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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughTraining callbacks now accumulate arbitrary chartable metrics and resume stored series. Progress reporters preserve complete metric data. NeMo-RL routes selected metrics through the shared reporter, derives schedules, and flushes pending reports during teardown. ChangesTraining progress reporting
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant dpo_driver
participant NemoRLLogger
participant JobsServiceProgressReporter
participant JobsService
dpo_driver->>NemoRLLogger: create logger from training schedule
NemoRLLogger->>JobsServiceProgressReporter: forward selected metrics
JobsServiceProgressReporter->>JobsService: update task status details
dpo_driver->>NemoRLLogger: close logger in finally
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170-182: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winFilter payload metrics before forwarding.
_recorddrops unsupported values, but both payloads forward rawadditional_metrics. Objects, mappings, booleans, and NaN can enterstatus_details. This violates the numeric-scalar contract and can fail status serialization. Filter and normalize values to built-in numeric types before constructing both payloads.
packages/nmp_customization_common/src/nmp/customization_common/training/callbacks.py#L170-L182: use normalized chartable metrics for series and current-step fields.packages/nmp_customization_common/src/nmp/customization_common/training/callbacks.py#L205-L215: use the same normalized chartable metrics for validation fields.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 231-236: Update the details payload construction in the callback
to omit checkpoint_path when its value is None, while retaining it when a new
path exists so prior checkpoint paths are not overwritten with null.
- Around line 79-81: Update the metric validation logic in the visible
value-checking function to use math.isfinite on the numeric value, while
continuing to reject booleans and non-Real values. Ensure both positive and
negative infinity are rejected along with NaN.
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- Around line 170-182: In callbacks.py, normalize and filter additional_metrics
to built-in finite numeric scalars before payload construction. Use the
normalized chartable metrics for the training series/current-step payload at
lines 170-182 and for the validation payload at lines 205-215, while preserving
_record’s existing filtering behavior.
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RL carried a standalone TrainingProgressCallback that duplicated the shared one
in packages/nmp_customization_common, minus its metric accumulation. Fixes to
progress reporting therefore had to be made twice or -- in practice -- only
once, in whichever copy the author happened to be looking at.
The copy is deleted outright rather than replaced by a subclass, because a
subclass would add nothing: `_default_backend` is already None on the base, and
that default is what keeps RL's status-detail shape unchanged on the wire (no
`backend` key is added). automodel imports the shared class directly for exactly
this reason; unsloth is the only service that subclasses it, and only to stamp
`backend="unsloth"`.
Two additive changes to the shared class make it a drop-in for what RL's copy
supported:
**additional_metrics backend-specific scalars alongside loss/lr/grad_norm.
Splatted first, so a backend metric cannot shadow the
accumulated series or the step's own loss; every other
colliding name is a real parameter and already errors
at the call site.
optional val_loss not every algorithm produces one. The key is omitted
rather than sent as null, which would chart as a zero.
Also adds the missing services/rl/.../training/progress.py, matching the unsloth
and automodel modules that bind SERVICE_NAME, so the two RL construction sites
stop passing it by hand.
Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
`report_running` REPLACES the task's status_details blob rather than merging into it, so a report that omits `metrics` erases the accumulated series from stored status until the next train step resends it -- and loses it outright if the job dies in that window. report_training_start, report_epoch_end and report_checkpoint_saved all omitted it. automodel calls both report_epoch_end and report_checkpoint_saved mid-training, so this was reachable in practice, not theoretical. On report_training_start it also blanked a resumed job's seeded series before the first step could restate it. Two automodel tests and one unsloth test pinned the buggy payload with exact-kwargs assertions; they now assert the series survives instead. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Only train_loss and val_loss were series; every other metric a backend reported
rode as a current-step scalar that the next update overwrote. So the only thing
a finished job could be charted on was its loss, no matter how much else the
backend knew.
Now every numeric metric accumulates into its own series in the same
{step, epoch, value} shape Studio already renders. The current-step scalars stay
on the blob alongside, so consumers can read either the curve or the latest value.
