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"""On-GPU fine-tuning worker (RunPod or Vast.ai). Modes: sft | rl.
This module runs on the provisioned GPU (RunPod or Vast.ai) launched by the selected
``autoslm.providers`` backend. It uses the shared recipe (``autoslm.engine.recipe``) so
SFT targets and RL rewards are rendered and scored consistently.
Artifacts (adapter, metrics.json, heartbeat.json, checkpoints) are streamed to a
Hugging Face dataset repo. HF checkpoints give preemption resilience: if a worker is
recycled mid-run we resume from the latest uploaded checkpoint. Metrics are also
returned directly to the caller by the launching provider.
Core environment variables (set by the launching provider / runner):
RUN_MODE sft|rl
SEED int
HF_REPO Hugging Face dataset repo for artifacts, populated per-run from the
JobSpec's [train] hf_repo by whichever provider launches the worker
HF_TOKEN
RUN_ID unique id for this run (namespacing in the repo)
The AUTOSLM_*/RL_*/SFT_* env vars are A/B overrides documented at their use sites; the
JobSpec [train] table is the source of truth for per-run knobs.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import contextlib
import json
import os
import random
import sys
import threading
import time
import traceback
from autoslm.engine.accounting import RunMetrics
# Shared, substrate-neutral fine-tuning internals (live in this same package).
from autoslm.engine.recipe import RECIPE
from autoslm.envs.registry import load_environment
from autoslm.spec import load_job_spec_from_env
HF_REPO = os.environ.get("HF_REPO", "")
RUN_ID = os.environ.get("RUN_ID", "local")
SEED = int(os.environ.get("SEED", "0"))
RUN_MODE = os.environ.get("RUN_MODE", "sft")
JOB_SPEC = load_job_spec_from_env()
# PHASE is the stable artifact namespace (sft|rl) and matches RUN_MODE for a train run.
PHASE = os.environ.get(
"PHASE",
JOB_SPEC.phase if JOB_SPEC else (RUN_MODE if RUN_MODE in ("sft", "rl") else "sft"),
)
def _load_active_env():
"""Load the run's verifiers environment from the JobSpec; require an explicit env.
There is no default/builtin environment (verifiers-only): a run MUST name a verifiers/
Prime Hub env id. Failing here (instead of falling back to some default) prevents a paid
worker from training/evaluating the wrong task.
"""
if JOB_SPEC is None:
# No JobSpec at all (e.g. the module imported for a non-run path / a unit test). There
# is nothing to select; defer the hard requirement to the JobSpec-present branch so the
# module stays importable. A real run always carries a JobSpec.
return None
env_id = JOB_SPEC.environment.id
if not env_id:
# Every supported algorithm (sft/grpo) trains/evaluates against a verifiers env, so a
# missing env is always a misconfigured spec. Fail loudly rather than fall back to a
# default and burn a paid worker on the wrong task.
raise RuntimeError(
"JobSpec sets no environment: provide [environment] id (a verifiers/Prime Hub "
"slug, e.g. 'owner/name')."
)
return load_environment(env_id, JOB_SPEC.environment.params)
ACTIVE_ENV = _load_active_env()
def require_active_env():
"""Return the run's loaded environment, or raise a CLEAR error when there is none.
``ACTIVE_ENV`` is None on the no-JobSpec path (the module is imported with no
AUTOSLM_JOB_SPEC_JSON/PATH, e.g. a misconfigured worker launch). Every train/eval consumer
needs a real env; without this guard the first ``ACTIVE_ENV.<attr>`` access dies with an
opaque ``AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute ...``. Fail loudly with an
actionable message instead — mirrors the explicit RuntimeError raised when a JobSpec is
present but names no environment.
"""
if ACTIVE_ENV is None:
raise RuntimeError(
"no environment is loaded: this worker was started without a JobSpec "
"(AUTOSLM_JOB_SPEC_JSON / AUTOSLM_JOB_SPEC_PATH is unset). A train/eval run must "
"carry a JobSpec naming [environment] id (a verifiers/Prime Hub slug, e.g. "
"'owner/name')."
)
return ACTIVE_ENV
# Thinking/reasoning mode: one flag per run from the run config (TOML `thinking`), consumed
# identically by SFT rendering, RL rollouts, and serving. Defaults off without a JobSpec.
THINKING = JOB_SPEC.thinking if JOB_SPEC else False
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# HF helpers (code-delivery + artifact channel; works without inbound network)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def error_artifact_name(mode: str) -> str:
"""Per-mode error filename (e.g. error_sft.txt) so a run's traceback is uploaded
under a stable name even though heartbeat.json is single-file/overwritten."""
return f"error_{mode}.txt"
def hf_api():
from huggingface_hub import HfApi
return HfApi(token=os.environ.get("HF_TOKEN"))
def hf_prefix() -> str:
return f"{PHASE}/{RUN_ID}/seed{SEED}"
def _hf_upload(do_upload, repo_subpath: str, required: bool, label: str) -> None:
"""Shared HF upload loop for files/folders: HF_REPO guard + retry/raise-or-warn.
``required=True`` (completion artifacts DONE/metrics.json, the trained adapter) retries
and finally raises: a swallowed upload failure would make the control plane mark a
finished run failed/retried, or mark the run done while deployment can never download
the missing adapter. Optional artifacts (generations, logs) only warn.
"""
if not HF_REPO:
return
attempts = 3 if required else 1
for attempt in range(attempts):
try:
do_upload()
return
except Exception as e:
if required and attempt + 1 < attempts:
print(f"{label} retry {attempt + 1}/{attempts}: {e}")
time.sleep(5 * (attempt + 1))
continue
if required:
raise RuntimeError(f"required upload of {repo_subpath!r} failed: {e}") from e
print(f"{label} warn:", e)
return
def hf_upload_file(local_path: str, repo_subpath: str, required: bool = False):
"""Upload one file to the run's HF prefix."""
_hf_upload(
lambda: hf_api().upload_file(
path_or_fileobj=local_path,
path_in_repo=f"{hf_prefix()}/{repo_subpath}",
repo_id=HF_REPO,
repo_type="dataset",
),
repo_subpath,
required,
"hf_upload_file",
)
def hf_upload_folder(local_dir: str, repo_subpath: str, required: bool = False):
"""Upload a folder to the run's HF prefix."""
_hf_upload(
lambda: hf_api().upload_folder(
folder_path=local_dir,
path_in_repo=f"{hf_prefix()}/{repo_subpath}",
repo_id=HF_REPO,
repo_type="dataset",
),
repo_subpath,
required,
"hf_upload_folder",
)
def hf_resume_checkpoint() -> str | None:
"""Latest streamed trainer checkpoint for this run (or None).
Checkpoints are uploaded DURING the run by ``make_checkpoint_upload_callback`` as
``<prefix>/checkpoint/checkpoint-<step>/``; a replacement worker downloads the
newest one so a mid-run preemption costs at most one save interval.
"""
if not HF_REPO:
return None
try:
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
snapshot_download(
repo_id=HF_REPO,
repo_type="dataset",
allow_patterns=[f"{hf_prefix()}/checkpoint/**"],
local_dir="/tmp/resume",
token=os.environ.get("HF_TOKEN"),
)
base = os.path.join("/tmp/resume", hf_prefix(), "checkpoint")
if not os.path.isdir(base):
return None
cands = [d for d in os.listdir(base) if d.startswith("checkpoint-")]
if not cands:
return None
latest = max(cands, key=lambda d: int(d.split("-")[-1]))
path = os.path.join(base, latest)
print(f"[resume] found streamed checkpoint: {path}")
return path
except Exception as e:
print("hf_resume_checkpoint warn:", e)
return None
def prefetch_model(model_id: str) -> float:
"""Pull the model weights into the local HF cache up front; return seconds spent.
The trainer/vLLM would download lazily anyway — doing it explicitly (a) makes the
download a first-class, timed stage in the heartbeat stream (the cold-start metric
the speed work optimizes), and (b) fails fast with a clear disk/network error
instead of dying inside trainer construction. Idempotent: a warm cache costs ~0 s.
"""
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
t0 = time.time()
try:
snapshot_download(
repo_id=model_id,
# weights + tokenizer/config only (same exclusions as the image bake)
ignore_patterns=["*.pth", "*.gguf", "original/*", "*.onnx", "*.msgpack", "*.h5"],
)
except Exception as e:
# Surface but don't fail here: gated/local-only models still load fine through
# the normal from_pretrained path the trainer uses next.
print("prefetch_model warn:", e)
secs = round(time.time() - t0, 1)
heartbeat(
"model_prefetched",
model=model_id,
download_seconds=secs,
hf_transfer=os.environ.get("HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER", ""),
)
return secs
def make_checkpoint_upload_callback():
"""Stream each trainer save to HF so preemption loses <= one save interval.
Uploads run in a background thread (the train loop never blocks on the network);
older checkpoints are deleted in the same commit. If an upload is still in flight
when the next save fires, the new save is skipped (the following one catches up).
"""
import threading
from transformers import TrainerCallback
lock = threading.Lock()
class _CheckpointUpload(TrainerCallback):
def on_save(self, args, state, control, **kwargs):
# Multi-GPU (FSDP / accelerate) runs on_save on EVERY rank; only the single global
# main process may upload, or ranks race on the same HF commit and one rank's
# delete_patterns can wipe another rank's just-uploaded checkpoint. Single-GPU runs
# are always world-process-zero, so this is a no-op there.
if not state.is_world_process_zero:
return
if not HF_REPO:
return
step = int(state.global_step)
ckpt_dir = os.path.join(args.output_dir, f"checkpoint-{step}")
if not os.path.isdir(ckpt_dir):
return
if not lock.acquire(blocking=False):
print(f"[ckpt] upload busy; skipping step {step}")
return
def _upload():
try:
hf_api().upload_folder(
folder_path=ckpt_dir,
path_in_repo=f"{hf_prefix()}/checkpoint/checkpoint-{step}",
repo_id=HF_REPO,
repo_type="dataset",
delete_patterns=[f"{hf_prefix()}/checkpoint/**"],
)
heartbeat("checkpoint_uploaded", step=step)
except Exception as e:
print("ckpt upload warn:", e)
finally:
lock.release()
threading.Thread(target=_upload, daemon=True).start()
return _CheckpointUpload()
# Heartbeat HF-commit throttle. Each heartbeat() commits heartbeat.json to the HF artifact
# repo; committing every training step (the reward callback fires per step) blows HuggingFace's
# per-repo commit rate limit (128/hour), especially when several runs share one HF_REPO. Only
# the per-step "rl_step" stage is high-frequency, so throttle JUST that one to once per
# AUTOSLM_HEARTBEAT_MIN_S (default 60s); every other stage — including milestones and the
# terminal done/already_done — always commits so the control plane never misses a transition.
# The local file + stdout line are always written regardless.
_HB_LAST_UPLOAD = 0.0
_HB_MIN_INTERVAL_S = 60.0
_HB_THROTTLED_STAGES = frozenset({"rl_step"})
# Terminal transitions the control plane must never miss — always committed.
_HB_TERMINAL_STAGES = frozenset({"done", "already_done"})
_HB_TERMINAL_ONLY = False
# Even in terminal-only mode, emit a SLOW heartbeat at this cadence so the control plane's stall
# detector (poll_vast_job stall_after_s, default 1500s) keeps seeing progress through a long
# training phase and doesn't false-stall the run. 600s -> ~6 commits/hr, far under the 128/hr cap.
_HB_TERMINAL_ONLY_INTERVAL_S = 600.0
# Serializes heartbeat.json writes and _HB_LAST_UPLOAD reads/updates. During GRPO,
# heartbeat() is called concurrently from the trainer thread (reward callback) and the
# checkpoint-upload daemon thread; without this lock two writers can interleave and
# truncate/garble heartbeat.json (and race _HB_LAST_UPLOAD).
_HB_LOCK = threading.Lock()
# Serializes the actual HF upload (a slow network commit) SEPARATELY from _HB_LOCK so the
# trainer's frequent local writes never block on the network. Without it, two heartbeat
# threads can upload heartbeat.json concurrently: a slower upload could land AFTER a newer
# one on HF (reorder), so this lock makes uploads strictly ordered.
_HB_UPLOAD_LOCK = threading.Lock()
def heartbeat(stage: str, **kw):
global _HB_LAST_UPLOAD
payload = {
"stage": stage,
"ts": time.time(),
"run_id": RUN_ID,
"mode": RUN_MODE,
"seed": SEED,
**kw,
}
os.makedirs("/tmp/hb", exist_ok=True)
p = "/tmp/hb/heartbeat.json"
# _HB_LOCK guards ONLY the fast local work (atomic write + _HB_LAST_UPLOAD + snapshot capture);
# the slow HF commit runs OUTSIDE it so the trainer's per-step reward callback never blocks on
# the network behind the checkpoint daemon's commit (a GRPO perf regression).
with _HB_LOCK:
# Atomic write: temp file + os.replace() so a concurrent reader never sees a partial file.
tmp = p + f".{os.getpid()}.{threading.get_ident()}.tmp"
snapshot = json.dumps(payload)
with open(tmp, "w") as f:
f.write(snapshot)
os.replace(tmp, p)
now = time.time()
if stage in _HB_TERMINAL_STAGES or stage.startswith("error_"):
upload_due = True # never miss a terminal transition
elif _HB_TERMINAL_ONLY:
# Benchmark fan-out: keep commits far under the 128/hour cap, but still emit a SLOW
# heartbeat (~every _HB_TERMINAL_ONLY_INTERVAL_S) so the control-plane stall detector
# sees progress during a long training phase and doesn't false-stall the run.
upload_due = (
_HB_LAST_UPLOAD == 0.0 or (now - _HB_LAST_UPLOAD) >= _HB_TERMINAL_ONLY_INTERVAL_S
)
else:
throttled = stage in _HB_THROTTLED_STAGES
upload_due = not throttled or (now - _HB_LAST_UPLOAD) >= _HB_MIN_INTERVAL_S
if upload_due:
_HB_LAST_UPLOAD = now # claim the slot under the lock (throttle stays atomic)
if upload_due:
# Serialize the network commit under a SEPARATE lock so uploads can't reorder, and
# upload the captured snapshot (via a private temp file, since hf_upload_file takes
# a path) rather than re-reading p — which a newer heartbeat may already have
# overwritten between our slot-claim and this upload.
with _HB_UPLOAD_LOCK:
up = p + f".{os.getpid()}.{threading.get_ident()}.upload.tmp"
with open(up, "w") as f:
f.write(snapshot)
try:
hf_upload_file(up, "heartbeat.json")
finally:
with contextlib.suppress(OSError):
os.remove(up)
print("HEARTBEAT", json.dumps(payload))
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Decoding parity: render with the model's own chat template and one run-wide thinking
# flag (off by default), so SFT targets and RL rollouts use identical prompt
# formatting within a run.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def render_prompt(tokenizer, item) -> str:
item = item if isinstance(item, dict) else {"question": item}
msgs = require_active_env().prompt_messages(item)
return tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
msgs, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True, enable_thinking=THINKING
)
def strip_think(completion: str | None) -> str | None:
"""Drop <think>...</think> reasoning before the environment grades/rewards a
thinking-mode completion.
- closed block(s): keep only the text after the LAST </think>. This also covers
always-thinking templates that pre-open <think> inside the generation prompt,
whose completions contain </think> with no opening tag.
