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What does this PR do?

Puzzletron v2 needs one small GPU baseline that exercises the same public setup and orchestration entry points as a real campaign. This PR adds that baseline and a supported non-interactive setup mode.

The GPU test creates a tiny local Qwen 3.5 model and dataset, then runs the complete lifecycle:

  • setup-v2 bundle generation and compilation;
  • activation and replacement scoring, MIP solving, evaluation, and AIPerf serving measurements;
  • short global distillation, final evaluation and selection, and descriptor-aware reload of the selected heterogeneous checkpoint;
  • report verification and a no-op resume that preserves completed artifacts.

The implementation also defines the lifecycle contracts needed by that route:

  • authored configuration, scheduler attempts, and post-MIP publications have stable execution identities;
  • shard workers and aggregators receive the same ordered overrides;
  • stale or legacy completed work is resubmitted, while incomplete publications remain retryable;
  • consolidated distillation checkpoints preserve AnyModel topology metadata, and publication failures propagate to every distributed rank;
  • AIPerf preserves offline and remote-code policies by default, with strict boolean validation and an explicit compatibility opt-in.

Setup automation uses the same wizard sections, resolved configuration, rendering, and validation as interactive setup. It accepts a defaults file, campaign directory, and profile, and fails when a required value has no resolved default.

Five scoped # nosec exceptions document required subprocess and process-replacement boundaries. These calls use explicit argument vectors, never invoke a shell, and do not broaden the accepted command sources.

Usage

python examples/puzzletron/puzzletron_setup_v2.py \
  --defaults /path/to/setup-v2-defaults.yaml \
  --campaign-dir /path/to/campaign \
  --profile smoke \
  --non-interactive

Interactive setup remains supported. Existing campaigns remain compatible when security-policy values are booleans and checkpoint overrides are lists or tuples. Security-sensitive string and numeric values are rejected instead of being interpreted by truthiness.

Testing

The Puzzletron CPU suite covers setup, configuration resolution, orchestration identity and recovery, post-MIP publication, checkpoint metadata, security policy, and resume behavior.

The dedicated one-GPU Nox session validates the full lifecycle in the pinned CUDA 12.9 environment, including real AIPerf measurements, distillation optimizer steps, final-checkpoint reload and CUDA forward, report generation, and resume. This Nox session is a repository automation target, not a GitHub workflow. The stacked GPU CI workflow PR adds the repository-owned image and required-check wiring separately.

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  • New Features

    • Added non-interactive Puzzletron setup with campaign directory, profile, and defaults support.
    • Added stricter setup validation for required values, package versions, and source revisions.
    • Added configurable remote-code trust and online tokenizer resolution for AIPerf workflows.
    • Improved distributed execution across grouped and multi-node environments.
    • Added reliable execution identity tracking, resume behavior, and stale-result detection.
    • Manifests and reports now preserve authored and effective configuration details.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved finalization marker validation and recovery from failed aggregation.
    • Disabled embedding pruning for embedding scenario workers.
    • Corrected rendered sequence-length consistency.

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  • examples/puzzletron/finalize_replacement_scoring.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/distillation/global_kd_recipe.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/sharded.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/stage_compat.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/config.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/controller.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/identity.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/runner.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/security_policy.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/stages/future.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/stages/graph.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_future_stages.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_global_kd_canonical.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_executors.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_lightweight.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_shutdown_progress.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_post_mip_execution_identity.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_post_mip_runner.py
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  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/stages/graph.py
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  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_stage_graph.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/runner.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/sharded.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_future_stages.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_post_mip_runner.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/config.py
  • examples/puzzletron/finalize_replacement_scoring.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_executors.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/stages/future.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_shutdown_progress.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/identity.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/stage_compat.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/controller.py
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/distillation/global_kd_recipe.py

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The PR adds Puzzletron v2 configuration provenance, deterministic execution identities, distributed launch controls, replacement-scoring finalization, AIPerf policy controls, non-interactive setup, pinned-environment checks, and unit and GPU lifecycle tests.

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Puzzletron v2 workflow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration provenance and manifests
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/manifest.py, modelopt/torch/puzzletron/pipeline_config.py, modelopt/torch/puzzletron/stages/*, examples/puzzletron/*
Authored and effective configurations are stored separately. Shared manifest factories and semantic projections use the selected configuration.
Execution identities and orchestration
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/*, modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/*
Campaign overrides are serialized and enforced. Completion, resubmission, recovery, and finalization use contract and stage-execution identities.
Distributed execution and finalization
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/*, examples/puzzletron/distributed_eval/*, examples/puzzletron/finalize_replacement_scoring.py
Group rank and rendezvous data control worker launches. Replacement scoring writes canonical manifests and validates marker freshness.
Policies, setup, and environment checks
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/benchmarks/aiperf.py, modelopt/torch/puzzletron/utils/vllm_adapter.py, puzzletron_setup/v2/*, noxfile.py, examples/puzzletron/ci_environment.*
Remote-code and tokenizer-resolution policies default to disabled and require boolean values. Setup supports non-interactive defaults. CI validates package versions and pinned VCS sources.
Validation coverage
tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/*, tests/_test_utils/torch/puzzletron/*, tests/gpu/torch/puzzletron/test_puzzletron.py
Tests cover configuration semantics, identity invalidation, finalization, topology, policy propagation, environment provenance, setup, and a hermetic CUDA campaign with idempotent resume.

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  participant Controller
  participant Worker
  participant ArtifactStore
  CampaignPlan->>Controller: compiled overrides and execution identity
  Controller->>Worker: submit identity-bound attempt
  Worker->>ArtifactStore: publish completion artifacts
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🧹 Nitpick comments (7)
tests/_test_utils/torch/puzzletron/tiny_qwen_campaign.py (1)

49-81: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Fail loudly if the wizard prompt text drifts.

_DefaultsBackend.select and _DefaultsBackend.text match exact prompt strings such as "Model:", "Dataset:", and "Campaign directory:". If run_wizard_v2 renames a prompt, the methods fall through to default. The fixture then builds a campaign against a different model or data source, or against the wrong campaign directory, and the failure appears later as an unrelated stage error.

Record which expected prompts were answered, then assert the set in build_tiny_qwen_campaign after run_wizard_v2 returns.

♻️ Proposed change
 class _DefaultsBackend:
     """Select resolved guided defaults while supplying the campaign directory."""
 
     def __init__(self, campaign_dir: Path) -> None:
         self.campaign_dir = campaign_dir
+        self.answered: set[str] = set()
 
     def text(self, message: str, default: str) -> Any:
         if message == "Campaign directory:":
+            self.answered.add(message)
             return str(self.campaign_dir)
         return default
 
     def select(
         self,
         message: str,
         choices: Sequence[PromptChoice],
         default: Any,
     ) -> Any:
         if message == "Model:":
+            self.answered.add(message)
             return _DEFAULT_MODEL_SOURCE
         if message == "Dataset:":
+            self.answered.add(message)
             return _DEFAULT_DATA_SOURCE
         if default is not None:
             return default
         return next(choice.value for choice in choices if choice.disabled is None)

Then verify the contract after the wizard runs:

    backend = _DefaultsBackend(campaign_dir)
    generated = run_wizard_v2(
        resume=None,
        defaults_path=defaults_path,
        backend=backend,
    )
    expected_prompts = {"Campaign directory:", "Model:", "Dataset:"}
    if backend.answered != expected_prompts:
        raise AssertionError(
            f"wizard prompt contract changed; answered {sorted(backend.answered)}"
        )
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/_test_utils/torch/puzzletron/tiny_qwen_campaign.py` around lines 49 -
81, Track every recognized prompt answered by _DefaultsBackend.text and
_DefaultsBackend.select, exposing the collected names through an answered set.
In build_tiny_qwen_campaign, immediately after run_wizard_v2 returns, compare
that set with {"Campaign directory:", "Model:", "Dataset:"} and raise an
AssertionError including the sorted answered prompts when they differ.
tests/gpu/torch/puzzletron/test_puzzletron.py (1)

269-287: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Avoid depending on a tie-break order that production may not share.

Lines 276-282 rebuild the expected best_lm order by sorting (loss, revision_id) pairs. Lines 342-347 do the same for fastest with throughput. If two revisions produce an equal loss or an equal throughput, the assertion requires the production node to break the tie by revision id in the same direction. This tiny two-layer model can produce equal metrics across candidate configurations, which would make an expensive GPU test flaky.

Assert the selected metric values instead of the exact identifier order. For example, check that the selected losses equal the three smallest losses, and that the selected throughputs equal the two largest throughputs.

Also applies to: 340-347

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/gpu/torch/puzzletron/test_puzzletron.py` around lines 269 - 287, Update
the best_lm and fastest assertions to compare selected metric values rather than
exact revision-id ordering. For best_lm, assert its selected losses equal the
three smallest values in online_losses; for fastest, assert its selected
throughputs equal the two largest values. Retain the candidate counts and
selected-observation membership checks, but remove revision-id-based sorting
from both assertions.
tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_width_scenarios.py (1)

111-151: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Split the marker-currency phases into separate tests.

Lines 111-151 assert five independent invalidation rules against one shared mutable state: missing summary, changed summary, missing manifest, changed semantic_identity, and marker-to-manifest binding. A failure in an early phase hides every later phase.

Consider extracting the marker rules into a parametrized test that builds its own manifest and summary fixtures. The manifest-publication assertions at Lines 88-109 can then stay in this test.

Line 123 also writes summary_payload and Line 124 overwrites it immediately, so Line 123 has no effect.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_width_scenarios.py` around lines 111 - 151,
Split the independent marker-currency invalidation checks from the existing test
into separate parametrized cases, with each case creating its own manifest,
summary, and marker fixtures; keep the manifest-publication assertions in the
current test. Cover missing summary, changed summary, missing manifest, changed
semantic_identity, and marker-to-manifest binding independently, and remove the
redundant summary.write_text call that is immediately overwritten.
tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_executors.py (1)

912-939: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a width-variation case for the completion directory.

This case changes replacement_scoring.default_metric, which is a replacement_scoring semantic section, so the completion identity changes as expected. It does not cover a change to embedding_pruning.widths, which changes FINALIZE_EXPECTED_COMPLETIONS and the set of width-*.done marker names.

Add a case that changes only the width list and asserts the completion directory changes. That case pins the marker-isolation contract described in the modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/pool.py Lines 147-161 comment.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_executors.py` around lines 912
- 939, Extend the orchestration executor test around changed_plan and
changed_attempt with a case that modifies only embedding_pruning.widths, then
assert the resulting FINALIZE_COMPLETION_DIR differs from the original attempt.
Keep replacement_scoring unchanged and preserve the existing marker-isolation
behavior, including the width-specific FINALIZE_EXPECTED_COMPLETIONS and
width-*.done markers.
tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_task_topology.py (1)

246-252: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a timeout to this subprocess call.

test_nonzero_group_rank_does_not_own_pool_control_path passes timeout=10, and this call has no timeout. If run_worker.sh blocks, the unit test hangs instead of failing. Unit tests target a few-seconds budget.

💚 Proposed fix
     result = subprocess.run(
         ["bash", str(script)],
         env=env,
         check=True,
         capture_output=True,
         text=True,
+        timeout=10,
     )

As per path instructions: "Tests placed in the wrong directory for their cost profile (e.g., multi-minute tests under tests/unit, which targets a few-seconds budget)".

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_task_topology.py` around lines
246 - 252, Update the subprocess.run call in test_orchestration_task_topology.py
to include a short timeout consistent with
test_nonzero_group_rank_does_not_own_pool_control_path, ensuring a blocked
run_worker.sh fails promptly while preserving the existing subprocess options.

Source: Path instructions

noxfile.py (1)

240-248: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider pinning GPU visibility instead of failing on multi-GPU hosts.

The session fails when torch.cuda.device_count() != 1. A runner with more than one GPU cannot run the session, even though the test needs only one GPU. Set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 for the session and keep the assertion as a post-condition. The CUDA 12.9 check stays unchanged.

♻️ Proposed change
 def gpu_puzzletron(session):
     """Run the focused Puzzletron suite in its pinned one-GPU image."""
+    session.env["CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES"] = os.environ.get("CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES", "0")
     _verify_puzzletron_v2_environment(session)
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@noxfile.py` around lines 240 - 248, Update the GPU CI session configuration
around the torch validation command to set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0, restricting
the session to the first GPU before execution. Keep the
torch.cuda.device_count() == 1 assertion as a post-condition and leave the CUDA
12.9 version check unchanged.
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/controller.py (1)

367-399: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider caching the stage execution identity.