Series are namespaced by phase: train_<name> / val_<name>. The prefix is
load-bearing, not cosmetic -- backends report the same metric name in both their
train and validation dicts (NeMo-RL does this with truncation_rate, and DPO with
accuracy), so unprefixed names would interleave two different quantities into
one curve. train_loss and val_loss keep their bare names, so the existing Studio
loss chart is unaffected.
lr and grad_norm accumulate too; they are curves people read, and they were only
excluded because they happen to be named parameters rather than
**additional_metrics.
fetch_current_metrics had to stop hardcoding the two names, or a resumed job
would silently restart every other curve from empty. It now returns whatever
list-valued series are stored.
The numeric guard lands here as is_chartable(), and NemoRLLogger's
has_metric_value delegates to it: a metric the logger forwards must be one the
callback can chart, and letting those drift is how a histogram object ends up in
a series. It also removes a latent crash -- math.isnan raises TypeError on the
non-scalars a framework metric dict can carry.
Size scales with the number of *reports*, not training steps, since backends
throttle reporting. Measured for a 22-series RL run:
500 steps, log_interval 10 -> 42 KB final blob, 1.1 MB uploaded
500 steps, log_interval 1 -> 413 KB final blob, 101.3 MB uploaded
Accepted for batch training jobs. A backend that reports every step of a long
run pays quadratically; if that becomes a real configuration the fix is delta
appends in the transport, not trimming the series here.
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status_details is REPLACED on every update, so a field survives only as long as
the next report repeats it. Three kinds of field were being lost to that:
metrics erased by the runner's checkpoint/completion/failure
reports, which come from a different process than the
training driver and hold no series to resend -- so
every job ended by erasing its own curves, worst of
all on the failure path where the partial curve is
worth the most
max_steps, num_epochs stated once by report_training_start, gone from the
first training step onward
checkpoint_path published by one report, wiped by the next
Studio reads max_steps and checkpoint_path straight out of status_details, so
"step / max steps" fell back to a bare step number for the whole run, and the
latest-checkpoint row appeared and vanished.
_CARRY_FORWARD names the rule: what stays true after the update that stated it.
Cumulative (metrics), run constants (max_steps, num_epochs), monotonic progress
(step, epoch), and sticky latest-values (checkpoint_path).
Excluded deliberately: `phase`, which every report sets for itself, and the
per-step observations (train_loss, lr, grad_norm, ...). Those describe one
instant and a stale copy would misrepresent "current" -- and nothing is lost,
because each is now recoverable from its series. percentage_done is excluded
too: it is derived from step and max_steps, both carried, so a consumer can
recompute it rather than risk a copy that contradicts its own inputs.
Keeping the GET off the hot path is the design constraint. Values are remembered
as they pass through, so a process that has already stated a field restates it
for free; the stored blob is read back only when an update omits `metrics`,
which is the tell that it did not come from TrainingProgressCallback. Per-step
reports always carry `metrics` and never fetch. The runner's handful always do.
One subtlety: on resume the driver's first report already carries `metrics`, so
it would never read the blob back and would drop the previous run's
checkpoint_path. _fetch_status_details therefore refreshes the cache as a side
effect, which makes the resume-seeding fetch the callback already performs at
construction double as the carry-forward seed -- no extra round-trip.
Tests drive the SDK client seam rather than stubbing the fetch, so the real
_fetch_status_details runs, cache side effect included. First test coverage for
this module.
Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Two defects in NemoRLLogger, both in how it counts and reports steps. The final training step was never reported. The throttle is `step % log_interval == 0`, so when max_steps is not a multiple of log_interval the last steps are dropped -- at 23 steps and an interval of 10 the run's last recorded loss was step 20's. A withheld step is now held as pending and flushed by close(). Nothing called close(). The driver appends the logger to `logger_inst.loggers` and never tears it down; nemo_rl.utils.logger.Logger has no close() at all -- its only teardown hook is finish(), dispatched as `getattr(logger, "finish", None)`, which skipped us because NemoRLLogger did not define one. And dpo_train never calls finish() either; the only caller upstream is the single-controller path. So the flush would have run only from __del__, at GC or interpreter shutdown, where every failure is swallowed. Two hooks now, because neither alone is sufficient: finish() aliases close() under the name the composite dispatches, and the driver calls close() from a finally, which is the case that matters -- an abnormal exit is exactly when the last step is worth having. Steps were double-counted. `log_metrics` opened with `step = step + 1`, but the caller already counts from 1: dpo.py logs `total_steps + 1`, where total_steps is 0-based and incremented *after* the log. A 23-step run therefore recorded steps 2..24 against max_steps=23, and the log_interval throttle fired on true steps 9, 19, 29 -- withholding the last step even when max_steps *was* a multiple of the interval. Epoch derivation read the same inflated step and flipped an epoch early at the boundary; it now clamps at zero, because step 0 does arrive, from the validate-at-start path, and belongs to epoch 1. for_schedule owns the log_interval and steps_per_epoch arithmetic that the DPO driver used to derive inline. Its `(val_period // 10) + 1` had a `+1` that was a divide-by-zero guard and also skewed every value it produced, and it raised outright when val_period was None. DPO's reporting cadence changes slightly as a result. The driver teardown is asserted against the AST -- the drivers cannot be imported outside the training image -- with the detector's own negative cases pinned, since a tripwire that cannot trip is worse than none. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
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The Jobs service MERGES task status_details key-wise rather than
replacing the blob -- JobDispatcher._update_status_details_object,
applied both to the task and to the copy propagated up to the job. A
field therefore survives every later update that does not restate it.
Verified end-to-end against a running platform: a full mid-training
report followed by a bare {"phase": "processing_checkpoint"} leaves the
series, the schedule and the checkpoint path stored intact. Nothing was
ever erased.
That makes _CARRY_FORWARD, the read-back GET and the metrics payload on
the training-start / checkpoint / epoch-end reports redundant. Removing
them also drops a network round-trip from every non-step report,
including report_error, where it sat between the exception and the error
being recorded.
The merge is shallow, so a report that does send `metrics` still
replaces the stored series wholesale -- the train and validation reports
keep resending every series in full. Dropping the payload from
report_training_start closes a real hole while it is at it: when the
seeding fetch failed, that report wrote an empty accumulator over a
resumed job's stored curves.
Two smaller fixes in the blast radius: fetch_current_metrics copies each
point list so the callback's accumulator no longer aliases the response,
and is_chartable's docstring no longer claims NaN/Inf reach the wire as
bare JSON tokens -- the SDK coerces both to null, so the cost of letting
one through is a hole in the curve, not a malformed blob.
Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
All three reproduced against a live platform before fixing. The unprefixed-name exemption was keyed on the metric name alone, so a backend reporting `val_loss` among a *train* step's metrics appended it to the validation loss curve -- the exact cross-phase interleaving the prefix exists to prevent. It is keyed on (phase, name) now, so such a metric lands in `train_val_loss` and the curve Studio draws as the validation loss stays clean. A non-chartable metric was dropped from its series but still splatted into status_details, where a Histogram makes the whole update fail to serialize. update_task swallows that error, so every metric in the report was lost while the job went on looking healthy -- the opposite of what _record's docstring promises. additional_metrics are now filtered once and the filtered set feeds both the series and the payload, so a metric rides along as a current-step scalar exactly when it entered a series. A metric named `phase` goes out through the same filter: it collides with report_running's own parameter and raised TypeError into the training loop rather than being shadowed by splat order. train_loss, lr, grad_norm and val_loss are now stated only when observed, which is what val_loss already did alone. An absent lr or a NaN grad_norm -- routine on a skipped step -- otherwise reached the server as a null, and a chart reads null as a real zero. Also hardens is_chartable against the OverflowError float() raises on an unbounded int: it was the one input that could still raise out of a predicate whose two call sites both rely on it never raising. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
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- Around line 119-128: Update TrainingProgressCallback initialization to
validate both status_details and status_details["metrics"] are dictionaries
before calling .get or .items; treat malformed values such as {"metrics": []} as
empty metrics so resumed training continues. Add a regression test covering the
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| stored = cast(dict[str, Any], task.status_details or {}) | ||
| except Exception as e: | ||
| logger.info(f"No prior metrics to seed (expected on first run): {e}") | ||
| return {"train_loss": [], "val_loss": []} | ||
| # Expected on a first run, where the task has no stored details yet. | ||
| logger.info(f"No stored status details to seed from: {e}") | ||
| return {} | ||
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| metrics = cast(dict[str, Any], stored.get("metrics", {}) or {}) | ||
| return cast( | ||
| dict[str, list[dict[str, float | int]]], | ||
| {name: list(points) for name, points in metrics.items() if isinstance(points, list)}, |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reject malformed metric containers.
