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Baseline: main@4de73de9bd37 · ahead by 1, behind by 5 (diverged). Worth rebasing before merge.
1. Does it solve a real problem?
Yes, and the framing is right. When a sequence-parallel backend overwrites cu_seq_lens_q with rank-local boundaries, every metric derived from _compute_seqlens shrinks by the SP factor, and capturing the counters in the collator before slicing is the correct place to fix that. The new TokenAccounting dataclass, the loss <= source <= aligned <= physical invariant, and gating the metrics on full DP-rank hook coverage are all sensible. My concern is not the accounting itself but a side effect: the rewrite of _compute_seqlens changes the input to the FLOPs/MFU estimator in a way the PR description explicitly says it does not (details inline).
2. Are comments / docs / tests complete?
Strong here — new module docstring, docs/usage/trainer.md updated, and seven focused tests including an SP-invariance test that compares sp_size=1 against sp_size=2 end-to-end through the collator. Gaps: the docs list only a subset of the emitted keys (loss_density, loss_fill, capacity_tokens_per_second(M) and the collator_hook_ranks / expected_dp_ranks health gauges are missing), and no test covers the CP branch of _compute_seqlens where seqlens is scaled by sp_size — which is exactly the branch I think is incorrect. assert IGNORE_INDEX == -100 in test_loss_count_excludes_padding_and_pack_boundaries asserts a library constant rather than PR behaviour and can be dropped.
3. Is it clean, and does it conflict with main?
No textual conflict with main, and the all_reduce contract is used correctly (the 7-element tensor unpacks to a list, the 0-dim max_document_length returns a scalar — see veomni/utils/dist_utils.py:63). Three cleanliness notes: the _TOKEN_ACCOUNTING_PARTIAL handoff between PackingCollator and SequenceParallelCollator is an implicit contract enforced by a bare pop with no default; EnvironMeter.step() now issues two additional collectives per step on dp_group when it already performs a dp_group sum a few lines above, which pushes against the direction of sibling PR #942 (coalescing train metric reductions); and there is now a second, independent notion of "loss tokens" alongside count_loss_token in veomni/utils/loss_utils.py:24, which is already called at veomni/trainer/base.py:803 and feeds the actual loss denominator. Those two numbers are computed at different points in the pipeline and will disagree; since the new one is meant to be the trustworthy business counter, the relationship between them deserves a sentence in the module docstring.
Verdict: needs changes
Key issues:
- (main issue) The CP fallback
seqlens = seqlens * int(parallel_state.sp_size)scales every per-document length, which multiplies the quadratic attention term incount_flops.pybysp_size**2while the linear term scales bysp_size— so it does change the FLOPs/MFU estimator, and the reconstruction is not valid per document anyway. Detail inline. totals.validate_training_step()raisesValueErrorfrom inside the metric-logging path, so an observability inconsistency can abort training. A warning plus the existingcollator_accounting_hookgauge would be safer.- Minor: fragile
_TOKEN_ACCOUNTING_PARTIALhandoff, two extra per-step collectives that could fold into the existingdp_groupreduction, docs missing several emitted metric keys.
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Record and validate token counts veomni/utils/helper.py, tests/data/test_token_meter.py |
EnvironMeter records physical-window, aligned-compute, source-input, and shifted-label counts for batches with validated metadata. Tests cover packed sequences, shifted labels, and inputs with ambiguous or incomplete metadata. |
Aggregate and report token metrics veomni/utils/helper.py, tests/data/test_token_meter.py, docs/usage/trainer.md |
EnvironMeter aggregates counts across sequence-parallel and data-parallel ranks. It emits metrics only when all required ranks have complete metadata, then resets the statistics after each step. Distributed tests and documentation describe the metrics and their interpretation. |
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes
Change: Feature
Sequence Diagram(s)
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participant Batch
participant EnvironMeter
participant SequenceParallelRanks
participant DataParallelRanks
Batch->>EnvironMeter: Provide batch token metadata
EnvironMeter->>SequenceParallelRanks: Aggregate token counts
SequenceParallelRanks->>DataParallelRanks: Aggregate sequence-parallel totals
DataParallelRanks->>EnvironMeter: Return aggregate counts and completeness
EnvironMeter->>EnvironMeter: Emit metrics when all ranks are complete
Possibly related PRs
- ByteDance-Seed/VeOmni#1006: Adds per-source input-token and label-token metrics, which measure behavior that overlaps with this PR’s global token-accounting metrics.
- ByteDance-Seed/VeOmni#1276: Changes channel-loss capture and packed sequence-source alignment, which also involve token observations around sequence-parallel slicing.