- unclosed <think> (completion budget exhausted): keep only the pre-think text
(usually empty), so answer extraction fails and the completion scores 0 —
deliberate reward pressure to close thinking within budget, and it keeps a
last-number fallback from matching numbers inside the reasoning.
- no tags: unchanged.
"""
if completion is None:
return None
if "</think>" in completion:
return completion.rsplit("</think>", 1)[1]
if "<think>" in completion:
return completion.split("<think>", 1)[0]
return completion
def graded_text(completion: str | None) -> str | None:
"""What the env grader/reward sees: thinking runs strip <think> blocks first (a
completion whose reasoning never closes grades 0 — see strip_think). Applied once
here, before ACTIVE_ENV.grade/reward, so it works for every environment."""
return strip_think(completion) if THINKING else completion
def _patch_peft_weight_converter_compat() -> None:
"""peft 0.19.1 x transformers 5.6-5.10: make MoE adapter loading work.
peft's ``build_peft_weight_mapping`` reconstructs transformers ``WeightConverter``
objects passing ``distributed_operation=`` / ``quantization_operation=`` — kwargs
the WeightConverter in transformers <5.11 doesn't accept (init=False dataclass
fields), so loading a LoRA adapter onto any arch WITH weight conversions dies with
``TypeError: unexpected keyword argument 'distributed_operation'`` (observed on a
weight-converting checkpoint eval). The
worker can't take transformers>=5.11 (vllm 0.19.1 compat), so accept-and-drop
unknown kwargs; on a single GPU those fields are unused. No-op once signatures
match.
"""
import inspect
try:
from transformers import core_model_loading as cml
except Exception: # pragma: no cover - older stacks have no converter module
return
converter = getattr(cml, "WeightConverter", None)
if converter is None or getattr(converter, "_autoslm_compat", False):
return
accepted = set(inspect.signature(converter.__init__).parameters)
if "distributed_operation" in accepted:
return
orig_init = converter.__init__
def _compat_init(self, *args, **kwargs):
dropped = [k for k in kwargs if k not in accepted]
for k in dropped:
kwargs.pop(k)
orig_init(self, *args, **kwargs)
converter.__init__ = _compat_init
converter._autoslm_compat = True
print("[compat] WeightConverter patched (peft<->transformers signature drift)")
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# SFT
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Module-path segments that must never receive LoRA on natively-multimodal checkpoints
# trained text-only: the vision tower / projector / MTP head. Critically, adapters that
# DO touch them cannot be loaded by vLLM in text-only (language_model_only) serving —
# its LoRA loader rejects "unexpected modules" (observed with Qwen3.5-2B).
_VL_EXCLUDE_SEGMENTS = ("visual", "vision_tower", "multi_modal_projector", "mtp")
def lora_exclude_modules(model_id: str) -> str | None:
"""Regex (peft fullmatch semantics) excluding vision-tower modules from LoRA.
Returns None when no exclusion is needed (pure text architectures). NOTE: peft's
list-form exclude_modules uses suffix matching (like target_modules), which does
NOT match leaf modules under 'visual.*' — a regex string is required.
"""
excludes = {
"qwen3_5": _VL_EXCLUDE_SEGMENTS,
"qwen3_5_moe": _VL_EXCLUDE_SEGMENTS,
"qwen3_6": _VL_EXCLUDE_SEGMENTS,
}
try:
from transformers import AutoConfig
cfg = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
model_type = getattr(cfg, "model_type", "") or ""
except Exception as e:
print("lora_exclude_modules: config probe failed:", e)
return None
segments = excludes.get(model_type)
if not segments:
return None
alt = "|".join(segments)
return rf"(^|.*\.)({alt})(\..*|$)"
def is_vl_checkpoint(model_id: str) -> bool:
"""True for natively-multimodal checkpoints we train/serve text-only (Qwen3.5/3.6)."""
return bool(lora_exclude_modules(model_id))
def vllm_language_model_only_kwargs(model_id: str) -> dict:
"""Engine kwargs to skip the vision tower for VL checkpoints (vLLM >= 0.19).
Besides wasting VRAM, the vision tower's attention path hardcodes vLLM's bundled
flash-attn, whose PTX needs a newer driver JIT than many RTX 5090 hosts have
("PTX compiled with unsupported toolchain") — text-only loading sidesteps it and
is the officially supported way to run Qwen3.5 as a pure LLM.
"""
return {"language_model_only": True} if is_vl_checkpoint(model_id) else {}
def _attn_impl_for_capability(major: int, minor: int) -> str | None:
"""Map a CUDA compute capability to the trainer ``attn_implementation``.
Attention uses PyTorch SDPA (its flash/efficient backend is already selected automatically
on Ampere/Ada/Hopper) — the HF Kernels-Hub FA path is disabled because the torch2.10-
compatible ``kernels`` versions break transformers' import. So:
sm120 (Blackwell consumer 5090/RTX Pro) -> "sdpa" (forced to the cuDNN backend at train
time — its default SDPA can fall to the slow math kernel); all other archs -> None (let
transformers pick SDPA, which already flash-backs on Ampere/Ada/Hopper). The big LoRA
win comes from the Liger fused kernels, not the attention path. Pure function (no torch)
so it's unit-testable on CPU; override the whole thing with AUTOSLM_ATTN_IMPL.
"""
if major == 12: # Blackwell consumer: force cuDNN SDPA (avoid the math fallback)
return "sdpa"
return None
def _flash_attn_available() -> bool:
"""True when the ``flash_attn`` wheel is importable (our worker image builds it from source).
Gates the packing default: TRL's ``packing_strategy='bfd'`` produces flattened/padding-free
batches whose example boundaries are carried by ``position_ids`` and enforced ONLY by an
attention impl that honors them (FlashAttention-2 varlen / flex_attention). Under plain SDPA,
packed examples attend ACROSS boundaries (silent quality loss). find_spec only — no import side
effects (and no CUDA init)."""
try:
import importlib.util
return importlib.util.find_spec("flash_attn") is not None
except Exception:
return False
def optimal_attn_impl() -> str | None:
"""Best ``attn_implementation`` for the live GPU (None = leave transformers' default)."""
try:
import torch
if not torch.cuda.is_available():
return None
major, minor = torch.cuda.get_device_capability(0)
except Exception as e:
print("optimal_attn_impl probe failed:", e)
return None
impl = _attn_impl_for_capability(major, minor)
if impl:
print(f"[attn] sm{major}{minor} -> attn_implementation={impl}")
return impl
# Liger's fused linear cross-entropy is a MEMORY optimization (it never materializes the fp32
# [B,T,vocab] logits), not a fixed-batch speed win. PR #174 ledger: on a 1B model at fixed batch
# it is a measured NET LOSS on EVERY arch (min-of-3: A100 0.86x, H100 0.90x, RTX 3090 0.78x,
# RTX 4090 0.83x, RTX 5090 0.79x) — the per-step Triton overhead isn't repaid because the small
# model's logits don't dominate memory. Its value appears on LARGE models (lets a bigger batch
# fit / avoids OOM). So gate by estimated model size.
_LIGER_MIN_PARAMS = 3e9 # ~3B; 1B-class models measured net-negative -> Liger off below this
def _estimate_params(cfg) -> float:
"""Rough param count from a HF config: embeddings (+untied lm_head) + transformer blocks.
For multimodal checkpoints (e.g. Qwen3.5-VL) the LM dims live under ``text_config`` — read it
when the top-level dims are absent, else the gate underestimates and wrongly disables the
memory path (GC/Liger) for the 4B/9B tiers."""
tc = getattr(cfg, "text_config", None)
src = cfg if getattr(cfg, "hidden_size", 0) else (tc or cfg)
h = getattr(src, "hidden_size", 0) or 0
v = getattr(src, "vocab_size", 0) or getattr(cfg, "vocab_size", 0) or 0
n = getattr(src, "num_hidden_layers", 0) or 0
tied = getattr(src, "tie_word_embeddings", getattr(cfg, "tie_word_embeddings", False))
emb = v * h * (1 if tied else 2)
blocks = n * 12 * h * h # ~12 h^2 per transformer block (attn + MLP)
return float(emb + blocks)
def _liger_default_for_model(model_id: str) -> bool:
"""Default Liger ON only for models large enough that fused-CE's memory win pays off
(≥ _LIGER_MIN_PARAMS, ~3B). 1B-class models measured net-negative -> default OFF."""
try:
from transformers import AutoConfig
cfg = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
return _estimate_params(cfg) >= _LIGER_MIN_PARAMS
except Exception as e:
print("liger model-size probe failed (default off):", e)
return False
def liger_on(default_on: bool) -> bool:
"""Whether to enable a Liger kernel path. ``default_on`` is the model-size decision (on only
for models large enough that fused-CE's memory win pays off; 1B-class is a measured net loss).
Even when on, require a CUDA GPU AND that ``liger_kernel`` is importable — the local
``autoslm-train[gpu]`` extra doesn't ship it, so blindly setting use_liger_kernel would crash a
local GPU run. No GPU / absent -> off."""
if not default_on:
return False
try:
import importlib.util
import torch
return bool(
torch.cuda.is_available() and importlib.util.find_spec("liger_kernel") is not None
)
except Exception:
return False
def setup_perf_backends() -> None:
"""Universal, arch-agnostic throughput knobs — safe on every CUDA arch, no JIT/compile cost.
- TF32 for fp32 matmuls/cuDNN (Ampere+): the residual fp32 ops in a bf16 LoRA run (some
norms, the optimizer's fp32 master step, any fp32 GEMM) run on the TF32 tensor cores at
~no accuracy cost. No-op on pre-Ampere.
"""
try:
import torch
if not torch.cuda.is_available():
return
torch.set_float32_matmul_precision("high") # TF32 for fp32 matmuls
torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = True
torch.backends.cudnn.allow_tf32 = True
print("[perf] TF32 matmul/cuDNN enabled")
except Exception as e:
print("setup_perf_backends skipped:", e)
def finalize_alloc_conf_for_sleep() -> None:
"""Sync the CUDA allocator conf with the worker's RESOLVED vLLM sleep default.
The launcher (providers/*/train.py build_worker_env) must pick PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF before this
process starts, but it can't always know the GRPO sleep decision: for a small model with
RL_VLLM_SLEEP unset the worker resolves sleep OFF (the speed default), yet the launcher
conservatively assumes sleep ON and picks the non-expandable conf (safe, but fragments a long
colocate run). When the launcher cedes the decision (it sets AUTOSLM_ALLOC_AUTO=1 — only when
it applied a DEFAULT, never an operator override), we resolve the same sleep default here (we
have the model config + GPU) and, if sleep is OFF, switch to expandable_segments — which only
crashes WITH sleep on, a case we've just ruled out. PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF is read lazily at the
first CUDA allocation, so this must run before any allocation (it does — called at boot)."""
if os.environ.get("AUTOSLM_ALLOC_AUTO") != "1":
return
try:
model_id = os.environ.get("BENCH_HF_MODEL", "")
# Resolve the GRPO context the SAME way the sleep gate does (run_rl): the run's
# [train].max_length, so a long-context run gets the right sleep default + alloc conf.
_spec_len = 0
try:
if JOB_SPEC and JOB_SPEC.train and JOB_SPEC.train.max_length:
_spec_len = int(JOB_SPEC.train.max_length)
except Exception:
_spec_len = 0
ctx = int(_spec_len or 0)
if not _memory_mode(model_id, ctx): # sleep resolves OFF -> expandable is safe + better
conf = "expandable_segments:True"
os.environ["PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF"] = conf
os.environ["PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF"] = conf
print(f"[alloc] sleep resolves OFF -> {conf} (anti-fragmentation, matches worker gate)")
else:
print("[alloc] sleep resolves ON -> keeping launcher's non-expandable conf")
except Exception as e:
print("[alloc] auto-conf skipped:", e)
def _remove_fla_from_disk() -> tuple[list[str], bool]:
"""Physically delete every importable ``fla`` package dir from the worker's REAL sys.path.
Loops until ``find_spec('fla')`` is clean (removing one copy can expose another further down
the path) and invalidates import caches so transformers' is_fla_available() probe sees it
gone. ``pip uninstall`` alone is unreliable here — it targets one site-packages but the base
image bakes ``fla`` into another dir on the path (and can report success while leaving the
package dir). Returns ``(removed_dirs, still_importable)``. Used by the Hopper auto-drop.
"""
import importlib
import importlib.util
import shutil
removed: list[str] = []
for _ in range(6): # a few passes: removing one copy can reveal another earlier on the path
importlib.invalidate_caches()
spec = importlib.util.find_spec("fla")
if spec is None:
break
# Resolve the package directory (submodule_search_locations for a package, else the file dir).
locs = list(getattr(spec, "submodule_search_locations", None) or [])
if not locs and spec.origin:
locs = [os.path.dirname(spec.origin)]
progressed = False
for loc in locs:
if loc and os.path.isdir(loc) and os.path.basename(loc.rstrip("/")) == "fla":
try:
shutil.rmtree(loc)
removed.append(loc)
progressed = True
except Exception as e:
print(f"[fla] could not remove {loc}: {e}", flush=True)
if not progressed:
break
importlib.invalidate_caches()
return removed, importlib.util.find_spec("fla") is not None
# Long-context runs are memory-bound (activations + vLLM KV cache scale with sequence length), so
# they need the memory features even on a SMALL model — PR #174 measured a 1B model OOM on GRPO at
# 4096 ctx in speed mode, but it fits in memory mode. So "memory mode" = large model OR long ctx.
_LONG_CONTEXT_TOKENS = 2048
def _memory_mode(model_id: str, max_length: int = 0) -> bool:
"""Whether to default the memory-saving features (Liger, grad-checkpointing, vLLM sleep) ON:
a large model (fused-CE memory win) OR a long context (activations/KV dominate). Small model +
short context -> off (optimize for speed)."""
if max_length and max_length >= _LONG_CONTEXT_TOKENS:
return True
return _liger_default_for_model(model_id)
def grad_checkpointing_on(model_id: str, max_length: int = 0) -> bool:
"""Gradient checkpointing recomputes the forward in backward (~25% slower) to save activation
memory — a MEMORY feature, not speed. ON for large models / long context that need the
headroom; OFF for small+short runs that fit without it (the speed win)."""
return _memory_mode(model_id, max_length)
def fused_optim_name() -> str:
"""TRL/HF ``optim`` value: 8-bit paged AdamW (bitsandbytes int8 optimizer state paged to host
RAM). It fits a smaller/cheaper GPU and is the better default across the catalog."""
return "paged_adamw_8bit"
def wandb_report_to() -> list[str]:
"""TRL/HF ``report_to`` targets. Restores the W&B logging the legacy freesolo training path had
but the autoslm migration dropped: report to W&B whenever WANDB_API_KEY is present. No key -> []
(silent, the metrics.json artifact is still the source of truth). Sets a default project so runs
land in one place."""
if not os.environ.get("WANDB_API_KEY"):
return []
import importlib.util
if importlib.util.find_spec("wandb") is None:
print("[wandb] WANDB_API_KEY set but the wandb package is missing; skipping W&B logging")
return []
os.environ.setdefault("WANDB_PROJECT", "autoslm")
return ["wandb"]
def wandb_run_name() -> str:
"""Stable, human-readable W&B run name tying the dashboard run to the AutoSLM run id."""
