"""Manual data-parallel helpers for 8-GPU training (torchrun). Why manual all-reduce instead of DistributedDataParallel: The training loops here are non-standard for DDP β€” * FlexQwen3 has a custom forward signature (no attention_mask kwarg) and the per-user cartridge KV-prefix is passed via `self.cache`, NOT through the module args DDP intercepts. * One optimizer step spans MANY forward+backward passes (cross-user grad accumulation; DAPO recomputes logprobs per trajectory). DDP's autograd hooks assume one backward per forward and would all-reduce on every micro-backward, or require `no_sync()` gymnastics that interact badly with `cache.clear()`. So each rank holds a FULL model on its own GPU, trains on a disjoint data shard, and we all-reduce the (tiny β€” LoRA-only) gradients ONCE right before each step. This reproduces DDP's gradient math exactly while sidestepping every fragility. Collective-safety rule (deadlock avoidance): every rank MUST call each collective the same number of times. Callers guarantee this by (a) truncating per-rank shards to a common length, and (b) gating step/skip decisions on globally-reduced scalars, never on per-rank-local counts. When WORLD_SIZE<=1 (plain `python ...`) every function is a no-op and behaviour is identical to the original single-GPU code. """ import os from typing import Iterable import torch try: import torch.distributed as dist _DIST_IMPORTABLE = True except Exception: # pragma: no cover dist = None _DIST_IMPORTABLE = False def _env_world_size() -> int: try: return int(os.environ.get("WORLD_SIZE", "1")) except ValueError: return 1 def setup_distributed(): """Init the process group from torchrun env vars. Returns a dict: {rank, local_rank, world_size, is_distributed}. Safe to call when not launched under torchrun (returns the single-process context). """ world_size = _env_world_size() if not _DIST_IMPORTABLE or world_size <= 1: return {"rank": 0, "local_rank": 0, "world_size": 1, "is_distributed": False} rank = int(os.environ.get("RANK", "0")) local_rank = int(os.environ.get("LOCAL_RANK", str(rank))) backend = "nccl" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "gloo" if not dist.is_initialized(): # πŸ”΄ Collective timeout sized for rank skew, NOT for OOM. DAPO's phase-1 rollout has # NO collective β€” each rank independently runs per_rank_anchorsΓ—K rollouts whose # sequence lengths (+ flex_attention compile cost) vary, so the fastest rank can # reach the phase-2 all_reduce ~10min before the slowest. NCCL's default 600s # watchdog would abort on that skew. We set NCCL_TIMEOUT_MIN=20 (step ~14min, # measured skew ~10min β†’ 20min covers it with margin). It does NOT need to cover # single-rank OOM hangs anymore β€” those are handled by the OOM-tolerant symmetric # skip (all_reduce_flag), so no rank is ever left waiting on a crashed peer. A # tighter 20min also means a genuine hang is detected in ~20min, not an hour. from datetime import timedelta timeout_min = int(os.environ.get("NCCL_TIMEOUT_MIN", "20")) dist.init_process_group(backend=backend, timeout=timedelta(minutes=timeout_min)) if torch.cuda.is_available(): torch.cuda.set_device(local_rank) return { "rank": rank, "local_rank": local_rank, "world_size": world_size, "is_distributed": True, } def is_initialized() -> bool: return bool(_DIST_IMPORTABLE and dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized()) def get_rank() -> int: return dist.get_rank() if is_initialized() else 0 def get_world_size() -> int: return dist.get_world_size() if is_initialized() else 1 def is_main_process() -> bool: return get_rank() == 0 def barrier(): if is_initialized(): dist.barrier() def cleanup_distributed(): if is_initialized(): dist.destroy_process_group() def _reduce_device() -> str: return "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu" def all_reduce_value(value, op: str = "sum"): """All-reduce a python scalar across ranks. Returns the reduced python float. op in {"sum","mean","min","max"}. No-op (returns value) when single-process. """ if not is_initialized(): return value t = torch.tensor([float(value)], dtype=torch.float64, device=_reduce_device()) op_map = { "sum": dist.ReduceOp.SUM, "mean": dist.ReduceOp.SUM, "min": dist.ReduceOp.MIN, "max": dist.ReduceOp.MAX, } dist.all_reduce(t, op=op_map[op]) if op == "mean": t /= get_world_size() return t.item() def all_reduce_flag(local_flag: bool) -> bool: """Global logical-OR of a boolean across ranks: returns True iff ANY rank passed True. Implemented as MAX over {0.0, 1.0}. Used for OOM synchronization β€” if any rank hit a CUDA OOM this step, ALL ranks learn it and skip the optimizer step together, keeping the per-step collective count identical on every rank (no NCCL desync). No-op (returns local_flag) when single-process. """ return bool(all_reduce_value(1.0 if local_flag else 0.0, op="max")) def all_reduce_floats(values, op: str = "sum"): """All-reduce a LIST of python floats in ONE collective. Returns a python list. Used to reduce many per-MS sum/count scalars at once (e.g. reward_sum/reward_cnt for SM/PM/VM/NM) without issuing one collective per key. The list length and order MUST be identical across ranks (callers build it from a fixed key order). No-op (returns list(values)) when single-process. """ vals = [float(v) for v in values] if not is_initialized() or not vals: return vals t = torch.tensor(vals, dtype=torch.float64, device=_reduce_device()) op_map = {"sum": dist.ReduceOp.SUM, "mean": dist.ReduceOp.SUM, "min": dist.ReduceOp.MIN, "max": dist.ReduceOp.MAX} dist.all_reduce(t, op=op_map[op]) if op == "mean": t /= get_world_size() return t.tolist() def _grad_chunk_numel() -> int: """Maximum number of gradient elements per coalesced all-reduce chunk. LoRA runs stay as one collective because their total grad size is far below this. Full-FT Qwen2.5 has ~7.6B trainable elements; one flattened all-reduce would allocate a huge contiguous buffer and enqueue a single 7.6B-element NCCL op. Chunking keeps the collective order deterministic while reducing peak temporary memory and making NCCL progress easier to diagnose. Set MANUAL_DP_GRAD_CHUNK_NUMEL=0 to restore one buffer. """ try: return int(os.environ.get("MANUAL_DP_GRAD_CHUNK_NUMEL", "250000000")) except ValueError: return 250000000 def _iter_param_chunks(plist): max_numel = _grad_chunk_numel() if max_numel <= 0: yield plist return chunk = [] n = 0 for p in plist: p_numel = p.grad.numel() if chunk and n + p_numel > max_numel: yield chunk chunk = [] n = 0 chunk.append(p) n += p_numel if chunk: yield chunk def all_reduce_grads(params: Iterable[torch.nn.Parameter], op: str = "sum"): """In-place all-reduce of `.grad` over ranks (SUM by default), coalesced in a deterministic set of chunks. πŸ”΄ Call AFTER local backward/accumulation and BEFORE grad-clip + optimizer.step, so the clip operates on the synced gradient and every rank steps with identical grads (weights stay bit-identical across ranks). πŸ”΄ Coalesced chunks (not one per param): we flatten consecutive grads into contiguous buffers, all_reduce each buffer, then copy back. Two reasons: (1) Correctness/robustness: the chunks are derived solely from the fixed param list and MANUAL_DP_GRAD_CHUNK_NUMEL, so every rank calls the same collectives in the same order. Per-param all_reduce would expose NCCL to param-list drift. (2) Memory: LoRA still uses one small buffer, while full-FT avoids a single 7.6B-element temporary buffer / NCCL op. `params` MUST be the SAME fixed list (same order, same length) on every rank β€” the caller guarantees this via a name-sorted cached list. grad=None β†’ zero-filled so the buffer layout is identical across ranks even when a rank produced no gradient. """ if not is_initialized(): return plist = list(params) for p in plist: if p.grad is None: p.grad = torch.zeros_like(p) for chunk in _iter_param_chunks(plist): grads = [p.grad for p in chunk] flat = torch._utils._flatten_dense_tensors(grads) dist.all_reduce(flat, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM) if op == "mean": flat /= get_world_size() for p, synced in zip(chunk, torch._utils._unflatten_dense_tensors(flat, grads)): p.grad.copy_(synced) def build_zero_optimizer(params, lr: float, weight_decay: float = 0.0): """Build an AdamW optimizer, ZeRO-1-sharded across ranks when distributed. For FULL fine-tuning the AdamW optimizer state of a 7B model (~90GB fp32 m/v) cannot fit on one 80GB GPU. ZeroRedundancyOptimizer (torch built-in ZeRO stage 1) shards the optimizer STATE across ranks: each rank owns AdamW state for ~1/world_size of the params, runs step() only on its shard, then all_gathers the updated params so every rank ends with identical weights. Compatibility with the existing manual all-reduce scheme: grads are still produced on EVERY param on EVERY rank and synced by all_reduce_grads(op="sum") BEFORE step(). ZeRO does NOT touch gradient computation/sync β€” it only partitions the optimizer UPDATE. So clip_grad_norm_ over the full param list (identical synced grads on every rank) stays correct and the gradient math is unchanged. (LoRA mode keeps plain AdamW; this helper is only used by the full-FT branch.) Single-process (world_size<=1) β†’ plain AdamW (no ZeRO machinery, identical behaviour). """ plist = list(params) if not is_initialized() or get_world_size() <= 1: return torch.optim.AdamW(plist, lr=lr, weight_decay=weight_decay) from torch.distributed.optim import ZeroRedundancyOptimizer return ZeroRedundancyOptimizer( plist, optimizer_class=torch.optim.AdamW, lr=lr, weight_decay=weight_decay, ) def zero_optimizer_full_state_dict(optimizer): """Return the FULL (unsharded) optimizer state_dict on rank 0, None elsewhere. ZeroRedundancyOptimizer shards optimizer state across ranks. consolidate_state_dict(to=0) is a COLLECTIVE (every rank must call it) that gathers all shards onto rank 0. After it, ONLY rank 0 may call state_dict() β€” non-zero ranks raise "Optimizer state has not been consolidated on this rank". So we consolidate on all ranks but return the dict on rank 0 only (callers save on rank 0 anyway). Plain AdamW (no consolidate) β†’ state_dict() direct. """ if hasattr(optimizer, "consolidate_state_dict"): optimizer.consolidate_state_dict(to=0) # collective β€” all ranks must call return optimizer.state_dict() if get_rank() == 0 else None return optimizer.state_dict()