fix(customizer): publish the HF tree DTensor V2 writes instead of converting it as DCP - #1869
fix(customizer): publish the HF tree DTensor V2 writes instead of converting it as DCP#1869anubhutivyas wants to merge 1 commit into
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…verting it as DCP Signed-off-by: anubhutiv <anubhutiv@nvidia.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesConsolidated checkpoint publication
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AutomodelConfig
participant NemoRLBackend
participant CheckpointFilesystem
participant PublicationOutput
AutomodelConfig->>CheckpointFilesystem: write consolidated HF checkpoint
NemoRLBackend->>CheckpointFilesystem: find consolidated HF root
CheckpointFilesystem-->>NemoRLBackend: return root when config.json exists
NemoRLBackend->>PublicationOutput: copy consolidated tree and tokenizer
NemoRLBackend->>NemoRLBackend: use DCP conversion when no consolidated tree exists
Suggested reviewers: Priority: ➖ Normal Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Automodel checkpoints can now be published from consolidated Hugging Face exports, but a config-only partial export may be registered without model weights and produce an unusable model artifact. Require weight or complete shard-index validation before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@services/rl/src/nmp/rl/tasks/training/backends/nemo_rl/checkpoints.py`:
- Line 72: Update find_consolidated_hf_root() to accept a checkpoint only when
config.json exists and model weights are present, either through a safetensors
file or an index whose every referenced shard exists. Ensure
process_checkpoint() cannot publish config-only directories as
CheckpointFormat.HF, and add a regression test covering a config-only
checkpoint.
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| front and only then writes into it, so an interrupted save can leave it empty. | ||
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| candidate = checkpoint_path / CONSOLIDATED_HF_SUBPATH | ||
| return candidate if (candidate / "config.json").is_file() else None |
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For NeMo-RL version 0.6.0 with Automodel and checkpointing.save_consolidated=True, can config.json be written before the consolidated safetensors file or shard set is complete?
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In NeMo-RL version 0.6.0, when checkpointing.save_consolidated is set to True, the system is designed to handle the creation of consolidated Hugging Face-compatible checkpoints, including the associated configuration files [1][2][3]. Based on the architectural patterns used in NeMo Automodel and NeMo-RL's checkpointing utilities, the saving process is typically orchestrated to ensure integrity [1][3]. The config.json (and other metadata files like generation_config.json or tokenizer_config.json) is generated as part of the consolidation process alongside the safetensors shards [3]. Technical implementations in NeMo typically use atomic write operations or sequential file system updates to ensure that the checkpoint directory structure—which includes the consolidated model folder—is valid [3]. While specific internal file-writing sequences can depend on the underlying storage backend and parallelization strategy (such as TP/PP ranks), NeMo-RL's checkpointing system manages the orchestration to ensure that the consolidated metadata and weights are consistent upon completion of the checkpoint save operation [3]. There is no standard behavior where the metadata (config.json) is intentionally exposed or marked as "complete" before the associated model shard files are successfully written [3].
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- 1: https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/rl/0.6.0/apidocs/nemo_rl/nemo_rl.utils.checkpoint.html
- 2: https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/RL/blob/main/nemo_rl/utils/checkpoint.py
- 3: https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/automodel/latest/development/checkpointing
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Require model weights before publishing a consolidated checkpoint.
find_consolidated_hf_root() accepts a directory with only config.json. process_checkpoint() then copies it and labels it CheckpointFormat.HF, even when model weights are missing. Require a safetensors file or an index whose referenced shards all exist. Add a config-only regression test.
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In `@services/rl/src/nmp/rl/tasks/training/backends/nemo_rl/checkpoints.py` at
line 72, Update find_consolidated_hf_root() to accept a checkpoint only when
config.json exists and model weights are present, either through a safetensors
file or an index whose every referenced shard exists. Ensure
process_checkpoint() cannot publish config-only directories as
CheckpointFormat.HF, and add a regression test covering a config-only
checkpoint.
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An all-weights GRPO job finishes training and then fails while the platform publishes the checkpoint, so the model and fileset are never registered.
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policy_backend=automodel(DTensor V2), NeMo-RL saves the model as safetensors shards. That is Automodel's default and it is V2-only. The shards carry no DCP.metadatafile, soconvert_dcp_to_hfgives up:Related Issue
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checkpointing.save_consolidatedfor V2. It is off by default; with it on, NeMo-RL also writes a ready-to-publish HF tree atpolicy/weights/model/consolidated(weights,index, config, generation config, tokenizer).Type of Change
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