"""Phase C: fine-tune the nemotron_h MTP head on dumped triples. Trains the BF16 `mtp.*` head from the merged3 checkpoint against the trunk's own conditionals (see dump_triples.py): for each completion position t the head sees (hidden[t], token[t+1]) and must predict token[t+2], with the trunk's top-64 logprobs at t+1 as a soft KL target. Loss = CE + lambda * KL. Faithful to serving (mtp_probe recipe + MTPModule.__call__): - fuse enorm(embed(t+1)) || hnorm(hidden[t]) -> eh_proj - + attention block (causal over the completion region -- the serving chain's committed KV is exactly the prior completion positions; NoPE, no rope) - + MoE block, final_layernorm, shared lm_head Phase 1 trainables (~120M): eh_proj, enorm/hnorm/norms, attention, gate.weight, latent projections, shared experts. Frozen: 512 routed experts (switch_mlp), gate.e_score_correction_bias (selection-only, gradient-free), embed, lm_head. Trainables are trained as fp32 masters and written back bf16. Usage: python3 train_mtp_head.py --eval-only # pipeline check: ~52% top-1 python3 train_mtp_head.py [--epochs 2] [--batch-positions 4096] [--lr 1e-4] [--kl-lambda 1.0] [--limit-shards N] Output: mtp_trained.safetensors (disk-named mtp.* tensors, splice-ready) + training log lines on stdout. """ import argparse import glob as globmod import json import math import os import random import subprocess import time from pathlib import Path import mlx.core as mx import mlx.nn as nn import mlx.optimizers as optim import numpy as np from mlx.utils import tree_flatten, tree_unflatten ROOT = Path(__file__).parent BF16_DIR = Path("/Users/david/AI/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-merged3") # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # Model # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # class LoRASwitchLinear(nn.Module): """Per-expert LoRA over a frozen SwitchLinear. Phase 1 showed train `agree` == eval `agree` (0.6087 vs 0.6086), i.e. the head could not raise argmax accuracy even on data it was training on -- a capacity limit, not underfitting. The 512 routed experts hold ~2.8B of the head's ~3B params and were frozen, so this adds low-rank adapters to them through the same gather_mm dispatch the base layer uses. B is zero-initialised, so the wrapped layer starts numerically identical to the frozen base -- training resumes exactly from the Phase 1 optimum rather than perturbing it. """ def __init__(self, base, rank: int, scale: float = 2.0): super().__init__() self.base = base n_experts, out_dims, in_dims = base.weight.shape bound = 1.0 / math.sqrt(in_dims) self.lora_a = mx.random.uniform( low=-bound, high=bound, shape=(n_experts, rank, in_dims) ) self.lora_b = mx.zeros((n_experts, out_dims, rank)) self.scale = scale def __call__(self, x, indices, sorted_indices=False): y = self.base(x, indices, sorted_indices=sorted_indices) z = mx.gather_mm( x, self["lora_a"].swapaxes(-1, -2), rhs_indices=indices, sorted_indices=sorted_indices, ) z = mx.gather_mm( z, self["lora_b"].swapaxes(-1, -2), rhs_indices=indices, sorted_indices=sorted_indices, ) return y + self.scale * z def build_head(expert_lora_rank: int = 0, expert_lora_scale: float = 2.0): """Construct MTPModule with bf16 weights from the merged3 checkpoint, plus frozen embedding + lm_head tables.""" from omlx.patches.mlx_lm_mtp import nemotron_h_model as nhm nhm.apply() nhm.set_mtp_active(True) from mlx_lm.models import nemotron_h as nh config = json.load(open(BF16_DIR / "config.json")) args = nh.ModelArgs.from_dict(config) head = nh.MTPModule(args) index = json.load(open(BF16_DIR / "model.safetensors.index.json"))["weight_map"] need_files = {index[k] for k in index if k.startswith("mtp.")