# SFT stage (section-11). Dataclass-backed: every key here must exist in # align/config.py, and struct mode makes a typo raise at launch rather than # silently training with the default it failed to override. # # CLI contract: # torchrun --nproc_per_node=4 scripts/sft.py configs/sft.toml --optimizer.lr=1e-5 # # Prose lives in the config field docstrings, not here. Only values that this # STAGE chooses (as opposed to the repo-wide defaults) are set below. run_name = "sft-stage-11" [model] precision = "bf16" # null = auto-select, which resolves to sdpa on this box. triton_fa2 is # opt-in only and its selector raises until section-06's gate has passed. # attn_implementation = null (TOML has no null: omitted, the dataclass default (None) applies) [optimizer] # adamw8bit per the 2026-08-17 pre-registration amendment: offload_adamw # projects ~105GB host RSS (~150GB MemAvailable required) and the shared # box holds ~85GB — the RSS preflight refuses it, correctly. 8-bit moments # live on-GPU; the accum>=4 offload-amortization rule does not apply. name = "adamw8bit" lr = 1e-05 betas = [0.9, 0.95] weight_decay = 0.0 # Global-norm clip, ON (G0; OLMoE / OLMo 2 use 1.0). The recorded grad norm # is the PRE-clip value, which is what the grad_norm tripwire below needs. max_grad_norm = 1.0 # 2 x micro_batch 3 x world 4 = the pre-registered 24-row global batch # (train.global_batch_rows), keeping the scheduler horizon arithmetic # self-consistent. The accum>=4 rule is OFFLOAD economics (2.56s CPU step # amortization) and is enforced only for offload_adamw. grad_accum = 2 [train] full_ft = true world_size = 4 micro_batch_size = 3 seq_len = 1024 epochs = 1 # ~24 rows per optimizer step; the horizon is derived from the manifest's # measured corpus size, not from the plan's "~11.8K" prose. global_batch_rows = 24 warmup_frac = 0.03 # Cadence in MICRO-steps, so changing accumulation does not change how much # work a host seizure costs. ~400 micro-steps ~ 100 optimizer steps. save_every_micro_steps = 400 keep_checkpoints = 2 log_every_micro_steps = 10 pinned_staging_shards_per_rank = 2 # Each rank writes its own optimizer_rank{r}.pt instead of gathering every # rank's state to rank 0 (the 2026-08-12 OOM shape; the gather peak is what # preflight_rss refuses at ~85GB MemAvailable). Validated on 2 CPU/gloo ranks # over real FSDP2 shards, bit-exact resume, for adamw8bit and offload_adamw # (tests/test_trainer_dist.py). Resume must use the SAME world_size. per_rank_optimizer_state = true probe_steps = 20 seed = 0 [tripwires] # Armed (G0). grad_norm is the only tripwire an SFT stage can feed (no # preference margin / pairs for logps_chosen / length_drift). It HALTS the run # on a gradient explosion or a non-finite norm instead of training past it. armed = ["grad_norm"] [data] num_workers = 2 # host cap; 16 across ranks SIGBUS'd a live run sft_split = "sft-train" [eval] math500_n = 500 gsm8k_n = 1319 # FULL GSM8K test set, not a subsample [gates] # checkpoint-200 measured on this box at 0.35 epochs. A full epoch landing # below these is near-certain evidence of a new-stack defect. golden_math500 = 0.09 golden_gsm8k = 0.258 rss_headroom_gb = 45.0 epoch_budget_s = 14400.0 # ~4 GPU-hours budgeted for this stage schedule_budget_factor = 1.25 # 2 = first corpus build after the doubled-`# Answer`-marker fix. min_build_version = 2 require_golden_receipt = true