feature-map dimensions against their grids before nearest-neighbour matching.
• Raise a descriptive ValueError for batch, height, or width mismatches.
• Add parameterized tests for global and local shape mismatches.

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Walkthrough

VICRegLLoss.forward validates global and local feature-grid dimensions before calculating losses. Parameterized tests verify descriptive ValueError messages for batch, height, and width mismatches.

Changes

VICRegL shape validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Validate feature and grid shapes lightly/loss/vicregl_loss.py, tests/loss/test_vicregl_loss.py	VICRegLLoss.forward validates batch, height, and width dimensions for global and local feature-grid pairs. A helper raises view-specific ValueError messages. Parameterized tests cover each mismatch dimension.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 7883e

VICRegL now reports descriptive shape errors before nearest-neighbour matching when feature maps and grids disagree. No actionable current-head merge risk is identified.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: validating VICRegL feature-grid shapes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The implementation addresses issue #1179 by validating batch, height, and width dimensions for global and local feature maps before nearest-neighbour matching. It raises a descriptive ValueError and a…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to the requested VICRegL shape validation, related documentation, and tests. No unrelated changes are evident.

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Inline comments:
In `@lightly/loss/vicregl_loss.py`:
- Around line 141-142: Update the ValueError documentation in the relevant loss
validation to describe mismatched global and local feature maps, including their
batch, height, and width dimensions. Replace the local-only wording without
changing the validation behavior.

In `@tests/loss/test_vicregl_loss.py`:
- Around line 138-150: Add independent validation cases in the view-grid shape
tests around the global_view_grids and local_view_grids setup: add one case
where only the batch dimension differs and another where only the width
dimension differs, keeping height and the other dimensions matching. Update each
expected validation message accordingly so both batch-size and width checks are
exercised independently.

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In `@tests/loss/test_vicregl_loss.py`:
- Line 127: Add local-view shape mismatch cases to the parameterized tests near
the existing shape tuples, using cases that independently vary batch, height,
and width against the local feature shape (2, 4, 4, 8), such as (3, 4, 4, 2),
(2, 5, 4, 2), and (2, 4, 5, 2). Preserve the existing global-view cases.

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