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Do not delegate CoreML instance_norm with a rank 5 input - #23688

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Summary

Core ML's instance_norm only accepts rank 3 and rank 4 inputs. InstanceNorm3d currently lowers to Core ML without complaint, then fails when the program loads:

parameter x[0] has invalid rank 5

CoreMLPartitioner now overrides support for instance_norm when its input is rank 5. ops_to_not_decompose therefore stops keeping it whole, it decomposes into ops Core ML runs, and the model stays delegated and matches eager. InstanceNorm1d and InstanceNorm2d are unchanged.

Fixes #11702

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Added test_instance_norm_3d_is_decomposed to backends/apple/coreml/test/test_coreml_partitioner.py. It covers InstanceNorm3d on (1, 3, 4, 4, 4) and an affine InstanceNorm3d with batch size 2 on (2, 3, 4, 5, 6). For each it checks that instance_norm is not in ops_to_not_decompose, lowers with to_edge_transform_and_lower, runs the program through executorch.runtime.Runtime, and compares with eager (atol/rtol 1e-2 because Core ML computes in fp16). It also checks that InstanceNorm2d is still kept whole.

python -m pytest backends/apple/coreml/test/test_coreml_partitioner.py

13/13 pass with the change; on main only the new test fails. Run on macOS 26.2, executorch 1.5.1 / main, torch 2.14.0, coremltools 9.0. ufmt and flake8 are clean.

cc @nil-is-all

Core ML's instance_norm only accepts rank 3 and 4 inputs. InstanceNorm3d
lowered fine, then failed to load:

  parameter x[0] has invalid rank 5

The partitioner now overrides support for instance_norm over a rank 5
input, so ops_to_not_decompose no longer keeps it whole. It decomposes
into ops Core ML runs, and the model stays delegated and matches eager,
including affine with batch size > 1. InstanceNorm1d/2d are unchanged.

Fixes pytorch#11702
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