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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughTraining callbacks now accumulate arbitrary chartable metrics and resume stored series. Progress reporters preserve complete metric data. NeMo-RL routes selected metrics through the shared reporter, derives schedules, and flushes pending reports during teardown. ChangesTraining progress reporting
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant dpo_driver
participant NemoRLLogger
participant JobsServiceProgressReporter
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dpo_driver->>NemoRLLogger: create logger from training schedule
NemoRLLogger->>JobsServiceProgressReporter: forward selected metrics
JobsServiceProgressReporter->>JobsService: update task status details
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170-182: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winFilter payload metrics before forwarding.
_recorddrops unsupported values, but both payloads forward rawadditional_metrics. Objects, mappings, booleans, and NaN can enterstatus_details. This violates the numeric-scalar contract and can fail status serialization. Filter and normalize values to built-in numeric types before constructing both payloads.
packages/nmp_customization_common/src/nmp/customization_common/training/callbacks.py#L170-L182: use normalized chartable metrics for series and current-step fields.packages/nmp_customization_common/src/nmp/customization_common/training/callbacks.py#L205-L215: use the same normalized chartable metrics for validation fields.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 231-236: Update the details payload construction in the callback
to omit checkpoint_path when its value is None, while retaining it when a new
path exists so prior checkpoint paths are not overwritten with null.
- Around line 79-81: Update the metric validation logic in the visible
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- Around line 170-182: In callbacks.py, normalize and filter additional_metrics
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normalized chartable metrics for the training series/current-step payload at
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General non-blocking question: do we want some sort of contract with studio now that we're returning general dictionaries?
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RL carried a standalone TrainingProgressCallback that duplicated the shared one
in packages/nmp_customization_common, minus its metric accumulation. Fixes to
progress reporting therefore had to be made twice or -- in practice -- only
once, in whichever copy the author happened to be looking at.
The copy is deleted outright rather than replaced by a subclass, because a
subclass would add nothing: `_default_backend` is already None on the base, and
that default is what keeps RL's status-detail shape unchanged on the wire (no
`backend` key is added). automodel imports the shared class directly for exactly
this reason; unsloth is the only service that subclasses it, and only to stamp
`backend="unsloth"`.
Two additive changes to the shared class make it a drop-in for what RL's copy
supported:
**additional_metrics backend-specific scalars alongside loss/lr/grad_norm.
Splatted first, so a backend metric cannot shadow the
accumulated series or the step's own loss; every other
colliding name is a real parameter and already errors
at the call site.
optional val_loss not every algorithm produces one. The key is omitted
rather than sent as null, which would chart as a zero.
Also adds the missing services/rl/.../training/progress.py, matching the unsloth
and automodel modules that bind SERVICE_NAME, so the two RL construction sites
stop passing it by hand.
Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
`report_running` REPLACES the task's status_details blob rather than merging into it, so a report that omits `metrics` erases the accumulated series from stored status until the next train step resends it -- and loses it outright if the job dies in that window. report_training_start, report_epoch_end and report_checkpoint_saved all omitted it. automodel calls both report_epoch_end and report_checkpoint_saved mid-training, so this was reachable in practice, not theoretical. On report_training_start it also blanked a resumed job's seeded series before the first step could restate it. Two automodel tests and one unsloth test pinned the buggy payload with exact-kwargs assertions; they now assert the series survives instead. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Only train_loss and val_loss were series; every other metric a backend reported
rode as a current-step scalar that the next update overwrote. So the only thing
a finished job could be charted on was its loss, no matter how much else the
backend knew.
Now every numeric metric accumulates into its own series in the same
{step, epoch, value} shape Studio already renders. The current-step scalars stay
on the blob alongside, so consumers can read either the curve or the latest value.
Series are namespaced by phase: train_<name> / val_<name>. The prefix is
load-bearing, not cosmetic -- backends report the same metric name in both their
train and validation dicts (NeMo-RL does this with truncation_rate, and DPO with
accuracy), so unprefixed names would interleave two different quantities into
one curve. train_loss and val_loss keep their bare names, so the existing Studio
loss chart is unaffected.
lr and grad_norm accumulate too; they are curves people read, and they were only
excluded because they happen to be named parameters rather than
**additional_metrics.
fetch_current_metrics had to stop hardcoding the two names, or a resumed job
would silently restart every other curve from empty. It now returns whatever
list-valued series are stored.
The numeric guard lands here as is_chartable(), and NemoRLLogger's
has_metric_value delegates to it: a metric the logger forwards must be one the
callback can chart, and letting those drift is how a histogram object ends up in
a series. It also removes a latent crash -- math.isnan raises TypeError on the
non-scalars a framework metric dict can carry.
Size scales with the number of *reports*, not training steps, since backends
throttle reporting. Measured for a 22-series RL run:
500 steps, log_interval 10 -> 42 KB final blob, 1.1 MB uploaded
500 steps, log_interval 1 -> 413 KB final blob, 101.3 MB uploaded
Accepted for batch training jobs. A backend that reports every step of a long
run pays quadratically; if that becomes a real configuration the fix is delta
appends in the transport, not trimming the series here.
Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
status_details is REPLACED on every update, so a field survives only as long as
the next report repeats it. Three kinds of field were being lost to that:
metrics erased by the runner's checkpoint/completion/failure
reports, which come from a different process than the
training driver and hold no series to resend -- so
every job ended by erasing its own curves, worst of
all on the failure path where the partial curve is
worth the most
max_steps, num_epochs stated once by report_training_start, gone from the
first training step onward
checkpoint_path published by one report, wiped by the next
Studio reads max_steps and checkpoint_path straight out of status_details, so
"step / max steps" fell back to a bare step number for the whole run, and the
latest-checkpoint row appeared and vanished.
_CARRY_FORWARD names the rule: what stays true after the update that stated it.
Cumulative (metrics), run constants (max_steps, num_epochs), monotonic progress
(step, epoch), and sticky latest-values (checkpoint_path).