return f"autoslm-{PHASE}-{RUN_ID}-seed{SEED}"
def wandb_run_info() -> dict:
"""The live W&B run's {url, id, project} if W&B is active, else {}. Recorded in metrics.json so
the W&B run is verifiable + the freesolo agent's `wandb_runs` / the SDK's link_wandb can point at
the real dashboard URL — the link the autoslm migration otherwise dropped. Never raises."""
try:
import wandb
run = getattr(wandb, "run", None)
if run is None:
return {}
return {
"wandb_url": getattr(run, "url", None),
"wandb_id": getattr(run, "id", None),
"wandb_project": getattr(run, "project", None),
}
except Exception:
return {}
def _sdpa_cudnn_ctx(attn_impl: str | None):
"""Context forcing the cuDNN SDPA backend (real Blackwell-consumer kernels) when we fell
back to plain SDPA on sm120; a no-op context otherwise. Best-effort."""
if attn_impl != "sdpa":
return contextlib.nullcontext()
try:
from torch.nn.attention import SDPBackend, sdpa_kernel
# Priority-ordered: prefer the fast cuDNN/flash/efficient kernels, but ALWAYS include MATH
# as the final fallback. Restricting to only [CUDNN, EFFICIENT] makes sm120 GRPO crash with
# "RuntimeError: No available kernel" when neither has a kernel for the completion-batch
# attention shape (MEASURED: Qwen3.5 GRPO on RTX 5090). MATH is universal, so the candidate
# set is never empty; set_priority keeps cuDNN first whenever it CAN serve the shape (SFT
# fast path unchanged), only falling through for the shapes cuDNN/efficient reject.
return sdpa_kernel(
[
SDPBackend.CUDNN_ATTENTION,
SDPBackend.FLASH_ATTENTION,
SDPBackend.EFFICIENT_ATTENTION,
SDPBackend.MATH,
],
set_priority=True,
)
except Exception as e:
print("[attn] cuDNN SDPA backend unavailable, using default SDPA:", e)
return contextlib.nullcontext()
def patch_vllm_language_model_only(model_id: str) -> bool:
"""Force ``language_model_only=True`` on vLLM engines created by third-party code
(TRL's colocated GRPO rollout engine) for VL checkpoints. Returns True if patched."""
extra = vllm_language_model_only_kwargs(model_id)
if not extra:
return False
try:
import vllm
if getattr(vllm.LLM.__init__, "_autoslm_lmo_patched", False):
return True
orig = vllm.LLM.__init__
def patched(self, *args, **kwargs):
kwargs.setdefault("language_model_only", True)
return orig(self, *args, **kwargs)
patched._autoslm_lmo_patched = True
vllm.LLM.__init__ = patched
print(f"[vllm] language_model_only patch active for {model_id}")
return True
except Exception as e:
print("patch_vllm_language_model_only warn:", e)
return False
def make_lora(model_id: str | None = None):
"""LoRA config. We target 'all-linear' (every nn.Linear) rather than a hardcoded
q/k/v/o list: it is architecture-agnostic, so the same recipe works for the dense
default (Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507) and for newer models with extra projection
types (e.g. the Qwen3.5 hybrid Gated-DeltaNet) without missing any adapters.
For natively-multimodal checkpoints the vision tower is excluded (see
``lora_exclude_modules``)."""
from peft import LoraConfig
# PEFT target_modules accepts the special string "all-linear" OR a LIST of module-name
# suffixes. A comma-separated env (e.g. "q_proj,k_proj,v_proj,o_proj" to adapt attention only
# and leave the MoE experts frozen) MUST be split into a list — else PEFT treats the whole
# string as ONE module name and raises "Target modules ... not found in the base model".
_parts = [
t.strip() for t in os.environ.get("LORA_TARGETS", "all-linear").split(",") if t.strip()
]
# "all-linear" is a PEFT SPECIAL string, not a module name — keep it as a string (incl. when a
# stray trailing comma made it the sole element, e.g. "all-linear," -> ["all-linear"]). Any
# real multi-module value becomes a list of suffixes.
targets = "all-linear" if (not _parts or _parts == ["all-linear"]) else _parts
rank = JOB_SPEC.train.lora_rank if JOB_SPEC else RECIPE.lora.rank
alpha = JOB_SPEC.train.lora_alpha if JOB_SPEC else RECIPE.lora.alpha
kwargs = {
"r": rank,
"lora_alpha": alpha,
"lora_dropout": RECIPE.lora.dropout,
"target_modules": targets,
"task_type": "CAUSAL_LM",
}
# Adapter initialization (convergence lever, always-on: measured -35% train loss in A/B
# (gpu-bench)). PiSSA inits A/B from the base weight's top singular vectors (fast SVD, ~seconds)
# so LoRA converges faster + to higher quality than the default zero-B init (arXiv 2404.02948).
# NOTE: PiSSA mutates the effective base, so the saved adapter is a PiSSA-residual unless
# converted — fine for our train+eval+serve-same-stack flow.
# PiSSA's SVD-based init fails inside the DISAGGREGATED trainer (which is CVD-pinned to a
# non-zero device so the vLLM server can own device 0): peft's pissa_init hits
# "set_data ... incompatible tensor type" there. AUTOSLM_LORA_INIT=default falls back to the
# standard LoRA init (Kaiming-A / zero-B) — the disaggregated worker sets this. The init METHOD
# does not affect rollout/step THROUGHPUT, which is the whole point of the disaggregated path.
# `or` (not a get-default): a present-but-blank AUTOSLM_LORA_INIT must fall back too, else
# init_lora_weights="" reaches PEFT as an invalid value instead of a real init method.
_lora_init = os.environ.get("AUTOSLM_LORA_INIT") or "pissa_niter_16"
# PiSSA's SVD init requires an UNQUANTIZED base ("Please initialize PiSSA under
# float32/float16/bfloat16"); it raises on a 4-bit (qlora) base at adapter creation. Force
# standard init for qlora models regardless of the configured default, so the 4-bit trainers
# (Qwen3.5-9B, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B) don't crash — this hit 9B colocate (asb-esc-q9b-coloB).
if (
model_id
and model_quant(model_id) == "4bit-qlora"
and _lora_init.lower() not in ("default", "standard", "plain", "true")
):
print(f"[lora] {model_id} is 4-bit qlora; PiSSA needs an unquantized base -> forcing standard init")
_lora_init = "default"
if _lora_init.lower() in ("default", "standard", "plain", "true"):
kwargs["init_lora_weights"] = True
print("[lora] init_lora_weights=default (standard LoRA init; pissa disabled)")
else:
kwargs["init_lora_weights"] = _lora_init
print(f"[lora] init_lora_weights={_lora_init}, rsLoRA scaling enabled")
# rsLoRA scaling (convergence lever, always-on: measured -47% train loss in A/B (gpu-bench)).
kwargs["use_rslora"] = True
if model_id and targets == "all-linear":
exclude = lora_exclude_modules(model_id)
if exclude:
kwargs["exclude_modules"] = exclude
print(f"[lora] excluding modules for {model_id}: {exclude}")
return LoraConfig(**kwargs)
def model_quant(model_id: str) -> str:
"""Quantization tier for this model: catalog entry > AUTOSLM_QUANT env > bf16."""
env_q = os.environ.get("AUTOSLM_QUANT")
if env_q:
return env_q
try:
from autoslm.catalog import MODELS
info = MODELS.get(model_id)
if info is not None:
return info.quant
except Exception as e:
print("model_quant: catalog probe failed:", e)
return "bf16"
def qlora_model_init_kwargs() -> dict:
"""Model-load kwargs for the 4-bit QLoRA tier: bf16 compute + a bitsandbytes NF4
(double-quant) config so the frozen base loads in 4-bit and only the LoRA adapter trains."""
import torch
from transformers import BitsAndBytesConfig
return {
"dtype": torch.bfloat16,
"quantization_config": BitsAndBytesConfig(
load_in_4bit=True,
bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
bnb_4bit_use_double_quant=True,
),
}
def require_vllm_for_rollout_func(use_rollout_func: bool, use_vllm: bool, model_id: str) -> None:
"""Fail fast when a multi-turn GRPO run needs colocated vLLM but it's disabled.
The multi-turn rollout closure (``multiturn_rollout.build_rollout_func``) drives generation
through ``trainer.vllm_generation.llm``. TRL only creates that engine when ``use_vllm`` is
True, so with vLLM disabled (catalog ``grpo_use_vllm=False`` or ``RL_USE_VLLM=0``) the rollout
would AttributeError at the first turn. Reject the combination up front with an actionable
message instead of crashing deep in training.
"""
if use_rollout_func and not use_vllm:
raise RuntimeError(
f"multi-turn GRPO needs colocated vLLM, which is disabled for {model_id} "
"(grpo_use_vllm=False / RL_USE_VLLM=0). Use a single-turn environment for this "
"model, or a model tier that keeps vLLM enabled for rollouts."
)
def run_sft():
from datasets import Dataset
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
from trl import SFTConfig as TRLSFTConfig
from trl import SFTTrainer
require_active_env() # fail loudly (not AttributeError: NoneType) on the no-JobSpec path
t_start = time.time()
heartbeat("sft_start")
# SFT only fits the single assistant `sft_target` per row; a multi-turn/ToolEnv env's
# tool/env turns are not represented, so SFT on one would silently mis-train (imitating a
# collapsed single-turn target). Warn loudly so it is not mistaken for proper multi-turn SFT.
if getattr(ACTIVE_ENV, "multi_turn", False):
print(
"[sft][warn] this is a multi-turn / tool verifiers environment, but SFT only fits "
"the single assistant target per row (tool/env turns are ignored). The model will be "
"trained on collapsed single-turn targets; multi-turn SFT is not supported. Use a "
"single-turn environment, or expect a single-turn-only fit."
)
wait_for_gpu()
setup_perf_backends()
model_id = JOB_SPEC.model if JOB_SPEC else RECIPE.hf_model_id
download_seconds = prefetch_model(model_id)
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
if tok.pad_token is None:
tok.pad_token = tok.eos_token
# Build SFT text dataset (seeded shuffle for reproducibility)
train = ACTIVE_ENV.dataset("train")
rng = random.Random(SEED)
rng.shuffle(train)
max_examples = int(
JOB_SPEC.train.max_examples or 0
if JOB_SPEC and JOB_SPEC.train and JOB_SPEC.train.max_examples is not None
else 0
)
if max_examples > 0:
train = train[:max_examples]
texts = []
for ex in train:
msgs = [
*ACTIVE_ENV.prompt_messages(ex),
{"role": "assistant", "content": ACTIVE_ENV.sft_target(ex)},
]
texts.append(
{
"text": tok.apply_chat_template(
msgs, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=False, enable_thinking=THINKING
)
}
)
if THINKING and not any("<think>" in t["text"] for t in texts[:256]):
print(
"WARN: thinking mode is ON but no sampled SFT target contains a <think> "
"trace — training on non-reasoning targets teaches the model to SKIP "
"thinking. Use a dataset with reasoning traces, or set thinking = false."
)
ds = Dataset.from_list(texts)
setup_seconds = time.time() - t_start
heartbeat("sft_model_load", setup_seconds=setup_seconds)
default_epochs = (
JOB_SPEC.train.epochs
if JOB_SPEC and JOB_SPEC.train.epochs is not None
else RECIPE.sft.num_epochs
)
epochs = int(os.environ.get("SFT_EPOCHS", str(default_epochs)))
# SDK [train] knobs override the recipe default; an operator env var still wins last.
_t = JOB_SPEC.train if JOB_SPEC else None
per_device_bs = int(os.environ.get("SFT_PER_DEVICE_BS", "4"))
# batch_size is the GLOBAL/effective batch: grad-accum is sized to reach it. Cap the
# per-device micro-batch at the target (so a target < per_device doesn't overshoot) and
# use CEIL division so the realized global batch is never BELOW the requested one (floor
# would undershoot when target isn't a multiple of per_device, e.g. 16/6 -> 12).
effective_batch = (
_t.batch_size if _t and _t.batch_size is not None else RECIPE.sft.effective_batch
)
per_device_bs = max(1, min(per_device_bs, effective_batch))
grad_accum = max(1, -(-effective_batch // per_device_bs))
sft_lr = _t.learning_rate if _t and _t.learning_rate is not None else RECIPE.sft.learning_rate
sft_max_len = (
_t.max_length
if _t and _t.max_length is not None
else (RECIPE.sft.max_seq_len_thinking if THINKING else RECIPE.sft.max_seq_len)
)
sft_save_default = _t.save_every if _t and _t.save_every is not None else 50
out_dir = f"/tmp/sft_seed{SEED}"
resume_ckpt = hf_resume_checkpoint()
# [train].max_steps>0 caps optimizer steps (used by the cheap pre-flight smoke).
max_steps = int(_t.max_steps or 0 if _t and _t.max_steps is not None else 0)
cfg_kwargs = {
"output_dir": out_dir,
"num_train_epochs": epochs,
"per_device_train_batch_size": per_device_bs,
"gradient_accumulation_steps": grad_accum,
"learning_rate": sft_lr,
"warmup_ratio": RECIPE.sft.warmup_frac,
"logging_steps": 10,
"save_steps": sft_save_default,
"save_total_limit": 1,
# Memory-light checkpoints: save ONLY the (small LoRA) model, not the optimizer /
# scheduler / RNG state — skips the optimizer-state serialization spike at save and
# writes just the adapter. (We don't resume mid-run; seeds restart cleanly.)
"save_only_model": True,
"max_length": sft_max_len,
"bf16": True,
"report_to": wandb_report_to(), # W&B when WANDB_API_KEY present (restored post-autoslm-migration)
"run_name": wandb_run_name(),
# Dataloader parallelism: overlap host-side collation/tokenization with GPU compute so a
# real (large) training set isn't dataloader-bound. Pure throughput, zero quality change.
# Negligible on the tiny benchmark (pre-tokenized, in-memory); a real win at production
# dataset sizes.
"dataloader_num_workers": 4,
"dataloader_pin_memory": True,
"dataloader_persistent_workers": True,
"seed": SEED,
"gradient_checkpointing": grad_checkpointing_on(model_id, sft_max_len),
# Non-reentrant: composes with save_on_cpu activation offload + autograd hooks (verl #3629).
"gradient_checkpointing_kwargs": {"use_reentrant": False},
"completion_only_loss": False,
# Optimizer: 8-bit paged AdamW (int8 state paged to host RAM -> fits a smaller GPU).
"optim": fused_optim_name(),
}
if max_steps > 0:
cfg_kwargs["max_steps"] = max_steps
# Example packing: concatenate short examples into full max_length sequences so a batch isn't
# mostly pad tokens — PR #174 measured a 4.4-10.7x SFT speedup (h100 8.2x, 4090 10.7x) because
# instruction targets are far shorter than max_seq_len; unpacked batches waste most of their
# FLOPs on padding. TRL's 'bfd' strategy makes padding-free batches whose example boundaries are
# honored ONLY by an attention impl that reads them — under plain SDPA packed examples
# cross-contaminate (silent quality loss). The boundary-correct backend is FlashAttention-2
# varlen (reads position_ids); but flash-attn has NO prebuilt wheel for torch 2.10 (PyPI
# sdist-only; Dao-AILab wheels stop at torch 2.9) so it would build from source on every cold
# start (~20 min, fragile) — it is NOT in the worker image. So _fa_ok is False on the current
# stack and packing is effectively unavailable until flash-attn is baked into a prebuilt image.
# Default: packing ON when FA2 is importable; else SKIP (don't silently cross-contaminate).
# SFT_PACKING=0 disables; SFT_PACKING=1 forces (bfd under SDPA, with the contamination warning).
_packing_env = os.environ.get("SFT_PACKING")
_want_packing = (_packing_env or "1") not in ("0", "false", "False")
_packing_forced = _packing_env not in (None, "")
_fa_ok = _flash_attn_available()
if _want_packing and _fa_ok:
cfg_kwargs["packing"] = True
print("[sft] example packing enabled (FA2 varlen; SFT_PACKING=0 to disable)")
elif _want_packing and _packing_forced:
cfg_kwargs["packing"] = True
print(
"[sft] WARNING: packing forced without FA2 — 'bfd' boundaries need varlen; "
"examples may cross-contaminate under SDPA. Set SFT_PACKING=0 to disable."
