[fix] support general logic to bypass fp32 downcast and fix qwen35 A_log dtype#975
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Rewrite fp32_param_preservation.md as a practical how-to guide for supporting fp32 parameters in bf16 models. Leads with a 2-step quick start, uses Qwen3.5 A_log as a complete example, and keeps the cast chain analysis as background. Register the doc in index.rst. Made-with: Cursor
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…region clusters (#10) * Revert "[BUGFIX] [P2PRDMA] Add rollout post-processing after P2PRDMA weight updates" (radixark#882) * [Fix] fix ci (radixark#894) * Avoid threading for ray getting object (radixark#886) * Add explicit errors for unsupported Megatron profiles (radixark#887) * Add nvfp4 quantizer files (radixark#907) * Bump flash-linear-attention version to 0.4.2 (radixark#892) * [BUGFIX] Invoke "post_process_quantization" by default after weight updating (radixark#890) Co-authored-by: Yueming Yuan <yym022502@gmail.com> * Add heartbeat and id to session server (radixark#866) * fix: adding thin glm5 image to docker build + latest tag sync (radixark#871) * Add consistent hashing routing policy for rollout (radixark#891) Co-authored-by: Yueming Yuan <yueming@Mac.attlocal.net> * [example] add retool v2 example with multi-turn framework interfaces (radixark#654) Co-authored-by: GuanxingLu <gxlu02@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * Expose rollout-batch-size, n-samples-per-prompt, global-batch-size as CLI args in swe-agent-v2 (radixark#954) Co-authored-by: Shi Dong <shi.dong@radixark.ai> * chore: remove obsolete swe-agent server.py and run-qwen3.sh (radixark#952) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * Add weight staleness control for fully async rollout (radixark#958) * Fix/pause generation mode (radixark#924) Co-authored-by: Yueming Yuan <yym022502@gmail.com> * [v0.5.10][1] Bump sglang to v0.5.10 (radixark#898) * [v0.5.10][2] Fix apply_chat_template behavior for transformers >=5.0 (radixark#926) Co-authored-by: guapisolo <guapisolo@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * [v0.5.10][3] Fix processor return_tensors duplicate kwarg for transformers >=5.0 (radixark#927) Co-authored-by: guapisolo <guapisolo@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * [v0.5.10][4] Fix _no_split_modules set not subscriptable in transformers >=5.0 (radixark#931) * [v0.5.10][5] Disable piecewise cuda graph to avoid NVLS oom (radixark#935) * [v0.5.10][6][FSDP] fix outdated weight update logic in FSDP (radixark#948) Co-authored-by: guapisolo <guapisolo@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: maocheng23 <35615230+maocheng23@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: gemini-code-assist[bot] <176961590+gemini-code-assist[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> * [v0.5.10][7][FSDP] move FSDP to experimental and disable by default (radixark#961) * Add skiplist and more robust calculation on val (radixark#965) * [fix] tiny fix debug rollout only in weight version check (radixark#967) * feat: real cp support with relayout fix for qwen3.5 train/rollout mismatch (radixark#885) * [AMD] Upgrade to sglv0.5.10 (radixark#973) * switch model to actor (radixark#756) * [fix] support general logic to bypass fp32 downcast and fix qwen35 A_log dtype (radixark#975) Co-authored-by: yueming-yuan <yym022502@gmail.com> * fix: populate prefix_cache_info in OpenAI/session rollout path (radixark#960) * Remove prepare_harbor_tasks.py; use harbor-private adapters (radixark#982) * [fix] Skip flush_cache in in_place mode and add fully async example (radixark#974) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * GLM47 full cmd for async and sync reasoning (radixark#986) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: handle non-tool appended messages in TITO incremental tokenization (radixark#949) Co-authored-by: Yanbin Jiang <jybsuper@gmail.com> * [docker] Add sgl-model-gateway install and download .tar.gz assets (radixark#895) * [ci] fix hf rate limit error by caching tokenizer loading (radixark#1014) Co-authored-by: maocheng23 <35615230+maocheng23@users.noreply.github.com> * Use load_generate_function in legacy sglang_rollout path (radixark#1016) * Update CODEOWNERS to add new reviewers (radixark#1021) * Support moe lora for gpt-oss (radixark#798) Co-authored-by: Ethan (Yusheng) Su <yushengsu.thu@gmail.com> * [fix] restore expert_bias to fp32 before bridge weight export (radixark#811) * [chore] drop legacy transformers upgrade pin for glm47-flash and qwen35 (radixark#1018) * [fix] Enforce param dtype before wrap ddp (radixark#992) Co-authored-by: Zhichen Zeng <zczeng@uw.edu> * [upgrade] update Megatron-Bridge source and LoRA CI to megatron e2e tests and (radixark#1023) * [CI] Drop --use-miles-router from R3 tests and add r3 comparasion test between sgl & miles router (radixark#1015) * wandb: raise init_timeout, add retry wrapper, fix shared-mode init for cross-region clusters In online + shared mode, both `init_wandb_primary` and `init_wandb_secondary` make HTTPS round-trips to wandb cloud (login + run create/attach). On high-latency cross-region clusters (e.g. Abu Dhabi MBZUAI ↔ wandb-cloud US-West) with concurrent actor bursts, a single round-trip can exceed the wandb SDK's 90s default `init_timeout` — tearing down the whole run with a silent handshake abort. Observed on RL360 job 1564420, which forced `WANDB_MODE=offline` as a global default ever since (see https://github.com/LLM360/RL360/issues/87). The issue's original diagnosis assumed a local primary↔secondary socket handshake race. That's not how shared mode works — per wandb's own feature PR (wandb/wandb#6882), each writer spawns an independent wandb-core that talks to the cloud directly; aggregation is server-side by run_id. No local socket exists. The failure mode is pure network/latency, not a local readiness race. Changes ------- - Bump `init_timeout` to 300s for primary and secondary Settings. Configurable via `WANDB_INIT_TIMEOUT_SECS` env var for tuning. - Wrap both init paths in a bounded exponential-backoff retry (`_wandb_init_with_retry`) that re-attempts on wandb.errors.CommError and wandb.errors.UsageError. 3 attempts with 5→10→20s backoff by default, tunable via `WANDB_INIT_RETRY_ATTEMPTS` / `WANDB_INIT_RETRY_BACKOFF_SECS`. - Add `x_label` tagging per wandb distributed-training docs: primary gets `rank_<rank>_primary`, secondaries get `rank_<rank>_secondary`. Enables per-rank console-log filtering in the wandb UI. - Drop `reinit=True` from secondary init_kwargs. Shared mode natively supports concurrent writers on a single run; `reinit=True` triggered stale-state warnings on secondary actors without functional benefit. Followups this change enables ----------------------------- - `WANDB_MODE=offline` can be removed from scale.yaml's extra_env default once a pilot run confirms online mode boots cleanly. - The tmux-based `~/bin/wandb-sync-rl360.sh` workaround on David's M2 account becomes obsolete (no more offline-only default). - Near-realtime wandb dashboards replace the ~2-minute-lag offline sync; per-rank system metrics via x_label filtering. --------- Co-authored-by: JD <jaedon.guo@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Ethan (Yusheng) Su <yushengsu.thu@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: fzyzcjy <5236035+fzyzcjy@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Ziang Li <ziangli@umich.edu> Co-authored-by: Zhichen Zeng <zczeng@uw.edu> Co-authored-by: JensenFire <xinji1@microsoft.com> Co-authored-by: Yueming Yuan <yym022502@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: maocheng23 <35615230+maocheng23@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Douglas Yang <douglasyang88@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Yueming Yuan <yueming@Mac.attlocal.net> Co-authored-by: Huapeng Zhou <73010314+PopSoda2002@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: GuanxingLu <gxlu02@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Shi-Dong <Shi-Dong@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Shi Dong <shi.dong@radixark.ai> Co-authored-by: Jiajun Li <48857426+guapisolo@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: guapisolo <guapisolo@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: gemini-code-assist[bot] <176961590+gemini-code-assist[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Yuzhen Zhou <82826991+zyzshishui@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Yanbin Jiang <jybsuper@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Ying Sheng <sqy1415@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Yisheng Gong <yishenggong9437@gmail.com>
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radixark/Megatron-LM#23 also needed.
