[FSDP] Add Masked importance sampling

examples/train_infer_mismatch_helper/mis.py

@@ -395,3 +395,45 @@ def add_ppl_metrics(
     rho_squared_seq = torch.exp(2.0 * log_ratio_sum_safe)  # (Π ρ_t)²
     chi2_seq = rho_squared_seq - 1.0
     metrics_append(metrics, "chi2_seq", chi2_seq)
+
+
+def compute_mis_weights_fsdp(
+    args,
+    *,
+    pg_loss: torch.Tensor,
+    train_log_probs: list[torch.Tensor],
+    rollout_log_probs: list[torch.Tensor],
+    loss_masks: list[torch.Tensor],
+    **kwargs: Any,
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, list[torch.Tensor], dict[str, torch.Tensor]]:
+    """Compute masked importance sampling weights for FSDP. No context parallelism.
+
+    Args:
+        args: Arguments containing MIS settings (use_tis, tis_mode, etc.)
+        pg_loss: Policy gradient loss, flattened tensor [total_tokens]
+        train_log_probs: Training log probs, list of 1D tensors per sequence
+        rollout_log_probs: Rollout log probs, list of 1D tensors per sequence
+        loss_masks: Loss masks, list of 1D tensors per sequence
+        **kwargs: Additional arguments (cp_rank, cp_size, etc.) for compatibility
+
+    Returns:
+        pg_loss: Policy gradient loss with IS weights applied
+        modified_masks: Modified loss masks after rejection sampling
+        mis_metrics: Metrics dict with flattened tensors
+    """
+    is_weights, modified_masks, is_metrics = compute_mis_weights(
+        args=args,
+        train_log_probs=train_log_probs,
+        rollout_log_probs=rollout_log_probs,
+        loss_masks=loss_masks,
+    )
+
+    result_metrics = {}
+    if is_weights is not None:
+        is_weights_flat = torch.cat(is_weights, dim=0)
+        pg_loss = pg_loss * is_weights_flat
+
+    for key, values in is_metrics.items():
+        result_metrics[f"mis_{key}"] = torch.cat(values, dim=0)
+
+    return pg_loss, modified_masks, result_metrics

examples/train_infer_mismatch_helper/run-qwen3-4b-fsdp-mis.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# for rerun the task
+pkill -9 sglang
+sleep 3
+ray stop --force
+pkill -9 ray
+pkill -9 python
+sleep 3
+pkill -9 ray
+pkill -9 python
+
+
+
+
+set -ex
+
+# will prevent ray from buffering stdout/stderr
+export PYTHONBUFFERED=16
+export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7
+NVLINK_COUNT=$(nvidia-smi | grep -o "NVLink" | wc -l)
+if [ "$NVLINK_COUNT" -gt 0 ]; then
+    HAS_NVLINK=1
+else
+    HAS_NVLINK=0
+fi
+echo "HAS_NVLINK: $HAS_NVLINK (detected $NVLINK_COUNT NVLink references)"
+
+
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &>/dev/null && pwd)"
+
+RUN_ID=${RUN_ID:-"run_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)"}
+LOAD_SAVE_PATH="/root/shared_data/${RUN_ID}/checkpoints"
+
+CKPT_ARGS=(
+   --hf-checkpoint /root/Qwen3-4B
+   --load /root/Qwen3-4B
+   --ref-load /root/Qwen3-4B
+)
+
+ROLLOUT_ARGS=(
+   --prompt-data /root/dapo-math-17k/dapo-math-17k.jsonl
+   --input-key prompt
+   --label-key label
+   --apply-chat-template
+   --rollout-shuffle
+   --balance-data
+   --rm-type deepscaler
+   --num-rollout 100
+   --rollout-batch-size 8
+   --n-samples-per-prompt 8
+   --rollout-max-response-len 4096
+   --rollout-temperature 0.8
+   --global-batch-size 64
+)
+
+GRPO_ARGS=(
+   --use-kl-loss
+   --advantage-estimator grpo
+   --kl-loss-coef 0.00
+   --kl-loss-type low_var_kl
+   --kl-coef 0.00
+   --entropy-coef 0.00
+   --eps-clip 0.2
+   --eps-clip-high 0.28
+   --use-tis
+)
+
+OPTIMIZER_ARGS=(
+   --optimizer adam
+   --lr 1e-6
+   --lr-decay-style constant
+   --weight-decay 0.1
+   --adam-beta1 0.9
+   --adam-beta2 0.98
+)
+
+WANDB_ARGS=(
+   --use-wandb
+   --wandb-project slime-dev-mcore-fsdp
+   --wandb-group qwen3-4B-fsdp-1130-ref
+   --wandb-key ${WANDB_API_KEY}
+)
+
+SGLANG_ARGS=(
+   --rollout-num-gpus-per-engine 1
+   --sglang-mem-fraction-static 0.75
+   --sglang-decode-log-interval 1000
+   --sglang-chunked-prefill-size 4096
+   --sglang-attention-backend fa3
+)
+
+TRAIN_BACKEND_ARGS=(
+   --train-backend fsdp
+   --update-weight-buffer-size 536870912
+   --gradient-checkpointing
+   --attn-implementation flash_attention_3
+   --train-env-vars '{"PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF":"expandable_segments:True"}'
+)
+
+PERF_ARGS=(
+   --use-dynamic-batch-size
+   --max-tokens-per-gpu 9216
+)
+
+MISC_ARGS=(
+   --actor-num-nodes 1
+   --actor-num-gpus-per-node 8
+   --colocate
+   --use-fault-tolerance
+   --dump-details /root/shared_data/qwen3-4B-fsdp-1116-noref/dump_details
+   # --fsdp-cpu-offload
+)
+
+CUSTOM_ARGS=(
+   --custom-config-path examples/train_infer_mismatch_helper/mis.yaml
+   --custom-tis-function-path examples.train_infer_mismatch_helper.mis.compute_mis_weights_fsdp
+)
+
+# launch the master node of ray in container - 8 GPUs for training
+export MASTER_ADDR=${MASTER_ADDR:-"127.0.0.1"}
+ray start --head --node-ip-address ${MASTER_ADDR} --num-gpus 8 --disable-usage-stats
+
+
+RUNTIME_ENV_JSON="{
+  \"env_vars\": {
+    \"PYTHONPATH\": \"/root/Megatron-LM/:${SCRIPT_DIR}\",
+    \"CUDA_DEVICE_MAX_CONNECTIONS\": \"1\"
+  }
+}"
+
+
+ray job submit --address="http://127.0.0.1:8265" \
+   --runtime-env-json="${RUNTIME_ENV_JSON}" \
+   -- python3 train.py \
+   ${CKPT_ARGS[@]} \
+   ${ROLLOUT_ARGS[@]} \
+   ${OPTIMIZER_ARGS[@]} \
+   ${GRPO_ARGS[@]} \
+   ${WANDB_ARGS[@]} \
+   ${SGLANG_ARGS[@]} \
+   ${TRAIN_BACKEND_ARGS[@]} \
+   ${PERF_ARGS[@]} \
+   ${MISC_ARGS[@]} \
+   ${CUSTOM_ARGS[@]}
+
+

