Nightly test scripts for E2B-it, 26B-A4B-it, and 31B-it DAPO recipes,
and the VLM E4B GRPO recipe. Includes 31B DAPO threshold calibration
from off-policy baseline.

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…; enable Liger for Gemma4-31B

All four DAPO-style recipes had truncated_importance_sampling_ratio: 2
set but inherited truncated_importance_sampling_type: null from
grpo_math_1B.yaml. nemo_rl/algorithms/loss/loss_functions.py raises
ValueError("Invalid truncated importance sampling type: None") on the
first training step in that case. Setting the type to "tis" matches the
ratio=2 semantics (clamp IS weights to [0, max]) and unblocks the
recipes.

Affected:
- dapo-gemma4-e2b-it-1n8g-fsdp2-automodel.yaml
- dapo-gemma4-26ba4b-it-4n8g-fsdp2-automodel.yaml
- dapo-gemma4-31b-it-4n8g-fsdp2-automodel.yaml
- grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-dapo-4n8g-automodel.yaml

For Gemma4-31B specifically, also add use_liger_kernel: true and
use_sdpa_patching: false under dtensor_cfg.automodel_kwargs, following
the upstream Automodel example at
3rdparty/Automodel-workspace/Automodel/examples/vlm_finetune/gemma4/gemma4_31b.yaml
(though Liger needs a follow-up to ensure liger-kernel is in the policy
worker venv).

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Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

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…qwen3.5 DAPO recipe

Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

…est -x

Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

Nightly total with all 3 Gemma4 suites was 1501 GPU-h, over the 1360 cap.
Move the 31B 4n8g run (128 GPU-h) to release alongside 26ba4b; keep E2B
(12 GPU-h) and VLM E4B (16 GPU-h) in nightly. Total drops to 1373 GPU-h.
Bump cap from 1360 to 1380 to give 7 GPU-h headroom.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

Remove train_global_batch_size that equals the base default and unquote
the tis literal, so the configs-minimize-check pre-commit hook passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

Tighten the automodel extra's transformers constraint to >=5.5.0,<5.6.0
(nemo-automodel pins ==5.5.0 exactly, so this has no resolution effect
but prevents uv from drifting to a newer fork in a fresh Docker build).

Regenerate uv.lock with submodules at their tracked commits. The previous
lock was generated with a locally-modified Megatron-Bridge (ahead of the
tracked commit), which caused its Megatron-LM to inject a custom
nvidia-resiliency-ext pin (15a851565) that only existed in the local
working tree. In CI, Docker initializes submodules to their tracked
commits (no custom pin), so uv resolved nvidia-resiliency-ext to the
root pin (6c5f2a13), producing a lock mismatch and a container build
failure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

The transformers 5.3.0 -> 5.5.0 bump in this PR slightly shifts the
logits of Skywork/Skywork-Reward-V2-Qwen3-0.6B, moving the first reward
from -5.2500 to -5.4062 (delta 0.156 > atol=1e-1). Update the hardcoded
baseline to the values produced under transformers 5.5.0.

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Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

…ormers 5.5.x

transformers #44627 (v5.5.0) centralized VLM checkpoint key-conversions and
dropped the Qwen2.5-VL `^visual -> model.visual` rename; transformers #45358
restored it only in v5.6.0. NeMo-RL pins transformers<5.6.0, and Automodel's
get_combined_key_mapping only mirrors transformers WeightRenaming entries, so on
v5.5.x the vision-tower checkpoint keys (visual.*) stay unmapped and are dropped
by FSDP2 set_model_state_dict(strict=False) in load_base_model -> the vision
tower is left randomly initialized. The training forward then diverges from
vLLM (correct vision), producing the vlm_grpo token_mult_prob_error CI failure.

