cp: test: Update on-policy distillation release tests (1363) into r0.4.0

examples/configs/recipes/llm/distillation-qwen3-32b-to-4b-base-1n8g-fsdp2tp2-dynamicbatch.v1.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ defaults: ../../distillation_math.yaml
 distillation:
   num_prompts_per_step: 64
   max_num_steps: 20
-  val_batch_size: 32
+  val_batch_size: 256
   val_period: 10
   max_val_samples: 256
 loss_fn:
@@ -11,43 +11,15 @@ checkpointing:
   checkpoint_dir: checkpoints/distillation-qwen3-32b-to-4b-base-dynamicbatch
 policy:
   model_name: Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base
-  train_global_batch_size: 32
-  generation_batch_size: 32
   dtensor_cfg:
     context_parallel_size: 1
   make_sequence_length_divisible_by: 2
-  scheduler:
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LinearLR
-    kwargs:
-      start_factor: 0.1
-      end_factor: 1.0
-      total_iters: 20
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.ConstantLR
-    kwargs:
-      factor: 1.0
-      total_iters: 10000000000
-  - milestones:
-    - 20
 teacher:
   model_name: Qwen/Qwen3-32B
-  train_global_batch_size: 32
-  generation_batch_size: 32
   dtensor_cfg:
     tensor_parallel_size: 8
     context_parallel_size: 1
   make_sequence_length_divisible_by: 2
-  scheduler:
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LinearLR
-    kwargs:
-      start_factor: 0.1
-      end_factor: 1.0
-      total_iters: 20
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.ConstantLR
-    kwargs:
-      factor: 1.0
-      total_iters: 10000000000
-  - milestones:
-    - 20
 logger:
   log_dir: logs/distillation-qwen3-32b-to-4b-base-dynamicbatch
   wandb:

examples/configs/recipes/llm/distillation-qwen3-32b-to-4b-base-2n8g-fsdp2tp2-long.v1.yaml

@@ -2,58 +2,22 @@ defaults: ../../distillation_math.yaml
 distillation:
   num_prompts_per_step: 64
   max_num_steps: 500
-  val_batch_size: 32
+  val_batch_size: 512
   val_period: 50
-  max_val_samples: 256
+loss_fn:
+  kl_type: reverse
 checkpointing:
   checkpoint_dir: checkpoints/distillation-qwen3-32b-to-4b-base-long
-  save_period: 50
+  save_period: 10
 policy:
   model_name: Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base
-  train_global_batch_size: 32
-  generation_batch_size: 32
-  max_total_sequence_length: 32768
-  dynamic_batching:
-    enabled: false
-  make_sequence_length_divisible_by: 2
-  optimizer:
-    kwargs:
-      lr: 1.0e-05
-  scheduler:
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LinearLR
-    kwargs:
-      start_factor: 0.1
-      end_factor: 1.0
-      total_iters: 100
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR
-    kwargs:
-      T_max: 900
-      eta_min: 1.0e-07
-  - milestones:
-    - 100
+  max_total_sequence_length: 20480
+  generation:
+    vllm_cfg:
+      tensor_parallel_size: 2
 teacher:
   model_name: Qwen/Qwen3-32B
-  train_global_batch_size: 32
-  generation_batch_size: 32
-  max_total_sequence_length: 32768
-  dynamic_batching:
-    enabled: false
-  make_sequence_length_divisible_by: 2
-  optimizer:
-    kwargs:
-      lr: 1.0e-05
-  scheduler:
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LinearLR
-    kwargs:
-      start_factor: 0.1
-      end_factor: 1.0
-      total_iters: 100
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR
-    kwargs:
-      T_max: 900
-      eta_min: 1.0e-07
-  - milestones:
-    - 100
+  max_total_sequence_length: 20480
 logger:
   log_dir: logs/distillation-qwen3-32b-to-4b-base-long
   wandb:

examples/configs/recipes/llm/distillation-qwen3-32b-to-4b-base-2n8g-fsdp2tp2-seqpack.v1.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+defaults: ../../distillation_math.yaml
+distillation:
+  num_prompts_per_step: 64
+  max_num_steps: 20
+  val_batch_size: 256
+  val_period: 10
+  max_val_samples: 256
+loss_fn:
+  kl_type: reverse
+checkpointing:
+  checkpoint_dir: checkpoints/distillation-qwen3-32b-to-4b-base-seqpack
+policy:
+  model_name: Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base
+  dtensor_cfg:
+    context_parallel_size: 1
+  dynamic_batching:
+    enabled: false
+  sequence_packing:
+    enabled: true
+  make_sequence_length_divisible_by: 2
+teacher:
+  model_name: Qwen/Qwen3-32B
+  dtensor_cfg:
+    tensor_parallel_size: 8
+    context_parallel_size: 1
+  dynamic_batching:
+    enabled: false
+  sequence_packing:
+    enabled: true
+  make_sequence_length_divisible_by: 2
+logger:
+  log_dir: logs/distillation-qwen3-32b-to-4b-base-seqpack
+  wandb:
+    project: nemo-rl
+    name: distillation-qwen3-32b-to-4b-base-seqpack
+cluster:
+  num_nodes: 2

examples/configs/recipes/llm/distillation-qwen3-32b-to-4b-base-2n8g-fsdp2tp8-noncolocated.v1.yaml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ defaults: ../../distillation_math.yaml
 distillation:
   num_prompts_per_step: 64
   max_num_steps: 20
-  val_batch_size: 32
+  val_batch_size: 256
   val_period: 10
   max_val_samples: 256
 loss_fn:
@@ -12,29 +12,10 @@ checkpointing:
   save_period: 50
 policy:
   model_name: Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base
-  train_global_batch_size: 32
-  generation_batch_size: 32
   dtensor_cfg:
     tensor_parallel_size: 8
     context_parallel_size: 1
-  dynamic_batching:
-    enabled: false
   make_sequence_length_divisible_by: 2
-  optimizer:
-    kwargs:
-      lr: 1.0e-05
-  scheduler:
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LinearLR
-    kwargs:
-      start_factor: 0.1
-      end_factor: 1.0
-      total_iters: 100
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR
-    kwargs:
-      T_max: 900
-      eta_min: 1.0e-07
-  - milestones:
-    - 100
   generation:
     colocated:
       enabled: false
@@ -43,29 +24,10 @@ policy:
         num_nodes: 1
 teacher:
   model_name: Qwen/Qwen3-32B
-  train_global_batch_size: 32
-  generation_batch_size: 32
   dtensor_cfg:
     tensor_parallel_size: 8
     context_parallel_size: 1
-  dynamic_batching:
-    enabled: false
   make_sequence_length_divisible_by: 2
-  optimizer:
-    kwargs:
-      lr: 1.0e-05
-  scheduler:
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LinearLR
-    kwargs:
-      start_factor: 0.1
-      end_factor: 1.0
-      total_iters: 100
-  - name: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR
-    kwargs:
-      T_max: 900
-      eta_min: 1.0e-07
-  - milestones:
-    - 100
   generation:
     colocated:
       enabled: false