slime/backends/fsdp_utils/actor.py

@@ -19,7 +19,14 @@
 from slime.utils.distributed_utils import get_gloo_group
 from slime.utils.memory_utils import clear_memory, print_memory
 from slime.utils.metric_utils import compute_rollout_step
-from slime.utils.ppo_utils import compute_approx_kl, compute_gspo_kl, compute_opsm_mask, compute_policy_loss
+from slime.utils.misc import load_function
+from slime.utils.ppo_utils import (
+    compute_approx_kl,
+    compute_gspo_kl,
+    compute_opsm_mask,
+    compute_policy_loss,
+    vanilla_tis_function,
+)
 from slime.utils.processing_utils import load_processor, load_tokenizer
 from slime.utils.ray_utils import Box
 from slime.utils.timer import Timer, inverse_timer, timer
@@ -655,26 +662,41 @@ def _has_rollout_log_probs(batch) -> bool:
             else None
         )
 
-        # Apply TIS before sample mean calculation
+        # Apply off-policy correction using importance sampling if enabled
         if self.args.use_tis:
-            # Apply TIS off-policy correction using importance sampling
             assert (
                 has_rollout_log_probs and rollout_log_probs is not None
-            ), "rollout_log_probs must be provided as non-empty torch.Tensor for TIS"
+            ), "rollout_log_probs must be provided as non-empty torch.Tensor for TIS/MIS"
 
-            tis = torch.exp(old_log_probs - rollout_log_probs)
+            train_log_probs_list = list(log_probs.split(response_lengths, dim=0))
+            rollout_log_probs_list = list(rollout_log_probs.split(response_lengths, dim=0))
             ois = (-ppo_kl).exp()
-            tis_clip = torch.clamp(
-                tis, min=getattr(self.args, "tis_clip_low", 0.1), max=getattr(self.args, "tis_clip", 2.0)
-            )
-            tis_clipfrac = tis_clip != tis
-
-            pg_loss = pg_loss * tis_clip
-
-        assert not self.args.calculate_per_token_loss, "calculate_per_token_loss not yet implemented"
-        pg_loss = sum_of_sample_mean(pg_loss, response_lengths, loss_masks)
-        pg_clipfrac = sum_of_sample_mean(pg_clipfrac, response_lengths, loss_masks)
-        ppo_kl = sum_of_sample_mean(ppo_kl.abs(), response_lengths, loss_masks)
+            tis_kwargs = {
+                "args": self.args,
+                "pg_loss": pg_loss,
+                "train_log_probs": train_log_probs_list,
+                "rollout_log_probs": rollout_log_probs_list,
+                "loss_masks": loss_masks,
+                "response_lengths": response_lengths,
+                "cp_rank": self.cp_rank,
+                "cp_size": self.cp_size,
+                "cp_group": self.cp_group,
+            }
+
+            if self.args.custom_tis_function_path is not None:
+                tis_func = load_function(self.args.custom_tis_function_path)
+            else:
+                tis_func = vanilla_tis_function
+            pg_loss, loss_masks, tis_metrics = tis_func(**tis_kwargs)
+
+        if self.args.calculate_per_token_loss:
+            pg_loss = sum_of_token(pg_loss, response_lengths, loss_masks)
+            pg_clipfrac = sum_of_token(pg_clipfrac, response_lengths, loss_masks)
+            ppo_kl = sum_of_token(ppo_kl.abs(), response_lengths, loss_masks)
+        else:
+            pg_loss = sum_of_sample_mean(pg_loss, response_lengths, loss_masks)
+            pg_clipfrac = sum_of_sample_mean(pg_clipfrac, response_lengths, loss_masks)
+            ppo_kl = sum_of_sample_mean(ppo_kl.abs(), response_lengths, loss_masks)
 