- ByteDance-Seed/VeOmni#1376: Changes packed tail-padding filtering and ambiguity handling in a separate consumer of packed token-accounting data.
Suggested labels: doc, enhancement
Suggested reviewers: coach257
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The reviewed token diagnostics have no identified merge-blocking issue. The reported GPU, NPU, and end-to-end validation limits remain, but do not establish a failure.
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The accounting remains within training and reporting. Standard execution validates counts and removes reporting metadata before model execution. No new privilege escalation or boundary bypass was identified, but standalone integrations and failure-recovery behavior remain unverified.
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Security Blast Radius
- inferred — The demonstrated effect is bounded to training-batch metadata, accounting state, and metrics aggregated among the job's existing DP participants. The inspected flow does not demonstrate new cross-tenant authority or a privileged sink. External consumers bypassing the standard callback lifecycle remain outside verified coverage.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
- observed — PackingCollator assigns partial accounting from collated tensor statistics rather than accepting a supplied partial record. Finalization attaches a record only after construction validation. The standard reporting consumer strips the finalized record before model invocation, keeping dataset-derived accounting separate from model inputs.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
- observed — Incomplete hook coverage suppresses derived accounting metrics after all ranks perform the reductions. Invalid aggregate ordering or empty business counters also suppress metrics without raising from the aggregate validation gate. This containment does not cover structurally malformed reserved mappings, which can raise during extraction; the inspected repository-owned producer constructs validated records.
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163-184: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a step-level assertion for the DP accounting gate.
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EnvironMeter.add(). They do not exerciseEnvironMeter.step()or its DP reductions. Add a focused test that simulates one missing DP hook and asserts that derived accounting metrics remain suppressed. Also cover the full-hook case.Suggested fix
+@pytest.mark.parametrize( + ("hook_ranks", "expected_hook"), + [(1, 0.0), (2, 1.0)], +) +def test_environ_meter_gates_accounting_metrics_on_dp_hook_coverage( + monkeypatch, hook_ranks, expected_hook +): + from veomni.utils import helper + + meter = object.__new__(helper.EnvironMeter) + meter.config = types.SimpleNamespace(condition_model_type=None) + meter.global_batch_size = 1 + meter.enable_multisource = False + meter.empty_cache_steps = 0 + meter.gc_steps = 0 + meter.world_size = 2 + meter.parallel_state = types.SimpleNamespace(dp_group=None) + meter.consume_tokens = 0 + meter.consume_chunks = 0 + meter.batch_seqlens = [12] + meter.batch_ds_idx = [] + meter.images_seqlens = [] + meter.batch_token_accountings = [TokenAccounting(16, 12, 12, 10, 2, 7, 74)] + meter.batch_accounting_expected = 1 + meter.batch_accounting_observed = 1 + meter.supports_lora_flops = True + meter._warned_unsupported_lora_flops = False + meter.estimate_flops = lambda *_args, **_kwargs: (0.0, 0.0) + + monkeypatch.setattr(helper, "get_device_type", lambda: "cpu") + monkeypatch.setattr(helper, "compute_device_memory_metrics", lambda: {}) + monkeypatch.setattr(helper, "all_reduce", lambda values, **_kwargs: ( + values + if not isinstance(values, torch.Tensor) or values.numel() != 7 + else torch.cat((values[:6], values.new_tensor([hook_ranks]))) + )) + monkeypatch.setattr(helper.dist, "get_world_size", lambda group=None: 2) + + metrics = meter.step(delta_time=1.0, global_step=1) + + assert metrics["token_accounting/collator_hook_ranks"] == hook_ranks + assert metrics["token_accounting/expected_dp_ranks"] == 2.0 + assert metrics["token_accounting/collator_accounting_hook"] == expected_hook + assert ("token_accounting/source_fill" in metrics) is (expected_hook == 1.0)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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@coderabbitai review @Coach257 @FoolPlayer #982 now normally merges upstream main The review also found two pre-existing accounting/API issues: DPO now counts only targets within each chosen/rejected segment, while SFT keeps its existing global-shift semantics and training labels are unchanged; accounting metadata is opt-in for standalone collators and is stripped at the trainer input boundary, so late RL packing and direct model callers do not receive it as model kwargs. Standard text/DPO/VLM trainer collators enable accounting. RL derived counters remain unavailable, and this is documented. Validation: 66 focused CPU tests passed, including DPO SP/non-SP, labels, RL, direct-collator and VLM cases; |
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Please simplify this PR so that only EnvironMeter in veomni/utils/helper.py is modified (plus its unit tests), and revert all changes to veomni/data/data_collator.py, veomni/trainer/*, and remove veomni/utils/token_accounting.py:
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main,SequenceParallelCollatoralready computescu_seq_lens_qandtail_padding_lengthbefore slicingposition_ids(Constraint #13), and_compute_seqlens()inveomni/utils/helper.pyalready stripstail_padding_lengthviavalid_seqlens_from_cu_seqlens. Therefore,sum(self.batch_seqlens)andlen(self.batch_seqlens)inEnvironMeterare already the exact global, topology-invariantsource_input_tokensandnum_documentsper DP rank. - Threading private
_token_accounting_partial/_token_accountingsidecar dicts throughPackingCollator->SequenceParallelCollator->MainCollator->BaseTrainer.preforwardis unnecessary pipeline coupling.