Wrap get_combined_key_mapping to re-inject `^visual\. -> model.visual.` for
qwen2_5_vl/qwen2_vl. Idempotent (skips if a model.visual rule already exists),
so it auto-noops on transformers >=5.6.0 or once Automodel adopts PR NVIDIA-NeMo#2431.
Disable via NRL_DISABLE_QWENVL_VISION_PATCH=1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

Add a temporary Nemotron-H workaround that casts Mamba out_proj inputs to the projection weight dtype.

Automodel PR NVIDIA-NeMo#1631 preserves BF16 checkpoint dtypes via _restore_loaded_model_dtype, which exposes the transformers Nemotron-H cuda_kernels_forward bug fixed upstream by transformers PR #46487.

Apply the hook only for Nemotron-H configs and make it opt-out via NRL_DISABLE_NEMOTRON_H_DTYPE_PATCH=1.

Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

Use 0.0 instead of 0 for router_aux_loss_coef overrides.

Hugging Face strict config validation declares router_aux_loss_coef as a float and rejects YAML's integer 0. Add comments beside the overrides to avoid regressing this back to an int.

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Clarify that transformers PR #44627 introduced the v5.5.0 Qwen-VL visual key mapping regression and transformers PR #45358 fixed it in v5.6.

The local patch remains necessary while NeMo-RL pins to an Automodel commit that still depends on transformers v5.5.0. It can be removed after Automodel upgrades its transformers dependency to include #45358.

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Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

The previous commit bumped the DeepEP git rev to 29d31c095 in all
dependency lists but left the [[tool.uv.dependency-metadata]] version
label and the lock at the old commit's short SHA (1.2.1+bfded34).
DeepEP's setup.py derives its version as 1.2.1+<git short HEAD>, so the
new commit builds as 1.2.1+29d31c0. CI's fresh `uv sync --locked` build
computed 1.2.1+29d31c0 and rejected the stale lock; local `uv lock`
reused the static override and masked the mismatch.

Update the override to v1.2.1+29d31c0 and regenerate the lock.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

- train.py: remove the obsolete use_cache/activation-checkpointing
  incompatibility note. Automodel NVIDIA-NeMo#1705 (pinned 6de0c361) keeps use_cache=True
  for KV-sharing models under activation checkpointing, so the E4B VLM recipe's
  activation_checkpointing: true is safe.
- dtensor_policy_worker.py (v1): remove the Gemma4 mm_token_type_ids injection.
  The v1 DTensor worker is being deprecated; all shipped Gemma4 recipes use
  _v2: true, which threads use_cache/mm_token_type_ids correctly.
- setup.py: drop the Nemotron-H projection-dtype patch. A module forward-hook
  cannot reach the fused Mamba kernel's internal out_proj F.linear, so it cannot
  make nemotron-h LoRA train; the proper fix is the Automodel r0.5.0 restore-dtype
  change (tracked as a separate migration).
- recipes: migrate enable_deepep: true -> experts: gmm + dispatcher: deepep for
  the gemma4/qwen3.5 automodel recipes (enable_deepep is deprecated in Automodel
  BackendConfig; behavior-preserving). Verified: 26B-A4B trains 20 steps, gen_kl
  0.0009, gates pass.
- tests: harden the E4B VLM gate with median(token_mult_prob_error) < 1.05
  (observed 1.011 in CI); add a reward-ordering invariant to the reward-model
  env test; add hermetic unit tests for _needs_kv_cache_for_shared_layers and the
  Gemma4 mm_token_type_ids injection.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

NVIDIA-NeMo#2419 workaround)

Automodel's _restore_loaded_model_dtype (HF/force_hf load path) re-casts loaded
params back to the bf16 checkpoint dtype, silently undoing NeMo-RL's intended
torch_dtype=float32 master-weight load. With bf16 master weights, AdamW updates
underflow and the policy never learns: grpo-nano-v2-12b reward[30] stuck ~0.18
(vs ~0.54) and sft-nanov3-30BA3B loss plateaus. Only force_hf models (NemotronH
nano-v2/nano-v3) are affected; custom-impl models (gemma4, Llama) load via the DCP
copy path that preserves fp32.