_stage_execution_identity calls plan_to_dict(self.plan), which serializes every stage in the campaign, and it calls adapter_for_stage(node).plan(...) when no work plan is passed. The run loop calls it for each stage on every poll iteration through _required_work_is_completed, and again in _persisted_stage_attempts, _recover_failed_stages, and _fail_stage_if_artifacts_did_not_settle.

CampaignPlan is frozen, so the compiled-node projection is stable for the controller's lifetime. Some adapter plan() implementations also read artifacts from disk, for example the post-MIP evaluation candidate count. Memoize the serialized stage nodes, and memoize the identity per stage_id when the work plan is supplied by the caller.

♻️ Proposed memoization of the compiled stage nodes
+    def _compiled_stage_nodes(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        if self._compiled_stage_nodes_cache is None:
+            self._compiled_stage_nodes_cache = {
+                stage["stage_id"]: stage for stage in plan_to_dict(self.plan)["stages"]
+            }
+        return self._compiled_stage_nodes_cache
+
     def _stage_execution_identity(
         self,
         node: StagePlanNode,
         work_plan: WorkPlan | None = None,
     ) -> str:
         work_plan = work_plan or adapter_for_stage(node).plan(self.plan, node)
-        compiled_node = next(
-            stage
-            for stage in plan_to_dict(self.plan)["stages"]
-            if stage["stage_id"] == node.stage_id
-        )
+        compiled_node = self._compiled_stage_nodes()[node.stage_id]

Initialize self._compiled_stage_nodes_cache: dict[str, Any] | None = None in __init__.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/controller.py` around lines 367 -
399, Optimize _stage_execution_identity by memoizing the serialized stage-node
projection: add the proposed _compiled_stage_nodes_cache field in __init__,
populate it once from plan_to_dict(self.plan)["stages"], and reuse the matching
stage_id entry on subsequent calls. Also cache the computed identity by stage_id
only when work_plan is supplied by the caller; continue invoking
adapter_for_stage(node).plan(...) and recomputing the identity when it is
omitted so artifact-dependent planning remains current.
🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@examples/puzzletron/finalize_replacement_scoring.py`:
- Around line 36-44: Update _successful_manifest_identity to validate that the
parsed manifest is a mapping immediately after json.loads; return None for valid
JSON lists, scalars, or other non-object values before calling get, while
preserving the existing stage, status, and semantic_identity checks for mapping
manifests.
- Around line 31-33: Define the module public API in
finalize_replacement_scoring.py by adding an __all__ declaration listing its
reusable helper symbols, using the module’s existing helper functions and
classes rather than imported dependencies.

In `@examples/puzzletron/README.md`:
- Line 245: Update the documented Python invocation around
verify_installed_vcs_source so it runs with ${MODEL_OPT_ROOT} on PYTHONPATH or
changes into ${MODEL_OPT_ROOT} first, ensuring the
examples.puzzletron.ci_environment import works from the container’s default
/workspace directory.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/distillation/global_kd_recipe.py`:
- Around line 639-645: Update refresh_realized_checkpoint_config to accept a
caller-configurable trust_remote_code parameter defaulting to False, and pass it
through to AutoConfig.from_pretrained instead of hardcoding True. In the
checkpoint refresh call near the block_configs check, preserve the safe default
and only enable True through a documented, explicitly validated exception path.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/distributed_eval/automodel_executor.py`:
- Around line 272-273: Update the local torch import in _score: move it to
module scope to match the module’s import convention, unless deferred loading is
required; if it is required, retain the local import and add a brief comment
explaining that requirement.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/pool.py`:
- Around line 147-161: Update _replacement_completion_identity in
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/pool.py (lines 147-161) to
include the resolved widths from _replacement_widths(plan), ensuring width-list
changes produce a distinct completion directory. Add a test in
tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_executors.py (lines 912-939) that
changes only embedding_pruning.widths and asserts FINALIZE_COMPLETION_DIR
changes.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/controller.py`:
- Around line 726-737: Update the nested aggregate handling around
adapter.aggregate and _record_stage_aggregation_failure so ManualInputRequired
is not converted into an aggregation failure on the second call. Re-raise
ManualInputRequired to the caller or preserve the existing manual-waiting
behavior by setting self._manual_waiting and returning False, while retaining
failure recording for other OSError, ValueError, and RuntimeError exceptions.

In `@tests/_test_utils/torch/puzzletron/tiny_qwen_campaign.py`:
- Around line 97-127: Align TinyQwenCampaign.run’s default subprocess timeout
with the 2400-second caller test budget so two run() calls and their assertions
can complete before pytest times out. Lower the default timeout or provide
explicit smaller timeouts at both call sites, while preserving diagnostic output
from require_success.

In `@tests/gpu/torch/puzzletron/test_puzzletron.py`:
- Around line 135-141: Update the torch.load call in the score_tensors
comprehension to use weights_only=True, since _tensor_values handles only
supported tensor/container payloads. Preserve the existing CPU mapping and
tensor validation behavior; only retain weights_only=False if the payload
requires it, with an inline comment documenting that the checkpoint is generated
inside tmp_path and is not user-supplied.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_global_kd_canonical.py`:
- Line 744: Move the _WeightedObjectiveMixin import out of the test-local scope
and place it at module scope in test_global_kd_canonical.py; only retain the
lazy import if you document a concrete optional, circular, or heavy-import
requirement.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_lightweight.py`:
- Line 373: Add a concise comment immediately above the in-function import of
stage_is_complete explaining why it remains local, such as avoiding an optional
or heavy puzzletron_orchestrator dependency during test collection. Apply the
same justification to the matching pre-existing local import if needed, or move
both imports to module scope if no such constraint exists.

---

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In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/controller.py`:
- Around line 367-399: Optimize _stage_execution_identity by memoizing the
serialized stage-node projection: add the proposed _compiled_stage_nodes_cache
field in __init__, populate it once from plan_to_dict(self.plan)["stages"], and
reuse the matching stage_id entry on subsequent calls. Also cache the computed
identity by stage_id only when work_plan is supplied by the caller; continue
invoking adapter_for_stage(node).plan(...) and recomputing the identity when it
is omitted so artifact-dependent planning remains current.

In `@noxfile.py`:
- Around line 240-248: Update the GPU CI session configuration around the torch
validation command to set CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0, restricting the session to the
first GPU before execution. Keep the torch.cuda.device_count() == 1 assertion as
a post-condition and leave the CUDA 12.9 version check unchanged.

In `@tests/_test_utils/torch/puzzletron/tiny_qwen_campaign.py`:
- Around line 49-81: Track every recognized prompt answered by
_DefaultsBackend.text and _DefaultsBackend.select, exposing the collected names
through an answered set. In build_tiny_qwen_campaign, immediately after
run_wizard_v2 returns, compare that set with {"Campaign directory:", "Model:",
"Dataset:"} and raise an AssertionError including the sorted answered prompts
when they differ.

In `@tests/gpu/torch/puzzletron/test_puzzletron.py`:
- Around line 269-287: Update the best_lm and fastest assertions to compare
selected metric values rather than exact revision-id ordering. For best_lm,
assert its selected losses equal the three smallest values in online_losses; for
fastest, assert its selected throughputs equal the two largest values. Retain
the candidate counts and selected-observation membership checks, but remove
revision-id-based sorting from both assertions.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_executors.py`:
- Around line 912-939: Extend the orchestration executor test around
changed_plan and changed_attempt with a case that modifies only
embedding_pruning.widths, then assert the resulting FINALIZE_COMPLETION_DIR
differs from the original attempt. Keep replacement_scoring unchanged and
preserve the existing marker-isolation behavior, including the width-specific
FINALIZE_EXPECTED_COMPLETIONS and width-*.done markers.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_task_topology.py`:
- Around line 246-252: Update the subprocess.run call in
test_orchestration_task_topology.py to include a short timeout consistent with
test_nonzero_group_rank_does_not_own_pool_control_path, ensuring a blocked
run_worker.sh fails promptly while preserving the existing subprocess options.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_width_scenarios.py`:
- Around line 111-151: Split the independent marker-currency invalidation checks
from the existing test into separate parametrized cases, with each case creating
its own manifest, summary, and marker fixtures; keep the manifest-publication
assertions in the current test. Cover missing summary, changed summary, missing
manifest, changed semantic_identity, and marker-to-manifest binding
independently, and remove the redundant summary.write_text call that is
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tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_executors.py (1)

642-666: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a negative case for the default-off policy.

The test proves both flags appear when the configuration enables them. No test proves they are absent when the configuration omits them. False is the secure default for both policies, so a regression that always appends the flags would still pass. Add a second assertion path with an empty experiment_config.

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     assert "--trust-remote-code" in attempt.command.argv
     assert "--allow-aiperf-v011-online-tokenizer-resolution" in attempt.command.argv
+
+    default_plan = replace(plan, experiment_config={})
+    default_adapter = adapter_for_stage(node)
+    default_attempt = default_adapter.command(
+        plan=default_plan,
+        node=node,
+        item=default_adapter.plan(default_plan, node).items[0],
+        attempt_id="a2",
+        runner=runner,
+    )
+
+    assert "--trust-remote-code" not in default_attempt.command.argv
+    assert "--allow-aiperf-v011-online-tokenizer-resolution" not in default_attempt.command.argv

replace comes from dataclasses. If it is not already imported in this module, add from dataclasses import replace at the top, or construct a second CampaignPlan explicitly.

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- 666, Add a default-off test path alongside the existing positive assertions in
the campaign plan orchestration test, using dataclasses.replace or an equivalent
plan reconstruction to set experiment_config to an empty mapping. Re-plan and
build the command through adapter.plan and adapter.command, then assert both
--trust-remote-code and --allow-aiperf-v011-online-tokenizer-resolution are
absent from the resulting argv.
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py (1)

44-51: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Duplicated dual-path import of the post-MIP identity module. Both files select the identity module with the same __package__.startswith("puzzletron_orchestrator.") branch, so both depend on the identity-API surface existing on both import paths. Confirm every consumed symbol resolves on the puzzletron_orchestrator path, then consider centralizing the resolver so only one file owns the branch.

  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py#L44-L51: confirm prepare_post_mip_candidate_ledger, expected_post_mip_execution_contract, expected_post_mip_candidate_count, and PostMIPExecutionContractUnavailable resolve on both paths, and export _post_mip_identity_api as the single resolver.
  • modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/stage_compat.py#L466-L478: confirm expected_post_mip_execution_identity resolves on both paths, and reuse the shared resolver instead of repeating the __package__ branch.
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In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py` around lines 44
- 51, The post-MIP identity resolver is duplicated and must be centralized. In
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py:44-51, verify that
prepare_post_mip_candidate_ledger, expected_post_mip_execution_contract,
expected_post_mip_candidate_count, and PostMIPExecutionContractUnavailable
resolve through both import paths, then expose _post_mip_identity_api as the
single resolver. In
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In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_width_scenarios.py`:
- Around line 153-170: Update finalization_marker_is_current to validate that
the decoded manifest is an object before any manifest.get(...) calls. Return
False immediately for arrays, strings, integers, null, or other non-object
values, while preserving the existing identity and report checks for valid
object manifests.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py`:
- Around line 44-51: The post-MIP identity resolver is duplicated and must be
centralized. In
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py:44-51, verify that
prepare_post_mip_candidate_ledger, expected_post_mip_execution_contract,
expected_post_mip_candidate_count, and PostMIPExecutionContractUnavailable
resolve through both import paths, then expose _post_mip_identity_api as the
single resolver. In
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/stage_compat.py:466-478, verify
expected_post_mip_execution_identity resolves through both paths and replace the
repeated __package__ branch with reuse of _post_mip_identity_api.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_executors.py`:
- Around line 642-666: Add a default-off test path alongside the existing
positive assertions in the campaign plan orchestration test, using
dataclasses.replace or an equivalent plan reconstruction to set
experiment_config to an empty mapping. Re-plan and build the command through
adapter.plan and adapter.command, then assert both --trust-remote-code and
--allow-aiperf-v011-online-tokenizer-resolution are absent from the resulting
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tests/gpu/torch/puzzletron/test_puzzletron.py (1)

135-141: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

Replace weights_only=False on line 138.