} need_files.add(index["backbone.embeddings.weight"]) need_files.add(index["lm_head.weight"]) mtp_w, emb_w, lm_w = {}, None, None for fname in sorted(need_files): shard = mx.load(str(BF16_DIR / fname)) for k, v in shard.items(): if k.startswith("mtp."): mtp_w[k[len("mtp."):]] = v elif k == "backbone.embeddings.weight": emb_w = v elif k == "lm_head.weight": lm_w = v assert emb_w is not None and lm_w is not None # Stack routed experts exactly like Model.sanitize does. E = config["n_routed_experts"] ep = "layers.1.mixer.experts" stacked = { "layers.1.mixer.switch_mlp.fc1.weight": mx.stack( [mtp_w.pop(f"{ep}.{e}.up_proj.weight") for e in range(E)] ), "layers.1.mixer.switch_mlp.fc2.weight": mx.stack( [mtp_w.pop(f"{ep}.{e}.down_proj.weight") for e in range(E)] ), } mtp_w.update(stacked) head.load_weights(list(mtp_w.items()), strict=True) # Freeze routed experts + the selection-only gate bias (no gradient flows # through argtopk; an optimizer step would only decay/perturb it). head.layers[1].mixer.switch_mlp.freeze() head.layers[1].mixer.gate.freeze(keys=["e_score_correction_bias"]) # Phase 2: low-rank adapters on the routed experts. Wrap AFTER the freeze # above so the base SwitchLinears stay frozen and only lora_a/lora_b pick # up gradients; re-freeze the bases explicitly since the wrapper is new. if expert_lora_rank > 0: switch_mlp = head.layers[1].mixer.switch_mlp switch_mlp.fc1 = LoRASwitchLinear( switch_mlp.fc1, expert_lora_rank, expert_lora_scale) switch_mlp.fc2 = LoRASwitchLinear( switch_mlp.fc2, expert_lora_rank, expert_lora_scale) switch_mlp.fc1.base.freeze() switch_mlp.fc2.base.freeze() # fp32 master weights for everything trainable. trainable = tree_flatten(head.trainable_parameters()) head.update(tree_unflatten([(k, v.astype(mx.float32)) for k, v in trainable])) n_train = sum(v.size for _, v in trainable) print(f"head built: {n_train/1e6:.1f}M trainable params (fp32 masters)") return head, emb_w, lm_w def head_forward(head, emb_w, hidden, next_ids): """Batched training forward, mirroring MTPModule.__call__ with a causal mask over the whole (padded) window. hidden (B,S,H) fp32, next_ids (B,S).""" l0, l1 = head.layers e = l0.enorm(emb_w[next_ids].astype(mx.float32)) h = l0.hnorm(hidden) fused = l0.eh_proj(mx.concatenate([e, h], axis=-1)) x = fused + l0.mixer(l0.norm(fused), mask="causal", cache=None) x = x + l1.mixer(l1.norm(x)) return l1.final_layernorm(x) # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # Data # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # class Triples: """Doc-granular access over triples-*.npz shards (kept in RAM as numpy).""" def __init__(self, shard_glob, limit_shards=None): self.docs = [] # (shard_i, start, end, tok_off) self.shards = [] files = sorted(globmod.glob(shard_glob)) if limit_shards: files = files[:limit_shards] for si, f in enumerate(files): z = np.load(f) sh = {k: z[k] for k in z.files} self.shards.append(sh) for di, (s, e) in enumerate(sh["doc_bounds"]): self.docs.append((si, int(s), int(e), int(s) + 2 * di)) n_pos = sum(e - s for _, s, e, _ in self.docs) print(f"{len(files)} shards, {len(self.docs)} docs, {n_pos:,} positions") def fetch(self, doc): si, s, e, toff = doc sh = self.shards[si] n = e - s hid_u16 = sh["hiddens"][s:e] toks = sh["tokens"][toff : toff + n + 2].astype(np.int64) return ( hid_u16, # (n, H) uint16 bf16-bits toks[1 : n + 1], # input token t+1 toks[2 : n + 2], # hard target t+2 sh["topk_ids"][s:e].astype(np.int64), sh["topk_lp"][s:e].astype(np.float32), ) def make_batches(dataset, doc_ids, batch_positions, seed): """Length-bucketed padded batches: list of lists of doc indices.""" order = sorted(doc_ids, key=lambda i: dataset.docs[i][2] - dataset.docs[i][1]) batches, cur, cur_max = [], [], 0 for i in order: n = dataset.docs[i][2] - dataset.docs[i][1] m = max(cur_max, n) if