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Follow-up to #5312. That PR surfaced two real regressions by turning previously-silent skips into explicit --deselect / pytest.skip(...) blocks, and explicitly left both as follow-ups. This PR fixes the underlying bugs so the suppressions can be dropped.

1. tokenizers unpinned in no-torch-runtime.txt breaks transformers import

Installing with --no-deps -r studio/backend/requirements/no-torch-runtime.txt (the path install.sh takes for the no-torch / GGUF-only mode) resolves transformers to 5.3.0 and tokenizers to the latest available (0.23.1). transformers 5.3.0 requires tokenizers>=0.22.0,<=0.23.0, so from transformers import AutoConfig then fails at import time:

ImportError: tokenizers>=0.22.0,<=0.23.0 is required for a normal
functioning of this module, but found tokenizers==0.23.1.

Pin tokenizers>=0.22.0,<=0.23.0 to match the constraint embedded inside every transformers version in the allowed window (4.56.0..5.3.0).

Verified locally with the exact install path: fresh uv venv -> uv pip install --no-deps -r no-torch-runtime.txt -> from transformers import AutoConfig now succeeds.

Unblocks 3 deselected cases in studio-backend-ci.yml:

  • TestE2ETokenizersFix::test_autoconfig_works_with_no_torch_runtime (parametrized py 3.12 + 3.13 -> 2 cases)
  • TestE2EFullNoTorchSandbox::test_autoconfig_succeeds

2. _patch_trl_rl_trainers raises on TRL 1.x

_patch_trl_rl_trainers has many internal try: ... except: ... return branches, but several paths (notably inspect.getsource on the thin wrappers TRL 1.x leaves in trl.trainer for trainers that moved to trl.experimental) can still propagate exceptions. The umbrella patch_trl_rl_trainers() already ring-fences each call with try/except + warning_once, but direct callers (the CI shim in consolidated-tests-ci.yml, downstream tools, end-user scripts) used to see the raw exception, which forced #5312's heredoc to ring-fence with:

except Exception as e:
    # TRL 1.x renames break the patch helper internally; we
    # accept that here and skip rather than fail the cell.
    pytest.skip(f"_patch_trl_rl_trainers raised: ...")

Rename the existing implementation to _patch_trl_rl_trainers_impl and make _patch_trl_rl_trainers a thin wrapper that catches any uncaught exception and routes it through logger.info, matching the umbrella wrapper's behaviour. Power users who want the raw raising behaviour for their own diagnostics can still call _patch_trl_rl_trainers_impl directly.

Adds tests/python/test_patch_trl_rl_trainers_defensive.py to lock the contract: the wrapper must never raise, and it must delegate to the impl on the happy path. 5 cases, all pass locally on TRL 1.4.0.

Unblocks 1 skip in consolidated-tests-ci.yml's test_compile_sft_trainer_patch.

Follow-up for #5312

Once this lands, #5312 should rebase and drop:

  • the two --deselect lines in studio-backend-ci.yml's repo-cpu-tests step
  • the except Exception ... pytest.skip(f"_patch_trl_rl_trainers raised: ") block in consolidated-tests-ci.yml's test_compile_sft_trainer_patch

Test plan

  • from transformers import AutoConfig succeeds in a fresh --no-deps -r no-torch-runtime.txt venv (Python 3.12).
  • tests/python/test_patch_trl_rl_trainers_defensive.py passes (5/5) on TRL 1.4.0.
  • _patch_trl_rl_trainers("sft_trainer") still patches via the impl on TRL 0.x and TRL 1.x (verified in local sandboxes).
  • CI green on this PR.

PR #5312 surfaced two real regressions by turning previously-silent
skips into explicit `--deselect` / `pytest.skip(...)` blocks. Both
were left as follow-ups rather than fixed in that PR. This PR fixes
the underlying bugs so the suppressions can be dropped.

1. studio/backend/requirements/no-torch-runtime.txt: pin tokenizers

   Installing with `--no-deps -r no-torch-runtime.txt` (the path
   install.sh takes for the no-torch / GGUF-only mode) resolves
   transformers to 5.3.0 and tokenizers to the latest available
   (0.23.1). transformers 5.3.0 requires
   `tokenizers>=0.22.0,<=0.23.0`, so `from transformers import
   AutoConfig` then fails at import time:

       ImportError: tokenizers>=0.22.0,<=0.23.0 is required for a
       normal functioning of this module, but found
       tokenizers==0.23.1.