The coding guidelines prohibit torch.load(..., weights_only=False) without a documented exception. Static analysis flags the same line. _tensor_values only traverses tensors, dicts, lists, and tuples, which weights_only=True supports. If pickle is genuinely required, keep weights_only=False and add an inline comment that states the file is produced by this test inside tmp_path.

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     score_tensors = [
         tensor
         for score_file in score_files
-        for tensor in _tensor_values(torch.load(score_file, map_location="cpu", weights_only=False))
+        for tensor in _tensor_values(torch.load(score_file, map_location="cpu", weights_only=True))
     ]

As per coding guidelines: "Do not use torch.load(..., weights_only=False) unless a documented exception is provided."

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In `@tests/gpu/torch/puzzletron/test_puzzletron.py` around lines 135 - 141,
Replace weights_only=False with weights_only=True in the score-loading
comprehension around _tensor_values and preserve the existing tensor validation.
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388-394: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject non-boolean policy values before bool() coercion.

aiperf_stage() receives a plain dictionary without schema validation. A string such as "false" therefore becomes True, which can enable trust_remote_code or online tokenizer resolution. Reject non-boolean values at the configuration boundary.

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In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/stages/future.py` around lines 388 - 394, Update
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allow_aiperf_v011_online_tokenizer_resolution before coercion: accept only
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examples/puzzletron/main.py (1)

418-426: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document why these imports remain local.

The helper uses local imports to support both package and standalone entry points. Add a brief comment that explains why the imports cannot move to module scope. Match the explanation used by _run_embedding_stage.

As per coding guidelines, keep Python imports at the top unless a local import is justified and documented.

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In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py`:
- Around line 266-267: Remove the # nosec B603 suppression from subprocess.run
in modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py (lines 266-267)
and the # nosec B404 suppression from its subprocess import (line 23). Also
remove the corresponding B603 suppression from subprocess.Popen in
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/runner.py (lines 997-998) and B404
suppression from its subprocess import (lines 30-31); leave the subprocess
behavior unchanged.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/stages/future.py`:
- Around line 470-484: Validate the configured checkpoint value before the
comprehension in the checkpoint-selection flow, ensuring it is a list or tuple
and rejecting scalar strings (including truthy strings) with the existing
configuration error behavior. Keep the configured-entry conversion unchanged for
valid collections, and preserve the fallback branches in the surrounding
checkpoint resolution logic.

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In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/stages/future.py`:
- Around line 388-394: Update aiperf_stage() configuration handling to validate
trust_remote_code and allow_aiperf_v011_online_tokenizer_resolution before
coercion: accept only boolean values, reject non-boolean inputs such as strings,
and preserve the existing default and precedence behavior for omitted settings.

---

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In `@examples/puzzletron/main.py`:
- Around line 418-426: Add a brief comment in _run_tokenize_data_stage before
the conditional imports, matching the rationale used by _run_embedding_stage:
the imports must remain local to support both package and standalone entry
points. Keep the existing import behavior unchanged.
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import at modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/runner.py lines 29-31. At lines
1004-1005, remove # nosec B603 from the subprocess.Popen call and update that
implementation so Bandit passes without suppression, preserving the existing
subprocess behavior; document any necessary security exception and obtain the
required approval if no compliant implementation exists.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_future_stages.py`:
- Around line 55-60: Move the future import to module scope in
tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_future_stages.py, alongside the existing
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tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_task_topology.py (1)

261-285: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Capture script output so a failure is diagnosable.

subprocess.run(..., check=True) without capture sends the script output to the test runner's streams and raises CalledProcessError without the script message attached. Capture the output and assert that no pool-control command ran. The current test proves only a zero exit code.

♻️ Proposed change
-    subprocess.run(["bash", str(script)], env=env, check=True, timeout=10)
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        ["bash", str(script)],
+        env=env,
+        check=True,
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        timeout=10,
+    )
+
+    assert "drain" not in result.stdout

Adjust the assertion to the marker that group rank 0 prints when it owns the control path.

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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_task_topology.py` around lines
261 - 285, Update test_nonzero_group_rank_does_not_own_pool_control_path to
capture the subprocess output while retaining check=True, then assert that the
output does not contain the group-rank-0 pool-control marker. Preserve the
existing environment and zero-exit validation, but make the test verify that no
pool-control command ran.
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/controller.py (1)

371-407: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cache the stage execution identity per stage.

_stage_execution_identity calls adapter.plan(...), plan_to_dict(self.plan), semantic_stage_config(...), and adapter.execution_identity_projection(...) on every invocation. The run loop reaches it through _required_completed_attempts, _persisted_stage_attempts, _fail_stage_if_artifacts_did_not_settle, and _bind_attempt_to_stage_execution, so one poll iteration recomputes it several times for every stage. PostMIPAdapter.plan and execution_identity_projection read campaign artifacts from disk, so the cost is filesystem I/O on the controller thread.

The inputs are the immutable plan plus adapter projections, so memoize per stage_id for the duration of one loop iteration, or cache plan_to_dict(self.plan) once in __init__.

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In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/controller.py` around lines 371 -
407, Cache the immutable plan-derived data and memoize the stage execution
identity per stage within each controller loop iteration. Update
_stage_execution_identity and its callers (_required_completed_attempts,
_persisted_stage_attempts, _fail_stage_if_artifacts_did_not_settle, and
_bind_attempt_to_stage_execution) to reuse the cached value, while preserving
recalculation across loop iterations so filesystem-backed adapter projections
remain current.
examples/puzzletron/ci_environment.py (1)

33-55: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Translate git and metadata failures into a clear verification error.

Users run this helper as the documented environment check. Three failure paths currently surface as raw tracebacks:

  • metadata.distribution(package) raises PackageNotFoundError when the package is not installed.
  • read_text("direct_url.json") returns None for a plain index install; the function then reports a (None, None) mismatch instead of stating that the package was not installed from a repository.
  • subprocess.check_output raises CalledProcessError when root is not a git checkout.

Add a timeout to the git calls and wrap these cases in RuntimeError with the package name.

♻️ Proposed error translation
 def _installed_vcs_source(package: str) -> tuple[str | None, str | None]:
-    payload = json.loads(metadata.distribution(package).read_text("direct_url.json") or "{}")
+    try:
+        distribution = metadata.distribution(package)
+    except metadata.PackageNotFoundError as error:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Pinned Puzzletron dependency {package!r} is not installed") from error
+    payload = json.loads(distribution.read_text("direct_url.json") or "{}")
     vcs_info = payload.get("vcs_info") or {}
     if vcs_info.get("commit_id"):
         return payload.get("url"), vcs_info["commit_id"]
     if (payload.get("dir_info") or {}).get("editable") and str(payload.get("url", "")).startswith(
         "file:"
     ):
         root = unquote(urlparse(payload["url"]).path)
-        repository = subprocess.check_output(
-            ["git", "-C", root, "remote", "get-url", "origin"], text=True
-        ).strip()
-        commit = subprocess.check_output(
-            ["git", "-C", root, "rev-parse", "HEAD"], text=True
-        ).strip()
-        dirty = subprocess.check_output(
-            ["git", "-C", root, "status", "--porcelain", "--untracked-files=all"],
-            text=True,
-        ).strip()
+        def _git(*args: str) -> str:
+            try:
+                # Fixed git argv; no shell is used.
+                return subprocess.check_output(  # nosec B603
+                    ["git", "-C", root, *args], text=True, timeout=60
+                ).strip()
+            except (subprocess.SubprocessError, OSError) as error:
+                raise RuntimeError(
+                    f"Pinned Puzzletron dependency {package!r} git query failed in {root!r}"
+                ) from error
+
+        repository = _git("remote", "get-url", "origin")
+        commit = _git("rev-parse", "HEAD")
+        dirty = _git("status", "--porcelain", "--untracked-files=all")
         if dirty:
             raise RuntimeError(f"Pinned Puzzletron dependency {package!r} is dirty: {dirty}")
         return repository, commit

The # nosec marker is unrelated to the security-guideline restriction only if the repository already accepts inline markers for fixed argv lists. Confirm the project Bandit policy before adding it; the coding guidelines forbid # nosec as a bypass.

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In `@examples/puzzletron/ci_environment.py` around lines 33 - 55, Update
_installed_vcs_source to translate missing distributions, absent direct_url.json
metadata, and CalledProcessError failures from git commands into RuntimeError
messages that include the package name and clearly describe the verification
failure. Add a timeout to each subprocess.check_output call, preserving the
existing dirty-check behavior and repository/commit return values; do not add a
# nosec marker unless it is already permitted by the project’s Bandit policy.

Source: Coding guidelines

modelopt/torch/puzzletron/distillation/global_kd_recipe.py (1)

666-667: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move Path to the module imports.

Line 666 adds a local standard-library import without a circular, optional, or heavy-import justification. Import Path at module scope.

As per coding guidelines: “Keep imports at the top of Python source and test files; use local imports only for justified circular dependencies, optional dependencies, or unusually heavy imports, with a brief explanatory comment.”

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In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/distillation/global_kd_recipe.py` around lines 666
- 667, Move the pathlib Path import from the local scope to the module-level
imports in global_kd_recipe.py, alongside the other standard-library imports,
and remove the local import while preserving all existing Path usage.

Source: Coding guidelines

modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py (1)

46-55: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Guard the package check against a None __package__.

Line 49 calls __package__.startswith(...). __package__ is None when a module is executed in some non-package contexts, which raises AttributeError instead of falling back to the relative import. Use a defensive default so the loader always resolves one of the two import paths.

♻️ Proposed change
-    if __package__.startswith("puzzletron_orchestrator."):
+    if (__package__ or "").startswith("puzzletron_orchestrator."):
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py` around lines 46
- 55, Update _post_mip_identity_api to handle a None __package__ before calling
startswith, using a defensive default that selects the relative import path when
no package is defined while preserving the existing orchestrator-package branch.
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Inline comments:
In `@examples/puzzletron/run_profile_aiperf_worker.py`:
- Around line 344-348: Update the argparse definitions near trust-remote-code
and allow-aiperf-v011-online-tokenizer-resolution with explicit help text
describing the security opt-ins: trust remote code only for trusted model
sources, and the tokenizer option enabling online resolution. Add matching
documentation to run_worker and the required SECURITY.md guidance for these
security-sensitive exceptions.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/distillation/global_kd_recipe.py`:
- Around line 674-678: Update the trust_remote_code argument in the global KD
checkpoint refresh flow to default missing values to False while rejecting any
configured value that is not a Boolean. Remove the bool() coercion around
_config_value(model_config, "trust_remote_code"), preserve explicit Boolean
opt-in, and pass the validated value to refresh_realized_checkpoint_config.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/sharded.py`:
- Around line 260-263: Update the trust_remote_code validation around
require_boolean_policy to pass the configuration path corresponding to the
value’s source: use aiperf.trust_remote_code when that key is present, otherwise
model.trust_remote_code. Update the parametrized expectation in
test_orchestration_executors.py to assert the model key is reported for invalid
model-sourced values.
- Around line 20-21: Address the inline Bandit suppression approvals for the
subprocess import in sharded.py (lines 20-21), the aggregation subprocess.run
call in sharded.py (line 389), and the os.execvpe call in task_launcher.py
(lines 275-276): either document an explicit security justification for each #
nosec marker in the PR description with required codeowner approval, or remove
the inline markers and configure the approved skips centrally in Bandit
configuration.

Apply the same fix in `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/runner.py` around lines
29 - 31: Same prohibited subprocess suppression.

Apply the same fix in
`@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py` around lines 22 -
25: Same prohibited subprocess-call suppression.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/controller.py`:
- Around line 448-462: Update _completed_work_artifact_settling_elapsed and
controller initialization to track the first time each completed work item is
observed, using self._first_completion_observed keyed by the node/work
identifier. Record the current time on first observation, then compute settling
elapsed from max(completion_time, first_observed_time) so resumed work retains a
full settling window while normal completion timing remains unchanged.