)
elif _want_packing:
print(
"[sft] packing SKIPPED: no boundary-correct attn backend (flash-attn absent on torch "
"2.10). Bake flash-attn into the worker image to enable FA2 varlen packing."
)
# Liger fused CE/RMSNorm/RoPE kernels, gated by model size (_memory_mode). The fused linear
# cross-entropy is the big large-vocab (Qwen ~152k) memory/throughput win.
if liger_on(_memory_mode(model_id, sft_max_len)):
cfg_kwargs["use_liger_kernel"] = True
print("[sft] liger fused kernels enabled")
_attn = optimal_attn_impl() # arch-aware FlashAttention (Kernels Hub) / SDPA
# Packing correctness: 'bfd' packed batches are boundary-correct ONLY under a varlen attn.
# With FA2 importable force flash_attention_2 — a pure win over the SDPA default which would
# cross-contaminate packed examples.
if cfg_kwargs.get("packing") and _fa_ok:
_attn = "flash_attention_2"
print("[sft] attn_implementation=flash_attention_2 (packing boundary-correct varlen)")
quant = model_quant(model_id)
if quant == "4bit-qlora":
# QLoRA tier: 4-bit NF4 base + bf16 LoRA adapters (e.g. Qwen3.5-9B on a 5090).
_patch_peft_weight_converter_compat() # adapter (re)load, e.g. ckpt resume
mik = qlora_model_init_kwargs()
print(f"[sft] loading {model_id} in 4-bit (QLoRA tier)")
else:
# Explicit bf16 + no auto device-map: TRL/transformers-5 string loading can
# otherwise fall back to fp32 (2x VRAM; observed 18.6 GB for a 4.66B model) or
# accelerate-offload large models to meta ("expected device meta but got
# cuda:0" in backward on the 9B).
mik = {"dtype": "bfloat16", "device_map": None}
if _attn:
mik["attn_implementation"] = _attn
cfg_kwargs["model_init_kwargs"] = mik
cfg = TRLSFTConfig(**cfg_kwargs)
# LoRA+ (convergence lever, arXiv 2402.12354; always-on: measured -52% train loss in A/B
# (gpu-bench)): give the LoRA B matrices a higher LR than A (ratio 16). Reported ~2x fewer steps
# to target at identical per-step FLOPs. TRL builds the model from a string inside __init__, so
# the optimizer (which needs the instantiated params) can't be pre-built — override
# create_optimizer to construct it from self.model once it exists.
_lp_ratio = 16
_SFT = SFTTrainer
if _lp_ratio > 1:
class _SFT(SFTTrainer): # local LoRA+ subclass
def create_optimizer(self):
if self.optimizer is None:
try:
import torch as _torch
from peft.optimizers import create_loraplus_optimizer
# PEFT's create_loraplus_optimizer forwards extra kwargs to the optimizer;
# the lr keyword name has shifted across PEFT versions, so pass it via
# optimizer_kwargs (the stable form) and fall back to a top-level lr=.
try:
self.optimizer = create_loraplus_optimizer(
model=self.model,
optimizer_cls=_torch.optim.AdamW,
optimizer_kwargs={"lr": self.args.learning_rate},
loraplus_lr_ratio=_lp_ratio,
)
except TypeError:
self.optimizer = create_loraplus_optimizer(
model=self.model,
optimizer_cls=_torch.optim.AdamW,
lr=self.args.learning_rate,
loraplus_lr_ratio=_lp_ratio,
)
print(f"[lora+] optimizer enabled (B-matrix LR ratio={_lp_ratio})")
return self.optimizer
except Exception as e: # never block training on the LoRA+ wiring
print("[lora+] setup failed, falling back to default optimizer:", e)
return super().create_optimizer()
# Pass model as a string id + tokenizer as processing_class so TRL takes the
# text/causal-LM path (not the VLM processor path) for this multimodal checkpoint.
trainer = _SFT(
model=model_id,
args=cfg,
train_dataset=ds,
peft_config=make_lora(model_id),
processing_class=tok,
callbacks=[make_checkpoint_upload_callback()],
)
t_train = time.time()
with _sdpa_cudnn_ctx(_attn): # force cuDNN SDPA on sm120 (no-op otherwise)
trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint=resume_ckpt)
train_wall = time.time() - t_train
adapter_dir = f"{out_dir}/adapter"
trainer.model.save_pretrained(adapter_dir)
tok.save_pretrained(adapter_dir)
hf_upload_folder(adapter_dir, "adapter", required=True)
heartbeat("sft_trained", train_wall=train_wall)
# count train tokens
train_tokens = int(sum(len(tok(t["text"])["input_ids"]) for t in texts) * epochs)
# Write train metadata + the completion sentinel (metrics.json/DONE) for this phase.
write_train_meta(
phase="sft",
adapter_dir=adapter_dir,
model_id=model_id,
train_wall=train_wall,
setup_seconds=setup_seconds,
train_tokens=train_tokens,
generated_tokens=0,
notes={
"epochs": epochs,
"resumed": bool(resume_ckpt),
"download_seconds": download_seconds,
"hf_transfer": os.environ.get("HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER", ""),
"thinking": THINKING,
# Persist the loss curve so a CONVERGENCE A/B (PiSSA / LoRA+ init, etc.) is measurable
# without a checkpoint: trainer_state.json is only written on a save_step, and the
# console is only uploaded on failure, so a short successful run otherwise drops its
# loss history entirely.
"loss_curve": _metric_curve(trainer, "loss"),
**wandb_run_info(),
},
)
free_gpu(trainer)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# RL (GRPO) with TRL + colocated vLLM
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def compute_grpo_batching(
prompts_per_step: int, group_size: int, per_device_comps: int, num_processes: int = 1
) -> dict:
"""Translate an intended ``prompts_per_step`` into a TRL GRPO batch configuration.
TRL's GRPO batch sizing is denominated in **completions (prompt-completion pairs), not
prompts**. The number of *unique prompts* optimized per step is
(per_device_train_batch_size * gradient_accumulation_steps * num_processes)
/ num_generations
So to actually optimize ``prompts_per_step`` prompts per step, the global *completion*
batch must equal ``prompts_per_step * group_size``. We keep ``per_device`` small (it,
not grad-accum, sets peak VRAM) and put the rest in gradient accumulation.
The bug this fixes: ``grad_accum = prompts_per_step // per_device`` treated
``per_device_train_batch_size`` as a *prompt* count, omitting the ``* group_size``
factor, so a run intended as 64 prompts/step actually optimized only
``64 / group_size = 8`` prompts/step (an 8x smaller effective batch).
"""
import math
group_size = max(1, int(group_size))
prompts_per_step = max(1, int(prompts_per_step))
per_device = max(1, int(per_device_comps))
target_comps = prompts_per_step * group_size # total completions / optimizer step
nproc = max(1, int(num_processes))
# Never let the per-device completion micro-batch exceed the PER-RANK share of the target
# completion batch. The smallest GLOBAL micro-batch is per_device * num_processes, so capping at
# the full target_comps (ignoring rank count) would let an num_processes>1 FSDP run overshoot
# prompts_per_step*group_size and inflate unique_prompts/step. Cap at target_comps // nproc
# (mirrors run_sft's `min(per_device_bs, effective_batch)`; no-op at the default nproc=1).
per_device = max(1, min(per_device, max(1, target_comps // nproc)))
# The GLOBAL completion batch TRL optimizes is per_device * grad_accum * num_processes —
# accelerate/TRL multiply by the data-parallel world size (FSDP trainer ranks). To still optimize
# `prompts_per_step` prompts/step under an `num_processes`-rank FSDP trainer, grad_accum must be
# divided by num_processes; otherwise the effective batch (and unique_prompts/step) scales with
# the rank count, and a small dataset can't fill even one step (the FSDP 0-real-steps bug seen on
# 2:2). num_processes=1 (colocate / single-trainer 1:1/1:2) is unchanged.
grad_accum = max(1, target_comps // (per_device * nproc))
# TRL rejects a global completion batch (per_device * grad_accum) that is not
# divisible by num_generations (= group_size), failing only AFTER the paid worker
# is provisioned. per_device is the fixed VRAM knob, so round grad_accum UP to the
# next multiple that makes the batch divisible (grad_accum must be a multiple of
# group_size // gcd(per_device, group_size)). This only ever raises the effective
# batch slightly; the common per_device|group_size cases are unchanged.
accum_step = group_size // math.gcd(per_device, group_size)
grad_accum = ((grad_accum + accum_step - 1) // accum_step) * accum_step
# generations_per_step / unique_prompts_per_step are reported GLOBALLY (across all ranks) so the
# metric matches the intended prompts_per_step regardless of the trainer world size.
generations_per_step = per_device * grad_accum * nproc
unique_prompts_per_step = generations_per_step // group_size
return {
"per_device_train_batch_size": per_device,
"gradient_accumulation_steps": grad_accum,
"generations_per_step": generations_per_step,
"unique_prompts_per_step": unique_prompts_per_step,
# TRL requires the global completion batch be divisible by num_generations.
"divisible_by_group": (generations_per_step % group_size == 0),
}
def rl_per_device_comps(
completion_len: int = 0,
vocab: int = 152_000,
*,
use_vllm: bool = True,
params_b: float | None = None,
) -> int:
"""Per-device *completion* micro-batch for GRPO (TRL counts completions, not prompts).
This, not grad-accum, sets peak trainer VRAM: the logprob pass materializes fp32 logits
of shape [per_device, completion_len, vocab]. At Qwen's ~152k vocab a long completion is
enormous (measured: per_device 8 x 4096 tok x 152k x 4 B = ~20 GiB single alloc -> OOMs
a small card). So we MEMORY-CAP per_device to a logits budget (RL_LOGITS_BUDGET_GB,
default 6) for the given completion length, then push the difference into grad-accum
(compute_grpo_batching) so the effective batch is unchanged. This keeps long-completion
GRPO on a cheaper GPU. RL_PER_DEVICE_PROMPTS forces an explicit value.
The logits budget is NOT the whole story: the per-device forward also holds the model's
attention/activation memory (the Qwen3.5 GDN/FLA kernels peak per micro-batch even with
grad checkpointing), which the logits term can't see. Under colocated vLLM (the rollout
engine + its card-sized KV pool + a 2nd weight copy share the GPU) that activation peak is
what OOMs a small card -- and Liger, which fuses away the logits, does NOT touch it.
MEASURED: Qwen3.5-2B (width ~1.41) group8 seq2048 OOMs a 32 GB card at per_device=8 but
TRAINS at 4. So for colocate, additionally cap per_device to the live card's VRAM scaled
by model width (~sqrt(params)): ~vram_gb/8 at 2B-width, tightened for wider models (4B/9B).
"""
base = int(os.environ.get("RL_PER_DEVICE_PROMPTS", "2" if THINKING else "8"))
if "RL_PER_DEVICE_PROMPTS" in os.environ:
# Explicit operator force (A/B knob): bypass BOTH auto-caps -- they own the OOM risk.
return max(1, base)
if completion_len > 0:
budget = float(os.environ.get("RL_LOGITS_BUDGET_GB", "6")) * 1e9
cap = max(1, int(budget / (max(1, completion_len) * vocab * 4)))
base = min(base, cap)
if use_vllm:
try:
import torch
if torch.cuda.is_available():
vram_gb = torch.cuda.get_device_properties(0).total_memory / (1024**3)
width = (max(float(params_b), 0.1) ** 0.5) if params_b else 1.41
act_cap = max(1, int(vram_gb / (7.5 * (width / 1.41))))
base = min(base, act_cap)
except Exception as e:
print("rl_per_device_comps colocate cap probe failed (keeping logits cap):", e)
return max(1, base)
def make_reward_heartbeat_callback():
"""A TRL/transformers callback that streams the per-step mean reward to the HF heartbeat
channel, giving the worker a live RL signal (no pod log API) and recording a
``reward_history``. Built lazily so the module imports without transformers installed."""
from transformers import TrainerCallback
class _RewardHeartbeat(TrainerCallback):
def __init__(self):
self.reward_history = []
def on_log(self, args, state, control, logs=None, **kwargs):
if not logs:
return
r = logs.get("reward")
if r is None:
return
try:
r = float(r)
except (TypeError, ValueError):
return
self.reward_history.append(r)
step = int(getattr(state, "global_step", len(self.reward_history)))
heartbeat("rl_step", step=step, reward=r, reward_last=self.reward_history[-8:])
return _RewardHeartbeat()
def grpo_overrides() -> dict:
"""The GRPO recipe knobs, read off the job spec's ``[train]`` table (``TrainSpec``).
A field left unset (None) is omitted here so the recipe default applies downstream.
Knobs: group_size, temperature, max_tokens (completion budget), kl_penalty_coef (the KL
beta), advantage_clip (centered-advantage clip), and thinking_length_penalty_coef
(a per-<think>-token reward deduction). These live in ``[train]`` — NOT in
``[environment.params]``, which is forwarded verbatim to the verifiers env loader."""
if not JOB_SPEC:
return {}
train = JOB_SPEC.train
cfg = {
"group_size": train.group_size,
"temperature": train.temperature,
"max_tokens": train.max_tokens,
"kl_penalty_coef": train.kl_penalty_coef,
"advantage_clip": train.advantage_clip,
"thinking_length_penalty_coef": train.thinking_length_penalty_coef,
}
return {k: v for k, v in cfg.items() if v is not None}
def think_token_count(completion: str | None, tokenizer) -> int:
"""Number of tokens inside the completion's <think>...</think> span (0 if none).
Used for the thinking-length reward deduction: long reasoning is penalized in
proportion to the tokens it spent, mirroring the SDK's thinking_length_penalty_coef.
"""
if not completion or "<think>" not in completion:
return 0
after = completion.split("<think>", 1)[1]
think_text = after.split("</think>", 1)[0] if "</think>" in after else after
if not think_text:
return 0
return len(tokenizer(think_text, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"])
def _init_adapter_model(model_id: str):
"""Base model + the ``train.init_from_adapter`` adapter loaded as a trainable
PeftModel, or the plain ``model_id`` string + a fresh LoRA when it is unset.