Excluded deliberately: `phase`, which every report sets for itself, and the
per-step observations (train_loss, lr, grad_norm, ...). Those describe one
instant and a stale copy would misrepresent "current" -- and nothing is lost,
because each is now recoverable from its series. percentage_done is excluded
too: it is derived from step and max_steps, both carried, so a consumer can
recompute it rather than risk a copy that contradicts its own inputs.
Keeping the GET off the hot path is the design constraint. Values are remembered
as they pass through, so a process that has already stated a field restates it
for free; the stored blob is read back only when an update omits `metrics`,
which is the tell that it did not come from TrainingProgressCallback. Per-step
reports always carry `metrics` and never fetch. The runner's handful always do.
One subtlety: on resume the driver's first report already carries `metrics`, so
it would never read the blob back and would drop the previous run's
checkpoint_path. _fetch_status_details therefore refreshes the cache as a side
effect, which makes the resume-seeding fetch the callback already performs at
construction double as the carry-forward seed -- no extra round-trip.
Tests drive the SDK client seam rather than stubbing the fetch, so the real
_fetch_status_details runs, cache side effect included. First test coverage for
this module.
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Two defects in NemoRLLogger, both in how it counts and reports steps. The final training step was never reported. The throttle is `step % log_interval == 0`, so when max_steps is not a multiple of log_interval the last steps are dropped -- at 23 steps and an interval of 10 the run's last recorded loss was step 20's. A withheld step is now held as pending and flushed by close(). Nothing called close(). The driver appends the logger to `logger_inst.loggers` and never tears it down; nemo_rl.utils.logger.Logger has no close() at all -- its only teardown hook is finish(), dispatched as `getattr(logger, "finish", None)`, which skipped us because NemoRLLogger did not define one. And dpo_train never calls finish() either; the only caller upstream is the single-controller path. So the flush would have run only from __del__, at GC or interpreter shutdown, where every failure is swallowed. Two hooks now, because neither alone is sufficient: finish() aliases close() under the name the composite dispatches, and the driver calls close() from a finally, which is the case that matters -- an abnormal exit is exactly when the last step is worth having. Steps were double-counted. `log_metrics` opened with `step = step + 1`, but the caller already counts from 1: dpo.py logs `total_steps + 1`, where total_steps is 0-based and incremented *after* the log. A 23-step run therefore recorded steps 2..24 against max_steps=23, and the log_interval throttle fired on true steps 9, 19, 29 -- withholding the last step even when max_steps *was* a multiple of the interval. Epoch derivation read the same inflated step and flipped an epoch early at the boundary; it now clamps at zero, because step 0 does arrive, from the validate-at-start path, and belongs to epoch 1. for_schedule owns the log_interval and steps_per_epoch arithmetic that the DPO driver used to derive inline. Its `(val_period // 10) + 1` had a `+1` that was a divide-by-zero guard and also skewed every value it produced, and it raised outright when val_period was None. DPO's reporting cadence changes slightly as a result. The driver teardown is asserted against the AST -- the drivers cannot be imported outside the training image -- with the detector's own negative cases pinned, since a tripwire that cannot trip is worse than none. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
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The Jobs service MERGES task status_details key-wise rather than
replacing the blob -- JobDispatcher._update_status_details_object,
applied both to the task and to the copy propagated up to the job. A
field therefore survives every later update that does not restate it.
Verified end-to-end against a running platform: a full mid-training
report followed by a bare {"phase": "processing_checkpoint"} leaves the
series, the schedule and the checkpoint path stored intact. Nothing was
ever erased.
That makes _CARRY_FORWARD, the read-back GET and the metrics payload on
the training-start / checkpoint / epoch-end reports redundant. Removing
them also drops a network round-trip from every non-step report,
including report_error, where it sat between the exception and the error
being recorded.
The merge is shallow, so a report that does send `metrics` still
replaces the stored series wholesale -- the train and validation reports
keep resending every series in full. Dropping the payload from
report_training_start closes a real hole while it is at it: when the
seeding fetch failed, that report wrote an empty accumulator over a
resumed job's stored curves.
Two smaller fixes in the blast radius: fetch_current_metrics copies each
point list so the callback's accumulator no longer aliases the response,
and is_chartable's docstring no longer claims NaN/Inf reach the wire as
bare JSON tokens -- the SDK coerces both to null, so the cost of letting
one through is a hole in the curve, not a malformed blob.
Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
…ace"
_namespace read as one of four established meanings of the word before it
read as the metric one. NamespacedModel and __schema_namespace__ sit one
module away in the same package and also mean "prefix a name", but for
pydantic schema class names rather than metric keys; the platform's own
resource scoping (parse_resource_id("default/my-model")), pydantic's
protected_namespaces, and argparse.Namespace are the other three.
_qualify_metric_names says which names and what happens to them. The local
at its call site goes from `namespaced` to `qualified`, which matters most
at `if not self._seed_unavailable and qualified:` -- the condition being
tested is "did anything survive the chartable filter", which the new name
states and the old one did not.
NemoRLLogger._namespace_validation becomes _qualify_by_dataset: the same
verb one level down, where the phase qualifies a metric name and the
dataset qualifies it further on a run with more than one validation
dataloader. Renaming one and not the other would have been worse than
leaving both alone.
Four docstrings and two test docstrings follow the same word. The three
remaining uses of "namespace" in these packages -- model_namespace on the
model-entity path, NamespacedModel in the schema tests -- are the other
meanings, and keeping them distinct is the point of the rename.
No behaviour change: identifiers and prose only.