In `@puzzletron_setup/bundle.py`:
- Line 470: Remove the "sequence_length" entry from the rendered data mapping
used to construct PuzzletronDataSpec, leaving sequence_length available only
through its derived property and preserving the remaining constructor inputs.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@examples/puzzletron/ci_environment.py`:
- Around line 33-55: Update _installed_vcs_source to translate missing
distributions, absent direct_url.json metadata, and CalledProcessError failures
from git commands into RuntimeError messages that include the package name and
clearly describe the verification failure. Add a timeout to each
subprocess.check_output call, preserving the existing dirty-check behavior and
repository/commit return values; do not add a # nosec marker unless it is
already permitted by the project’s Bandit policy.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/distillation/global_kd_recipe.py`:
- Around line 666-667: Move the pathlib Path import from the local scope to the
module-level imports in global_kd_recipe.py, alongside the other
standard-library imports, and remove the local import while preserving all
existing Path usage.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py`:
- Around line 46-55: Update _post_mip_identity_api to handle a None __package__
before calling startswith, using a defensive default that selects the relative
import path when no package is defined while preserving the existing
orchestrator-package branch.

In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/controller.py`:
- Around line 371-407: Cache the immutable plan-derived data and memoize the
stage execution identity per stage within each controller loop iteration. Update
_stage_execution_identity and its callers (_required_completed_attempts,
_persisted_stage_attempts, _fail_stage_if_artifacts_did_not_settle, and
_bind_attempt_to_stage_execution) to reuse the cached value, while preserving
recalculation across loop iterations so filesystem-backed adapter projections
remain current.

In `@tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_task_topology.py`:
- Around line 261-285: Update
test_nonzero_group_rank_does_not_own_pool_control_path to capture the subprocess
output while retaining check=True, then assert that the output does not contain
the group-rank-0 pool-control marker. Preserve the existing environment and
zero-exit validation, but make the test verify that no pool-control command ran.
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  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_automodel_solution_scoring.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_ci_environment.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_diagnostic_scoring_config.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_example_runner.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_future_stages.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_global_kd_canonical.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_executors.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_lightweight.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_shutdown_progress.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_task_topology.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_post_mip_adapter.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_post_mip_execution_identity.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_post_mip_runner.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_setup_bundle.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_stage_graph.py
  • tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_tokenize_data.py
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parser.add_argument("--trust-remote-code", action="store_true")
parser.add_argument(
"--allow-aiperf-v011-online-tokenizer-resolution",
action="store_true",
)

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Document the security opt-ins.

Add explicit CLI help for both options. State that --trust-remote-code is only for trusted model sources. State that the tokenizer flag permits online resolution. Document the same behavior in run_worker.

As per coding guidelines, “Document public and higher-level APIs with docstrings.” As per path instructions, SECURITY.md requires documentation for security-sensitive exceptions.

Proposed CLI documentation
-    parser.add_argument("--trust-remote-code", action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--trust-remote-code",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Allow remote model code. Use only with trusted model sources.",
+    )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--allow-aiperf-v011-online-tokenizer-resolution",
         action="store_true",
+        help="Allow AIPerf v0.11 to resolve the tokenizer online.",
     )
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In `@examples/puzzletron/run_profile_aiperf_worker.py` around lines 344 - 348,
Update the argparse definitions near trust-remote-code and
allow-aiperf-v011-online-tokenizer-resolution with explicit help text describing
the security opt-ins: trust remote code only for trusted model sources, and the
tokenizer option enabling online resolution. Add matching documentation to
run_worker and the required SECURITY.md guidance for these security-sensitive
exceptions.

Sources: Coding guidelines, Path instructions

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# Commands are compiled argv lists and never use a shell.
import subprocess # nosec B404

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Remove the inline # nosec suppressions or obtain the required codeowner approval and justification. The changed subprocess and exec calls use fixed argument vectors, so the suppressions should not remain as unreviewed Bandit bypasses. This applies to the subprocess import and aggregation call in modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/sharded.py, the os.execvpe call in modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/task_launcher.py, and the corresponding subprocess suppressions in modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/runner.py and modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py.

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In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/sharded.py` around lines 20
- 21, Address the inline Bandit suppression approvals for the subprocess import
in sharded.py (lines 20-21), the aggregation subprocess.run call in sharded.py
(line 389), and the os.execvpe call in task_launcher.py (lines 275-276): either
document an explicit security justification for each # nosec marker in the PR
description with required codeowner approval, or remove the inline markers and
configure the approved skips centrally in Bandit configuration.

Apply the same fix in `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/runner.py` around lines
29 - 31: Same prohibited subprocess suppression.

Apply the same fix in
`@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/orchestration/adapters/post_mip.py` around lines 22 -
25: Same prohibited subprocess-call suppression.

Source: Coding guidelines

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"modality": data["modality"],
"layout": data["layout"],
"max_sample_length": sequence_length,
"sequence_length": sequence_length,

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site:github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer "class" "sequence_length" "puzzletron" dataset config.py

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In the context of the NVIDIA Model Optimizer Puzzletron framework, the sequence length is typically managed via a parameter named block_size when configuring dataset validation or preprocessing [1]. While Puzzletron configuration files (such as those for memory pruning, e.g., llama-3_1-8B_pruneffn_memory.yaml) primarily focus on parameters like puzzle_dir, input_hf_model_path, dataset_path, intermediate_size_list, and target_memory, the underlying validation tools define block_size as the maximum sequence length used for tokenization [1][2][3]. Additionally, when preparing datasets for Megatron-based workflows in the same repository, users specify the sequence length using the --max_sequence_length argument (commonly set to 256,000 for specific post-training datasets) [4]. To verify or adjust these settings, check: 1. The validation scripts (e.g., validate_puzzle_with_multi_replacements.py), where block_size is explicitly documented [1]. 2. Any relevant YAML configuration files within the examples/puzzletron/configs/ directory, which govern the specific pruning or memory optimization experiments [2][5][3].

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🌐 Web query:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py

💡 Result:

Puzzletron is an experimental model compression and Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithm integrated into the NVIDIA Model Optimizer framework [1][2]. It is based on the Puzzle research paper, which aims to produce smaller, more efficient, and often heterogeneous versions of large language models (LLMs) [3][2][4]. Key technical aspects of Puzzletron include: Functionality: It optimizes model architectures by searching for the most effective modifications to MLP (Multi-Layer Perceptron) and attention layers [4]. It uses Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) to identify combinations of layer modifications that satisfy specific constraints, such as target memory usage or parameter counts, while aiming to maximize model accuracy [3][4]. Workflow: The algorithm typically involves several stages, including scoring pruning activations, performing a MIP-based NAS search, and optionally conducting knowledge distillation [2][4][5]. It is designed to handle heterogeneous architectures, meaning it can prune different parts of the model to different extents to meet global constraints [6][4]. Integration: Puzzletron is accessible within the NVIDIA Model Optimizer repository under the modelopt.torch.puzzletron package [1]. Official documentation and tutorials are provided within the examples/puzzletron directory of the repository [3][4]. It is recommended to use the algorithm within an NVIDIA NeMo container environment, although users may need to perform an editable installation of the Model Optimizer from source because standard container versions may not include the necessary Puzzletron components [7][4]. The specific file you referenced, modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py, is part of the internal configuration logic for the Puzzletron NAS plugin, which facilitates the conversion of models from Hugging Face format to the heterogeneous formats used by the optimization process [2].

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🌐 Web query:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/puzzletron_setup/bundle.py

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The file path provided, https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/puzzletron_setup/bundle.py, does not appear to exist in the main branch of the NVIDIA Model Optimizer repository as of August 2026 [1][2]. Based on the official documentation for the Puzzletron project within the NVIDIA Model Optimizer repository, the relevant script for setting up and managing Puzzletron experiments is typically named puzzletron_setup.py, which is located in the examples/puzzletron directory [3][1]. Puzzletron is an experimental model compression algorithm in the Model Optimizer library based on Local Neural Architecture Search (NAS) and the Puzzle paper [2][4]. The setup wizard, executed via puzzletron_setup.py, is designed to inspect model configurations and generate self-contained smoke and production experiment, runner, and execution bundles [3]. These bundles encapsulate the necessary components for running the Puzzletron pipeline, which includes converting models from Hugging Face format to Puzzletron-compatible formats, performing NAS-based pruning, and validating checkpoints [1][4]. If you are encountering issues with Puzzletron setup, it is recommended to review the README.md in the examples/puzzletron directory for current usage instructions [1][5], or check the repository's issue tracker for known setup challenges [5].

Citations:


🌐 Web query:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/puzzletron_v2/modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py

💡 Result:

The file modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py in the puzzletron_v2 branch of the NVIDIA Model-Optimizer repository is part of Puzzletron, an experimental model compression framework [1][2]. Puzzletron is a tool designed to find smaller, faster variants of pre-trained large language models [2]. It utilizes a combination of techniques, including local neural architecture search, physical slicing, mixed-integer programming (MIP), and optional knowledge distillation [3][2]. The framework aims to optimize models to satisfy specific constraints, such as target parameter counts or memory usage requirements [3]. The dataset module within the puzzletron directory typically handles data configuration for these compression workflows [4]. In the context of the broader Puzzletron project, such configuration files define the parameters for preparing and processing datasets required during the model search and evaluation phases [2]. For the most accurate and up-to-date implementation details of config.py, it is recommended to review the file directly within the puzzletron_v2 branch or compare it against the main branch of the repository, as Puzzletron is under active development [1][2].

Citations:


🌐 Web query:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/puzzletron_v2/puzzletron_setup/bundle.py

💡 Result:

The file at https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/puzzletron_v2/puzzletron_setup/bundle.py is part of the Puzzletron experimental branch within the NVIDIA Model Optimizer repository [1][2]. Puzzletron is an advanced model compression algorithm designed for heterogeneous pruning and Neural Architecture Search (NAS) of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) [3][4][5]. It utilizes Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) to identify optimal model variants by searching across dimensions such as FFN (Feed-Forward Network) intermediate sizes per layer, attention layer removal, and GQA (Grouped Query Attention) head configurations, all to meet specific constraints like target memory, latency, or parameter counts [4][6]. The specific file path puzzletron_setup/bundle.py appears to be associated with the setup or bundling process for this experimental functionality [1]. In the context of the broader Model Optimizer toolkit, Puzzletron is intended to produce heterogeneous architectures that maintain accuracy while significantly reducing model size or serving costs [1][4][6]. Users are generally directed to documentation in examples/puzzletron/README.md for implementation details, including dataset preparation and configuration, though it has been noted in developer discussions that the experimental setup process can encounter dependency and configuration challenges [7][8][9].

Citations:


🌐 Web query:

"sequence_length" "pack_size" "max_sample_length" "modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py"

💡 Result:

In the context of the NVIDIA Model Optimizer library, specifically within the Puzzletron module (modelopt/torch/puzzletron), the parameters sequence_length, pack_size, and max_sample_length are commonly used to configure data handling for Large Language Model (LLM) training, pruning, and optimization tasks [1][2][3]. While these parameters are often used together in NVIDIA's broader ecosystem (such as in NeMo and Megatron-Bridge) to manage data efficiency [4][5][6], they serve distinct roles: 1. max_sample_length: Generally refers to the maximum length to which individual sequences are truncated before any packing occurs [7][5]. It defines the upper bound for the length of a single input sample [7]. 2. sequence_length: In many configurations, this refers to the target sequence length for the model input [5][6]. When sequence packing is used, the individual samples are truncated to a specific length, and then concatenated into a larger "packed" sequence [5]. 3. pack_size: Refers to the total length of the packed sequence [4][5]. By concatenating multiple shorter samples into a single sequence of pack_size, training efficiency can be improved by filling GPU memory more effectively without the wasted computation often associated with padding [5]. In the Model Optimizer (ModelOpt) framework, these configurations are typically managed within dataset preparation or NAS (Neural Architecture Search) plugins [8][9][10]. Users often specify these in YAML configuration files (e.g., for pruneffn tasks) to align data dimensions with model architecture requirements and available GPU memory [1][2]. For precise implementation details, refer to the following sources in the Model Optimizer repository: - Dataset preparation utilities: modelopt.torch.puzzletron.dataset [8] - Puzzletron NAS configuration: modelopt.torch.puzzletron.puzzletron_nas_plugin [9] - General dataset utilities: modelopt/torch/utils/dataset_utils.py [7]

Citations:


🌐 Web query:

"sequence_length" "packed_varlen" "pack_size" Puzzletron

💡 Result:

The terms mentioned refer to different concepts in high-performance machine learning workflows, specifically within the NVIDIA ecosystem (Megatron, NeMo, and Model Optimizer). There is no single "Puzzletron" object that combines sequence_length, packed_varlen, and pack_size; rather, these terms are associated with distinct, though sometimes overlapping, optimization techniques. 1. Sequence Packing (packed_varlen/pack_size): This technique is used to improve training efficiency by concatenating multiple variable-length sequences into a single "packed" sequence, significantly reducing padding waste [1][2][3]. - packed_sequence_size (or pack_size): This parameter defines the maximum size (length) of the packed sequences [4][1][5]. - packed_varlen (variable length packing): This refers to the underlying processing logic that handles sequences of differing lengths by passing cumulative sequence length metadata (often called cu_seqlens) to attention kernels (like FlashAttention) instead of relying on inefficient custom attention masks [2][5][3][6]. 2. Puzzletron: Puzzletron is a tool within the NVIDIA Model Optimizer suite used for compressing large language models [7][8]. It implements a Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) based Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithm to prune and modify model architectures (such as FFN intermediate sizes and attention layers) to meet specific memory and accuracy targets [7]. It is unrelated to the sequence packing parameters used in training data pipelines [9][7]. In summary, sequence_length, pack_size, and concepts related to packed_varlen belong to the data loading and training pipeline (e.g., Megatron Bridge, NeMo), while Puzzletron is a separate model compression/pruning framework [4][1][7][5].