cur and m * (len(cur) + 1) > batch_positions: batches.append(cur) cur, cur_max = [], 0 m = n cur.append(i) cur_max = m if cur: batches.append(cur) random.Random(seed).shuffle(batches) return batches def collate(dataset, batch): docs = [dataset.fetch(dataset.docs[i]) for i in batch] B = len(docs) S = max(d[0].shape[0] for d in docs) H = docs[0][0].shape[1] K = docs[0][4].shape[1] hid = np.zeros((B, S, H), np.uint16) nxt = np.zeros((B, S), np.int64) tgt = np.zeros((B, S), np.int64) kid = np.zeros((B, S, K), np.int64) klp = np.full((B, S, K), -1e9, np.float32) msk = np.zeros((B, S), np.float32) for b, (h, nx, tg, ki, kl) in enumerate(docs): n = h.shape[0] hid[b, :n], nxt[b, :n], tgt[b, :n] = h, nx, tg kid[b, :n], klp[b, :n], msk[b, :n] = ki, kl, 1.0 hidden = mx.array(hid).view(mx.bfloat16).astype(mx.float32) return (hidden, mx.array(nxt), mx.array(tgt), mx.array(kid), mx.array(klp), mx.array(msk)) # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # Loss / metrics # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # def batch_stats(head, emb_w, lm_w, batch, kl_lambda, ce_lambda=1.0): hidden, nxt, tgt, kid, klp, msk = batch out = head_forward(head, emb_w, hidden, nxt) # (B,S,H) fp32 logits = out @ lm_w.T.astype(mx.float32) # (B,S,V) lse = mx.logsumexp(logits, axis=-1) # (B,S) tgt_logit = mx.take_along_axis(logits, tgt[..., None], axis=-1)[..., 0] ce = lse - tgt_logit head_klp = mx.take_along_axis(logits, kid, axis=-1) - lse[..., None] p = mx.exp(klp) # trunk top-64 probs kl = (p * (klp - head_klp)).sum(axis=-1) denom = msk.sum() # KL is the real objective, not a regularizer: `agree` below measures # agreement with the TRUNK's top-1 (agree_ref comes from klp), which is what # speculative acceptance actually is. CE pulls toward corpus tokens instead. # Measured 2026-07-18: kl_lambda 0.3 -> agree 0.5726, 1.0 -> 0.6086, # 3.0 -> 0.6355. ce_lambda exists to test pushing CE's weight toward 0. loss = ((ce_lambda * ce + kl_lambda * kl) * msk).sum() / denom agree_ref = mx.take_along_axis(kid, mx.argmax(klp, axis=-1)[..., None], axis=-1)[..., 0] agree = ((mx.argmax(logits, axis=-1) == agree_ref) * msk).sum() / denom ce_m = (ce * msk).sum() / denom kl_m = (kl * msk).sum() / denom return loss, (ce_m, kl_m, agree, denom) def run_eval(head, emb_w, lm_w, dataset, batches, kl_lambda): tot = {"ce": 0.0, "kl": 0.0, "agree": 0.0, "n": 0.0} for b in batches: _, (ce, kl, ag, n) = batch_stats( head, emb_w, lm_w, collate(dataset, b), kl_lambda) mx.eval(ce, kl, ag, n) n = n.item() tot["ce"] += ce.item() * n tot["kl"] += kl.item() * n tot["agree"] += ag.item() * n tot["n"] += n n = max(tot["n"], 1) return tot["ce"] / n, tot["kl"] / n, tot["agree"] / n # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # # Save # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # def save_trained(head, path): """Trained (non-expert) tensors, bf16, with on-disk mtp.* names.""" out = {} for k, v in tree_flatten(head.trainable_parameters()): out["mtp." + k] = v.astype(mx.bfloat16) mx.save_safetensors(str(path), out) print(f"saved {len(out)} tensors -> {path}") # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # def running_dumps(): """Pids of any live dump_triples.py. A concurrent dump means the shards are still incomplete *and* ~85 GB is already committed to its trunk. Training on top of that OOM-killed the machine on 2026-07-18 (Jetsam took WindowServer with it), so this is a hard stop rather than a warning. """ try: out = subprocess.run( ["pgrep", "-f", "dump_triples.py"], capture_output=True, text=True ).stdout.split() except FileNotFoundError: return [] return [p for p in out if p != str(os.getpid())] def main(): ap = argparse.ArgumentParser() ap.add_argument("--shard-glob", default=str(ROOT / "triples" / "triples-*.npz")) ap.add_argument("--limit-shards", type=int, default=None) ap.add_argument("--eval-only", action="store_true") ap.add_argument("--epochs", type=int, default=2) ap.add_argument("--batch-positions", type=int, default=4096) ap.add_argument("--lr", type=float, default=1e-4) ap.add_argument("--warmup", type=int, default=100) ap.add_argument("--kl-lambda", type=float, default=1.0) ap.add_argument("--grad-clip", type=float, default=1.0) ap.add_argument("--eval-docs", type=int, default=100) ap.add_argument("--eval-every", type=int, default=200) ap.add_argument("--save-every", type=int, default=500) ap.add_argument("--out", default=str(ROOT / "mtp_trained.safetensors")) ap.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=17) ap.add_argument("--ce-lambda", type=float, default=1.0, help="weight on the hard-target CE term (0 = pure KL)") ap.add_argument("--expert-lora-rank", type=int, default=0, help="Phase 2: LoRA rank on the 512 routed experts (0=off)") ap.add_argument("--expert-lora-scale", type=float, default=2.0) ap.add_argument( "--ignore-running-dump", action="store_true", help="start even if dump_triples.py is live (only with real headroom)", ) args = ap.parse_args() busy = running_dumps() if busy and not args.ignore_running_dump: raise SystemExit( f"refusing to start: dump_triples.py still running (pid {', '.join(busy)}).\n" "Its shards are incomplete and it holds ~85 GB; this run grows to " "~60 GB and the pair has OOM-killed the machine before.\n" "Wait for the dump to print DONE, or pass --ignore-running-dump." ) dataset = Triples(args.shard_glob, args.limit_shards) ids = list(range(len(dataset.docs))) random.Random(args.seed).shuffle(ids) eval_ids, train_ids = ids[: args.eval_docs], ids[args.eval_docs :] eval_batches = make_batches(dataset, eval_ids, args.batch_positions, 0) head, emb_w, lm_w = build_head( args.expert_lora_rank, args.expert_lora_scale) ce, kl, ag = run_eval(head, emb_w, lm_w, dataset, eval_batches, args.kl_lambda) print(f"[baseline] ce={ce:.4f} kl={kl:.4f} agree={ag:.4f}") if args.eval_only: return steps_per_epoch = max( 1, len(make_batches(dataset, train_ids, args.batch_positions, 0))) total_steps = steps_per_epoch * args.epochs sched = optim.join_schedules( [optim.linear_schedule(0.0, args.lr, args.warmup), optim.cosine_decay(args.lr, max(1, total_steps - args.warmup))], [args.warmup], ) opt = optim.Adam(learning_rate=sched) def loss_fn(head_, batch): loss, aux = batch_stats( head_, emb_w, lm_w, batch, args.kl_lambda, args.ce_lambda) return loss, aux vg = nn.value_and_grad(head, loss_fn) step, t0 = 0, time.time() best_agree = ag for epoch in range(args.epochs): batches = make_batches( dataset, train_ids, args.batch_positions, args.seed + epoch) for b in batches: (loss, (ce, kl, ag_b, npos)), grads = vg(head, collate(dataset, b)) if args.grad_clip > 0: grads, _ = optim.clip_grad_norm(grads, args.grad_clip) opt.update(head, grads) mx.eval(head.parameters(), opt.state, loss) step += 1 if step % 20 == 0: dt = time.time() - t0 print(f"[{dt/60:5.1f}m] step {step}/{total_steps} " f"loss={loss.item():.4f} ce={ce.item():.4f} " f"kl={kl.item():.4f} agree={ag_b.item():.4f}", flush=True) if step % args.eval_every == 0: ce_e, kl_e, ag_e = run_eval( head, emb_w, lm_w, dataset, eval_batches, args.kl_lambda) print(f"[eval @ {step}] ce={ce_e:.4f} kl={kl_e:.4f} " f"agree={ag_e:.4f} (baseline {best_agree:.4f})", flush=True) if step % args.save_every == 0: save_trained(head, args.out) save_trained(head, args.out) ce, kl, ag_f = run_eval(head, emb_w, lm_w, dataset, eval_batches, args.kl_lambda) print(f"DONE {step} steps in {(time.time()-t0)/60:.1f}m: " f"ce={ce:.4f} kl={kl:.4f} agree={ag_f:.4f} (baseline {best_agree:.4f})") if __name__ == "__main__": main()