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TrainingProgressCallback consolidated metric accumulation for all three backends but not the decision of how often to report, which stayed in each backend and was only made in one of them. NeMo-RL held itself to 200 reports per path; automodel and unsloth reported every step. That is not a linear price for verbosity. Every report resends every accumulated series in full, so the blob grows as series x reports and the cost as the square of it -- and one report costs three writes, not one. JobDispatcher persists it to the task and propagates a copy to the job attempt, and both go through EntityClient.update, which PUTs the entity's whole data blob. The two server-side writes therefore carry the entire accumulated metrics whether or not the report mentioned it. Confirmed against six real completed jobs: train_loss holds exactly max_steps points in every one of them (195/195, 594/594, 20/20, 12/12). Measured against a live platform, the cost that had gone unaccounted: the report is a synchronous call made from the backend's logging hook, on the training thread, between one optimizer step and the next, and its latency grows with the blob. 600 unthrottled reports spent 52 seconds blocked inside the training loop, the last fifty averaging 2.4x the latency of the first fifty. Same run through this gate: 14 seconds, and flat. Move the cadence into the callback's one funnel, _report_metrics: - Gate on elapsed steps, never a modulus. unsloth's on_log is already gated by HuggingFace at logging_steps, and composing two moduli yields their LCM rather than the finer of the two -- at logging_steps=3 against a target interval of 100, a modulus draws a third of the points asked for. The default of 1 divides everything, so it passes every test one would write by default and then mangles the curve for anyone who touches the knob. - Key the validation gate on the distinct step. validate() logs once per dataloader at a single step, so the report counter this replaces could admit one dataset and hold its neighbour, and burned the budget N times faster with N dataloaders. - Seed the interval from the run length and back it with double-and-decimate, so the guarantee stops depending on an input we do not control. - Rebuild the gate from the seeded series, so a resumed process continues the cadence it inherited rather than restarting at full resolution. Read the interval off the curve's average spacing, not its last gap: every run ends by flushing a withheld step, which lands hard against its predecessor and reads as an interval of one. - Flush the withheld tail on close, without decimating it. A run whose length divides evenly lands exactly max_points admissions and then flushes one more; decimating there halved the finished curve, storing 101 points for the 200 reported. Both found by measurement, not review. NeMo-RL loses its copy: _MAX_REPORTS_PER_RUN, resolve_log_interval, resolve_val_report_interval, _val_passes, _pending, _send and _flush_pending all go, and NemoRLLogger returns to being an adapter. Its train path is unchanged by construction; its validation path picks up the multi-dataloader fix. automodel and unsloth gain bounded reporting and a final-point flush, neither of which they had. The throttle and flush coverage moves with the implementation, from test_nemo_rl_logger.py to test_callbacks.py, where it now holds for all three backends rather than one. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
…ob config The gate that bounds progress reporting landed with its budget fixed at 200. Make it configurable, under one name and one shape across all three backends. `ProgressReportingConfig` is deliberately not a NamespacedModel. That base exists to keep two backends' same-named-but-different models from colliding in the merged /apis/customization spec, and this is the opposite case: one model, shared on purpose. The generated spec now carries a single ProgressReportingConfig component referenced by AutomodelScheduleSpec, RlDPOTraining and UnslothScheduleSpec, so the docs, the SDK and Studio see one knob rather than three spellings of it. It lives in its own module rather than beside the callback that consumes it so the API layer can import the schema without pulling in the platform SDK that training.progress needs. Wiring, per backend: - unsloth: ScheduleSpec, which the plugin re-exports, so input and output are covered at once. train_sft reads it off the spec. - rl: _TrainingBase -> TrainingStepConfig.ScheduleConfig -> the compiled DPO block -> the driver -> NemoRLLogger. It rides the DPO block as an undeclared extra alongside steps_per_epoch, that dict being the only channel from the compiled job to the driver, and is read back with getattr because a config compiled before this existed simply omits it. - automodel: the longest chain -- plugin ScheduleSpec -> adapter -> the legacy flat CustomizationJobOutput.training -> TrainingStepConfig.ScheduleConfig -> the recipe config -> the callback. It reaches the training process as `_progress_reporting`, underscore-prefixed like the existing `_resolved_chat_template`, since the recipe config file is the only channel. Every link defaults, which is what makes a broken one dangerous: the run would report at 200 rather than fail, and nothing would say so. Each hop is therefore pinned by a test, including compile_dpo_config -- previously untested because it needs a real on-disk dataset, now exercised with a small one because no other layer can see that hop. Reading it back is defensive on the automodel side for a reason the others do not share: the recipe config is also loadable from a hand-written YAML, and _resolve_max_points runs in the wrapper's constructor, outside any try. A missing, malformed or absurd value there costs the default, not the run. Two related cleanups fall out. automodel's max_steps loses its `or 100` fallback, which was unreachable -- StepScheduler always assigns max_steps and asserts it positive, and the sentinel branch in _calculate_max_steps is dead behind an assert. And unsloth's logging_steps gains the comment explaining why it is not this knob: it drives stdout and W&B, and a user who wants verbose HF logs should not trade the training curve for them. The generated spec is regenerated here. The Stainless SDK and the CLI it generates are not: `make stainless` needs STAINLESS_API_KEY, which is not set in this environment, so the field reaches the Python SDK and `nemo` CLI on the next sync. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
The stored blob is `curves x max_points`. `max_points` bounded one factor; this bounds the other, which on most backends is the larger of the two. Measured against the real metric dicts: NeMo-RL DPO accumulates 20 series, automodel 12, unsloth 4, and Studio charts two of them. Shipped as a knob defaulting to everything, with no per-backend defaults set. Nobody's curves change until they ask, and what a good default set is stays a product question rather than one settled in passing here. The mechanism has to survive the objection that sank the last allow-list: one gating what got *reported* dropped DPO's `accuracy`, `sft_loss` and `rewards_chosen_mean` for a release because nobody had added them to it. This one gates what gets *accumulated*. Every chartable metric is still reported as a current value on every admitted report, so excluding one costs its history, never its visibility — and the excluded names are logged, once per name rather than once per step, with the set that is being charted beside them. Names are matched unqualified, so `loss` covers both the training and validation curves. One consequence is documented rather than solved: NeMo-RL's logger folds the dataloader name into the metric names of every validation set past the first, so a second set's `loss` arrives as `<dataset>_loss` and needs that spelling to be charted. Only the first set — the only one any config we compile produces — keeps the bare names. Two shapes that must not collapse into each other, and are tested for it: `None` charts everything and `[]` charts nothing. That distinction is why the automodel reader treats an absent block and an explicit null as the same thing without warning, while discarding a malformed list whole and saying so. A bare string is the trap worth naming there: `curves: loss` in YAML is iterable, and taken as a list it would chart the metrics `l`, `o` and `s`. Plumbed the same three paths as max_points, and pinned at each hop for the same reason: every link defaults, so a broken one silently charts everything rather than failing. The generated spec is regenerated. The Stainless SDK and CLI are deferred, as with max_points. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