At Line 125, a non-empty list in status_details["metrics"] passes the cast and then raises on .items(). TrainingProgressCallback fetches this data during initialization, so a malformed stored payload aborts resumed training. Validate status_details and metrics as dictionaries before accessing them. Add a test with {"metrics": []}.
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- stored = cast(dict[str, Any], task.status_details or {})
+ stored = task.status_details or {}
+ if not isinstance(stored, dict):
+ return {}
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- metrics = cast(dict[str, Any], stored.get("metrics", {}) or {})
+ metrics = stored.get("metrics", {}) or {}
+ if not isinstance(metrics, dict):
+ return {}
return cast(
dict[str, list[dict[str, float | int]]],
- {name: list(points) for name, points in metrics.items() if isinstance(points, list)},
+ {
+ name: list(points)
+ for name, points in metrics.items()
+ if isinstance(name, str) and isinstance(points, list)
+ },
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| stored = cast(dict[str, Any], task.status_details or {}) | |
| except Exception as e: | |
| logger.info(f"No prior metrics to seed (expected on first run): {e}") | |
| return {"train_loss": [], "val_loss": []} | |
| # Expected on a first run, where the task has no stored details yet. | |
| logger.info(f"No stored status details to seed from: {e}") | |
| return {} | |
| metrics = cast(dict[str, Any], stored.get("metrics", {}) or {}) | |
| return cast( | |
| dict[str, list[dict[str, float | int]]], | |
| {name: list(points) for name, points in metrics.items() if isinstance(points, list)}, | |
| stored = task.status_details or {} | |
| if not isinstance(stored, dict): | |
| return {} | |
| except Exception as e: | |
| # Expected on a first run, where the task has no stored details yet. | |
| logger.info(f"No stored status details to seed from: {e}") | |
| return {} | |
| metrics = stored.get("metrics", {}) or {} | |
| if not isinstance(metrics, dict): | |
| return {} | |
| return cast( | |
| dict[str, list[dict[str, float | int]]], | |
| { | |
| name: list(points) | |
| for name, points in metrics.items() | |
| if isinstance(name, str) and isinstance(points, list) | |
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In
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around lines 119 - 128, Update TrainingProgressCallback initialization to
validate both status_details and status_details["metrics"] are dictionaries
before calling .get or .items; treat malformed values such as {"metrics": []} as
empty metrics so resumed training continues. Add a regression test covering the
non-empty list payload.
The file was added with an Apache-2.0 SPDX identifier followed by an NVIDIA proprietary "any use ... is strictly prohibited" clause -- two mutually exclusive licenses on one file -- plus a 2026-only copyright year. The block came from the deleted backends/nemo_rl/callbacks.py. Its own docstring says it mirrors the equivalent modules in the unsloth and automodel services; both of those, and its directory neighbour runner.py, use the plain two-line 2025-2026 Apache-2.0 header. Match them. Scoped to the file this branch adds. The same block sits on 17 other files under services/rl and services/automodel, which is a pre-existing repo-wide question rather than this PR's to answer. Note that check-copyright-headers cannot catch any of it: the fixer only adds a header where one is missing and never inspects an existing one, so all 6210 files currently report as correct. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
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grpo_driver.py is a 108-line stub on this branch: it never constructs a
NemoRLLogger, so no GRPO run reports anything. The docstrings added here
nonetheless leaned on GRPO behaviour to explain three decisions -- the
phase prefix (`truncation_rate` in both metric dicts), the optional
val_loss (validating on accuracy/avg_length with no loss), and the
payload measurements ("GRPO's ~22 series"). A reader on this branch
cannot check any of it.