GRPO continuing an SFT adapter: TRL trains the LOADED adapter (peft_config=None)
instead of attaching a fresh one."""
prefix = JOB_SPEC.train.init_from_adapter if JOB_SPEC else ""
if not prefix:
return model_id, make_lora(model_id)
adir = _download_adapter(prefix)
if not adir:
# The user explicitly asked GRPO to continue from this adapter; silently
# falling back to a fresh base-model LoRA would spend a full paid run
# optimizing the wrong starting point. Fail hard instead.
raise RuntimeError(
f"train.init_from_adapter={prefix!r} could not be downloaded from the artifact "
"store (wrong/missing prefix or no access); refusing to silently start GRPO from "
"the base model. Fix the adapter prefix / HF credentials, or omit "
"init_from_adapter to train a fresh LoRA."
)
from peft import PeftModel
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM
print(f"[init-adapter] initializing LoRA from {prefix}")
# 4-bit-QLoRA tier: load the frozen base in NF4 so a continued-adapter GRPO run fits
# the same memory budget as a fresh-LoRA one (and TRL still sees Linear4bit modules ->
# bitsandbytes vLLM rollout).
if model_quant(model_id) == "4bit-qlora":
_patch_peft_weight_converter_compat()
_attn = optimal_attn_impl() # arch-aware attention on the QLoRA path too
_mik = qlora_model_init_kwargs()
if _attn: # else leave transformers' default (sdpa)
_mik["attn_implementation"] = _attn
base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_id,
trust_remote_code=True,
**_mik,
)
else:
_attn = optimal_attn_impl()
base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
model_id,
dtype="bfloat16",
trust_remote_code=True,
**({"attn_implementation": _attn} if _attn else {}),
)
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, adir, is_trainable=True)
return model, None
def _pin_trainer_devices_for_disaggregated() -> None:
"""Pin CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES to the TRAINER's devices before any CUDA context is created.
Disaggregated GRPO only (``[train].inference_gpus>0``). Must run at the very top of main(),
before _drop_fla_on_hopper / finalize_alloc_conf_for_sleep / any model import touches CUDA —
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES is honored only before the first context. The vLLM server (a separate
subprocess) gets the inference devices via its own env (server_subprocess_env); the trainer
must NOT also land on device 0 or TRL aborts the weight-sync init with "same CUDA device ...
for multiple distinct roles/ranks". detect_total_gpus reads AUTOSLM_GPU_COUNT / nvidia-smi (no
torch context), so this stays CUDA-free. run_rl recomputes the same split (deterministic)."""
if RUN_MODE != "rl":
return
from autoslm.engine import disaggregated as _disagg
from autoslm.engine.rollout_bench import select_rollout_split
# In the accelerate-launched trainer child (train_gpus>1), `accelerate launch --gpu_ids` already
# pinned this rank to its single train GPU; overriding CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES here would make every
# rank see all train GPUs and collide. Leave the env exactly as accelerate set it.
if _disagg.trainer_only_mode():
print("[rl][disagg] trainer-only child: accelerate manages CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES; skip pin")
return
inference_gpus = int(JOB_SPEC.train.inference_gpus) if (JOB_SPEC and JOB_SPEC.train) else 0
inference_gpus = int(os.environ.get("AUTOSLM_INFERENCE_GPUS", inference_gpus))
if inference_gpus <= 0:
return
total = _disagg.detect_total_gpus()
if inference_gpus >= total:
return # run_rl's select_rollout_split will raise with a clear message
split = select_rollout_split(total, inference_gpus)
os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = _disagg.trainer_cuda_visible_devices(split)
print(
f"[rl][disagg] (early) pinned trainer CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="
f"{os.environ['CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES']} (node {total} GPUs, {inference_gpus} for inference; "
f"server gets device(s) {','.join(map(str, split.infer_devices))})"
)
def run_rl():
# Backend dispatch: AUTOSLM_FRAMEWORK=verl runs the verl GRPO+LoRA+async path (sidecar venv,
# isolated from this baked TRL/vLLM stack). The TRL path below is byte-for-byte unchanged.
if os.environ.get("AUTOSLM_FRAMEWORK", "trl").strip().lower() == "verl":
from autoslm.engine import verl_runner
return verl_runner.run()
from datasets import Dataset
from transformers import AutoTokenizer
from trl import GRPOConfig, GRPOTrainer
require_active_env() # fail loudly (not AttributeError: NoneType) on the no-JobSpec path
t_start = time.time()
heartbeat("rl_start")
# GRPO rollout strategy by env shape (trl 1.6 adds the hooks these need):
# * single-turn -> TRL single-shot generation + per-completion reward (below);
# * tool (ToolEnv & subs:
# Stateful/Sandbox/Python) -> TRL drives the tool-call loop natively via
# GRPOTrainer(tools=...) (it parses tool calls, executes the tools, and masks the
# tool-result tokens itself); the reward scores the full transcript;
# * pure multi-turn -> a custom rollout_func (autoslm.engine.multiturn_rollout)
# drives THIS env's turn loop on the colocate engine and returns the interleaved
# token sequence with an env_mask so only the model's tokens are trained.
is_tool_env = getattr(ACTIVE_ENV, "is_tool_env", False)
is_multi_turn = getattr(ACTIVE_ENV, "multi_turn", False)
conversational = is_multi_turn # message-list prompts (tool + pure multi-turn) vs strings
# ---- Disaggregated (multi-GPU async) rollout: device split (BEFORE any CUDA context) ----
# [train].inference_gpus>0 dedicates GPUs to a separate vLLM rollout server so generation
# overlaps the optimizer step instead of time-sharing one card (verl async rollout). The
# trainer process MUST pin CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES to its train devices before wait_for_gpu() (or
# any torch.cuda call) binds the context to all visible cards. The server is launched later (it
# needs the engine length); here we only compute the split + pin the trainer + snapshot a clean
# env for the server subprocess (which gets the GLOBAL inference device indices).
from autoslm.engine import disaggregated as _disagg
from autoslm.engine.rollout_bench import (
select_rollout_split,
validate_disaggregated_requirement,
)
_inference_gpus = int(JOB_SPEC.train.inference_gpus) if (JOB_SPEC and JOB_SPEC.train) else 0
_inference_gpus = int(os.environ.get("AUTOSLM_INFERENCE_GPUS", _inference_gpus))
# Re-validate against the EFFECTIVE inference_gpus: submit-time validation only saw the spec
# value, but AUTOSLM_INFERENCE_GPUS (via [worker_env]) can change it here — e.g. =0 would force
# colocated GRPO for a requires_disaggregated model that OOMs colocated. Fail fast on the worker.
from autoslm.catalog import MODELS as _CATALOG_RL
_info_rl = _CATALOG_RL.get(JOB_SPEC.model if JOB_SPEC else RECIPE.hf_model_id)
validate_disaggregated_requirement(
requires_disaggregated=bool(getattr(_info_rl, "requires_disaggregated", False)),
algorithm="grpo",
inference_gpus=_inference_gpus,
)
_rollout_split = None
_disagg_base_env: dict | None = None
# Defaults for the colocate (inference_gpus==0) and train_gpus==1 paths — these MUST be defined
# before the disaggregated branch so the trainer-build block's `if _is_fsdp_launcher:` never hits
# an UnboundLocalError on the colocate path (only the train_gpus>1 launcher sets it True).
_trainer_only = False
_is_fsdp_launcher = False
if _inference_gpus > 0:
_total_gpus = _disagg.detect_total_gpus()
_rollout_split = select_rollout_split(_total_gpus, _inference_gpus)
print(
f"[rl][disagg] node has {_total_gpus} GPU(s); split {_rollout_split.label}: "
f"train devices {_rollout_split.train_devices}, infer devices "
f"{_rollout_split.infer_devices}"
)
# train_gpus>1 (2:1, 3:1, 2:2) needs the trainer as a DISTRIBUTED group, not one process
# spanning many GPUs (that silently becomes nn.DataParallel, which TRL's weight-sync gather
# can't handle). Two roles, same code path:
# LAUNCHER (this run, train_gpus>1, RANK unset): launches the vLLM server below, then at the
# trainer-build point re-execs the worker under `accelerate launch` (FSDP) across the
# train devices and waits — it does NOT build a trainer itself.
# TRAINER child (AUTOSLM_RL_TRAINER_ONLY=1, RANK set by accelerate): skips the server launch
# (connects to the launcher's server via env port) and runs the FSDP GRPOTrainer; only
# rank 0 writes artifacts. train_gpus==1 keeps the simple single-process path untouched.
_trainer_only = _disagg.trainer_only_mode()
_is_fsdp_launcher = _rollout_split.train_gpus > 1 and not _trainer_only
_disagg_base_env = dict(os.environ) # clean snapshot for the server subprocess
if not _trainer_only:
# The launcher (and the train_gpus==1 path) pin the trainer away from the inference card.
# The accelerate child must NOT — accelerate's --gpu_ids already pinned each rank.
os.environ["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = _disagg.trainer_cuda_visible_devices(_rollout_split)
print(f"[rl][disagg] trainer CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES={os.environ['CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES']}")
else:
print(
f"[rl][disagg] trainer-only child rank={os.environ.get('RANK','0')} "
f"CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES={os.environ.get('CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES')} (accelerate-pinned)"
)
# PiSSA's SVD init crashes in the CVD-pinned (non-zero device) disaggregated trainer
# (peft set_data incompatible-tensor-type); fall back to standard LoRA init. setdefault so
# an explicit operator [worker_env] AUTOSLM_LORA_INIT still wins. Init method is irrelevant
# to the throughput this path measures.
# setdefault would NOT override an operator-set BLANK value, leaving make_lora with an
# invalid empty init (and PiSSA would still be attempted in this CVD-pinned trainer);
# treat blank/unset as "use standard init" so the fallback actually engages.
if not os.environ.get("AUTOSLM_LORA_INIT"):
os.environ["AUTOSLM_LORA_INIT"] = "default"
disaggregated = _rollout_split is not None and _rollout_split.mode == "disaggregated"
wait_for_gpu()
setup_perf_backends()
model_id = JOB_SPEC.model if JOB_SPEC else RECIPE.hf_model_id
# QLoRA tier loads the base bf16 checkpoint; vLLM/transformers quantize it to 4-bit NF4 at load.
quant = model_quant(model_id)
download_seconds = prefetch_model(model_id)
rl = RECIPE.rl
steps = int(os.environ.get("RL_STEPS", str(rl.num_steps)))
# Throughput/quality knobs (env-overridable): the number of prompts optimized per step,
# completions per prompt, and whether vLLM offloads weights between steps. Sleep mode
# frees memory for the optimizer but reloads ~weights each step (a large per-step cost);
# disable it (RL_VLLM_SLEEP=0) with a higher RL_VLLM_GPU_UTIL when both fit resident.
# SDK-supplied GRPO knobs (datums parity) override the recipe; env vars still win.
gcfg = grpo_overrides()
_t = JOB_SPEC.train if JOB_SPEC else None
# batch_size = prompts per optimizer step for GRPO.
# prompts per optimizer step = the run config's [train].batch_size (recipe default otherwise).
prompts_per_step = int(_t.batch_size if _t and _t.batch_size is not None else rl.prompts_per_step)
group_size = int(gcfg.get("group_size") or rl.group_size)
# temperature: explicit None check, NOT `or` — a configured 0.0 (greedy/deterministic
# rollouts) must be honored, not fall back to the recipe sampling temperature.
_gcfg_temp = gcfg.get("temperature")
_temperature = float(_gcfg_temp if _gcfg_temp is not None else rl.sampling_temperature)
_kl_beta = float(gcfg.get("kl_penalty_coef") or 0.0)
_adv_clip = float(gcfg.get("advantage_clip") or 0.0)
_think_penalty = float(gcfg.get("thinking_length_penalty_coef") or 0.0)
# vLLM sleep mode offloads the rollout engine's weights between steps to free memory for the
# optimizer, but reloading each step is a large per-step cost — PR #174 measured ~2-2.6x faster
# GRPO with it OFF on models that fit. Default it by model size (same small=speed / large=memory
# gate as gradient checkpointing): OFF for small/fitting models, ON for large. RL_VLLM_SLEEP wins.
_sleep_env = os.environ.get("RL_VLLM_SLEEP")
if _sleep_env is not None:
sleep_mode = _sleep_env not in ("0", "false", "False")
else:
# Gate on the GRPO rollout context (the run's [train].max_length sizes the engine + KV
# cache): a long-context GRPO run is memory-tight and needs sleep mode. Matches the
# liger-loss gate below.
_grpo_ctx = int(_t.max_length if _t and _t.max_length else 0)
sleep_mode = _memory_mode(model_id, _grpo_ctx)
if disaggregated:
# The disaggregated rollout server runs continuously on its own GPU(s); there is no
# trainer/rollout time-share to free memory for, so sleep mode (offload weights each step)
# is both unnecessary and unsupported across the process boundary.
sleep_mode = False
# Rollout backend: vLLM. Colocate (default) shares the trainer GPU; disaggregated runs a
# separate vLLM server on dedicated GPU(s). There is no transformers-generation fallback.
use_vllm = True
print(f"[rl] rollout backend: {'disaggregated vLLM server' if disaggregated else 'colocated vLLM'}")
from autoslm.catalog import MODELS as _CATALOG
_info = _CATALOG.get(model_id)
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
if tok.pad_token is None:
tok.pad_token = tok.eos_token
train = ACTIVE_ENV.dataset("train")
rng = random.Random(SEED)
rng.shuffle(train)
if conversational:
# Message-list prompts so the chat template applies roles + (for tool envs) the tool
# schemas; per-turn length is managed by the tool loop / rollout_func, not a flat budget.
prompts = [{"prompt": ACTIVE_ENV.prompt_messages(ex), "example": ex} for ex in train]
else:
prompts = [{"prompt": render_prompt(tok, ex), "example": ex} for ex in train]
# The colocated vLLM engine's model length is the hard cap on prompt+completion at
# rollout. Size it from [train].max_length and derive the prompt budget from it so a
# bigger engine or a smaller completion automatically admits longer prompts (rather than
# a fixed rl.max_prompt_len that no env override could lift).
_max_completion = int(
gcfg.get("max_tokens")
or (rl.max_completion_len_thinking if THINKING else rl.max_completion_len)
)
# Engine context = the run's [train].max_length (so a long-context GRPO config sized/paid for
# by the allocator actually RUNS at that length), else the recipe default. Without the
# train.max_length fallback the allocator provisions a big GPU for the long context but the
# engine runs short — paying for headroom we never use.
_train_ctx = _t.max_length if (_t and _t.max_length) else 0
vllm_max_len = int(_train_ctx or max(1024, rl.max_prompt_len + _max_completion))
# The engine must fit completion + at least some prompt. If [train].max_length is below the
# completion budget, no prompt can ever fit — fail fast here rather than passing a 1-token
# budget that lets prompts through and then OOMs/overflows mid-rollout.
if vllm_max_len <= _max_completion:
raise ValueError(
f"engine length {vllm_max_len} leaves no room for the {_max_completion}-token "
"completion; raise [train].max_length or lower [train].max_tokens"
)