Add _disable_automodel_checkpoint_dtype_restore() to no-op that restore before
from_pretrained so the requested fp32 is honored. Validated: nano-v2-12b reward[30]
0.176 -> 0.541 PASS; nanov3-30BA3B-lora loss[20] 2.027 PASS.

This is temporary until the automodel pin includes NVIDIA-NeMo/Automodel#2419
(rewrites _restore_loaded_model_dtype to honor an explicit torch_dtype). Add an
obsolescence tripwire test that fails when NVIDIA-NeMo#2419 lands so the workaround is removed
timely, plus an analogous tripwire for the existing Qwen-VL vision-tower
key-mapping workaround (fires when transformers #45358 / >=5.6 reaches the pin).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

Reapply gemma4 dependency overrides (transformers 5.5.0, vllm 0.20.0,
deep_ep 29d31c09) on top of upstream's lock baseline, which now carries
the PyJWT/mlflow CVE bumps (NVIDIA-NeMo#2752). Resolved 445 packages in-container.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

The `ruff check --select I --fix` pre-commit hook reorders imports in
test_automodel_checkpoint.py and test_automodel_setup.py: third-party
`nemo_automodel` must precede first-party `nemo_rl`, and straight
`import` precedes `from ... import`. Apply the fixes so the lint check
(and the downstream CI quality check) pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

The automodel fp32-master-weight tripwire test
(test_automodel_dtype_restore_workaround_still_needed) failed in CI as a
false positive. _disable_automodel_checkpoint_dtype_restore() globally and
irreversibly replaces _restore_loaded_model_dtype with a no-op; earlier
setup_model_and_optimizer tests in the same process leave that no-op
installed, so the tripwire exercised the no-op (which preserves fp32)
instead of Automodel's real downgrading function. Stash the original on the
no-op and have the test recover it via _nrl_original.

Also pass requested_dtype=fp32 to the function when its signature accepts
it, so the tripwire actually fires once Automodel NVIDIA-NeMo#2419 is pinned: the
rewritten function honors the explicit fp32 request only via that new
parameter (promote_types), not via hf_config/load_kwargs.

Correct the Skywork reward baseline (-5.4062 -> -5.2500) to the value the
CI build produces (also the historical pre-refresh value); the
incorrect-answer score is sensitive to the transformers/torch/kernel build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

Gemma4 nightly coverage (dapo-gemma4-e2b 12 GPU-hrs +
vlm_grpo-gemma4-e4b 16 GPU-hrs) pushes the nightly total to 1897,
over the 1890 cap. Bump the budget to 1900, following the established
pattern (most recently NVIDIA-NeMo#2777, 1820 -> 1890).

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Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

…emoval

Add a unit test that fails once transformers>=5.5.2 (PR #45312) lands,
which fixes KV sharing without requiring use_cache=True and makes the
_needs_kv_cache_for_shared_layers workaround in
nemo_rl/models/automodel/train.py obsolete. The test keys on the
transformers version the workaround's TODO names; it only runs under
--automodel-only (transformers 5.5.0), so it stays green today and fires
exactly when the automodel pin advances past the fix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

The dpo-nanov3-30B3AB-1n8g-fsdp8ep8-automodel recipe OOMs at ~step 8 on
80 GiB GPUs: the full-vocab log_softmax in DPO loss-input prep
(get_next_token_logprobs_from_logits) spikes ~3.7 GiB on an already
near-full budget. Enabling DTensor activation checkpointing frees enough
activation memory to clear it; validated end-to-end (15/15 steps, all
check_metrics thresholds pass, steady ~1.6s/step).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>

Note the removal of the implicit visual-encoder freeze for text-only
training: AutoModel only freezes when freeze_config is present (no default
auto-freeze), and a typo in a freeze_* key silently falls back to unfrozen.
Both can produce optimizer state for never-grad'd params and a
checkpoint-resume key mismatch on custom configs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuang Yu <shuangy@nvidia.com>