feat(tutorial): add NeMo Gym fixed-vs-routed evaluation tutorial - #680
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Signed-off-by: Shashank Verma <shashankv@nvidia.com>
WalkthroughAdds a NeMo Gym routing configuration, a tutorial for fixed and routed evaluations, a comparison CLI for hosted run artifacts, and tests for validation, metrics, command execution, and Bash syntax. ChangesNeMo Gym evaluation
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do we have to pin it to a specific commit?
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Removed the hard-coded commit requirement from the comparator. It now checks that the fixed and routed runs used the same Gym revision, rather than requiring one specific SHA.
The setup uses the tested v0.6.0 release tag to give users a known-working starting point. Other compatible revisions aren’t rejected by the comparator.
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I think we can use this PR as the one implementation. The incomplete-run checks and walkthrough are good. Before merge, I’d like to make it a smaller Switchyard-owned benchmark: run the current checkout, automate both conditions, use a real Gym workload, and cut the test matrix down to the behavior we need. I left the concrete asks inline.
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| Gym installs **`nemo-switchyard==0.2.0`** into its model-server environment and hosts the native |
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Could we use the current Switchyard checkout here instead of the 0.2.0 wheel? Lin’s Gym work already covers the hosted released-wheel path. Since this example lives in Switchyard, I think it should tell us whether the checkout we’re looking at still works. The adapter supports that through attached mode; this is the main piece I’d keep from #595.
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Thanks, Alex. Updated the PR around these asks:
Replaced the released-wheel setup with the existing Switchyard–LiteLLM integration, which builds Switchyard from this checkout. This takes a different path from the suggested attached mode: Gym calls LiteLLM, with Switchyard running as a library inside the proxy, not as a separate server.
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| uv tool run --from uv==0.11.29 uv venv --python 3.13.14 "$WORK/.venv" && | ||
| uv tool run --from uv==0.11.29 uv pip install \ |
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This pins the Gym commit, Python, and uv, but uv pip install -e still resolves dependencies without using Gym’s lockfile. Could we use Gym’s frozen environment here so the dependency set is pinned too?
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Updated the Gym setup to use uv sync --frozen --no-dev against its checked-in uv.lock, replacing uv pip install -e. This installs the recorded dependency versions rather than resolving a fresh set. Gym and LiteLLM remain in separate environments.
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Could we make this one runner over a real Gym benchmark, maybe MMLU-Redux, with configurable limits and repeats? The five bundled questions are useful as a smoke test, but they are not much of a routing comparison, and the repeated two-terminal/Ctrl-C flow is easy to get wrong. Lin’s adapter already supports any Gym benchmark.
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Replaced the manual two-terminal flow with one runner over MMLU-Redux 2.0.
It prepares the dataset, manages the local LiteLLM proxy, evaluates fixed and routed conditions on the same inputs, and prints the comparison.
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Could we trim this test surface down quite a bit? This file is 393 lines and collects 77 cases, mostly from this malformed-field table and the error-count matrix below. For this tutorial I think we need one successful paired comparison, a couple of incomplete or mismatched-run cases, one bad capture case, and maybe the Bash syntax check. Testing every malformed JSON leaf and executing commands scraped from the README feels like a lot to maintain for the behavior we’re adding.
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Trimmed this further to six behavioral cases: successful pairing and metrics, incomplete runs, mismatched inputs, one bad capture, truncation, and recovered-error accounting.
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One more general note: while moving this to one runner, can we aim for a simple setup, one command, and a result? The current README is effectively the runner, and the comparator and tests revalidate a lot of malformed Gym and Switchyard artifacts. I’d keep the checks that make the comparison trustworthy, but take a hard pass at the LOC so the scripts are easy for someone else to read and maintain.
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Do we want to reject every run with an internal error? A classifier or target can fail and Switchyard can still return a successful rollout through fail-open or fallback. That seems like useful routing behavior to report. The exact request-count checks below also reject a successful fallback. I’d keep incomplete Gym runs blocking, but report recovered errors and fallbacks instead of stopping the comparison.
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Updated so recovered errors and extra requests don’t automatically fail the comparison. Completed runs now report the recorded errors and token usage with a warning; incomplete Gym runs still block comparison.
Retries or fallbacks handled internally by LiteLLM or the upstream service may not appear separately in our logs, so we only report what we can observe.
Refactor the Switchyard eval with Gym tutorial to use the LiteLLM proxy. Additional changes per review comments. Signed-off-by: Shashank Verma <shashankv@nvidia.com>
Distinguish the MMLU-Redux dataset from its multiple-choice verifier. Clarify task-session initialization and input/output token accounting. Signed-off-by: Shashank Verma <shashankv@nvidia.com>
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What
Adds a NeMo Gym evaluation tutorial under
benchmark/nemo_gym/:v0.6.0setup that uses the current Switchyard checkout through its LiteLLM integration.Why
Provides a runnable example of:
No Harbor, Docker, or separate Switchyard server is required.
The example demonstrates how to evaluate routing against a fixed baseline on identical tasks—not that Random routing improves quality or cost.
Related to #559.
Validation
Notes for reviewers