prompt_budget = vllm_max_len - _max_completion
# TRL 1.5's GRPOConfig has no max_prompt_length and does NOT truncate prompts, so a prompt
# that leaves no room for the completion within the engine length would fail mid-rollout
# AFTER the paid worker is provisioned. Drop prompts that don't fit the budget up front.
# render_prompt returns an apply_chat_template(tokenize=False) string that already carries
# the special tokens, so tokenize with add_special_tokens=False (the default re-adds
# BOS/EOS and over-counts).
# Drop prompts that leave no room for the completion within the engine length — applies to
# BOTH single-turn (string prompts) and conversational (message-list) prompts, so a tool /
# multi-turn rollout can't overflow the colocate engine mid-generation. Conversational
# prompts are length-checked via the chat template (with the generation prompt).
# Tool schemas TRL injects into the prompt for native tools= GRPO — include them in the
# budget for a tool env so a prompt isn't undercounted at filter time vs. rollout time.
_oai_tools = (
getattr(getattr(ACTIVE_ENV, "_env", None), "oai_tools", None) if is_tool_env else None
)
def _prompt_tokens(p) -> int:
if conversational:
# Render to text then tokenize — the SAME path the rollout uses — so the filter
# count matches the rollout's count (avoids a tokenize=True vs text mismatch).
kw = {"tools": _oai_tools} if _oai_tools else {}
try:
text = tok.apply_chat_template(
p["prompt"],
add_generation_prompt=True,
tokenize=False,
enable_thinking=THINKING,
**kw,
)
except Exception as exc:
# Fail fast WITH context: a tokenizer/template incompatibility would render every
# prompt uncountable and otherwise surface as a misleading "all prompts exceed
# budget" — raise so the model/template can be fixed before a paid run trains on
# a degenerate dataset.
raise RuntimeError(
"failed to render a conversational prompt with this model's chat template "
f"(fix the model/template or the env's prompts): {exc}"
) from exc
return len(tok(text, add_special_tokens=False).input_ids)
return len(tok(p["prompt"], add_special_tokens=False).input_ids)
kept = [p for p in prompts if 0 < _prompt_tokens(p) <= prompt_budget]
if len(kept) < len(prompts):
print(
f"[rl] dropped {len(prompts) - len(kept)} prompts over the {prompt_budget}-token "
f"prompt budget (engine {vllm_max_len} - completion {_max_completion})"
)
if not kept:
raise ValueError(
f"every training prompt exceeds the {prompt_budget}-token prompt budget (engine "
f"{vllm_max_len} - completion {_max_completion}); raise [train].max_length, lower "
"[train].max_tokens, or shorten the environment's prompts"
)
prompts = kept
ds = Dataset.from_list(prompts)
def reward_fn(completions, **kwargs):
# rollout_func (pure multi-turn) path: the per-rollout reward is computed by the env
# during the rollout and forwarded as the "reward" extra field — pass it through.
if kwargs.get("reward") is not None:
return [float(r) for r in kwargs["reward"]]
# Score the <think>-stripped text (graded_text), then — datums parity — deduct
# the thinking-length penalty computed from the RAW completion's <think> span.
examples = kwargs.get("example")
rewards = []
for comp, ex in zip(completions, examples, strict=False):
if isinstance(comp, list):
# Tool / conversational transcript (TRL passes a list of messages): score the
# whole transcript via the rubric (no <think> stripping — multi-turn content).
rewards.append(ACTIVE_ENV.reward_from_messages(comp, ex))
continue
r = ACTIVE_ENV.reward(graded_text(comp), ex)
if _think_penalty > 0 and THINKING:
r -= _think_penalty * think_token_count(comp, tok)
rewards.append(r)
return rewards
# TRL's per_device_train_batch_size counts COMPLETIONS, not prompts. Size grad-accum so
# the global completion batch = prompts_per_step * group_size, i.e. each optimizer step
# actually optimizes `prompts_per_step` prompts. The per-device *completion* micro-batch
# is the VRAM knob (thinking-aware; see rl_per_device_comps).
from autoslm.engine.vram import fetch_hf_params_b, params_b_from_str
_params_b = params_b_from_str(getattr(_info, "params", None)) if _info else None
# Open-model (uncataloged) GRPO: _info carries no param count, so size the colocate
# activation cap from the HF safetensors metadata (no download). Without this, a large
# open model falls back to the ~2B-width default in rl_per_device_comps and gets too LOOSE
# a per-device cap -> colocate OOM. Best-effort: stays None offline, keeping prior behavior.
if _params_b is None:
_params_b = fetch_hf_params_b(model_id)
per_device_comps = rl_per_device_comps(_max_completion, use_vllm=use_vllm, params_b=_params_b)
# In the FSDP trainer child the optimizer runs across train_gpus ranks, so the per-rank grad_accum
# must be divided by that count (else the global batch over-scales and a small dataset yields 0
# real steps). The single-process paths (colocate, 1:1/1:2 with one trainer GPU, and the launcher
# which builds no trainer) pass num_processes=1 — unchanged.
_grpo_nproc = _rollout_split.train_gpus if (_trainer_only and _rollout_split) else 1
batching = compute_grpo_batching(
prompts_per_step, group_size, per_device_comps, num_processes=_grpo_nproc
)
if not batching["divisible_by_group"]:
print("WARN: generation batch not divisible by group size; check RL_PER_DEVICE_PROMPTS")
print(
f"[rl] GRPO batching: per_device={batching['per_device_train_batch_size']} "
f"grad_accum={batching['gradient_accumulation_steps']} "
f"generations/step={batching['generations_per_step']} "
f"unique_prompts/step={batching['unique_prompts_per_step']} "
f"(target prompts/step={prompts_per_step}, group={group_size}, sleep={sleep_mode})"
)
out_dir = f"/tmp/rl_seed{SEED}"
resume_ckpt = hf_resume_checkpoint()
grpo_kwargs = {
"output_dir": out_dir,
"learning_rate": (
_t.learning_rate if _t and _t.learning_rate is not None else rl.learning_rate
),
"per_device_train_batch_size": batching["per_device_train_batch_size"],
"gradient_accumulation_steps": batching["gradient_accumulation_steps"],
"num_generations": group_size,
# NB: GRPOConfig has no max_prompt_length field (TRL 1.5) and does not truncate
# prompts; the dataset is pre-filtered above to prompts that fit prompt_budget
# (vllm_max_len - completion), so every prompt fits the engine sized here.
"max_completion_length": _max_completion,
"max_steps": steps,
"temperature": _temperature,
"top_p": rl.sampling_top_p,
"use_vllm": use_vllm,
"logging_steps": 1,
"save_steps": _t.save_every if _t and _t.save_every is not None else 20,
"save_total_limit": 1,
# Memory-light checkpoints: adapter only, no optimizer/scheduler/RNG state -> no
# serialization spike at save (the save-step OOM guard).
"save_only_model": True,
"bf16": True,
"report_to": wandb_report_to(), # W&B when WANDB_API_KEY present (restored post-autoslm-migration)
"run_name": wandb_run_name(),
"seed": SEED,
"gradient_checkpointing": grad_checkpointing_on(model_id, vllm_max_len),
# Non-reentrant checkpointing: the modern path that composes correctly with autograd
# saved-tensor hooks and avoids the reentrant path's extra graph retention. (verl #3629.)
"gradient_checkpointing_kwargs": {"use_reentrant": False},
# Pin a stable, well-conditioned GRPO recipe instead of inheriting TRL's defaults
# (which on a short run suppress the lift): constant LR (TRL default 'linear' decays
# to 0 over the run), advantages centered by group mean only (no std scaling, which
# biases by difficulty/length — matches datums.centered_advantages), and no
# length-normalized loss. beta is the KL-to-reference coef (datums kl_masks ->
# kl_penalty_coef).
"lr_scheduler_type": "constant",
"warmup_ratio": 0.0,
"beta": _kl_beta,
"scale_rewards": "none",
"loss_type": "dr_grpo",
# Optimizer: 8-bit paged AdamW (int8 state paged to host RAM -> fits a smaller GPU);
# colocated GRPO (trainer + vLLM on one GPU) is memory-tight, so this is the right default.
"optim": fused_optim_name(),
}
# Liger fused GRPO loss: fuses the lm_head + per-token logprob so the fp32
# [batch, seq, ~152k vocab] logits never materialize — the documented GRPO OOM driver.
# TRL 1.6's GRPOConfig flag is `use_liger_kernel` (NOT `use_liger_loss`, which doesn't
# exist in 1.6). DEFAULT ON for the GRPO path regardless of model size: MEASURED that
# WITHOUT it even Qwen3.5-0.8B GRPO OOMs a 24 GB (and 32 GB) card because the per-completion
# logits over the 152k vocab dominate — the small-scale JIT cost is far cheaper than the OOM.
# (This differs from SFT, where Liger is gated by size since 1B-class SFT can be net-negative.)
if liger_on(True):
grpo_kwargs["use_liger_kernel"] = True
print("[rl] liger fused GRPO loss enabled")
vllm_proc = None
if use_vllm and disaggregated:
# Disaggregated: a separate `trl vllm-serve` process owns the inference GPU(s); the trainer
# connects over loopback (vllm_mode="server") and TRL syncs the (PEFT-merged) policy weights
# to it via NCCL each generation batch (sync_weights), so generation for the next batch
# overlaps this step's optimizer instead of time-sharing one card (verl async rollout).
# The server gets the whole inference card (no colocate util cap), stays resident (no sleep),
# and its KV cache is bounded by --max_model_len = the GRPO engine length.
_port = _disagg.server_port()
_server_util = float(
os.environ.get("RL_VLLM_SERVER_UTIL", str(_disagg.DEFAULT_SERVER_GPU_UTIL))
)
# verl rollout lever (mirror colocate): fp8 KV cache on fp8-native silicon (compute
# capability >= 8.9: Ada/Hopper/Blackwell) ~halves the server's KV pool. The trainer GPU is
# the same class as the inference GPU (whole-machine node), so its capability is a valid
# proxy. Ampere (A100/3090, sm80) lacks fp8 -> stay fp16.
try:
import torch as _torch
_server_kv = "fp8" if _torch.cuda.get_device_capability() >= (8, 9) else None
except Exception:
_server_kv = None
# Inference parallelism across the rollout GPUs. DEFAULT = tensor-parallel: shard the model
# across infer_gpus so the decode (memory-bandwidth bound) gets their aggregate HBM
# bandwidth -> faster, larger-batch generation, which is how 1:2 / 1:3 ratios clear the
# rollout bottleneck on a generation-bound step. Works for dense AND MoE. Data-parallel
# (replicas) is REJECTED by vLLM for dense models ("Offline data parallel ... not supported
# ... for dense models"), so reserve AUTOSLM_DISAGG_PARALLEL=dp for the MoE 35B-A3B only.
_parallel = (os.environ.get("AUTOSLM_DISAGG_PARALLEL") or "tp").strip().lower()
if _parallel not in ("dp", "tp"):
_parallel = "tp"
if _parallel == "dp":
# vLLM rejects data-parallel for DENSE models ("Offline data parallel ... not supported
# ... for dense models"); only MoE supports it. Validate up front and fall back to tp
# (valid for dense AND MoE) with a warning, rather than booting the server for ~20 min
# and only then crashing on the incompatible config. tp is always a safe fallback, so an
# uncertain probe (offline / config unreadable) also degrades to tp.
_is_moe = False
try:
from transformers import AutoConfig
_cfg = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
_is_moe = bool(
getattr(_cfg, "num_experts", 0) or getattr(_cfg, "n_routed_experts", 0)
) or "moe" in (getattr(_cfg, "model_type", "") or "").lower()
except Exception as _e:
print(f"[rl][disagg] MoE probe failed ({_e}); assuming dense", flush=True)
if not _is_moe:
print(
f"[rl][disagg] WARNING: AUTOSLM_DISAGG_PARALLEL=dp is MoE-only (vLLM rejects "
f"data-parallel for dense models); {model_id} is dense -> using tp.",
flush=True,
)
_parallel = "tp"
print(
f"[rl][disagg] inference parallelism={_parallel} across {_rollout_split.infer_gpus} "
f"rollout GPU(s) (tp=shard-one-model/throughput, dp=replicas-MoE-only)",
flush=True,
)
# FAST-FAIL the invalid-TP ratio: vLLM requires the model's attention-head count to be
# divisible by tensor_parallel_size (= infer_gpus). E.g. MiniCPM5-1B has 16 heads, so TP=3
# (a 1:3 split) is REJECTED ("Total number of attention heads (16) must be divisible by
# tensor parallel size (3)") — valid infer ratios for a 16-head model are 1, 2, 4, 8. Without
# this check the worker rents the GPU and boots the server for ~20 min only to crash on the
# pydantic VllmConfig validation. Catch it here (config read is cheap) with an actionable
# message naming the valid inference-GPU counts. Only relevant for TP with >1 inference GPU.
if _parallel == "tp" and _rollout_split.infer_gpus > 1:
try:
from transformers import AutoConfig
_hc = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_id, trust_remote_code=True)
# VL / multimodal configs nest the LM dims under text_config (the top-level
# num_attention_heads may be the vision encoder's). Pick the LM config the same way
# _estimate_params does: top-level only when it carries hidden_size, else text_config.
_tc = getattr(_hc, "text_config", None)
_src = _hc if getattr(_hc, "hidden_size", 0) else (_tc or _hc)
_heads = getattr(_src, "num_attention_heads", None)
except Exception as _e:
_heads = None
print(f"[rl][disagg] head-count probe failed ({_e}); skipping TP divisibility check", flush=True)
if _heads and _heads % _rollout_split.infer_gpus != 0:
# Disaggregated rollout reserves >=1 GPU for training, so inference_gpus < _total_gpus
# (never the full node) — cap the suggested divisors accordingly.
_valid = [d for d in range(1, _heads + 1) if _heads % d == 0 and d < _total_gpus]
raise RuntimeError(
f"[rl][disagg] invalid tensor-parallel split: {model_id} has {_heads} attention "
f"heads, not divisible by inference_gpus={_rollout_split.infer_gpus} (vLLM "
f"requires heads % TP == 0). Valid inference_gpus for this model: {_valid}. "
f"Pick a [train] inference_gpus from that set (e.g. a 1:2 or 1:4 split)."