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🌐 Web query:

site:github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/puzzletron_v2/modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py "def sequence_length"

💡 Result:

Found it in config.py at lines 520–524:

`@property`
def sequence_length(self) -> int:
    return self.packing.pack_size if self.packing is not None else self.max_sample_length

[1] (github.com)

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🌐 Web query:

site:github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer "max_sample_length" "packed_varlen"

💡 Result:

In the context of the NVIDIA Model Optimizer library, max_sample_length and packing (often referred to in the context of packed_varlen or pack=True) are parameters used to control how calibration data is prepared for model optimization, such as quantization or pruning [1][2]. max_sample_length This parameter defines the maximum number of tokens for a single sequence or sample during data preparation [3][4][5]. It ensures that calibration inputs adhere to specific length constraints, which helps maintain predictable calibration behavior, reduces peak memory usage, and ensures consistency during preprocessing [5]. Packed Variable Length Data (pack=True) The library supports a pack=True mode in its dataset utilities (e.g., get_dataset_dataloader), which implements Megatron-LM-style global-stream document packing [1][2]. - When enabled, raw samples are concatenated into a single continuous token stream, separated by end-of-sequence (EOS) tokens [1][2]. - This stream is then sliced into uniform sequences of length max_sample_length [1][2]. - This approach is designed to match the distribution seen by models during pretraining, which can lead to more representative activation behavior during the calibration phase [1]. These settings are typically configured within the dataloader setup scripts (e.g., hf_ptq.py) to control how data is ingested and processed before it is fed through the model for calibration [6].

Citations:


🌐 Web query:

site:github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/puzzletron_v2/modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py "class DatasetConfig"

💡 Result:

The file exists, but it does not contain class DatasetConfig. It defines:

  • PackingSpec
  • PuzzletronDataSpec

The relevant class is PuzzletronDataSpec at approximately line 422. [1]


🌐 Web query:

site:github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/puzzletron_v2/modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset "DatasetConfig(" "sequence_length"

💡 Result:

No matching DatasetConfig("sequence_length" occurrence was found in the specified GitHub search. The puzzletron_v2 dataset module instead exposes process_and_save_dataset(...) in prepare_dataset.py; it has no DatasetConfig or sequence_length field. [1] (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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site:github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/puzzletron_v2/modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py "class PuzzletronDataSpec" "model_config"

💡 Result:

The referenced PuzzletronDataSpec class does not contain a model_config field. Its fields are:

  • modality
  • layout
  • max_sample_length
  • packing

The class is defined at approximately lines 420–530 in the puzzletron_v2 branch. (github.com)

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🌐 Web query:

site:github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/puzzletron_v2/modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py "PuzzletronDataSpec(" "sequence_length"

💡 Result:

PuzzletronDataSpec does not define a sequence_length field. It exposes sequence_length as a property:

`@property`
def sequence_length(self) -> int:
    return self.packing.pack_size if self.packing is not None else self.max_sample_length

Thus, it returns packing.pack_size when packing is configured; otherwise, it returns max_sample_length. [1]


🌐 Web query:

site:github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/puzzletron_v2/modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py "PuzzletronDataSpec" "BaseModel"

💡 Result:

The file is available here:

modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py on the puzzletron_v2 branch. (github.com)

Key details:

  • PuzzletronDataSpec is a frozen dataclass.
  • It contains:
    • modality: Modality
    • layout: DataLayout
    • max_sample_length: int
    • packing: PackingSpec | None
  • It does not inherit from BaseModel; it uses Python’s dataclasses.dataclass. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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🌐 Web query:

site:github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/puzzletron_v2/modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/config.py "PuzzletronDataSpec" "dataclass"

💡 Result:

Found it: NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer config.py.

PuzzletronDataSpec is defined as a frozen dataclass with:

`@dataclass`(frozen=True)
class PuzzletronDataSpec:
    modality: Modality
    layout: DataLayout
    max_sample_length: int
    packing: PackingSpec | None = None

It appears at lines 420–430. (github.com)

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🌐 Web query:

site:github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/puzzletron_v2/modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/prepare_dataset.py "PuzzletronDataSpec"

💡 Result:

The file exists at:

modelopt/torch/puzzletron/dataset/prepare_dataset.py on the puzzletron_v2 branch. (github.com)

However, it does not contain PuzzletronDataSpec; GitHub reports no matching text. (github.com)

The file defines process_and_save_dataset() and PREBUILT_KD_DATASET.

Citations:


Remove sequence_length from the rendered data mapping.

PuzzletronDataSpec is a frozen dataclass with no sequence_length input field. It exposes sequence_length only as a derived property. Passing this key to its constructor raises an unexpected-keyword error.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@puzzletron_setup/bundle.py` at line 470, Remove the "sequence_length" entry
from the rendered data mapping used to construct PuzzletronDataSpec, leaving
sequence_length available only through its derived property and preserving the
remaining constructor inputs.

Replace the legacy model matrix with one hermetic current-route campaign, and fix the configuration and orchestration contracts it exposes. Keep the dedicated GPU target separate from generic GPU coverage.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
Keep controller-compatible authored configuration separate from normalized worker settings so equivalent stage manifests remain resumable.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
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In `@examples/puzzletron/README.md`:
- Around line 88-90: Update the automation setup description in the README to
state that the defaults file must provide every required value without a
resolved default, rather than only values lacking a built-in default. Align the
wording with the layered resolution behavior implemented by
puzzletron_setup/v2/defaults.py.

In `@puzzletron_setup/v2/prompts.py`:
- Around line 209-213: Update NonInteractiveBackend.text to distinguish an
absent required default from an explicitly provided empty string, using a
sentinel or explicit requiredness parameter, while still rejecting missing
required defaults. Ensure wizard.py accepts the empty string produced for an
empty prerun_commands list, and add a regression test covering --full
--non-interactive setup with an empty prerun_commands default.

In `@tests/_test_utils/torch/puzzletron/tiny_qwen_campaign.py`:
- Around line 246-262: Add a bounded timeout to the subprocess.run call in the
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Preserve explicit empty defaults while failing closed on missing required values, and bound setup subprocess execution so failures surface within the test timeout.

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for attempt in legacy_attempts
]
reason = (
"completed attempt metadata predates stage execution identities; "
"refusing automatic resubmission"
)
self._failed_stages.add(node.stage_id)
self.store.write_stage_record(
StageRunRecord(
stage_id=node.stage_id,
status=JobState.FAILED.value,
attempts=persisted_attempts,
aggregated=False,
)

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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] Campaigns started before this PR become permanently unresumable, not "rerun".

What: Every completed attempt persisted by the previous release lacks metadata["stage_execution_identity"], so _legacy_completed_attempts() matches all of them. In the run loop (controller.py:1445) the else branch calls _fail_legacy_completed_attempts(), which adds the stage to self._failed_stages and writes StageRunRecord(status=FAILED). On the next restart _recover_failed_stages() sees legacy_incompatibility == True, the finalization_failures check fails (these attempts carry no stage_finalization_failure), and it falls through to self._failed_stages.add(node.stage_id) again — logged as "recovered terminal stage validation failure". There is no code path that ever clears stage_execution_identity_incompatible, so the stage is terminal forever.

Why it matters: This affects exactly the scenario resume exists for: a campaign that crashed mid-flight with completed attempts but incomplete artifacts. Those users get a hard failure on every subsequent --resume, with a message that names the cause but no remediation, and the only escape is hand-editing/deleting the state store. It also contradicts the PR description, which states that attempts which "lack or mismatch the current execution identity are rerun rather than reused" — mismatching identities are rerun, but missing ones are fatal.

Fix: Treat a missing identity as "not yet bound" rather than "incompatible": discard the legacy attempt records for the stage (or rebind them via _bind_attempt_to_stage_execution) and let normal submission re-run the work, which is what the PR body promises. If you deliberately want a manual gate instead, keep the failure but make it recoverable — e.g. accept an explicit --reset-stage <id>/--discard-legacy-attempts flag and name it in the error message, and have _recover_failed_stages() honor it so the campaign is not wedged.

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try:
work_plan = adapter_for_stage(node).plan(self.plan, node)
stage_execution_identity = self._stage_execution_identity(node, work_plan)
except ExecutionIdentityProjectionUnavailable:
return None

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[IMPORTANT Algorithm] except ExecutionIdentityProjectionUnavailable is too narrow — the post-MIP contract escapes with KeyError/ValueError/JSONDecodeError and aborts the whole campaign.

What: For post-MIP stages, _stage_execution_identity()adapter.execution_identity_projection()expected_post_mip_execution_contract()post_mip_execution_contract(). That function only has FileNotFoundError wrapped into PostMIPExecutionContractUnavailable; several other exceptions reach the caller unwrapped:

  • post_mip/identity.py:155json.loads(current_path.read_text())["execution_identity"] raises json.JSONDecodeError on a partially published current.json and KeyError if the key is absent.
  • post_mip/identity.py:158ledger.source_revision(...) raises KeyError from self.revisions[input_revision_id] (post_mip/records.py:261) and ValueError when the source node "produced no revision for architecture ..." (records.py:270).

The same narrow except appears in _stage_execution_identity callers at lines 520 (_recover_failed_stages) and 574 (_fail_legacy_completed_attempts), and _persisted_stage_attempts (line 812) has no guard at all.

Why it matters: These are transient distributed-filesystem states — a torn current.json read or an upstream node that has published current.json but not yet every per-architecture observation. That is precisely the artifact-settling window this PR adds _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS to tolerate, but here it kills the controller loop and terminates the campaign instead of deferring the stage for one poll. Note that orchestration/adapters/stage_compat.py already catches (KeyError, OSError, RuntimeError, TypeError, ValueError) around the very same expected_post_mip_execution_identity() call, so the codebase acknowledges these escape — the controller path is the inconsistent one.

Fix: Wrap the remaining raise sites in post_mip_execution_contract so an incomplete upstream surfaces as PostMIPExecutionContractUnavailable (it already subclasses ExecutionIdentityProjectionUnavailable):

try:
    dependency_executions[owner] = json.loads(current_path.read_text())["execution_identity"]
except (json.JSONDecodeError, KeyError) as error:
    raise PostMIPExecutionContractUnavailable(
        f"post-MIP dependency {owner!r} has no published execution identity"
    ) from error

and likewise around the source_revisions comprehension for KeyError/ValueError. Then broaden the controller's except to the same tuple stage_compat uses, and add a guard to _persisted_stage_attempts.

Comment on lines 667 to 689
if self.dist_env.is_main:
from pathlib import Path

consolidated = Path(checkpoint_path, "model", "consolidated")
config_path = consolidated / "config.json"
config = json.loads(config_path.read_text()) if config_path.is_file() else {}
if config.get("block_configs"):
from ..utils.vllm_adapter import refresh_realized_checkpoint_config

model_config = _config_value(getattr(self, "cfg", None), "model")
configured_trust = _config_value(model_config, "trust_remote_code")
refresh_realized_checkpoint_config(
consolidated,
trust_remote_code=(
False
if configured_trust is None
else require_boolean_policy(
configured_trust,
path="model.trust_remote_code",
)
),
)
Path(checkpoint_path, "saving_completed").touch()
if torch.distributed.is_initialized():
torch.distributed.barrier()

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[IMPORTANT Algorithm] A rank-0 exception in the new config-refresh block deadlocks every other rank on the barrier.