         # Only compare rollout vs. train log probs when they originate from different stages.
         train_rollout_logprob_abs_diff = None
@@ -721,10 +743,13 @@ def _has_rollout_log_probs(batch) -> bool:
         if self.args.use_opsm:
             reported["opsm_clipfrac"] = opsm_clipfrac
 
-        if self.args.use_tis and tis is not None:
-            reported["tis"] = sum_of_sample_mean(tis, response_lengths, loss_masks).detach()
+        if self.args.use_tis and tis_metrics:
             reported["ois"] = sum_of_sample_mean(ois, response_lengths, loss_masks).detach()
-            reported["tis_clipfrac"] = sum_of_sample_mean(tis_clipfrac.float(), response_lengths, loss_masks).detach()
+            for k, v in tis_metrics.items():
+                if self.args.calculate_per_token_loss:
+                    reported[k] = sum_of_token(v, response_lengths, loss_masks).detach()
+                else:
+                    reported[k] = sum_of_sample_mean(v, response_lengths, loss_masks).detach()
 
         # Scale loss for gradient accumulation
         loss = loss * self.dp_size / self.args.global_batch_size
@@ -1103,3 +1128,12 @@ def apply_fsdp2(model, mesh=None, cpu_offload=False, args=None):
     fully_shard(model, **fsdp_kwargs)
 
     return model
+
+
+def sum_of_token(x: torch.Tensor, response_lengths: list[int], loss_masks: list[torch.Tensor]) -> torch.Tensor:
+    return sum(
+        [
+            (x_i * loss_mask_i).sum()
+            for x_i, loss_mask_i in zip(x.split(response_lengths, dim=0), loss_masks, strict=False)
+        ]
+    )

slime/backends/megatron_utils/loss.py

@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ def policy_loss_function(
     Computes current log-probabilities and entropy from model logits, then
     calculates PPO-style clipped policy gradient loss. For GSPO, gathers
     full sequences via context-parallel all-gather before computing per-sample
-    KL. Optionally applies TIS (Temporal Importance Sampling) correction and
+    KL. Optionally applies TIS (Truncated Importance Sampling) correction and
     adds KL loss term if configured.
 
     Args:

slime/utils/ppo_utils.py

@@ -662,3 +662,40 @@ def calculate_log_probs_and_entropy(logits, tokens, tp_group, with_entropy: bool
     else:
         entropy = None
     return log_prob, entropy
+
+
+def vanilla_tis_function(
+    args,
+    *,
+    pg_loss: torch.Tensor,
+    train_log_probs: list[torch.Tensor],
+    rollout_log_probs: list[torch.Tensor],
+    loss_masks: list[torch.Tensor],
+    **kwargs,
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, list[torch.Tensor], dict[str, torch.Tensor]]:
+    """Apply TIS off-policy correction using importance sampling.
+
+    Parameters:
+        args: Arguments containing TIS settings.
+        pg_loss: Policy gradient loss tensor of shape [total_seq_len - 1].
+        train_log_probs: List of tensors containing training log-probabilities
+            for each sequence.
+        rollout_log_probs: List of tensors containing rollout log-probabilities
+            for each sequence.
+        loss_masks: List of tensors containing loss masks for each sequence.
+    """
+    rollout_log_probs = torch.cat(rollout_log_probs, dim=0)
+    old_log_probs = torch.cat(train_log_probs, dim=0)
+    tis = torch.exp(old_log_probs - rollout_log_probs)
+    tis_abs = (tis - 1).abs()
+    tis_clip_low = args.tis_clip_low if args.tis_clip_low is not None else 0.1
+    tis_clip_high = args.tis_clip if args.tis_clip is not None else 2.0
+    tis_weights = torch.clamp(tis, min=tis_clip_low, max=tis_clip_high)
+    tis_clipfrac = (tis_weights != tis).float()
+    metrics = {
+        "tis": tis.clone().detach(),
+        "tis_clipfrac": tis_clipfrac.clone().detach(),
+        "tis_abs": tis_abs.clone().detach(),
+    }
+    pg_loss = pg_loss * tis_weights
+    return pg_loss, loss_masks, metrics