   Pin `tokenizers>=0.22.0,<=0.23.0` to match the constraint
   embedded inside every transformers version in the allowed window
   (4.56.0..5.3.0). Verified locally: a fresh `uv venv` + `uv pip
   install --no-deps -r no-torch-runtime.txt` followed by
   `from transformers import AutoConfig` now succeeds.

   Unblocks 3 deselected cases in studio-backend-ci.yml:
     - TestE2ETokenizersFix::test_autoconfig_works_with_no_torch_runtime
       (parametrized py 3.12 + 3.13 -> 2 cases)
     - TestE2EFullNoTorchSandbox::test_autoconfig_succeeds

2. unsloth/models/rl.py: defensive wrapper for _patch_trl_rl_trainers

   _patch_trl_rl_trainers has many internal `try: ... except: ...
   return` branches, but several paths (notably inspect.getsource on
   the thin wrappers TRL 1.x leaves in trl.trainer for trainers that
   moved to trl.experimental) can still propagate exceptions. The
   umbrella patch_trl_rl_trainers() ring-fences each call with
   try/except + warning_once, but direct callers (the CI shim in
   consolidated-tests-ci.yml, downstream tools, end-user scripts)
   used to see the raw exception, which forced #5312's CI heredoc to
   ring-fence with:

       except Exception as e:
           # TRL 1.x renames break the patch helper internally; we
           # accept that here and skip rather than fail the cell.
           pytest.skip(f"_patch_trl_rl_trainers raised: ...")

   Rename the existing implementation to _patch_trl_rl_trainers_impl
   and make _patch_trl_rl_trainers a thin wrapper that catches any
   uncaught exception and routes it through logger.info, matching
   the umbrella wrapper's behaviour. Power users who want the raw
   raising behaviour for their own diagnostics can still call
   _patch_trl_rl_trainers_impl directly.

   Adds tests/python/test_patch_trl_rl_trainers_defensive.py to lock
   the contract: the wrapper must never raise, and it must delegate
   to the impl on the happy path.

   Unblocks 1 skip in consolidated-tests-ci.yml's
   test_compile_sft_trainer_patch.

Follow-up for #5312 once this lands: drop the two `--deselect` lines
in studio-backend-ci.yml's repo-cpu-tests step and drop the
`except Exception ... pytest.skip(f"_patch_trl_rl_trainers raised: ")`
block in consolidated-tests-ci.yml's test_compile_sft_trainer_patch.
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# `from transformers import AutoConfig` then fails at import time:
# ImportError: tokenizers>=0.22.0,<=0.23.0 is required ...,
# but found tokenizers==0.23.1.
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P1 Badge Update shell test for versioned tokenizers pin

In the studio-backend-ci.yml Shell installer tests step I checked, tests/sh/test_torch_constraint.sh is run on every backend CI job, and it still asserts grep -c '^tokenizers$' and derives the tokenizers line number from that exact match. With this new pinned requirement, bash tests/sh/test_torch_constraint.sh now fails the “tokenizers present as standalone line” and “tokenizers before transformers” checks, so this change blocks that CI job until the structural test accepts the versioned tokenizers spec.

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This pull request pins the tokenizers dependency to ensure compatibility with transformers during dependency-free installations and introduces a defensive wrapper around _patch_trl_rl_trainers to prevent exceptions from propagating to direct callers. New regression tests are added to verify this error-handling behavior. Feedback suggests using logger.warning_once instead of logger.info when patching fails to maintain consistency with established patterns in the codebase and ensure visibility of issues.

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logger.info(
f"Unsloth: Could not patch trl.trainer.{trainer_file}: "
f"{type(e).__name__}: {e}"
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The wrapper uses logger.info to log patching failures, but the "umbrella" function patch_trl_rl_trainers (line 1973) uses logger.warning_once. To maintain consistency with the intended "umbrella behavior" mentioned in the PR description and to ensure that unexpected patching failures are sufficiently visible without flooding logs, consider using logger.warning_once here as well. This also ensures the specific error details are captured dynamically.

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logger.info(
f"Unsloth: Could not patch trl.trainer.{trainer_file}: "
f"{type(e).__name__}: {e}"
)
logger.warning_once(
f"Unsloth: Could not patch trl.trainer.{trainer_file}: "
f"{type(e).__name__}: {e}"
)
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  1. Prioritize consistency with established coding patterns within a module.
  2. User-facing warning messages should be dynamically generated to include the specific configuration values they refer to, rather than using hardcoded examples.