It described itself as "Logging frequency in steps. Controls how often training metrics are logged" and controlled nothing. No code read it, it never reached the recipe config, and `config.py` builds step_scheduler with no logging cadence at all. A repo-wide grep found only the declaration. The design doc called it "documented to users" and weighed deletion against wiring it to StepScheduler.log_remote_every_steps, which gates W&B and MLflow from inside log_train_metrics and so would have left our wrapper firing every step. That wiring had a real argument behind it — it is the automodel analogue of unsloth's logging_steps, which we deliberately keep separate from our own reporting knob. Checking the reachability settled it the other way. `api/v2/jobs/` holds a schema file and no routes; CustomizationJobOutput is an internal intermediate between the plugin adapter and the compiler; the submitter-facing AutomodelJobOutput never carried the field; and regenerating the specs after removing it produces no diff, because it was in none of them. No request could ever set it. So there is no existing behaviour to preserve and no user expectation to honour, and wiring it would have been adding a feature under cover of a cleanup — a second field that sounds like "how often are metrics logged", sitting next to progress_reporting.max_points, which is the knob it was reaching for and which now exists. Removal is invisible: the model ignores extras, so a stored spec that still carries the key parses exactly as before. That property is the whole reason this is safe rather than breaking, so it is pinned by a test — adding extra="forbid" here later would otherwise turn silent tolerance into a hard failure for precisely those specs. Marked as a breaking change by convention, since the field was public in shape even though it was unreachable in practice. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
The recipe config file is the only channel from a compiled automodel job to the training process, and `_progress_reporting` is our key rather than the recipe's, so nothing upstream validates it. Both sides were covered separately — the compiler was not tested at all for this, and test_finetune.py exercises the reader against a hand-built block — which is exactly the arrangement where a rename passes every test and the run quietly reports at the default forever. Every link in this chain defaults, so a break is silent by construction. This is the test that fails instead. Asserts exact equality rather than a subset: the reader's tests are written against this literal shape, so a key renamed or dropped on either side now breaks one of the two. Verified by mutation — renaming the written key fails it. The equivalent hop in the other two backends stays untested, and cannot be reached without the training images: unsloth's train_sft reads the spec behind `import unsloth`, and NeMo-RL's driver reads the DPO block behind Ray. The writer side of the NeMo-RL hop is covered by test_dpo_config. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
… globbable `curves` described the outcome and buried the thing that matters: a training run produces two kinds of metric, and only one of them wants a history. A few — the loss, the learning rate, the gradient norm — are read for their shape over time. The rest are throughput and accounting counters whose current value is all anyone looks at. Both kinds are always reported; only the first is accumulated. `time_series_metrics` says which is which. Names are now fully qualified, matching what appears in status_details, so what a user writes is what they read back rather than something the callback prefixes for them. That also deletes a caveat this design had been carrying: NeMo-RL folds the dataloader name into the metric names of every validation set past the first, so a second set's loss arrives as `val_heldout_loss`, which no unqualified spelling could reach. It was documented as unfixable in _curve_subset and in the design doc; both go. Qualification doubles the list, so entries are globs, matched with fnmatchcase. Not fnmatch, which applies os.path.normcase and would therefore match case-insensitively on some platforms and not others — a genuinely horrible bug to chase. `*_loss` covers both phases and the whole family (train_sft_loss, val_preference_loss) and reaches the dataset-qualified names too; `*` records everything. There is precedent on both counts: studio/config.py matches allowed_origins the same way, and this API already takes `["*proj"]` for LoRA target modules. None now means the backend's default rather than everything, so `["*"]` is how a user opts out of one. An empty list still means no series at all, and every reader checks `is None` rather than truthiness so that stays distinguishable. Deliberately one list, not two. The set of metric names comes from the framework at runtime, so any pair of lists leaves a third category in neither, and the rule for that category decides whether the second list does any work: unlisted → scalar makes it documentation, unlisted → dropped is the failure that lost DPO's metrics for a release, unlisted → error breaks every job on a framework upgrade. Naming the series and letting the rest be scalars is the only partition that survives a framework adding a metric. There is no cost argument for the other shapes either: all 20 of NeMo-RL's scalars are ~400 bytes against a 172 KB blob. Defaults are now set per backend, reversing the earlier decision to defer them. Verified against the measured name sets: NeMo-RL 20 series to 14, automodel 12 to 5, unsloth 4 to 4 — and in every case only counters are dropped (num_valid_samples, global_valid_*, mem, tps, tps_per_gpu, num_*_tokens). The 1.4x/2.4x/1x is the corrected arithmetic, not the doc's old 10x headline. Qualification introduces one new way to be wrong: `loss` now matches nothing, because the metric is `train_loss`, and the run then looks exactly like one configured to record no history. close() warns about any pattern that never matched, naming the metrics that did arrive. Left to close() because a name that has not arrived yet is not yet wrong — validation metrics do not exist until the first pass. Free to reshape now only because the Stainless sync is deferred: the field is in the API and the generated spec but in no SDK or CLI, so this is a rename with no migration. After that sync it would need a deprecation. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Found by an independent review pass, not by the tests — all 523 passed both before and after, which is its own finding. Each fix below has a test that fails on the preceding implementation; verified by stashing the source and re-running. **A second validation dataset overwrote the first's series.** Both LLM backends validate over a dict of dataloaders and log once per entry at a single step. NeMo-RL folds the dataset name into the metric names; automodel's wrapper discarded the `val_name` its recipe passes, so every dataset reported as `val_loss` — two datasets interleaved as two points at one step in one series, which is the exact collision the `<phase>_` rule exists to prevent. Studio keys its loss chart by step, so one silently won and the chart showed whichever dataloader iterated last. The qualifier is now shared (`DatasetQualifier`) rather than implemented for one backend and silently absent in the other. **The final validation pass of all but one dataloader was dropped.