Restated against what is actually wired. DPO's `accuracy` already
appears in both its train and validation dicts, so it carries the
prefix argument on its own; the optional val_loss is explained by the
general case rather than one algorithm; and the payload numbers are real
measurements, now attributed to "a backend reporting ~22 series" instead
of to a path that does not run.
Two stale references fixed while in here: the step-indexing comment cited
nemo_rl/algorithms/grpo.py as a second caller when only dpo.py calls in,
and two test docstrings pointed at a sibling named test_grpo_config --
the file is test_dpo_config.py. The test that pins cross-phase series
separation now uses `accuracy`, the collision that actually occurs,
rather than GRPO's `truncation_rate`.
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…ng hint for_schedule takes `steps_per_epoch: int | None = None` and derives the value from max_steps and num_epochs when it is missing. That fallback could never run: dpo_driver read `config.dpo.steps_per_epoch` as a plain attribute, and the field is an undeclared extra that exists only because DPOConfig allows extras. pydantic raises AttributeError for a missing extra, so a config compiled anywhere other than dpo_config.py crashed at driver startup -- the exact failure the fallback was written to absorb. Read with a defaulted getattr instead. Guarded with an AST tripwire alongside the existing close()-in-finally one, for the same reason that file gives: the drivers pull in nemo_rl and omegaconf at module scope, so they cannot be imported in a unit test and a regression here would be silent. Separately, for_schedule's return annotation was the string "NemoRLLogger". AGENTS.md asks for concrete hints over string-based ones; typing.Self is the concrete form for a classmethod constructor, and matches NMPJobContext.from_env. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
progress.py was explaining why TrainingProgressCallback resends whole series and why some reports omit the metrics key. The dependency runs the other way -- the callback composes the reporter, not the reverse -- so the reporter should state the transport property and stop there. progress.py now says only what it owns: the service merges key-wise and the merge is shallow. The consequence for the accumulator moves into callbacks.py, next to the code that acts on it. No behaviour change. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
self._reporter was assigned and never touched again. The reporter exists only to be composed into TrainingProgressCallback, which owns it from that point: close() reaches it through self._callback.close(), not through the logger. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
train_loss and val_loss were special: named parameters on the callback, exempt from the phase prefix, recorded and forwarded by a different code path than the `**additional_metrics` bag. lr and grad_norm were a third case -- named parameters, but prefixed like ordinary metrics in the series and unprefixed at the top level. Four treatments for four kinds of the same thing. There is now one. A backend hands over its framework's metric dict under its own names, and `<phase>_<name>` is the stored series name AND the current-value key. `train_loss` and `val_loss` are what that rule produces for a metric called `loss`, which is why the two series Studio charts did not have to move -- the special case existed only because callers passed them pre-prefixed. Prefixing also retires a whole bug class rather than filtering it. A metric named `phase` used to raise TypeError into the training loop, and `step`/`epoch`/`metrics` needed splat ordering to avoid being shadowed; none of them is reachable from a `<phase>_` name, so _RESERVED and the ordering comments are gone. The metric bag is now a Mapping parameter rather than **kwargs. Backends forward whatever their framework emits and a framework is free to call something `step`, which as **kwargs was a hard TypeError. BREAKING: top-level `lr` and `grad_norm` in status_details are now `train_lr` and `train_grad_norm`; Studio is updated to match. The series payload and the top-level `train_loss`/`val_loss` are unchanged. Also drops NeMo-RL's metric allow-list. The callback already keeps the finite scalars and drops the rest, so the list was a second gate doing a weaker version of the same check -- and it silently dropped DPO's accuracy, sft_loss and rewards_chosen_mean for never having been added to it. NeMo-RL's dict is forwarded whole, so a metric it adds charts without a change here. has_metric_value, _select_metrics and the _VALIDATION_METRIC_KEYS alias go with it. Verified against a running platform: train_loss/val_loss keep their names, train and val `accuracy` stay separate, the DPO scalars the allow-list dropped now chart, a Histogram and a nested dict are dropped without costing the report, and metrics named phase/step/metrics land as train_phase/train_step/train_metrics with the real fields intact. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Both pages described a fixed pair of metrics and a flat set of status_details fields, which stopped being true when every reported metric started accumulating as a series, and stopped being accurate at all when `lr` and `grad_norm` became `train_lr` and `train_grad_norm`. get-job-status now lists the progress fields, the per-metric latest values and the `metrics` history separately, and both example responses carry a real `metrics` payload rather than only the flat scalars. The metrics tutorial gains the naming rule -- `<phase>_<metric>`, with train_loss and val_loss as what it produces for `loss` -- plus where each metric appears and why a missing field is not a zero. Its API sample reads the renamed fields and gains a loop over `metrics`, which is how a caller picks up backend-specific curves without naming them in advance. optimize-throughput.mdx needed no change: it reads train_loss and val_loss, and neither name moved. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
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resolve_log_interval derived the reporting cadence from val_period alone, targeting ~10 reports per validation period. val_period is the user's val_check_interval, so any value below 10 -- "validate every 5 steps" is an ordinary request -- floored the term to zero, clamped to 1, and reported every step of a run of any length. That is not a linear cost. Every train report resends every accumulated series in full, and the Jobs service persists each one twice (the task, then the copy propagated up to the job), so upload and stored-blob writes both grow as the square of the report count. A 20k-step run at ~22 series was reporting 20,000 times. There is now a second floor at _MAX_REPORTS_PER_RUN reports for the whole run, and the coarser of the two wins. Ceiling division, so the bound is a real <=200 rather than up to twice that. Nothing in the existing regime moves: val_period=100 over 100 steps still gives an interval of 10. The payload note in callbacks.py is corrected while it is being cited. Its measured figures are client-side upload only, and it claimed that a backend reporting every step of a long run was a hypothetical the transport would have to grow delta appends for -- it was reachable from a documented hyperparameter, and a backend can simply bound itself. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
The shared callback's naming rule is that a backend passes its framework's own metric name and the phase supplies the prefix. Automodel is the one backend whose framework prefixes some of its validation metrics itself, so a name arriving pre-prefixed came back doubled. That was handled by renaming exactly `val_loss` to `loss`, which fixed the one curve Studio charts and left every other prefixed name alone: train_bi_encoder reports val_acc1 and val_mrr, which landed as val_val_acc1 and val_val_mrr. strip_val_prefix takes the prefix off wherever the recipe happened to put one. It has to be unconditional rather than a list, because the recipes are inconsistent about which metrics carry it -- train_ft pairs `val_loss` with a bare `lr`, `num_label_tokens` and `mem`, all of which still pick up the phase prefix normally. removeprefix, not a replace, so an interior `val_` stays part of the name. finetune.py imports the recipes at module scope and nemo_automodel exists only inside the training image, so the test stubs the six leaf modules to import it. Through monkeypatch.setitem rather than the module-scope sys.modules assignment its neighbours use: those outlive the file that installed them and leak into whatever shares the xdist worker, which is already why two unsloth tests fail whenever this directory runs first. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Reporting runs ahead of checkpointing, so the two do not line up: a job that checkpoints at step 100 and is interrupted at 150 has already reported 110 through 150. Resuming rolls training back to the checkpoint and replays those steps, and the accumulator -- seeded from the server precisely so a resumed job continues its curves -- appended the replayed points after the ones they superseded. The curve then doubled back on itself, with two values at each replayed step. A report below the high-water mark is what identifies that: training only ever moves forward within a run, so a step behind the furthest one recorded means a rewind. Every point from that step on is dropped before the new one lands. The replayed values are the real ones; what goes is work that was rolled back, and the gap that leaves is honest where the doubled-back curve was not. Across every series, not only the one being written. Validation runs on its own cadence, so pruning per-series would leave a val curve carrying rolled-back points until the next validation pass -- hundreds of steps later, or never on a short run. The comparison is strict. NeMo-RL validates at step N before logging train N, so a report that merely fails to advance the mark is not a rewind; treating it as one would have the train report delete the validation point that legitimately shares its step. A rewind to 0 is a task rerunning without a checkpoint, and clearing the curves is right. Stored points are read back from a blob this process did not write, so seeding now drops any that record no step: unplaceable on a curve and unplaceable against a rewind. That also keeps the new comparison total -- report_train_step is called straight from NeMo-RL's log_metrics with nothing catching underneath, so it must not raise on a malformed point. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