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source_fillandloss_tokensdirectly insideEnvironMeter(veomni/utils/helper.py):physical_window_tokens: InEnvironMeter.add(sample),sample["input_ids"](orposition_ids) is already SP-sliced whensp_enabled=True. So each rank's local shard hassample["input_ids"].numel()tokens, and the pre-shard physical window size on that DP rank is simplysample["input_ids"].numel() * (self.parallel_state.sp_size if self.parallel_state.sp_enabled else 1).loss_tokens: InEnvironMeter.add(sample)(which runs on CPU inon_step_begin), whensp_enabled=True,SequenceParallelCollatorhas already shifted and SP-slicedsample["labels"]acrosssp_group, so each rank holds a disjoint shard oflabels; whensp_enabled=False, causal LM labels are unshifted so the supervised targets aresample["labels"][..., 1:](orsample["labels"]forseq_classification). Counting(labels != IGNORE_INDEX).sum().item()on CPU inadd()and reducing acrossdp_sp_group(or reducinglocal_loss_tokensoversp_group/dp_sp_group) gives the exact globalloss_tokens.- Single collective in
EnvironMeter.step(): Instead of issuing 2 extraall_reducecollectives per step, foldphysical_window_tokensandloss_tokensinto the existingall_reduceinEnvironMeter.step()(e.g., reduce(flops_achieved, sum(self.batch_seqlens), len(self.batch_seqlens), self.physical_tokens, self.loss_tokens / sp_size_or_dp_sp)in one call) and emitsource_fill = batch_tokens / physical_tokensandloss_tokensdirectly.
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Please revert all changes to veomni/data/data_collator.py (and veomni/trainer/base.py, veomni/trainer/text_dpo_trainer.py, veomni/trainer/vlm_trainer.py). SequenceParallelCollator already populates global cu_seq_lens_q and tail_padding_length before slicing position_ids, so EnvironMeter does not need a collator sidecar dict.
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I found two more cases while validating the helper-only simplification against the current main:
valid_seqlens_from_cu_seqlenstreats absenttail_padding_lengthas an ambiguous legacy tail and strips trailing length-1 segments. The standard collator omits that field when the known tail length is zero, so packed lengths[3,1,1]can be reported as[3]if the producer's no-padding contract is not retained. This also affects the existing meter/source accounting, not just the new display metrics. For arbitrary collators an absent field is genuinely ambiguous, so blindly treating it as zero is unsafe.- Sequence classification can have input-shaped labels with only the final position supervised; a shape-based choice of the causal shift reports zero for a one-token example. The objective cannot always be inferred from the tensor shape.
I agree that the collator sidecar and extra reductions should be removed where the existing metadata proves the layout. For ambiguous inputs, would you prefer an explicit producer/objective signal, or suppressing the new metrics until the metadata is provable? I am keeping this change off the PR until these cases are safe and tested.
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Please remove this standalone module and keep the accounting logic concise inside EnvironMeter in veomni/utils/helper.py.
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@Coach257 Thanks. I agree the standalone module should be reduced if the meter-only contract can represent the supported objectives. I replied with two current-main counterexamples and a proposed metric scope in #982 (comment): the DPO per-segment shift and a one-token classification target do not always equal a generic shifted-label count. These affect the reported metric, not the training objective or gradients. Could you confirm whether to name/document it as a generic shifted-label count, or suppress it for objectives whose contract cannot be proven? I will then fold the accounting into EnvironMeter with the agreed semantics.