What: The rank-0-only section now does real work that can raise — json.loads(config_path.read_text()) on a config another process may still be writing, AutoConfig.from_pretrained(..., trust_remote_code=False) (which can reject a realized heterogeneous checkpoint), and refresh_realized_checkpoint_config itself raises ValueError at utils/vllm_adapter.py:244 and :246. If any of those raise, rank 0 propagates out of save_checkpoint and never reaches torch.distributed.barrier() at line 689, while every other rank is already blocked there.

Why it matters: Non-zero ranks hang for the full process-group timeout (10 minutes by default) and then abort with an opaque collective-timeout error that names the barrier, not the real cause — so the actionable rank-0 traceback is buried in one log among N. The prior code was just Path(..., "saving_completed").touch(), which is essentially infallible, so this PR newly introduces a rank-asymmetric failure mode into a section that ends in a collective. The blast radius is a whole multi-node GKD job dying slowly at checkpoint time.

Fix: Guarantee rank 0 always reaches the barrier and make the failure symmetric:

failure: BaseException | None = None
if self.dist_env.is_main:
    try:
        ...  # existing refresh + saving_completed touch
    except Exception as error:  # noqa: BLE001 - must reach the barrier below
        failure = error
if torch.distributed.is_initialized():
    torch.distributed.barrier()
if failure is not None:
    raise failure

If you want the other ranks to fail too rather than continue past a missing saving_completed, broadcast the flag (e.g. a one-element tensor all_reduce) after the barrier and raise on every rank.

Comment on lines +372 to +384
def _stage_execution_identity(
self,
node: StagePlanNode,
work_plan: WorkPlan | None = None,
) -> str:
adapter = adapter_for_stage(node)
work_plan = work_plan or adapter.plan(self.plan, node)
compiled_node = next(
stage
for stage in plan_to_dict(self.plan)["stages"]
if stage["stage_id"] == node.stage_id
)
payload = {

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[IMPORTANT Performance] _stage_execution_identity() re-plans the adapter and re-serializes the entire campaign plan on every call, and it is called several times per stage per poll.

What: Each invocation runs adapter.plan(self.plan, node) (unless a work_plan is passed), then plan_to_dict(self.plan) — a full serialization of every stage in the campaign — only to pick out one node via next(...), then semantic_stage_config(...) and stable_hash(...) over the whole payload. It is reached from _required_completed_attempts (line 340), _bind_attempt_to_stage_execution (line 420), _legacy_completed_attempts' sibling paths, _recover_failed_stages (line 519), _fail_legacy_completed_attempts (line 573), and _persisted_stage_attempts (line 812). In the main loop, _required_work_is_completed() fires for every stage that has attempts on every iteration, and _stage_has_active_or_completed_work() calls it again through _ready_nodes()/_submit_stage() — so with a poll_interval_seconds of 5.0 this is O(stages²) plan serializations plus O(stages) adapter re-plans every 5 seconds, for the entire life of a multi-day campaign.

Why it matters: adapter.plan() is not free — post-MIP adapters walk the candidate ledger and read JSON artifacts off a shared filesystem to size their work plan, so this turns a bookkeeping check into repeated metadata I/O against the cluster FS. Large plans make the plan_to_dict cost grow quadratically in stage count. None of the inputs change within a poll iteration.

Fix: Memoize. Cache plan_to_dict(self.plan)["stages"] as a {stage_id: dict} map once in __init__ (the plan is frozen and written verbatim at line 1388), and cache the computed identity in a dict[str, str] keyed by stage_id — invalidating only where the work plan can legitimately change. At minimum, hoist the plan_to_dict lookup out so it isn't recomputed per call:

compiled_node = self._compiled_nodes[node.stage_id]

Comment on lines +539 to +545
return {
key: selected[key]
for key in sections
if key in selected
and selected[key] is not None
and not (isinstance(selected[key], Mapping) and not selected[key])
}

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[SUGGESTION] The new empty/None section filtering is an undocumented identity-collapsing rule.

What: Sections are now dropped when the value is None or an empty Mapping. That makes three distinct authored states hash identically: section absent, section: null, and section: {}. The docstring above was updated for the authored-vs-effective selection but says nothing about this filtering.

Why it matters: The return value feeds stable_hash in _stage_execution_identity, _replacement_completion_identity, and manifest semantic_identity. Explicitly disabling a stage section by setting it to {} or null in YAML — a natural way to express "no distillation config" — now produces the same identity as never having configured it, so a resumed campaign can reuse artifacts produced under the other spelling. It also cuts the other way: the lightweight composer and Hydra can differ on whether a merged-away section ends up {} or absent, and only one of those spellings is now invisible.

Fix: Document the normalization in the docstring, and state the invariant you are relying on — e.g. "empty and absent sections are equivalent because stage defaults are applied downstream, so neither can change the stage result." If that invariant does not actually hold for every registered stage's semantic_config_sections, drop the filter and normalize at the writer instead, so null and {} remain distinguishable from absent.

raise ValueError(f"Override path crosses a scalar: {override!r}")
target = child
target[keys[-1]] = yaml.safe_load(raw_value)
target[keys[-1]] = _load_yaml(raw_value)

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[SUGGESTION] _apply_override accepts Hydra's +key=value but silently mis-applies ~key, and this composer is now the source of the authored config recorded in manifests.

What: keys = key.lstrip("+").split(".") (line 182) handles +key=v and ++key=v, but Hydra also supports deletion overrides (~key, ~key=value). Those fall through to the generic path and create a literal key named ~key (or a ~section sub-dict for a dotted path) instead of removing anything. Related: lstrip("+") strips any number of leading + rather than at most two, and nothing validates that the override form is one this composer implements.

Why it matters: Before this PR the lightweight composer only fed the controller's scheduling decisions. Now pipeline_config_from_path stores its result as _runtime.authored_config, and stage_manifest_from_config writes that view into manifest config/inputs.config and into semantic_identity. So an unsupported override no longer merely misconfigures the scheduler — it bakes a config into the durable manifest that does not match what Hydra actually ran on the GPU, and the divergence is invisible because nothing errors.

Fix: Fail closed on forms this composer does not implement; silently diverging from Hydra is worse than refusing:

if key.startswith("~"):
    raise ValueError(f"Deletion overrides are not supported: {override!r}")
keys = key.removeprefix("+").removeprefix("+").split(".")

Implementing ~ deletion properly works too, but rejecting it keeps the authored view provably faithful to Hydra.

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def require_boolean_policy(value: Any, *, path: str) -> bool:
"""Return a policy boolean without accepting truthy strings or numbers."""
if not isinstance(value, bool):
raise ValueError(f"{path} must be a boolean")
return value

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[SUGGESTION] None is rejected here but treated as False by one caller — pick one and encode it in this helper.

What: require_boolean_policy rejects anything that is not a bool, including None. Callers disagree on what that means for an unset key:

  • distillation/global_kd_recipe.py:678 explicitly maps None to False before calling: False if configured_trust is None else require_boolean_policy(...).
  • orchestration/adapters/sharded.py:260-269 keys on "trust_remote_code" in aiperf, so a config that spells the key with an explicit YAML null (trust_remote_code: / trust_remote_code: null) takes the present-branch and hard-fails with aiperf.trust_remote_code must be a boolean. stages/future.py has the same shape.

Why it matters: key: with no value is a common way to write "leave this at the default" in YAML, and it round-trips as None through both the Hydra and the new lightweight composer. Users of existing experiment configs that spell it that way get a startup ValueError on the AIPerf/zero-shot path but silent False on the GKD path — same key, two behaviours. The None special-case at the GKD call site also duplicates policy that belongs in the validator.

Fix: Give the helper an explicit default and let it own the unset case, so every call site agrees:

def require_boolean_policy(value: Any, *, path: str, default: bool | None = None) -> bool:
    """Return a policy boolean without accepting truthy strings or numbers."""
    if value is None and default is not None:
        return default
    if not isinstance(value, bool):
        raise ValueError(f"{path} must be a boolean")
    return value

Then global_kd_recipe.py becomes require_boolean_policy(configured_trust, path=..., default=False) and the adapters can pass default=False instead of branching on key presence. If you would rather keep None fatal, make the adapters normalize it the same way GKD does so the behaviour is uniform.

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Claude review summary — Puzzletron v2 GPU quality baseline

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CRITICAL 0
IMPORTANT 4
SUGGESTION 3

Most impactful findings

  1. [IMPORTANT Compatibility] Pre-PR campaigns become permanently unresumableorchestration/controller.py. Completed attempts persisted before this PR have no metadata["stage_execution_identity"], so _legacy_completed_attempts() matches all of them and the run loop's else branch (line 1445) calls _fail_legacy_completed_attempts(), which marks the stage FAILED and adds it to _failed_stages. _recover_failed_stages() then re-marks it terminal on every restart via the legacy_incompatibility branch, and nothing ever clears stage_execution_identity_incompatible. This hits exactly the case resume exists for — a campaign that crashed with completed attempts but incomplete artifacts — and it contradicts the PR description's claim that such attempts "are rerun rather than reused."

  2. [IMPORTANT Algorithm] except ExecutionIdentityProjectionUnavailable is too narrow; transient artifact states abort the campaignorchestration/controller.py:341 (and lines 520, 574; _persisted_stage_attempts at 812 has no guard). post_mip_execution_contract() only wraps FileNotFoundError; a partially published nodes/<owner>/current.json raises json.JSONDecodeError/KeyError (post_mip/identity.py:155) and ledger.source_revision() raises KeyError/ValueError (post_mip/records.py:261,270). These are precisely the settling-window conditions _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS was added to tolerate, but they kill the controller loop instead of deferring the stage for one poll. adapters/stage_compat.py already catches (KeyError, OSError, RuntimeError, TypeError, ValueError) around the same call, so the controller path is the inconsistent one.

  3. [IMPORTANT Algorithm] Rank-0 exception in the new config-refresh block deadlocks all other ranksdistillation/global_kd_recipe.py:667-689. The rank-0-only section now does fallible work (json.loads of a config another process may be writing, AutoConfig.from_pretrained(trust_remote_code=False), plus two ValueError raise sites in refresh_realized_checkpoint_config) and ends in torch.distributed.barrier(). A rank-0 raise leaves every other rank blocked for the full process-group timeout, then aborting with a collective-timeout error that hides the real cause. The prior code was a bare .touch(), so this failure mode is new.

  4. [IMPORTANT Performance] _stage_execution_identity() re-plans and re-serializes the whole campaign on every pollorchestration/controller.py:372-384. Each call runs adapter.plan(...) and a full plan_to_dict(self.plan) just to next(...) out one node. It is reached from six call sites, and _required_work_is_completed() fires per stage per iteration at poll_interval_seconds=5.0, so a long campaign performs O(stages^2) plan serializations plus O(stages) adapter re-plans every five seconds — and post-MIP plan() reads ledger JSON off the shared filesystem. Memoize the compiled-node map and the per-stage identity.

Non-blocking SUGGESTIONs cover the undocumented empty/None section filtering in semantic_stage_config (stages/graph.py:539-545), _apply_override silently mis-applying Hydra ~key deletions now that its output is durably recorded as _runtime.authored_config (orchestration/config.py:189), and require_boolean_policy rejecting None while global_kd_recipe.py:678 maps it to False (security_policy.py:23-27).

Overall risk assessment

Moderate. The execution-identity refactor itself is well-shaped — hoisting the post-MIP contract into post_mip/identity.py and having stage_compat.post_mip_summary_is_current delegate to it removes ~130 lines of duplicated reconstruction, the _HydraSafeLoader scientific-notation resolver is a genuine correctness fix, rendezvous_endpoint() returning localhost:0 for single-node groups fixes real port collisions, and the NPROC_PER_NODE switch to topology.gpus_per_task corrects multi-node instance launches. The security gating (require_boolean_policy, opt-in --trust-remote-code) tightens defaults in the right direction.