FP32 parameter preservation across Megatron's
Float16ModulewrapMotivation
Qwen3.5's
A_logmust stay fp32 through hf → mcore conversion. If it gets rounded to bf16, Megatron-side no longer match sglang's fp32A_logon the rollout side — precision drifts and the train/rollout pair is no longer equivalent. The previouspatch_weight_to_mcore_format_preserve_fp32monkey-patch looked correct but silently shipped bf16.The two cast points
megatron/core/transformer/module.py:440—Float16Modulector runsmodule.bfloat16()nn.Parameter.data→ bf16 at wrap timembridge/core/bridge.py:842—w.to(self.dtype)in_weight_to_mcore_formatself.dtype(bf16)mbridge/core/bridge.py:246—t.to(param.device, dtype=param.dtype)inload_weightsparam.dtype(bf16, due to cast 1)Cast 1 has no declarative opt-out in
nn.Moduleor Megatron — even Megatron's own_maintain_float32_expert_bias(moe/router.py:209-218) uses a post-hoc.data.to(float32)workaround.Why the old patch was insufficient
patch_weight_to_mcore_format_preserve_fp32setself.dtype = Noneduring_weight_to_mcore_format, which handled cast 2 only. It had no handle on cast 1 (Megatron-side) and missed cast 3 entirely — cast 3 readsparam.dtype, which is bf16 because cast 1 already ran. End-to-end,A_logstill shipped as bf16.The replacement — two pieces, each closing one cast point
Downstream (
miles/backends/megatron_utils/fp32_param_utils.py):mark_param_dtype(param, dtype)tags intent at the model definition site;enforce_marked_param_dtypes(model)is called right afterget_model(in bothmiles/backends/megatron_utils/model.py:129andtools/convert_hf_to_torch_dist.py:113) and re-casts tagged params'.databack to fp32, preservingParameteridentity so the optimizer and DDP bucketing registered afterwards see stable tensors.This closes cast 1 and cast 3 in one step — once
param.dtype == fp32, thebridge.py:246in-place cast is a no-op for tagged params.Upstream (
miles_plugins/mbridge/qwen3_5.py:254-261): subclass override inQwen3_5Bridge._weight_to_mcore_formatearly-returnshf_weights[0].to(torch.float32).contiguous()for any name ending inself_attention.linear_attn.A_log(matches MTP layers too). This closes cast 2.Why both pieces are required
From
tools/debug_a_log_old_flow.py:param.dtypecastThe enforce-only row is the trap: dtype is fp32 but the bits were already rounded at cast 2 and up-cast back into an fp32 container. Only a value-level comparison against the HF source catches it — see
test_old_patch_only_regresses_without_enforcein the test file.Extending to other params
mark_param_dtype(self.X, torch.float32)right afterself.X = nn.Parameter(...).self.dtypepre-cast (i.e. the HF ckpt ships it fp32 and you can't afford rounding at cast 2), add a name-matched early-return in the relevant Bridge subclass's_weight_to_mcore_format.No changes to
enforce_marked_param_dtypes, Megatron, or mbridge base.Tests
tests/fast/backends/megatron_utils/test_fp32_param_utils.py— 13 CPU-only tests covering the downstream helper, the upstream bridge override, and a bit-exact end-to-end round-trip plus the negative regression guard against the old patch's failure mode.