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Please compute physical_window_tokens and loss_tokens directly inside EnvironMeter.add() / EnvironMeter.step() without adding two extra all_reduce calls per step:
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EnvironMeter.add(sample): accumulateself.physical_tokens += sample["input_ids"].numel()andself.loss_tokens += int((labels != IGNORE_INDEX).sum().item())(usingsample["labels"]whenself.parallel_state.sp_enabledsinceSequenceParallelCollatoralready shifts and sliceslabels, orsample["labels"][..., 1:]whennot self.parallel_state.sp_enabled). - In
EnvironMeter.step(): sincephysical_tokensandloss_tokensare sharded acrosssp_groupwhensp_enabled=Truewhileflops_achieved,batch_tokens(sum(self.batch_seqlens)), andreal_global_batch_size(len(self.batch_seqlens)) are replicated acrosssp_group, you can either reduce all 5 values in a singleall_reduce(..., op="sum", group=self.parallel_state.dp_sp_group)(dividing the first 3 bysp_size), or keep one collective without extra device syncs, and then computesource_fill = batch_tokens / physical_tokens.
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Thanks for the simplification direction. I can remove the collator sidecar and combine the SP/DP counters into the existing reduction. One objective boundary needs a small explicit contract to keep loss_tokens exact for DPO:
For one packed feature with labels=[1,2,3,4,5] and position_ids=[0,1,2,0,1], the ordinary causal shift counts 4 targets, while TextDPOTrainer._build_dpo_labels_list masks the tail of each chosen/rejected segment and counts 3. The current regression test_supervised_token_accounting_respects_objective reproduces both values with SP=1 and SP=2 (6/6 passed). The same sample arrives at EnvironMeter.add in either objective, and EnvironMeterCallback currently does not forward DPO's existing source_repeat=2 indication to the meter.
Would you accept a small callback-to-meter objective flag, while keeping collator/model inputs unchanged and using a single dp_sp reduction? Otherwise I can report this as shifted-label count rather than claim it is exact DPO loss-token count. I will keep the existing exact DPO boundary coverage while working through this.
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@Coach257 @FoolPlayer Addressed the scope request in The exact head passes 19 CPU/Gloo tests, including real DP2×Ulysses2, DP2×CP2, SP4 packing, single-token/tail boundaries, and missing-rank metadata; quality and independent review pass. GPU/NPU/HCCL and full-training/performance results are not claimed. Please re-review and approve the workflows when convenient. |
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@Coach257 @FoolPlayer The current head I attempted the GitHub rerun API; it returned 403 |
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@Coach257 @FoolPlayer Latest CI audit: the approved #982 head The first failure is A native four-card reproduction/retry of |
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Targeted native reproduction completed on the same four physical 910B2C NPUs, with the same container and one dependency environment:
Command (unchanged selector; each test launches its own workers): pytest -q 'tests/e2e/test_e2e_parallel.py::test_qwen3vl_parallel_align[qwen3_5-./tests/toy_config/qwen3_5_toy/config.json-False-0.1-0.1-None]'Image: The previously reported AI-core timeout did not reproduce in this targeted comparison; this does not establish the root cause of the earlier timeout or claim full-suite acceptance. Full pytest logs, JUnit, package versions and source/archive identities have been retained. |
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@Coach257 @FoolPlayer The previously requested same-device Ascend comparison is now available in the targeted results: both main |
What does this PR do?
Derive optional packed-token diagnostics inside
EnvironMeterfrom existing global sequence metadata and SP-local labels. Keep the collator, trainer, model inputs, existingconsume_tokens, and multi-source dataloader accounting unchanged. If the metadata is ambiguous or missing on any participating rank, the new counters are omitted.loss_tokensis a generic shifted-label count, not an objective-specific loss denominator. Unshifted objectives such as classification are not guaranteed to agree across SP configurations; DPO, classification, and MTP exact target counts are not claimed. The new source count can differ from the unchanged legacy counters. Throughput timing excludesmeter.addwork.Validation
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1ffb13e68c64b23def8a63a4229262128a758e08.MainCollatorpacking, unequal DP data, DP2×Ulysses2, DP2×CP2, SP4, tail-padding and one-token boundaries, plus a missing-label rank suppressing output on all ranks.make quality, whitespace check, and an independent code review pass. A dry merge with main089e3605ddd4d9968b3488ab0aae0f842a4321d3is clean; its net diff is three files, +364 lines.089e3605ddd4d9968b3488ab0aae0f842a4321d3and PR merged6bd44e782700a9504a81eb4b00aa0e1eba09492on the same 910B2C devices, 1 passed, 0 skipped each, with unchanged tolerances. Controlled native comparison. This does not determine the cause of the earlier AI Core timeout or replace the failed GitHub Ascend E2E workflow. Full training and performance impact remain unverified.Summary by CodeRabbit
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