)
# Optional --enforce_eager: skip vLLM CUDA-graph capture at server boot. For very large
# models (e.g. the 35B-A3B MoE) graph capture dominates the boot window and can blow past
# RL_VLLM_SERVER_TIMEOUT before the server is ever healthy; eager trades a little decode
# throughput for a tractable boot. Opt-in via AUTOSLM_RL_VLLM_ENFORCE_EAGER so small models
# keep graphs (their boot is cheap and they want the decode speed).
_vllm_extra: list[str] = []
if os.environ.get("AUTOSLM_RL_VLLM_ENFORCE_EAGER", "").strip().lower() in ("1", "true", "yes"):
_vllm_extra += ["--enforce_eager", "true"]
_cmd = _disagg.build_vllm_serve_cmd(
model_id,
_rollout_split,
max_model_len=vllm_max_len,
port=_port,
gpu_memory_util=_server_util,
quant=quant,
kv_cache_dtype=_server_kv,
parallel=_parallel,
extra=(_vllm_extra or None),
)
_server_timeout = float(os.environ.get("RL_VLLM_SERVER_TIMEOUT", "1200"))
if _trainer_only:
# The FSDP launcher already started the server on the inference card(s); this accelerate
# rank just connects to it (vllm_proc stays None so the finally never terminates the
# launcher's server). No health wait — the launcher only re-execs us once it is healthy.
print(f"[rl][disagg] trainer-only rank: connecting to existing rollout server at port {_port}")
else:
_server_log = "/tmp/vllm_serve.log"
vllm_proc = _disagg.launch_vllm_server(
_cmd, _disagg.server_subprocess_env(_disagg_base_env, _rollout_split), log_path=_server_log
)
# vLLM server boot under spawn is slow: re-import torch/vLLM in the spawned worker + model
# download + load + CUDA-graph capture. A 1B model measured ~450s end-to-end; bigger models
# take longer, so default generously (uvicorn binds the HTTP port only AFTER the worker
# finishes loading, so the health check sees connection-refused until then).
try:
# Emit a heartbeat every 60s during the boot so the control plane's no-heartbeat
# STALL detector (~25 min) doesn't kill a big model mid-boot: the 35B server
# (70 GB bf16 + tilelang/CUDA-graph JIT) can take >20 min to bind its port, and that
# whole stretch is silent otherwise. (This was why the 35B run got killed at 1503s.)
_boot_t0 = time.time()
_disagg.wait_for_server_health(
_port,
timeout=_server_timeout,
proc=vllm_proc,
log_path=_server_log,
on_wait=lambda: heartbeat("rl_server_boot", boot_seconds=round(time.time() - _boot_t0)),
)
except BaseException:
# A server boot failure / health-check error here must NOT leak the vllm-serve
# subprocess + its inference GPU; the trainer try/finally below only covers train().
_disagg.terminate_server(vllm_proc)
raise
print(f"[rl][disagg] rollout server healthy at {_disagg.server_base_url(_port)}")
grpo_kwargs.update(
vllm_mode="server",
vllm_server_base_url=_disagg.server_base_url(_port),
vllm_server_timeout=_server_timeout,
)
# Keep the trainer's NCCL weight-sync group port in lockstep with the server's. Both default
# to TRL's 51216, but AUTOSLM_VLLM_GROUP_PORT overrides the SERVER (server_subprocess_env);
# the trainer's VLLMClient must use the same port or sync_weights can't rendezvous. Set the
# field only if this TRL exposes it (older TRL rejects unknown GRPOConfig kwargs).
_group_port = _disagg.group_port()
if "vllm_group_port" in getattr(GRPOConfig, "__dataclass_fields__", {}):
grpo_kwargs["vllm_group_port"] = _group_port
elif _group_port != _disagg.DEFAULT_GROUP_PORT:
print(
f"[rl][disagg][warn] this TRL has no GRPOConfig.vllm_group_port; cannot honor "
f"AUTOSLM_VLLM_GROUP_PORT={_group_port} on the trainer side (stays TRL default 51216)"
)
elif use_vllm:
# Colocate shares one GPU between the policy model and the vLLM rollout engine.
# vllm_max_model_length bounds the KV cache to what GRPO needs (else vLLM sizes for
# the model's FULL context and won't start on a consumer GPU). RL_VLLM_GPU_UTIL
# sizes vLLM's pool; RL_VLLM_SLEEP offloads its weights between steps.
grpo_kwargs.update(
vllm_mode="colocate",
vllm_max_model_length=vllm_max_len,
vllm_gpu_memory_utilization=float(os.environ.get("RL_VLLM_GPU_UTIL", "0.45")),
vllm_enable_sleep_mode=sleep_mode,
)
# Rollout-memory + throughput knobs, applied ONLY if this TRL exposes the field (so an
# older TRL never crashes on an unknown kwarg). All verl-validated for GRPO colocate (#174).
_grpo_fields = set(getattr(GRPOConfig, "__dataclass_fields__", {}))
def _set_vllm_field(names, value, label):
for _f in names:
if _f in _grpo_fields:
grpo_kwargs[_f] = value
print(f"[rl] {label} ({_f}={value})")
return True
return False
# fp8 KV cache only where the silicon has native fp8 (compute capability >= 8.9: Ada /
# Hopper / Blackwell) — ~halves the rollout KV pool. Ampere (A100/A5000/3090, sm80) lacks
# fp8, so it stays fp16 there (forcing it on would error / silently emulate).
try:
import torch as _torch
_want_fp8 = _torch.cuda.get_device_capability() >= (8, 9)
except Exception:
_want_fp8 = False
if _want_fp8:
_set_vllm_field(("vllm_kv_cache_dtype", "kv_cache_dtype"), "fp8", "fp8 KV cache")
# PREFIX CACHING: every GRPO group of `num_generations` rollouts shares the SAME prompt
# prefix, so caching the prompt KV computes it once and reuses it — the dominant rollout win
# on one GPU. CHUNKED PREFILL interleaves prefill with decode so a long prompt doesn't stall
# the batch. CUDAGRAPH MODE sets verl's full-graph-decode + piecewise-fallback rollout mode.
_set_vllm_field(
("vllm_enable_prefix_caching", "enable_prefix_caching"),
True,
"vLLM prefix caching (shared GRPO prompt KV reuse)",
)
_set_vllm_field(
("vllm_enable_chunked_prefill", "enable_chunked_prefill"),
True,
"vLLM chunked prefill",
)
_set_vllm_field(
("vllm_compilation_config", "compilation_config"),
{"cudagraph_mode": "FULL_AND_PIECEWISE"},
"vLLM cudagraph_mode (verl rollout default)",
)
# Adapter init: continue training the SFT adapter (peft_config=None, model is the
# loaded PeftModel) when train.init_from_adapter is set, else a fresh LoRA on the
# string model id (model_init_kwargs forces bf16 — TRL string-loading can fall back
# to fp32 and double VRAM).
init_model, init_peft = _init_adapter_model(model_id)
if init_peft is not None:
# Fresh LoRA: TRL loads the string model id with these kwargs, then attaches the
# adapter. For the 4-bit-QLoRA tier load the base in NF4 — TRL detects the
# bnb.Linear4bit modules and brings up its colocated vLLM rollout engine with
# quantization="bitsandbytes" (so a 36B MoE fits an 80 GB GPU in 4-bit on both the
# trainer and rollout sides). Otherwise force bf16 (TRL string-loading can fall
# back to fp32 and double VRAM).
_attn = optimal_attn_impl() # arch-aware FlashAttention (Kernels Hub) / SDPA
if quant == "4bit-qlora":
_patch_peft_weight_converter_compat() # adapter (re)load compatibility
grpo_kwargs["model_init_kwargs"] = qlora_model_init_kwargs()
_vllm_note = "; vLLM rollout -> bitsandbytes" if use_vllm else ""
print(f"[rl] loading {model_id} in 4-bit (QLoRA tier){_vllm_note}")
else:
grpo_kwargs["model_init_kwargs"] = {"dtype": "bfloat16"}
if _attn:
grpo_kwargs["model_init_kwargs"]["attn_implementation"] = _attn
else:
_attn = optimal_attn_impl()
# stop_sequences: TRL forwards generation_kwargs to the (vLLM) sampler, whose
# SamplingParams.stop truncates each rollout at the requested delimiter — so the reward
# sees the same completion the config intends, instead of generating to max_completion.
if _t and _t.stop_sequences:
grpo_kwargs["generation_kwargs"] = {"stop": list(_t.stop_sequences)}
# advantage_clip>0 is the datums centered-advantage clamp; TRL has no advantage-value
# clip knob (it clips the importance ratio), so honor the default (clip off ==
# centered) and surface a note when a config asks for an explicit clamp.
if _adv_clip > 0:
print(f"[rl] advantage_clip={_adv_clip} recorded; TRL centers advantages (no value clip)")
# num_iterations (the one promoted GRPO speed lever, measured 1.38x faster) is feature-detected
# so an older TRL that lacks the field is simply skipped (GRPOConfig rejects unknown kwargs).
# Generation dominates GRPO wall-clock, so reusing each rollout batch for 2 optimizer steps is
# the cheapest large speedup; mu=2 is the standard GRPO config and TRL's importance-sampling
# correction (on by default) keeps the step stable. (The GSPO/DAPO A/B levers were dropped: the
# framework-scan in gpu-bench/RESEARCH_FINDINGS.md measured no robust win over baseline.)
import dataclasses as _dc
try:
_grpo_fields = {f.name for f in _dc.fields(GRPOConfig)}
except TypeError:
_grpo_fields = set() # not a dataclass on this TRL -> skip the feature-detected knob
if "num_iterations" in _grpo_fields:
grpo_kwargs["num_iterations"] = 2
print("[rl] rollout amortization: num_iterations=2 (reuse each generation batch)")
cfg = GRPOConfig(**grpo_kwargs)
setup_seconds = time.time() - t_start
heartbeat("rl_train_start", setup_seconds=setup_seconds)
# VL checkpoints (Qwen3.5/3.6) train text-only: make TRL's colocated rollout
# engine skip the vision tower (VRAM + 5090 PTX-compat; see the patch docstring).
# Only reachable for the IN-PROCESS (colocate) engine. The disaggregated `trl vllm-serve`
# server is a separate process this monkeypatch can't reach, AND TRL's vllm-serve exposes no
# language-model-only flag, so that server loads the full model incl. the vision tower. That is
# acceptable in practice: the only requires_disaggregated model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B) runs on H200,
# where the vision tower fits and the 5090-class PTX issue doesn't apply. Revisit (a TRL patch /
# --hf-overrides shim) only if a disaggregated VL model is ever served on a smaller GPU.
if use_vllm and not disaggregated:
patch_vllm_language_model_only(model_id)
hb_cb = make_reward_heartbeat_callback()
# Multi-turn / tool wiring (trl 1.6): tool envs hand TRL the tool callables so it runs the
# tool-call loop natively; pure multi-turn envs hand TRL a rollout_func that drives the
# env's own turn loop on the colocate engine (env_mask masks the non-model tokens).
extra_trainer_kwargs: dict = {}
tools = ACTIVE_ENV.tools() if is_tool_env else []
# A tool env exposing NO tools would silently degrade to single-shot under tools=[]; drive
# it through the rollout_func turn loop instead so it isn't mis-trained as single-turn.
if is_tool_env and not tools:
print("[rl][warn] tool env exposes no tools — using the multi-turn rollout_func path")
use_rollout_func = is_multi_turn and not (is_tool_env and tools)
require_vllm_for_rollout_func(use_rollout_func, use_vllm, model_id)
if use_rollout_func and disaggregated:
# The multi-turn rollout_func drives generation through TRL's IN-PROCESS vLLM engine; in
# disaggregated mode vLLM is a separate server (vllm_mode="server") with no in-process
# engine, so the rollout would fail at the first custom turn. Fail fast at setup.
raise RuntimeError(
"multi-turn GRPO (custom rollout_func) is not supported with disaggregated rollout "
"(inference_gpus>0): it needs an in-process vLLM engine, but disaggregated runs vLLM as "
"a separate server. Use colocated GRPO (inference_gpus=0) for multi-turn / tool envs."
)
if is_tool_env and tools:
extra_trainer_kwargs["tools"] = tools
print(f"[rl] tool env: handing {len(tools)} tool(s) to TRL's native tool loop")
if use_rollout_func:
from autoslm.engine.multiturn_rollout import (
build_examples_index,
build_rollout_func,
index_collisions,
)
examples_by_key = build_examples_index(train, ACTIVE_ENV.prompt_messages)
ncol = index_collisions(train, ACTIVE_ENV.prompt_messages)
if ncol:
print(
f"[rl][warn] {ncol} duplicate prompt(s) collide in the reward index; the shared "
"prompt scores against the last example's answer/info"
)
extra_trainer_kwargs["rollout_func"] = build_rollout_func(
active_env=ACTIVE_ENV,
tok=tok,
examples_by_key=examples_by_key,
max_completion=_max_completion,
max_turns=getattr(ACTIVE_ENV, "max_turns", 10),
temperature=_temperature,
top_p=rl.sampling_top_p,
stop=(list(_t.stop_sequences) if _t and _t.stop_sequences else None),
thinking=THINKING,
engine_max_len=vllm_max_len,
)
print("[rl] multi-turn env: driving the turn loop via rollout_func")
trainer = None
try:
if _is_fsdp_launcher:
# train_gpus>1: the server is up (above); re-exec THIS worker under `accelerate launch`
# so the GRPO trainer runs as an FSDP group across the train devices and connects to the
# server. We build no trainer in this process; the child (rank 0) writes all artifacts to
# the SAME /tmp + uploads to HF, so after it returns the run is complete here too.
import subprocess as _sp
t_train = time.time()
# Use DDP (replicate the model on each trainer rank), NOT FSDP sharding. TRL's per-step
# weight sync calls peft merge_adapter()->get_delta_weight (weight_B @ weight_A); FSDP
# (FULL_SHARD and even SHARD_GRAD_OP) flattens/shards the LoRA params so the merge fails
# ("inconsistent tensor size [32768] vs [24576]"). DDP keeps each param whole on every
# rank, so the merge works. Every model that runs a multi-trainer ratio here (1-9B)
# fits replicated on one trainer card; the only model that wouldn't (35B) uses the
# single-trainer 1:1 path, so DDP covers all the 2:1/2:2/3:1 ratios.
_acc_cmd = _disagg.build_accelerate_launch_cmd(_rollout_split, use_fsdp=False)
_child_env = dict(os.environ)
_child_env["AUTOSLM_RL_TRAINER_ONLY"] = "1"
_child_env["AUTOSLM_VLLM_SERVER_PORT"] = str(_port)
_child_env["AUTOSLM_VLLM_GROUP_PORT"] = str(_disagg.group_port())
# The launcher pinned CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES to all train devices; the child must NOT inherit
# that (accelerate's --gpu_ids assigns one GPU per rank). Drop it so accelerate controls
# device placement across the train GPUs.
_child_env.pop("CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES", None)
print(f"[rl][disagg][fsdp] launching FSDP trainer group ({_rollout_split.label}): {' '.join(_acc_cmd)}")
# Capture the child group's stdout+stderr to a file and ALWAYS upload it: the launcher's
# own console is not reliably captured once the child writes DONE, so this is the only way
# to see the FSDP trainer's behavior (real steps vs 0-step empty run) for debugging.
_child_log = "/tmp/fsdp_child.log"
with open(_child_log, "w") as _clf:
_rc = _sp.run(_acc_cmd, env=_child_env, stdout=_clf, stderr=_sp.STDOUT).returncode
print("[rl][disagg][fsdp] --- accelerate child log tail (last 160) ---")
print(_disagg._server_log_tail(_child_log, n=160))
print("[rl][disagg][fsdp] --- end child log ---", flush=True)
try:
hf_upload_file(_child_log, "console_fsdp_child.txt")
except Exception as _e:
print(f"[rl][disagg][fsdp] could not upload child log: {_e}")
if _rc != 0:
raise RuntimeError(
f"accelerate FSDP trainer group exited {_rc} (split {_rollout_split.label}); "
"see console_fsdp_child.txt"
)
print("[rl][disagg][fsdp] trainer group finished; artifacts written by rank 0")
else:
trainer = GRPOTrainer(
model=init_model,
args=cfg,
train_dataset=ds,
reward_funcs=reward_fn,
peft_config=init_peft,
processing_class=tok,
callbacks=[hb_cb, make_checkpoint_upload_callback()],
**extra_trainer_kwargs,
)
t_train = time.time()
with _sdpa_cudnn_ctx(_attn): # force cuDNN SDPA on sm120 (no-op otherwise)
trainer.train(resume_from_checkpoint=resume_ckpt)
finally:
# Free the inference card + port whether training finished or raised — INCLUDING a failure
# while CONSTRUCTING the trainer, before train() starts (generation is done once train()
# returns; on error the node is torn down anyway, but be tidy).
if vllm_proc is not None:
# Dump the rollout server's log tail to stdout (captured in console_rl.txt) so a
# post-health failure — e.g. the weight-sync NCCL/TCPStore rendezvous on init_communicator
# — is diagnosable from the server side, which the health-check tail can't reach.
try:
print("[rl][disagg] --- vllm-serve log tail (last 120 lines) ---")
print(_disagg._server_log_tail("/tmp/vllm_serve.log", n=120))
print("[rl][disagg] --- end vllm-serve log tail ---")
except Exception as _e:
print(f"[rl][disagg] could not read server log: {_e}")
_disagg.terminate_server(vllm_proc)
print("[rl][disagg] rollout server terminated")
if _is_fsdp_launcher:
# The accelerate child (rank 0) already saved the adapter, wrote /tmp/metrics.json, and
# uploaded every artifact to HF; /tmp is shared on this node so the run is complete here.
# This launcher built no trainer, so skip the in-process artifact writes and return.
print("[rl][disagg][fsdp] launcher done (artifacts written by the FSDP trainer group)")
return
train_wall = time.time() - t_train
reward_history = list(getattr(hb_cb, "reward_history", []))
adapter_dir = f"{out_dir}/adapter"
if _disagg.trainer_only_mode():
# FSDP trainer group: trainer.save_model gathers the sharded (LoRA) state across ALL ranks
# and writes on rank 0 — it must be called by every rank or the gather deadlocks.
# model.save_pretrained is NOT FSDP-aware (would save an empty/partial shard).
trainer.save_model(adapter_dir)
else:
trainer.model.save_pretrained(adapter_dir)
if not _disagg.is_main_rank():
# Non-rank-0 FSDP workers finished their part of the state gather above; only rank 0 does the
# HF upload + metrics + DONE. Return so the other ranks don't double-write/upload.
return
tok.save_pretrained(adapter_dir)
hf_upload_folder(adapter_dir, "adapter", required=True)
heartbeat("rl_trained", train_wall=train_wall)
# Upper bound on generated tokens: completions actually optimized (the intended
# prompts_per_step after the batch fix) x the max completion length. Over-counts (most
# completions are shorter); reported as an upper bound, used only for a rough throughput.
gen_tokens = steps * batching["unique_prompts_per_step"] * group_size * _max_completion
write_train_meta(
phase="rl",
adapter_dir=adapter_dir,
model_id=model_id,
train_wall=train_wall,
setup_seconds=setup_seconds,
train_tokens=0,
generated_tokens=gen_tokens,
notes={
"steps": steps,
"resumed": bool(resume_ckpt),
"download_seconds": download_seconds,
"hf_transfer": os.environ.get("HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER", ""),
"reward_history": reward_history,
# Rollout topology for the ratio benchmark: "colocate" (1 GPU) or the disaggregated
# train:infer split (e.g. "1:1", "2:1"). The benchmark reads these to label each row.
"rollout_mode": _rollout_split.mode if _rollout_split else "colocate",
"rollout_split": _rollout_split.label if _rollout_split else "colocate",
"inference_gpus": _inference_gpus,
"loss_curve": _metric_curve(trainer, "loss"),
**wandb_run_info(),
"gen_tokens_is_upper_bound": True,
"thinking": THINKING,
"max_completion_len": _max_completion,
"prompts_per_step": batching["unique_prompts_per_step"],
"generations_per_step": batching["generations_per_step"],
"group_size": group_size,
"per_device_train_batch_size": batching["per_device_train_batch_size"],
"gradient_accumulation_steps": batching["gradient_accumulation_steps"],
"grpo_recipe": {
"lr_scheduler": "constant",
"beta": _kl_beta,
"scale_rewards": "none",
"loss_type": "dr_grpo",
"temperature": _temperature,
"advantage_clip": _adv_clip,
"thinking_length_penalty_coef": _think_penalty,
"init_from_adapter": JOB_SPEC.train.init_from_adapter if JOB_SPEC else "",
},
},
)
free_gpu(trainer)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Completion: train phase writes metrics.json + the DONE sentinel (see _finalize).
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def gpu_diagnostics() -> dict:
"""Collect CUDA/driver diagnostics to pin down GPU init failures on rented nodes."""
diag = {}
try:
import torch
diag["torch"] = torch.__version__
diag["torch_cuda"] = torch.version.cuda
diag["cuda_available"] = torch.cuda.is_available()
try:
diag["device_count"] = torch.cuda.device_count()
diag["device_name"] = torch.cuda.get_device_name(0)
except Exception as e:
diag["device_query_err"] = str(e)[:160]
except Exception as e:
diag["torch_import_err"] = str(e)[:160]
try:
import subprocess
out = subprocess.run(
["nvidia-smi", "--query-gpu=driver_version,name,memory.total", "--format=csv,noheader"],
capture_output=True,
text=True,
timeout=20,
)
diag["nvidia_smi"] = (out.stdout or out.stderr).strip()[:200]
except Exception as e:
diag["nvidia_smi_err"] = str(e)[:160]
return diag
def wait_for_gpu(max_tries=12, sleep_s=10):
"""Rented nodes sometimes report 'CUDA device not ready' transiently at startup.
Poll a trivial CUDA op until it succeeds before doing real work; raise if never ready."""
import time as _t
last = None
for i in range(max_tries):
try:
import torch
if torch.cuda.is_available():
# Force an actual kernel launch (alloc + add) to confirm the GPU is live.
_ = torch.zeros(8, device="cuda") + 1
torch.cuda.synchronize()
print(f"GPU ready after {i} retries: {torch.cuda.get_device_name(0)}")
return True
last = "cuda not available"
except Exception as e:
last = str(e)[:160]
print(f"GPU not ready (try {i + 1}/{max_tries}): {last}; sleeping {sleep_s}s")
_t.sleep(sleep_s)
raise RuntimeError(f"GPU never became ready after {max_tries} tries: {last}")
def free_gpu(trainer=None):
try:
import gc
import torch
try:
if trainer is not None and hasattr(trainer, "model"):
trainer.model = None
except Exception:
# Best-effort VRAM release before gc; any failure here is non-fatal cleanup.
pass
gc.collect()
if torch.cuda.is_available():
torch.cuda.empty_cache()
except Exception as e:
print("free_gpu warn:", e)
def _metric_curve(trainer, key: str, cap: int = 400) -> list:
"""The logged values of `key` (e.g. 'loss' or 'reward') from the trainer's log history,
rounded + capped. Lets metrics.json carry the convergence/reward curve for an A/B without
relying on a checkpoint's trainer_state.json (only written on save_steps) or the console
(only uploaded on failure). Never raises."""
try:
vals = [round(float(h[key]), 4) for h in trainer.state.log_history if key in h]
return vals[:cap]
except Exception:
return []
def write_train_meta(
phase, adapter_dir, model_id, train_wall, setup_seconds, train_tokens, generated_tokens, notes
):
meta = {
"phase": phase,
"adapter_dir": adapter_dir,
"model_id": model_id,
"train_wall": train_wall,
"setup_seconds": setup_seconds,
"train_tokens": train_tokens,
"generated_tokens": generated_tokens,
"notes": notes or {},
}
with open("/tmp/train_meta.json", "w") as f:
json.dump(meta, f)
hf_upload_file("/tmp/train_meta.json", "train_meta.json")
heartbeat(
f"{phase}_train_done",
**{k: meta[k] for k in ("train_wall", "train_tokens", "generated_tokens")},
)
# Finalize directly from the training phase: build the run-metrics record (training
# metrics only — loss/reward are streamed by the trainer; reward_history is in notes)
# and write the completion sentinel. There is no separate eval phase.
m = RunMetrics(
# Substrate the worker actually ran on. Each provider's launcher sets AUTOSLM_ARM
# in the worker env (runpod -> "runpod", vast -> "vast"); default to "runpod" only
# when unset so the persisted metrics correctly attribute the compute backend.
arm=os.environ.get("AUTOSLM_ARM", "runpod"),
phase=phase,
seed=SEED,
model_id=model_id,
wall_seconds=train_wall,
setup_seconds=setup_seconds,
train_throughput_toks_per_s=(
(generated_tokens or train_tokens) / train_wall if train_wall else 0.0
),
train_tokens=train_tokens,
generated_tokens=generated_tokens,
notes={
**(notes or {}),
"renderer": "autoslm_env",
"thinking": THINKING,
"train_wall": train_wall,
"model_id": model_id,
"environment": ACTIVE_ENV.id,
"job_spec": JOB_SPEC.to_dict() if JOB_SPEC else None,
},
)
_finalize(m, adapter_dir)
def _download_adapter(adapter_prefix: str | None) -> str | None:
if not (adapter_prefix and HF_REPO):
return None
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
snapshot_download(
repo_id=HF_REPO,
repo_type="dataset",
allow_patterns=[f"{adapter_prefix}/adapter/*"],
local_dir="/tmp/evdl",
token=os.environ.get("HF_TOKEN"),
)
adir = os.path.join("/tmp/evdl", adapter_prefix, "adapter")
return adir if os.path.isdir(adir) else None
def _finalize(metrics: RunMetrics, adapter_dir: str):
metrics.save("/tmp/metrics.json")
# Required: a swallowed upload would make the control plane fail/retry a finished run.
hf_upload_file("/tmp/metrics.json", "metrics.json", required=True)
# DONE sentinel so the controller knows it's safe to tear down
with open("/tmp/DONE", "w") as f:
f.write(str(time.time()))
hf_upload_file("/tmp/DONE", "DONE", required=True)
heartbeat("done")
print("NODE DONE:", metrics.to_json())
def _drop_fla_on_hopper() -> None:
"""Remove flash-linear-attention when running on a Hopper GPU (sm90, H100).
fla's gated chunk_bwd Triton kernel is miscomputed on Hopper with Triton>=3.4 and
HARD-RAISES (fla #640), so every gated-delta (Qwen3.5/3.6 family) GRPO backward crashes.
The worker base image BAKES fla in, and per-run installs (extra_pip / `prime env install`)
can pull it back, so the only reliable place to drop it is HERE: in the worker process,
after all installs and BEFORE any model import. transformers then uses the correct
pure-PyTorch delta rule (2-3x slower but it RUNS). Runs on BOTH substrates (RunPod and
Vast both exec this module). importlib caches are invalidated so the later
is_fla_available() probe sees it gone. Ampere/Ada/Blackwell keep fla for the speedup.
"""
import importlib.util
import subprocess
try:
import torch
if not (torch.cuda.is_available() and torch.cuda.get_device_capability()[0] == 9):
return # not Hopper: fla's Triton kernel is correct here, keep it.
except Exception:
return
if importlib.util.find_spec("fla") is None:
return
# pip first (clears metadata); _remove_fla_from_disk then deletes any package dir pip left
# behind (incomplete RECORD / non-pip base-image install / a copy on another sys.path entry).
subprocess.run(
[sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "uninstall", "-y", "flash-linear-attention"], check=False
)
removed, still = _remove_fla_from_disk()
print(
f"[hopper] fla removed {removed or 'nothing'} (still_importable={still}) -> "
f"{'WARNING fla remains' if still else 'pure-PyTorch delta rule'} (fla #640)",
flush=True,
)
def main():
# Idempotency: if DONE was already uploaded, a re-delivered job re-fetches the final
# metrics from HF and returns them immediately. (The previous behavior — sleeping in
# an infinite loop — kept a billable GPU worker alive until the execution timeout.)
try:
# Idempotency FIRST — before any env-mutating pip install / package removal: a re-delivered
# job whose DONE already exists must return the persisted metrics and exit WITHOUT running
# _drop_fla_on_hopper() (pip-uninstalls fla) — that wasted a worker mutating its env on an
# already-complete run. It is called after the DONE check below (see _drop_fla_on_hopper()).
if HF_REPO:
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
try:
hf_hub_download(
repo_id=HF_REPO,
repo_type="dataset",
filename=f"{hf_prefix()}/DONE",
token=os.environ.get("HF_TOKEN"),
)
done = True
except Exception:
done = False
if done:
print("Run already complete (DONE present); returning persisted metrics.")
heartbeat("already_done")
try:
got = hf_hub_download(
repo_id=HF_REPO,
repo_type="dataset",
filename=f"{hf_prefix()}/metrics.json",
token=os.environ.get("HF_TOKEN"),
)
import shutil
shutil.copy(got, "/tmp/metrics.json")
sys.stdout.flush()
os._exit(0)
except Exception as e:
raise SystemExit(f"DONE present but metrics.json unavailable: {e}") from e
# Not a DONE re-delivery -> this worker will train. These must run before any model import:
# Pin the trainer to its devices for the disaggregated GRPO path BEFORE anything below
# touches CUDA (_drop_fla_on_hopper / finalize_alloc_conf_for_sleep / model imports all can
# create a CUDA context). If we wait until run_rl, the context is already bound to device 0
# and the trainer collides with the vLLM server's device-0 rollout (TRL aborts with
# "same CUDA device ... for multiple distinct roles"). CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES only takes
# effect before the first context, so this is the earliest safe point.
_pin_trainer_devices_for_disaggregated()
_drop_fla_on_hopper() # Hopper fla guard (see _drop_fla_on_hopper)
heartbeat("boot")
finalize_alloc_conf_for_sleep() # sync CUDA alloc conf to resolved sleep (before first CUDA alloc)
# Dispatch table — register new algorithms (e.g. ppo) here as they land.
modes = {
"sft": run_sft, # SFT (TRL SFTTrainer)
"rl": run_rl, # GRPO (TRL GRPOTrainer + colocated vLLM)
}
handler = modes.get(RUN_MODE)
if handler is None:
raise SystemExit(f"unknown RUN_MODE {RUN_MODE}; known: {sorted(modes)}")
handler()
# All artifacts (adapter, train_meta, metrics, DONE) are uploaded to HF *inside* the
# handler. The RL trainer's colocated vLLM can DEADLOCK at interpreter shutdown
# during NCCL/IPC/CUDA teardown — not segfault-and-exit (which `check=False` on the
# train subprocess already tolerates), but hang forever. That would block the Flash
# handler's *blocking* `subprocess.run` (heartbeat frozen at "rl_train_done") and the
# whole run stalls until the wall-clock cap. Hard-exit to bypass the hanging teardown now that
# every output is safely persisted.
sys.stdout.flush()
sys.stderr.flush()
os._exit(0)
except Exception as e:
tb = traceback.format_exc()
traceback.print_exc()
# Upload the FULL traceback under a phase-specific name (error_<phase>.txt) so the
# train (sft/rl) root-cause error survives for debugging. heartbeat.json is
# single-file/overwritten, so the per-phase error file is the persistent signal.
try:
err_name = error_artifact_name(RUN_MODE)
err_path = f"/tmp/{err_name}"
with open(err_path, "w") as f:
f.write(tb)
hf_upload_file(err_path, err_name)
except Exception as up_err:
print("error-upload warn:", up_err)
try:
heartbeat(f"error_{RUN_MODE}", error=str(e)[:500], diag=gpu_diagnostics())
except Exception:
heartbeat(f"error_{RUN_MODE}", error=str(e)[:500])
# keep container alive briefly so logs flush, then exit non-zero -> restart
time.sleep(10)
raise
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()