** `pending` was one slot per path, on the rationale that "a newer held report supersedes an older one". True across steps, false for two dataloaders at one step: those are different curves, not successive versions. When the last pass was withheld, `close()` flushed whichever iterated last. `pending` is now keyed by the set of series a report writes — which is precisely what distinguishes supersedes from accompanies — and `_flush_pending` replays all of them. The dedup guard moved with it: it compared the step against the path's last admission, which is true for the second dataloader at a step the first just recorded, so it dropped the very reports this fixes. It now asks whether *these* curves already hold the point. **Decimation coupled the future cadence to the size of the inherited past.** `_decimate` halved once per call and raised the interval once per call, so a curve k halvings over budget cost 2^k. Resuming a task whose series was written by the uncapped callback that ships today (one point per step) took the interval from a configured 100 to 6,400 and reduced the entire second half of a 20,000-step run to two reported points — reachable by any mixed-version resume during the rollout of this very change. It now thins to the budget in one pass, choosing the stride from the overshoot. **And it compounded across dataloaders.** Because the raise was per call and each dataloader's report is its own call, two datasets took a 25-step validation cadence to 100 instead of 50, three would have taken it to 200. The interval is now read off the thinned curve rather than multiplied, which removes both compoundings at once: the stored points are the record of the cadence in force, so deriving from them cannot double-count. `_observed_spacing` (shared by `_seed_gate` and `_decimate`) rounds up rather than down. Flooring returns one less than the interval actually in force for any curve whose last point is a flush, and where this number is load-bearing — a thinned curve — one step too small is what used to compound. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
…its cost Removes `max_points` and the whole point-capping apparatus: the admission gate, the elapsed-step interval, decimation and thinning, the spacing reconstruction, the withheld-report machinery and the close-time flush. The callback now records and sends whatever the training library hands it, at whatever cadence the library logs. callbacks.py goes from 982 lines to 577. The cap was solving a problem we do not have, in a place that should not have to solve it. We do not have it: every real customization job on record ran between 12 and 594 steps, and every Automodel contract fixture caps at 50. At that scale a 200-point budget never binds, and where it did bind it thinned a curve the user wanted whole. The measured cost of not capping, at the scale runs actually reach, is a fraction of a megabyte and seconds of reporting. The place is wrong because the quadratic is not ours. It is entirely a property of `status_details` being a blob that is replaced wholesale and written three times — client to Jobs, Jobs to the task entity, Jobs to the job attempt. The module docstring keeps that cost model, because it is still true and still needs fixing; capping points here only made it cheaper to leave alone. The curves want to live somewhere that appends. And the cap was where the bugs were. Four data-loss defects were found in that machinery by review last week — two dropping a dataloader's final validation point, two letting decimation compound until a resumed run reported twice in 10,000 steps. None were in accumulation or in reporting. Deleting the mechanism retires that entire class of defect rather than fixing it one instance at a time. Verified against a live platform before removing the ceiling: a 20,000-step run at 14 series is an 11.9 MB `status_details` blob and writes in ~2s. Nothing in the path caps it — `data` is a JSON column, no body-size limit is configured anywhere in the repo, and ingress is disabled by default and not on the write path, since training pods report to the Jobs service in-cluster. Tested to 30 MB without a failure or a truncation. `time_series_metrics` stays. It is not a throttle: it says which metrics are worth a history and which are worth only a current value, which is a data-modelling choice about what a run means rather than a workaround for what the transport costs. `DatasetQualifier` stays for the same reason — it fixes a real collision between two validation datasets. What a long run now costs is visible in the job rather than hidden behind a cap, which is the right place for the pressure to sit. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
… run Three defects in `time_series_metrics`, all found by review, all on the path a config file reaches. The NeMo-RL backend forwards this value straight out of a YAML with no schema in between, and matching runs inline in a training step, so "unusable" has to mean a warning rather than an exception. **A non-string entry ended the run.** `fnmatchcase(name, None)` raises `TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()`, and it raises from inside `report_train_step`, which backends call from their logging hook with nothing catching underneath. A stray `null` in a list cost the whole training job. The list is now cleaned once at construction; unusable entries are dropped and named in the log. **A bare string silently recorded nothing.** `str` satisfies `Collection[str]` as a collection of its own characters, so `time_series_metrics: train_loss` in YAML became the ten patterns `t`, `r`, `a`, ... None of them match any metric, so the run stored no history at all and said nothing about why. There is only one thing that spelling can have meant, and it is now read that way. A list whose every entry was unusable now falls back to recording everything, on the principle that a broken config should cost noise rather than data. An explicitly empty list is untouched -- `[]` is a legitimate request for current values with no history, and it is the one input that rule must not swallow. **The typo warning could not fire in the case it was written for.** It was gated on `self._excluded_seen`, which holds metrics that were *dropped*, as a proxy for "did any metric arrive". Those differ exactly when every metric that arrived matched something -- the ordinary case -- so `["*_loss", "val_accuarcy"]` against a run reporting only a loss excluded nothing, and the misspelling passed in silence. It now tracks metrics seen, and names them in the warning so the correct spelling is obvious. Separately, `ProgressReportingConfig` now forbids extra fields. Every model it is embedded in inherits that from `NamespacedModel`, and unsloth's schema module states the contract outright -- "typos in the JSON shape become validation errors, not silently-ignored fields". This fragment is deliberately not a NamespacedModel, so that it emits one shared OpenAPI component rather than three, and it did not inherit the strictness either: it was the one object in the request body where `time_series_metric` parsed and then did nothing. Six of the seven new tests fail on the preceding implementation, verified by stashing the source. The seventh guards the empty-list case against the new fallback and passes either way by design. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Buffers metric reports in memory and decides when to send, rather than sending one request per step the training library logs. Every point is still recorded at full resolution the moment it arrives; only the cadence of the requests changes. Measured on a 600-step burst: 600 requests become 2, and all 600 points are still on the curve. This is not the point cap in another guise, and the difference is the whole reason it is safe. That gated the *record* -- points were discarded to stay inside a budget, which is why it needed decimation, interval reconstruction from the stored series, and a withheld-report slot per validation dataloader, and why four data-loss defects lived in it. This gates only the *send*. A withheld report loses nothing, because its points are already in the accumulator and travel with the next request that goes. Multi-dataloader validation stops being a special case entirely: there is no held payload whose identity has to be tracked, just an accumulator that is sent less often. What it is worth is bounded, and the docstring says so rather than overselling it. On the runs that actually exist -- 12 to 594 steps -- it takes a 594-step run from 594 requests and 36s blocked inside the training loop to 180 and 11s. It does *not* bound a long run: the cost of one request grows with the accumulated blob, so an 11-hour run still spends tens of minutes reporting at any interval, and no rate limit can fix that because the payload is what grows. That ceiling is the transport's, and remains the argument for getting the curves out of `status_details`. Details worth keeping: - `time.monotonic`, not wall-clock time. A training process outlives NTP corrections, and a clock stepping backwards would stall reporting until it caught up. The clock is injectable, so the limiter is tested without sleeping. - The first report always goes, so a curve starts at the beginning of a run and the progress bar moves as soon as there is anything to say. - The payload is built at send time, not at record time, so a withheld report costs a dict of scalars instead of a copy of every series. - Whether to attach `metrics` keys on anything unsent since the last send, not on what this particular report added. Under a rate limit those differ: the report that passes the limiter may itself be all current-value-only while several withheld before it added points, and asking about only this one would strand them. - `close()` sends what the limiter withheld. Load-bearing for data rather than freshness -- points recorded since the last send exist nowhere but this process until something carries them. - Checkpoint, epoch-end and training-start reports bypass the limiter. They are events, not samples, and a checkpoint report carries the only record of where the checkpoint landed. - One interval across both paths, because the cost being limited is a request and both paths send the same blob. - A negative interval is clamped rather than rejected: this arrives from a job config, and a reporting knob must not be able to stop a run from starting. Exposed as `progress_reporting.min_report_interval_seconds`, defaulting to 10s, plumbed through all three backends beside `time_series_metrics` and pinned at each hop. The shared test helper disables it by default -- almost every test in that file is about what a report contains, and those report several steps in one instant. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Both were found by an independent review pass. Neither was failing; both had stopped doing their job and said nothing, which is what makes them worth a commit of their own. **The contract check had disabled itself.** `compile_automodel_config` writes a `_progress_reporting` block into every config, none of the fifteen golden fixtures have it, so every config mismatched. The test inferred its embedding- config exclusion from the *output* of the check -- any run whose failure text mentioned an excluded stem skipped the whole thing -- so a change touching every config guaranteed the text mentioned one, and the check silently stopped running with no failure and no skip message anyone would look at twice. Two fixes, because the block was only the trigger: - The generator now drops our own keys before comparing, beside the `_resolved_chat_template` that was already handled. The golden files describe the contract with nemo_automodel; our reporting shape is not part of it, and including it would make them churn every time that shape changed. `compile_automodel_config` writing the block is still pinned, separately, by test_config.py. - The exclusion moved from inferring which *failures* to forgive to declaring which *configs* to compare, via `--check --exclude`. A real mismatch now fails even when an excluded config mismatches alongside it -- verified: excluding only the embedding config still fails on the other one, where the old code skipped. Pinned by a test that drives `_check_all` with a forced mismatch. **Studio rendered blank charts for every existing job.** `details.train_lr` with no fallback to `details.lr`, so every customization job completed before the phase prefix was applied to metric names shows an empty Learning Rate and Gradient Norm permanently. Those rows are in the database and will never change. `train_loss` and `val_loss` need no equivalent -- they were already spelled that way. Note on verification: the TypeScript change is unverified by execution. There is no node toolchain in this environment, so its two new tests have not been run -- only type-checked by inspection (`details` is `Record<string, unknown>`, `asFiniteNumber` takes `unknown`). The `Run UI lint-staged` hook fails for the same reason, on a clean tree as well as this one. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
`metrics.mdx` told users training loss was "logged every 10 steps (default, configurable via hyperparameters)". That was stale before this branch — the ten came from `NemoRLLogger.log_interval`, and the hyperparameter it pointed at was `log_every_n_steps`, which controlled nothing and has since been deleted. It is now wrong in a more confusing way, because the default report interval really is ten, but of seconds, and it bounds sending rather than recording. A reader had every reason to believe it. Replaced with what actually happens: every value the framework logs is recorded at full resolution, and only the sending is throttled. That distinction is the whole design, and it is the thing a user needs in order to read a chart that lags the run by a few seconds and still trust the curve is complete. Also corrected "training loss and validation loss are always among them", which overstated a guarantee the code does not make: an algorithm scoring validation on something other than a loss reports no `val_loss`. GRPO is exactly that case. Documents `schedule.progress_reporting`, which was a new public field on all three backends with no mention anywhere in docs/, and adds a note separating it from the training framework's own logging cadence — the confusion the old sentence created, now stated explicitly so it does not come back. Every claim in the new text was checked against the code rather than written from memory: the default of 10, the `None` default for `time_series_metrics`, the `*_loss, *_lr, *_grad_norm` backend default, and that `0` and `["*"]` are both accepted. The example was validated by constructing the real `AutomodelJobInput` with it, then trimmed to the `schedule` fragment because the full call referenced `client` and `AutomodelJobInput` before this file introduces either. Not verified by a docs build: the Fern CLI needs node, which is not available in this environment. Structure was checked by hand instead — frontmatter, balanced code fences and `<Note>` tags, heading order. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Every test touched here passed against a broken implementation. An independent
mutation pass found them; each fix below is verified the same way — break the
source, confirm the test now fails, restore.
**`update_task` never raising was asserted nowhere.** It is the single most
load-bearing safety property in this code: it runs synchronously from a
backend's logging hook, between optimizer steps, with nothing catching
underneath, so an exception escaping it ends the run. Turning its `except` into
a bare `raise` left all 22 tests in the file green. Now covered for the failure
modes a real transport produces, including the JSON-serialisation error a
non-scalar metric would cause — plus that the failure is logged rather than
swallowed silently, and that one failure does not poison the reporter for the
rest of the run.