… loss The validation branch required a chartable `loss` before it reported anything, which is the last place the old "train_loss and val_loss are special" assumption survived. GRPO scores validation on rewards: its validate() returns `accuracy` and `avg_length` and no loss at all, so the gate dropped not its loss curve but every validation pass it ran. It now reports whatever the pass produced, gated only against a hollow report -- a pass whose metrics are all histograms still says nothing. Best-so-far still tracks the validation loss and so is updated only when there is one. The train branch keeps its `loss` check, which is doing different work and is worth saying so explicitly. GRPO and PPO log twice under `prefix="train"` at a single step -- rollout stats first, then the training metrics, both at `total_steps + 1` -- and only the second carries a loss. There it is a discriminator, not a requirement: without it one step reports twice, each report resending every series, and a throttled step ends up pending as the rollout half with the loss lost. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
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Summary
Training progress reporting was refactored to handle generic metrics from each training backend, and made sure that they are recorded as time series in the job's status details, under one rule, shared across all backends.
This is foundational work, which the new GRPO-specific metrics depend on.
Changes
1. Generalization of metrics
Previously, we accepted
loss, lr, grad_normas hardcoded metric names. Now,report_train_step(loss=, lr=, grad_norm=)becomesreport_train_step(metrics={...})— backends hand over their framework's own dict and the phase supplies the prefix, so every metric is stored and reported as<phase>_<name>.train_lossandval_lossnaturally come out of this rule asphase="train"/"val"andname="loss", not special cases. Alongside it, we accumulate a time series for every reported metric under{series: [{step, epoch, value}]}.Deleted the RL service's own 95-line copy of
TrainingProgressCallbackin favor of the shared one, and added a thinservices/rl/.../training/progress.pythat binds the RL service name — mirroring what unsloth and automodel already had.2. Transport: what a report is allowed to say
The Jobs service merges
status_detailskey-wise, but the merge is shallow -- a sent key replaces the stored value wholesale, sometricsneeds to be either sent in full or omitted entirely. Hardened the checkpoint / epoch-end / training-start report methods to omit metrics rather than sending an empty copy.3. Resume and rewind — data integrity
Discard the steps a resumed run replays added the high-water machinery: reporting runs ahead of checkpointing, so a resumed run replays steps it already reported, and every point from the replayed step on is dropped before the new one lands.
4. Report cadence and cost
Each report resends every series in full and the server persists it twice, so cost is quadratic in report count. bound progress reports by run length added a hard _MAX_REPORTS_PER_RUN = 200 floor because deriving cadence from val_period alone reported every step of a 20k-step run. report the final training step added the pending-report mechanism plus a step-indexing fix; the DPO driver wraps training in try/finally: close() so that final step survives an abnormal exit, and NemoRLLogger.for_schedule centralized the interval arithmetic that DPO had inline (its (val_period // 10) + 1 skewed every value and raised on None). My second commit closes the hole that opened: a deferred report can't be flushed past a later validation.
5. Backend-specific naming repairs
Two backends violated the new rule in opposite directions. Automodel's recipes pre-prefix some validation metrics, so names came back doubled (
val_val_acc1) — strip_val_prefix takes it off wherever the recipe put one. And the RL validation branch required a chartable loss before reporting anything, which dropped every validation pass GRPO ran, since it scores on accuracy and avg_length and produces no loss at all.6. Docs and housekeeping
get-job-status.mdx and metrics.mdx document the naming rule and the series payload; the rest is headers, an unused reference, and CodeRabbit follow-ups.
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