The risk concentrates in the new controller state machine: three of the four IMPORTANT findings are failure-handling paths that turn recoverable or transient conditions into terminal campaign failures, and one turns a checkpoint hook into a potential multi-node hang. None affect the happy path, which is presumably what the new GPU baseline test exercises — so they are unlikely to be caught by CI and likely to surface first on a long real campaign, where they are most expensive. I would want findings 1-3 addressed before merge; finding 4 is a scaling concern that can follow.

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66 files changed (+5501/-763). Reviewed via two-dot scoped diffs against origin/feature/puzzletron_v2:

  • modelopt/ and puzzletron_setup/ (26 files) — full review, with source-file reads for orchestration/controller.py, orchestration/config.py, the orchestration/adapters/ modules (base, pool, post_mip, sharded, stage_compat, packing), orchestration/schema.py, orchestration/compiler.py, orchestration/task_launcher.py, post_mip/identity.py, post_mip/runner.py, post_mip/records.py, security_policy.py, stages/graph.py, stages/future.py, manifest.py, pipeline_config.py, stage_runner.py, benchmarks/aiperf.py, distillation/global_kd_recipe.py, distributed_eval/automodel_executor.py, utils/vllm_adapter.py, puzzletron_setup/v2/cli.py, puzzletron_setup/v2/prompts.py, puzzletron_setup/v2/wizard.py, and puzzletron_setup/bundle.py.
  • examples/puzzletron/ (12 files) — reviewed, including ci_environment.py, finalize_replacement_scoring.py, main.py, run_profile_aiperf_worker.py, run_axis_diagnostic_worker.py, embedding_pipeline.py, and the distributed_eval/*.sh rendezvous changes.
  • Deliberately not opened: all 25 files under tests/ (including tests/gpu/torch/puzzletron/test_puzzletron.py, tests/_test_utils/torch/puzzletron/tiny_qwen_campaign.py, and tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_post_mip_execution_identity.py), plus noxfile.py and pyproject.toml. This PR exceeds the 50-file threshold, so review was capped and prioritized to the highest-risk modelopt/ and examples/ source.

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Claude review: 4 IMPORTANT, 0 CRITICAL, 3 SUGGESTION — not approving while the IMPORTANT findings are open.

Blocking-tier issues (details inline and in the summary comment):

  1. [IMPORTANT Compatibility] orchestration/controller.py — campaigns started before this PR are permanently unresumable. Completed attempts lacking metadata["stage_execution_identity"] route to _fail_legacy_completed_attempts(), which marks the stage FAILED, and _recover_failed_stages() re-marks it terminal on every restart with no path to clear stage_execution_identity_incompatible. The PR body says such attempts "are rerun rather than reused"; missing identities are fatal instead.
  2. [IMPORTANT Algorithm] orchestration/controller.py:341 (also 520, 574, 812) — except ExecutionIdentityProjectionUnavailable misses json.JSONDecodeError/KeyError from post_mip/identity.py:155 and KeyError/ValueError from post_mip/records.py:261,270. A torn current.json read or a not-yet-complete upstream node aborts the controller loop rather than deferring the stage — the exact condition _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS exists to absorb. adapters/stage_compat.py already catches these around the same call.
  3. [IMPORTANT Algorithm] distillation/global_kd_recipe.py:667-689 — the rank-0-only config refresh is now fallible and is followed by torch.distributed.barrier(). A rank-0 raise hangs all other ranks until the process-group timeout, surfacing as an opaque collective timeout. Wrap it so rank 0 always reaches the barrier and re-raise after.
  4. [IMPORTANT Performance] orchestration/controller.py:372-384_stage_execution_identity() calls adapter.plan(...) and serializes the entire plan via plan_to_dict() on every invocation, several times per stage per 5-second poll. Memoize the compiled-node map and the per-stage identity.

The refactor direction is good — consolidating the post-MIP contract into post_mip/identity.py, the _HydraSafeLoader scientific-notation fix, rendezvous_endpoint() avoiding single-node port collisions, and the topology.gpus_per_task correction for multi-node instances are all real improvements. The findings above are concentrated in the new failure-handling paths, which the happy-path GPU baseline test would not exercise.

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Fail closed when post-MIP candidate data is unavailable.

PostMIPExecutionContractUnavailable also covers stale registries and missing candidate-set artifacts, not only a missing registry. prepare_post_mip_candidate_ledger does not validate the requested node input. If candidate data is unavailable, _available_evaluation_candidates returns None, and plan() can schedule node.instances workers for unavailable candidates. Distinguish the pre-ledger case from invalid or incomplete candidate data.

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Make persisted orchestration recovery resumable, defer transient post-MIP publication gaps, and propagate distributed checkpoint publication failures safely. Tighten lightweight configuration parsing and security-policy defaults at their shared boundaries.

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Rely on the error broadcast as the synchronization collective and collapse equivalent torn-pointer cases into one parameterized test.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>

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In `@modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/identity.py`:
- Around line 75-85: Update _published_execution_identity to handle valid JSON
whose root is not a mapping before accessing current["execution_identity"],
converting resulting type errors for lists, strings, null, and other invalid
roots into PostMIPExecutionContractUnavailable through the existing recovery
path while preserving validation of an invalid execution_identity value.

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test_global_kd_checkpoint_publication_failure_reaches_all_ranks to the
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Treat valid non-object dependency publications as retryable incomplete state while preserving fail-closed validation for invalid published identities.

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Comment on lines +446 to +453
for attempt in completed:
value = attempt.get("completed_at")
if not isinstance(value, (int, float)):
return _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS
completed_at.append(float(value))
now = time.time()
first_observed = self._first_completion_observed.setdefault(node.stage_id, now)
return max(0.0, now - max(max(completed_at), first_observed))

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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] A missing or non-numeric completed_at is treated as "the settling window already expired" rather than "unknown".

What: line 449 returns exactly _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, and _fail_stage_if_artifacts_did_not_settle gates on elapsed < _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS (controller.py:767). So the first poll that observes a required completed attempt without a numeric completed_at fails the stage immediately — no grace period — via _record_stage_validation_failure, and the stage lands in self._failed_stages so _recover_failed_stages will not reconsider it.

Why it matters: the sibling helper disagrees about the same record. _required_completed_attempts tolerates the gap (controller.py:362-367 falls back to submitted_at, then 0.0) and happily reports the work as complete, while this function converts it into a terminal failure whose logged reason is "completed work outputs did not settle within 300s" — pointing the operator at the filesystem when the actual problem is a state-file field. update_attempt_status assigns status/exit_code/reason before completed_at (state.py:222-231), so any attempt record that predates this field, or that came from a migrated/hand-repaired campaign directory, hard-fails the stage instead of re-running it.

Fix: start the clock instead of expiring it — reuse _completion_time's fallback chain and let _first_completion_observed bound the wait:

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for attempt in completed:
value = attempt.get("completed_at")
if not isinstance(value, (int, float)):
return _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS
completed_at.append(float(value))
now = time.time()
first_observed = self._first_completion_observed.setdefault(node.stage_id, now)
return max(0.0, now - max(max(completed_at), first_observed))
for attempt in completed:
value = attempt.get("completed_at")
if not isinstance(value, (int, float)):
value = attempt.get("submitted_at")
if isinstance(value, (int, float)):
completed_at.append(float(value))
now = time.time()
first_observed = self._first_completion_observed.setdefault(node.stage_id, now)
return max(0.0, now - max([*completed_at, first_observed]))

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model_config = _config_value(getattr(self, "cfg", None), "model")
configured_trust = _config_value(model_config, "trust_remote_code")
refresh_realized_checkpoint_config(
consolidated,
trust_remote_code=require_boolean_policy(
configured_trust,
path="model.trust_remote_code",
default=False,
),
)

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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] This is the only trust_remote_code decision in the package that does not fall back to the model descriptor, and the new error broadcast turns the resulting failure into an all-rank abort.

What: the policy resolves from model.trust_remote_code with a hard False default. Every other remote-code site consults the descriptor when the config is silent — utils/data/dataloaders.py:98-104 (descriptor.requires_trust_remote_code()), anymodel/converter/base.py:140, anymodel/converter/generic_decoder.py:218 — and two shipped descriptors return True: anymodel/models/nemotron_h/nemotron_h_model_descriptor.py:197 and anymodel/models/nemotron_h_v2/nemotron_h_v2_model_descriptor.py:155.

Why it matters: refresh_realized_checkpoint_config previously passed trust_remote_code=True unconditionally (utils/vllm_adapter.py:234 before this PR), so a Nemotron-H global-KD run whose experiment YAML never set model.trust_remote_code worked. It now raises inside AutoConfig.from_pretrained, and the publication-error broadcast added just below (lines 691-700) re-raises that rank-0 exception as a RuntimeError on every rank. Net effect: a consolidated checkpoint that was written correctly aborts the entire KD stage at save time, after the full training cost has been paid, and the operator sees a transformers remote-code traceback rather than a pointer to the config key they need to set.

Fix: default from the descriptor so architecture-mandated remote code doesn't require every campaign YAML to opt in, keeping require_boolean_policy for the explicitly-configured case:

configured_trust = _config_value(model_config, "trust_remote_code")
if configured_trust is None:
    configured_trust = descriptor.requires_trust_remote_code()
refresh_realized_checkpoint_config(
    consolidated,
    trust_remote_code=require_boolean_policy(
        configured_trust, path="model.trust_remote_code", default=False
    ),
)

If a descriptor isn't reachable in this scope, the minimum fix is to catch the remote-code failure separately and raise with a message naming model.trust_remote_code, so the all-rank RuntimeError is actionable.

Comment on lines 465 to +471
try:
_prefix, flow_id, node_id = stage_id.split(".", 2)
node = dict(config["post_mip"]["flows"][flow_id]["nodes"][node_id])
candidate_set, registry = _post_input_candidate_set(config, puzzle_dir, stage_id)
owners = set()
if node.get("type") == "filter":
if node.get("mode") in {"top_k", "threshold"}:
references = [node["metric"]]
else:
references = [entry["metric"] for entry in node.get("metrics") or ()]
owners.update(
str(reference).partition(".")[0]
for reference in references
if not str(reference).startswith("mip.")
)
model_source = str(node.get("model_source", "latest"))
if model_source not in {"latest", "origin"}:
owners.add(model_source)
dependency_executions = {}
for owner in sorted(owners):
current = _read_mapping(
puzzle_dir / "artifacts" / "post_mip" / "nodes" / owner / "current.json"
if __package__.startswith("puzzletron_orchestrator."):
from puzzletron_orchestrator.post_mip.identity import (
expected_post_mip_execution_identity,
)
if current is None:
return False
dependency_executions[owner] = current["execution_identity"]
revision_ids = [str(value) for value in candidate_set.get("revision_ids") or ()]
revisions = dict(registry.get("revisions") or {})
if model_source == "latest":
source_revisions = {value: value for value in revision_ids}
elif model_source == "origin":
source_revisions = {}
for value in revision_ids:
current = value
while revisions[current].get("parent_revision_id") is not None:
current = str(revisions[current]["parent_revision_id"])
source_revisions[value] = current
else:
recorded = (summary.get("execution_contract") or {}).get("source_revisions") or {}
if set(recorded) != set(revision_ids):
return False
source_revisions = dict(recorded)
contract = {
"candidate_set": candidate_set["identity"],
"node": node,
"dependency_executions": dependency_executions,
"source_revisions": source_revisions,
}
return summary.get("execution_identity") == _prefixed_hash("post_mip_execution", contract)
from ...post_mip.identity import expected_post_mip_execution_identity

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[SUGGESTION] The dependency-light contract this module advertises now holds only incidentally, and nothing tests it.

What: the docstring on line 463 still says "Validate a node summary without importing the PyTorch-backed worker package", but the body now imports post_mip.identity — and importing a submodule executes post_mip/__init__.py, which does from .runner import * and therefore pulls post_mip.base, .builtin, .filters, .records, and ..evaluation. Deleting the ~150 lines of duplicated contract reconstruction was the right call; the stale docstring is the visible symptom of a contract that moved.