**The reporter stub was supplying the guarantee under test.** Its default prior
was `{"train_loss": [], "val_loss": []}` — exactly what `_build_metrics_summary`
is supposed to produce — where the real `fetch_current_metrics` returns `{}` for
a fresh task. Removing the seeding from the callback left every
`metrics["train_loss"] == []` assertion passing. Defaulting the stub to `{}`
makes eight tests fail on that mutation.
**`fnmatchcase` cannot be tested behaviourally on this platform, so it is pinned
by identity.** `fnmatch` applies `os.path.normcase`, which is the identity on
POSIX — the two functions are indistinguishable here, and swapping them changes
nothing observable. My first attempt asserted case-sensitivity through a
stdlib import, which is a tautology; my second imported through the module under
test, which still passed, because the mutation rebinds that name to a function
that behaves identically on Linux. The bug is invisible on the machine most
likely to run the suite and appears only on macOS, so the dependency itself is
what gets asserted.
**Two tests reimplemented the matcher and executed no production code.** The
automodel and NeMo-RL "default set" tests ran `fnmatchcase` over a hardcoded
name list and compared against the module constant, so they would have passed
against any implementation at all. Both now drive the real callback with the
real metric dict and assert on what it stores — and on the counters still being
reported as latest values, which is the point of leaving them out.
**`test_completed_epoch_capped_at_num_epochs` never exercised the cap.** Both
its cases were satisfied by `ceil` alone. Added the ones that need `min`: a
fractional epoch drifting past the total, which is what HuggingFace actually
produces on a last step.
**The automodel wrapper had no coverage at all** — the code that runs in the
training loop. Eight mutations to it survived the whole suite, including
deleting both config arguments to the callback, dropping `strip_val_prefix` at
its call site, dropping the 0-to-1-based step conversion, deleting the
`report_training_start` call, and turning each of the three `try/except` blocks
that keep a reporting failure from killing training into a bare `raise`. All
eight now fail.
Worth recording: the interval argument needed two reports to catch. A
single-step test passes whether or not the argument is dropped, because the
first report always sends regardless of the limit — the same shape of hole as
the ones this commit is closing.
Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Progress updates are sent synchronously between optimizer steps, so the HTTP timeout is really a bound on how long a struggling Jobs service can hold the GPU idle. The SDK default is 60s read/write with two retries -- about three minutes per report, repeated for the rest of the run. That default is tuned for a call someone is waiting on. This is the opposite case: a healthy update costs 46ms plus 0.31ms/KB, and a lost one costs almost nothing, because every report carries the whole series and the next one supersedes it. Drop to 10s read/write, 5s connect, measured at 60.0s -> 10.0s against a server that accepts and never replies. Applied with with_options rather than by passing our own http_client: get_task_sdk skips its workload-identity branch entirely when handed a client, so setting a timeout that way would quietly change how the task authenticates -- in exactly the deployment hardest to test. Retries stay at the default; they are cheap once the timeout is short, and close()'s final flush is the one report with no successor to repair it. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
All three were verified against the real sources rather than reasoned
about, and all three were wrong in the same direction: a plausible
paraphrase of something nearby.
Automodel counter count. The docstring said five of the twelve series are
throughput and accounting counters, then listed five names. Five is the
count of distinct names; `mem` and `num_label_tokens` appear on both the
train and validation dicts, so seven of the twelve series are counters.
Confirmed by driving _qualify_metric_names with the metric dicts from
NeMo-Automodel recipes/llm/train_ft.py: 8 train + 4 val = 12 series, 7
counters, 5 kept by DIAGNOSTIC_TIME_SERIES. The twelve-to-five claim the
paragraph ends on was already right.
Dispatcher citation. `dispatcher.py:1217-1223` covers the status_details
merge but stops one line short of `store.update(task)` at 1224, which is
the write the sentence is about. The other two citations in that sentence
check out as written.
NeMo-RL validation prefixes. No call site emits `validation/nemo_gym`, or
any slash-separated validation prefix. NeMo-RL logs a bare `validation`
from sft/grpo/ppo/distillation, and `f"validation-{name}"` from dpo.py:378
and rm.py:317, keyed by dataset -- so `validation-0` was wrong too, since
the key is a task name, not an index. Documented the two real forms and
kept the `/` in lstrip as what it is: defensive, matching NeMo-RL's other
prefix separator, currently unreached.
The test pinned the same fiction. It now parametrizes the real prefixes,
with the slash case retained and labelled as emitted by no caller.
Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
…ribute `AutomodelRecipeWrapper` reported an `automodel_recipe_setup` phase from its constructor. The runner already reports `training` before it spawns this subprocess, and `report_training_start` reports `training` again once setup finishes, so the phase landed between them and went backwards: Studio rendered Training, then Recipe Setup, then Training. It was covering something real -- `recipe.setup()` loads the model, which is minutes on a large one, and the callback cannot report there because it is not built until after setup returns. But a one-shot marker is a poor instrument for it: no heartbeat, so a hang at second 30 looks exactly like a hang an hour in, and it wrote nothing but the phase name. That window wants a heartbeat across setup(), which is a separate change. With the report gone the reporter has one use -- constructing the callback -- so it becomes a local. The callback has owned closing it all along, via `callback.close()` in run_train_validation_loop; keeping it as an attribute implied a lifecycle this class does not manage. Studio's `automodel_recipe_setup: 'Recipe Setup'` label stays. Jobs already in the database carry that phase and never change, the same reason the `?? details.lr` fallback stays. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
…_request Names what it gates -- one request on the wire -- rather than when it is being asked. No behaviour change; the method still records the send when it returns True. Only two references existed, both in this file: no test names the method, because the limiter is exercised through the callback's reporting behaviour rather than called directly. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
…erased The callback kept two accumulators with opposite update rules. `_series` merged by metric name; `_pending_metrics` held one whole withheld report in a single slot and a second withheld report replaced it wholesale. That asymmetry was the bug: the scalars in the displaced report were never sent at all. Two ways it bit, both reproduced before the fix. Across phases, a withheld train step followed by a withheld validation pass -- the validation report carries `val_` names, a key set disjoint from `train_`, so it carried nothing fresher for what it displaced. Within one phase, two withheld reports where the second omits a metric the first carried, which backends do routinely. The sequence that hits it is the ordinary end of a run: last train step, final validation, close(). Replaced both with one store keyed by qualified metric name, where the type is the discriminator -- a list is a series and appends, a bare number is a scalar and is replaced. Which one a name is gets decided once, the first time it arrives, so the patterns are matched once per name instead of once per name per step, and the "current value only" log needs no seen-set to stay at one line per name. `_excluded_seen` drops out entirely. Sending is now declarative: it transmits the state the server should hold rather than replaying events since the last send. Scalars ride on every report, which is what makes a dropped report self-healing -- `update_task` swallows its failures, so a lost report used to leave a permanent hole. Measured cost: train reports are unchanged at 8 scalars/206 bytes; validation reports carry 12 instead of 4, +181 bytes against a series blob already past 1.3 KB and growing. The series are still gated on having changed, because they are the term that actually costs. Two behaviours worth stating. A series still reports its newest point as a top-level current value as well as its history -- being a series adds a history, it does not cost the value. And a seeded series whose name the current patterns would not select now resumes rather than freezing; no test pinned the old behaviour, and the seeding exists so a process taking over "continues its curves", which is what resuming does. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
callbacks.py had grown to 484 lines of comment and docstring against 177 of code. Most of the excess was narrative -- what an earlier version did, what was tried and removed, the same point restated from a second angle -- which belongs in the design note, not above the function. Cut to 322. What stays is what a reader would otherwise get wrong: the merge semantics that make a sent key destructive, why the phase prefix is load-bearing, why `fnmatchcase` and not `fnmatch`, why report_training_start states neither step nor metrics, why a null checkpoint_path is omitted rather than sent. Measured numbers stay; the essays justifying them now point at AALGO-497. Verified prose-only: the module's AST with every docstring stripped is byte-identical before and after. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Three edits.
The default-interval note argued the 10s choice from measurements. The
numbers live in the design note and in callbacks.py; here all a reader
needs is that ten seconds is roughly the rate a person reads a progress
bar.
The extra="forbid" comment took seven lines to say one thing: this is not
a NamespacedModel, so it does not inherit the extras rule the models
embedding it set, and without the line a typo in the request body is
silently ignored.
The class docstring is not a comment -- it ships as the OpenAPI component
description, so it is user-facing API text. It was carrying a literal
`:mod:` Sphinx role, which renders as-is in the generated spec, along with
internal framing ("no sampling of our own", "the Jobs service's to solve").
Rewritten as documentation for whoever is setting the field. Spec
regenerated; the role is gone and the seven others in that file are
pre-existing on main, from other schemas.
Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
The old docstring took three paragraphs to arrive at "some metrics want a history, others only a latest value", and led with implementation framing rather than with what the object is for. It also ships as the OpenAPI component description, so it is read by whoever is filling the field in, not by whoever maintains the callback. Replaced with what it configures -- how a training job reports progress to the Jobs service -- and the two controls that follow from it. Spec regenerated. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
Caught by CI's Web format check. I had wrapped the call by hand; it is inside the print width, so prettier joins it. I could not run prettier when I wrote this -- node is not on my machine -- and said so rather than claiming the file was checked. Fetching a pinned node reproduced the failure exactly and confirms the fix. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
"tracks every numeric metric its backend reports" already says the list is not fixed; "not a fixed list" only restated it. Signed-off-by: Albert Cui <albcui@nvidia.com>
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Summary
Training progress reporting was refactored to handle generic metrics from each training backend, and made sure that they are recorded as time series in the job's status details, under one rule, shared across all backends.
This is foundational work, which the new GRPO-specific metrics depend on.
Changes
1. Generalization of metrics
Previously, we accepted
loss, lr, grad_normas hardcoded metric names. Now,report_train_step(loss=, lr=, grad_norm=)becomesreport_train_step(metrics={...})— backends hand over their framework's own dict and the phase supplies the prefix, so every metric is stored and reported as<phase>_<name>.train_lossandval_lossnaturally come out of this rule asphase="train"/"val"andname="loss", not special cases. Alongside it, we accumulate a time series for every reported metric under{series: [{step, epoch, value}]}.Deleted the RL service's own 95-line copy of
TrainingProgressCallbackin favor of the shared one, and added a thinservices/rl/.../training/progress.pythat binds the RL service name — mirroring what unsloth and automodel already had.2. Transport: what a report is allowed to say
The Jobs service merges
status_detailskey-wise, but the merge is shallow -- a sent key replaces the stored value wholesale, sometricsneeds to be either sent in full or omitted entirely. Hardened the checkpoint / epoch-end / training-start report methods to omit metrics rather than sending an empty copy.3. log_metrics throttling at NeMo RL logger level
NeMO RL library doesn't expose a config to control how often to call
log_metrics. It currently callslog_metricson every step, which is very noisy. Especially when considering how we need to send the entire accumulated metrics to the jobs service each time we need to make an update, which grows quadratically relative to how many times we call the service. This means we need to implement some kind of throttling mechanism to limit the number of reports to the jobs service. This is why we introduce_MAX_REPORTS_PER_RUN=200, which applies an upper limit to how many times we can call the jobs service. Which step ends up being reported depends on the max steps. This limit is applied independently to both the training and validation paths, so at most we make 400 requests to the jobs service.3. Backend-specific naming repairs
Two backends violated the new rule in opposite directions. Automodel's recipes pre-prefix some validation metrics, so names came back doubled (
val_val_acc1) — strip_val_prefix takes it off wherever the recipe put one. And the RL validation branch required a chartable loss before reporting anything, which dropped every validation pass GRPO ran, since it scores on accuracy and avg_length and produces no loss at all.4. Docs and housekeeping
get-job-status.mdx and metrics.mdx document the naming rule and the series payload; the rest is headers, an unused reference, and CodeRabbit follow-ups.
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