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…s PPO (RL-Align#44) Implement explicit rollout tensor transport, TP scalar-head contracts and reward return, with a synchronous PPO loop for independent Actor/Critic TP groups. Add masked GAE, clipped losses, gradient clipping, acknowledged Actor weight installation and real Megatron/DeepSpeed/vLLM check harnesses. Resolve the repository refactor by moving the common implementation into integrations/common and framework adapters into engines/train. Preserve the legacy bridge compatibility import and the fresh-process timeout fix. Update test/example module paths and the isolated vLLM child's module path. Publish the existing validation summaries and the separate four-GPU job 1095862 comparison, distinguishing their workloads and provenance. Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
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128-128: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueTest counts differ between sections without explanation.
Line 128 reports 111 passed with no skips. The PR objectives report 104 passed with one skip for a different run. The README text is consistent with
pytest-regression.txt. Add a note that the two counts come from different test selections or commits, so readers do not treat them as a conflict.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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91-91: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueThe vLLM README table reports a hidden size that the README does not state.
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vllm/*-summary.jsonfiles usehidden_size128, but the README describes only a hidden size of 32 (Line 20). The vLLM runs use a larger model than the shared-group runs. Add a line that states hidden size 128 for the vLLM section so readers do not assume the 32-wide model.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @docs/usage/tp-reward-critic.md:
- Around line 6-7: Verify whether the rl_engine.executors.bridge module
re-exports TensorPacketBridge, TPScalarExecutor, and TPModelInputs; remove the
claim that the old import path still works unless all three compatibility
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Review comments at @tests/distributed/tp/check_qwen3_ppo_rollout.py:
- Line 139: Update the `services.export` callback so `megatron_to_hf` receives
Actor rank shard mappings, or otherwise ensure `snapshot` reconstructs
`linear_fc1.weight` with all gate rows grouped before all up rows. Preserve the
per-rank gate/up layout during Qwen3 weight export.
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Review comments at @reports/experiments/issue44_tp_ppo/README.md:
- Line 128: Add a brief note near the test-count entries in the README
clarifying that the 111-pass result and the 104-pass, one-skip result come from
different test selections or commits. Leave the counts unchanged.
- Line 91: Add a model-configuration line to the vLLM section of the README
stating that its runs use hidden size 128. Keep the existing hidden-size-32
description scoped to the shared-group runs.
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- Around line 74-80: Update the `from_pretrained` call in the calibration loop
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The four inline findings have individual replies with their fixes and evidence. Validation: 80 passed, 2 optional GPU tests skipped across the PPO/BF16/checkpoint/vLLM-install/TP-scalar/weight-bridge suites; layout checks 32 passed, 1 optional GPU smoke test skipped; pre-commit hooks passed. The new empty-error and TP=2 export regressions fail on the original code and pass with this fix. A local tiny-Qwen3 loading smoke check used the exact Transformers 5.13.1 release. Local MyPy reports the same 24 diagnostics in 8 files on both the original PR head and this change (byte-identical output with the local dependency versions); there are no new diagnostics. Pretrained GPU acceptance remains incomplete. GitHub validation for |
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Current qualification status — 2026-10-13
The real Qwen3 PPO acceptance is not complete. The fixed-rollout harness is implemented: actual vLLM TP2 capture, immutable rollout/targets, independent HF PPO scoring and AdamW controls, both engines × FP32/BF16 × TP1/TP2 for Actor and Critic, same-precision TP comparisons, both four-GPU topologies, and the original tiny-GPT regression. The numerical rule is committed before candidate execution:
4 × independent control error + metric floor; same-precision TP checks use independent same-precision repeat controls. Candidate evidence includes actual FP32 gradient buffers, clipping norms, per-parameter updates, replica consistency, optimizer-state dtype and padding checks. The two-round runner includes stale-version, incorrect installed-shard, missing/duplicate rank acknowledgment and warm-cache rejection probes. These GPU paths still require execution.51441596, real HF FP32/BF16 teacher-forced Qwen3 calibration. This is not sampler/PPO evidence.pip, before rollout capture. Commit17d19247collects its dependency versions through standard-libraryimportlib.metadata, verified in that exact pip-less environment. Four-B200 retry 1107835 is queued from clean source17d19247. Original failed evidence is retained. The resulting controls and bounds must still be verified and committed before formal candidate submission.17d19247, lint, unit tests and docs all actually ran and passed. GPU qualification remains incomplete.GPU submissions use only partition
overflow, nametest, 512 GB host memory and a 24-hour limit. Pending jobs are retained. Failed reference attempt 1105543 and its partial artifacts are retained; its final-report serialization failure was fixed in 5144159. Full raw fixed-rollout evidence and final GPU conclusions are not yet published because the new experiment has not completed.Scope remains DP=1, ZeRO=0, BF16/FP32. No production throughput, reward-model quality or PPO convergence claim is made. The historical random-GPT evidence below does not qualify the real Qwen3 matrix. See
examples/post_training/tp_ppo/QWEN3_ACCEPTANCE.mdand the separatequalify_reference.sbatch/qualify_candidate.sbatchstage boundary.Historical implementation and evidence
Closes #44
Summary
Enable rollout token transfer, TP-aware Reward/Critic scoring, and a complete synchronous PPO loop with independent Actor and Critic TP groups.
Validation
test,overflow) passed on four dedicated B200 GPUs: Actor TP=2, Critic TP=1, vLLM TP=1. Both Megatron and DeepSpeed completed two PPO rounds; their final Actor/Critic parameters matched exactly. Maximum behavior-logprob error was 4.77e-7.Scope and limitations
Framework checks use small random GPT models. DeepSpeed validation covers FP32, ZeRO-0, DP=1, and gradient accumulation=1.
Production-model throughput, mixed precision, CUDA graphs, vLLM TP>1, multi-node execution, and concurrent serving during updates remain unvalidated. The GPT checkpoint converter and local weight transport are validation-specific.
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