Why it matters: the invariant still appears to hold — none of those modules import torch at module scope today, and post_mip.base's from ..stages import topological_mapping_items resolves to the lightweight orchestration/stages.py under the puzzletron_orchestrator.__path__ overlay rather than the torch-backed puzzletron/stages/ package. But that's a five-module-deep accident, and test_lightweight_package_does_not_import_torch (tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_orchestration_lightweight.py:38) only exercises normalize_vllm_topology, STAGE_SPECS, and semantic_stage_config. It never calls stage_is_complete on a post-MIP stage, so the one code path that reaches into the worker package is outside the assertion. A future module-level import torch anywhere in post_mip/ or evaluation/ would silently make the controller drag torch in, and CI would stay green.

Fix: two small changes — reword the docstring to state what is actually guaranteed (e.g. "…without importing torch; the post-MIP identity module is deliberately torch-free"), and extend the lightweight subprocess assertion to cover this path:

"from puzzletron_orchestrator.adapters.stage_compat import stage_is_complete; "
"stage_is_complete(POST_MIP_CONFIG, 'post_mip.<flow>.<node>'); "
"assert 'torch' not in sys.modules",

__all__ = ["CampaignController", "create_executor", "dry_run_plan"]


_ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 300.0

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[SUGGESTION] Make the artifact-settling window configurable rather than a module constant.

What: _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 300.0 is the sole knob deciding when completed work with incomplete artifacts becomes a terminal stage_validation_failed / stage_aggregation_failed. There is no way to raise it per campaign or per runner.

Why it matters: the value is a filesystem-visibility assumption, and the cost of it being wrong is asymmetric. On a shared Lustre/GPFS scratch under load, or NFS with attribute caching, a multi-hundred-GB consolidated checkpoint plus per-node summary writes can take well past five minutes to become visible to the controller node. When that happens the campaign fails a stage whose GPU work actually succeeded, and _fail_stage_if_artifacts_did_not_settle records it into self._failed_stages so it is not retried — the operator pays for the compute twice. The Slurm and baremetal runners are exactly the environments where this is most likely and where five minutes is least defensible.

Fix: thread it through the execution/runner config the same way --poll-interval is (examples/puzzletron/orchestrate.py:44-49), keeping 300.0 as the default:

_DEFAULT_ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 300.0

then read execution.artifact_settling_timeout_seconds into a CampaignController attribute and use self._artifact_settling_timeout_seconds at the two comparison sites (lines 449, 767) and in the recorded timeout_seconds metadata (line 810).

Comment on lines +42 to +47
__all__ = [
"finalization_marker_is_current",
"finalize_replacement_scoring",
"main",
"write_finalization_marker",
]

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[SUGGESTION] __all__ omits the seam it was added to protect, and sits below a definition.

What: finalize_replacement_scoring_diagnostics is defined immediately above (lines 30-38) specifically to keep the finalizer importable from both the package and the bare-script entry points, but it is not listed here. __all__ is also placed after a function definition rather than directly under the imports, which reads as an oversight and makes it easy to keep missing entries as the module grows.

Why it matters: the public surface no longer matches the module's own intent. examples/puzzletron/distributed_eval/run_coordinator.sh imports from this module by name so it is unaffected, but any from finalize_replacement_scoring import * — or tooling that treats __all__ as the export contract — silently loses the dual-path seam, which is the one symbol here that exists purely for import-path compatibility.

Fix: move the block above finalize_replacement_scoring_diagnostics and include it:

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__all__ = [
"finalization_marker_is_current",
"finalize_replacement_scoring",
"main",
"write_finalization_marker",
]
__all__ = [
"finalization_marker_is_current",
"finalize_replacement_scoring",
"finalize_replacement_scoring_diagnostics",
"main",
"write_finalization_marker",
]

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Claude deep review — Puzzletron v2 GPU quality baseline

Findings

CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 2 · SUGGESTION: 3

Severity Location Issue
IMPORTANT Compatibility orchestration/controller.py:446-453 A missing/non-numeric completed_at short-circuits to the full settling timeout, so the first poll hard-fails the stage with no grace period — and misattributes it to slow artifacts
IMPORTANT Compatibility distillation/global_kd_recipe.py:677-686 trust_remote_code no longer falls back to descriptor.requires_trust_remote_code(); combined with the new publication-error broadcast, a Nemotron-H KD run aborts on all ranks at save time
SUGGESTION orchestration/adapters/stage_compat.py:465-471 Dependency-light contract now holds only incidentally; docstring is stale and the lightweight no-torch test does not cover this path
SUGGESTION orchestration/controller.py:68 _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 300.0 is unconfigurable on exactly the shared filesystems where it is most likely wrong
SUGGESTION examples/puzzletron/finalize_replacement_scoring.py:42-47 __all__ omits finalize_replacement_scoring_diagnostics — the dual-path seam it was added to protect

Most impactful

The two IMPORTANT findings share a shape worth calling out: both convert a recoverable condition into a terminal, expensive failure.

  1. _completed_work_artifact_settling_elapsed returning the timeout as a sentinel. _required_completed_attempts (controller.py:362-367) tolerates a missing completed_at by falling back to submitted_at; this function treats the same gap as an already-expired clock. The stage is then written into self._failed_stages, so _recover_failed_stages will not reconsider it, and the operator is told the artifacts did not settle within 300s when the real cause is a state-file field. The fix is a five-line change reusing the fallback chain already present two functions up.

  2. The trust_remote_code default flip. Flipping the defaults to False is the right direction, and the three aiperf resolution sites (adapters/sharded.py:262-272, post_mip/runner.py:449-456, stages/future.py:305-309) are consistently aiperf.* -> model.trust_remote_code -> False, which I verified. The gap is the global-KD checkpoint publication path: it is the one remote-code decision that skips the descriptor fallback used everywhere else in the package, and refresh_realized_checkpoint_config previously hardcoded True. Because the new rank-0 error broadcast re-raises on every rank, the cost of that gap is the whole KD stage after training has completed.

Verified, not flagged

Several plausible-looking changes check out, and are worth recording so they are not re-litigated:

  • adapters/pool.py dropping worker-role NNODES/NODE_RANK/RDZV_ENDPOINT/RDZV_ID is safe. All three executors (executors/local.py, baremetal.py, slurm.py) wrap commands through task_launcher, whose main() unconditionally exports PUZZLETRON_GROUP_SIZE/GROUP_RANK/RENDEZVOUS_ENDPOINT/RENDEZVOUS_ID, and run_worker.sh now derives rdzv from those. The legacy else-branch defaults only apply to manual invocations.
  • orchestration/config.py::_apply_override strictness matches Hydra. Plain KEY=VALUE is normalized to ++KEY=VALUE worker-side by tools/hydra_utils.py:141-160, so the loader's setdefault-and-assign agrees; + (error-if-exists) and ++ (add-or-override) agree too. Rejecting ~ deletions fails fast in the controller instead of diverging from the worker — the safer choice — and no in-repo config or script uses ~ overrides.
  • stages/graph.py::semantic_stage_config authored/effective selection is symmetric. The worker writes StageManifest.config = _runtime.authored_config (manifest.py:370-381), which has no nested _runtime.authored_config, so use_authored=True degrades to the same dict the controller selects from plan.experiment_config in _successful_manifest_is_current (stage_compat.py:224). The new None/empty-Mapping filtering applies identically on both sides.
  • global_kd_recipe.save_checkpoint still synchronizes all ranksbroadcast_object_list is itself a collective, so replacing the barrier() neither deadlocks nor skips the join.
  • rebase_authored_pipeline_config's only caller (examples/puzzletron/run_axis_diagnostic_worker.py:136) writes into a separate axis_<name> sub-experiment, so rebasing the authored config there cannot desync the parent campaign's resume checks.
  • main.py dropping outputs["base_manifest"] is intentional and has no consumers — tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_example_runner.py:115 asserts its absence.
  • finalization_marker_is_current's summary == manifest["outputs"]["report"] equality holds on the non-embedding path, because generate_replace_block_report returns exactly the dict it writes to summary.json.

One structural note (not filed inline)

Resume across this PR is a clean break, and that deserves a line in CHANGELOG.rst. _required_completed_attempts now requires attempt["metadata"]["stage_execution_identity"] (new in this PR) to match, and the semantic identity moved from the effective to the authored config. Both are correct, but together they mean an in-flight campaign directory from the current feature/puzzletron_v2 tip will silently re-run already-completed GPU stages rather than erroring. Silent recompute is the failure mode operators notice last and pay for most, so an explicit note — or a one-time "state predates stage_execution_identity, stages will re-run" warning at controller startup — would be worth more than it costs.

Risk assessment

Moderate. The architectural direction is sound and the identity work is a genuine improvement: post-MIP contract reconstruction is deduplicated into one canonical module, the authored-vs-effective config split is applied symmetrically on both the writer and validator sides, and the security-policy defaults are centralized through require_boolean_policy with consistent fallbacks. Most of what looked risky on first read is correct on tracing.

The residual risk is concentrated in the new failure paths rather than the happy path: the artifact-settling logic and the KD publication broadcast both turn soft conditions into terminal ones, and both do so after GPU cost has been incurred. Neither is a correctness bug in the optimization itself, and both fixes are small and local.

Review scope

67 files changed (+5898/-766). I reviewed all 35 non-test source files — everything under modelopt/, examples/, and puzzletron_setup/ — prioritizing modelopt/ first, largest and highest-risk diffs first (controller.py +369/-48, post_mip/identity.py new, global_kd_recipe.py +148/-91, adapters/*, benchmarks/aiperf.py).

Deliberately not opened: tests/ (24 files, ~3600 additions, including tests/gpu/torch/puzzletron/test_puzzletron.py +527 and tests/_test_utils/torch/puzzletron/tiny_qwen_campaign.py +332), noxfile.py (+93/-31), CHANGELOG.rst, pyproject.toml, and examples/puzzletron/README.md. I did read two test files selectively while grading findings — test_orchestration_lightweight.py (to establish the no-torch invariant's actual coverage) and test_example_runner.py (to confirm the base_manifest removal was intentional).

Style, formatting, naming, typos, the # nosec markers, the non-permissive-dependency check, and the TypeError escape in post_mip/identity.py::_published_execution_identity are left to CodeRabbit, which already covers them.

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Claude review found blocking issues — CRITICAL: 0, IMPORTANT: 2, SUGGESTION: 3. Not approving.

Both IMPORTANT findings turn a recoverable condition into a terminal failure after GPU cost has already been paid:

  1. orchestration/controller.py:446-453_completed_work_artifact_settling_elapsed returns _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS as a sentinel when a required completed attempt has no numeric completed_at. Since _fail_stage_if_artifacts_did_not_settle gates on elapsed < _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS (line 767), the first poll fails the stage with zero grace period and records it into self._failed_stages so it is never reconsidered. _required_completed_attempts (lines 362-367) tolerates the exact same gap by falling back to submitted_at, so the two helpers disagree about the same record, and the logged reason ("outputs did not settle within 300s") misdirects the operator to the filesystem. Fix: fall back to submitted_at/_first_completion_observed and start the clock instead of expiring it.

  2. distillation/global_kd_recipe.py:677-686 — this is the only trust_remote_code decision in the package that does not fall back to descriptor.requires_trust_remote_code(); utils/data/dataloaders.py:98-104, anymodel/converter/base.py:140, and anymodel/converter/generic_decoder.py:218 all do, and the Nemotron-H / Nemotron-H-v2 descriptors return True. refresh_realized_checkpoint_config previously hardcoded trust_remote_code=True, so campaigns that never set model.trust_remote_code worked; they now raise inside AutoConfig.from_pretrained, and the new publication-error broadcast (lines 691-700) re-raises that on every rank — aborting the whole KD stage at save time on a checkpoint that was written correctly. Fix: default from the descriptor, keeping require_boolean_policy for the explicit case.

The three SUGGESTIONs (stale dependency-light contract plus missing test coverage in stage_compat.py, unconfigurable _ARTIFACT_SETTLING_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, incomplete __all__ in finalize_replacement_scoring.py) do not block.

Overall risk: moderate. The identity work is a real improvement and the authored-vs-effective config split is applied symmetrically on both the writer and validator sides — I traced and cleared the rdzv env removal in adapters/pool.py, the Hydra override-grammar agreement in orchestration/config.py, the semantic_stage_config hash symmetry, and the broadcast_object_list rank synchronization. See the summary comment for full detail and review scope.

Pin the post-MIP completion check to its torch-free import contract and expose the replacement finalizer compatibility seam explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
Keep one behavior-level regression for each critical orchestration, identity, setup, and security contract while removing overlapping implementation-level cases.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
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