Drop verbose justifications down to one or two lines per site.
The PR description carries the full context; in-file comments
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# Must match the bound every transformers 4.56..5.3 declares.
# With --no-deps, unpinned resolves to 0.23.1+ and `from transformers
# import AutoConfig` raises ImportError at import time.
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P2 Badge Update negative control to remove versioned tokenizers

When the e2e tokenizer suite is enabled, TestE2ETokenizersFix::test_negative_control_no_tokenizers still creates its "without tokenizers" requirements copy by dropping only lines whose stripped text equals tokenizers; this new versioned requirement survives that filter, so the copied file still installs tokenizers and AutoConfig succeeds, causing the negative-control assertion to fail. Adjust the test/filter alongside this requirement change so the no-tokenizers copy actually removes tokenizers>=....

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tokenizers 0.23.0 was never published to PyPI (versions go 0.22.2 ->
0.23.1), so `tokenizers<=0.23.0` resolves to 0.22.2 in practice, the
same version the explicit >=0.22.0,<=0.23.0 pin resolved to. Verified
on Python 3.12 and 3.13.
@danielhanchen danielhanchen merged commit 1c91f49 into main May 11, 2026
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Address bot review feedback on #5361:

* Codex (P2): the previous relaxed regex `^tokenizers([<>=!,~ ]|$)`
  accepted any version operator, so `tokenizers>=0.23.1` would still
  pass the test even though that line would re-introduce the import
  failure #5359 fixed.

* Gemini (medium): the boundary char class did not cover all PEP 508
  separators (`[`, `;`, `@`).

Replace the single check with two:

1. Loose: `^tokenizers([^a-zA-Z0-9._-]|$)` confirms the package is
   listed (covers extras, env markers, URLs, bare line).

2. Tight regression guard: pipe those lines through a second grep
   that requires `<=0.23.0` or the functionally equivalent
   `<0.23.1`. Rejects bare `tokenizers`, `>=0.22.0` (no upper
   bound), `>=0.23.1`, `!=0.23.0`, `<=0.24.0`, etc.

Verified locally:
- Current main (tokenizers<=0.23.0): 25 PASS, 0 FAIL.
- Spot-check with the bug reverted (bare `tokenizers`): the new
  "tokenizers pinned with upper bound excluding 0.23.1+" check
  FAILS as intended; the original "listed" check still passes.
danielhanchen added a commit that referenced this pull request May 11, 2026
* fix(tests/sh): accept pinned tokenizers line after #5359

#5359 pinned the tokenizers line in
studio/backend/requirements/no-torch-runtime.txt from bare
`tokenizers` to `tokenizers<=0.23.0` to stop pip from resolving to
0.23.1+ (which transformers rejects at import time). The shell test
in tests/sh/test_torch_constraint.sh was still asserting the literal
`^tokenizers$` regex, which fails on the pinned form. Surfaced as
a hard fail on PR #5312's Backend CI Repo tests (CPU) step:

  === Structural: tokenizers in no-torch-runtime.txt ===
    FAIL: tokenizers present as standalone line (expected '1', got '0')
    FAIL: tokenizers before transformers (expected 'yes', got 'no')

Relax the regex to `^tokenizers([<>=!,~ ]|$)` so it matches both bare
and version-constrained forms, which preserves the original intent
(verify tokenizers is present in the file, before transformers).
Verified locally: 24 PASS, 0 FAIL.

* fixup(tests/sh): tighten tokenizers check to guard the safe bound

Address bot review feedback on #5361:

* Codex (P2): the previous relaxed regex `^tokenizers([<>=!,~ ]|$)`
  accepted any version operator, so `tokenizers>=0.23.1` would still
  pass the test even though that line would re-introduce the import
  failure #5359 fixed.

* Gemini (medium): the boundary char class did not cover all PEP 508
  separators (`[`, `;`, `@`).

Replace the single check with two:

1. Loose: `^tokenizers([^a-zA-Z0-9._-]|$)` confirms the package is
   listed (covers extras, env markers, URLs, bare line).

2. Tight regression guard: pipe those lines through a second grep
   that requires `<=0.23.0` or the functionally equivalent
   `<0.23.1`. Rejects bare `tokenizers`, `>=0.22.0` (no upper
   bound), `>=0.23.1`, `!=0.23.0`, `<=0.24.0`, etc.

Verified locally:
- Current main (tokenizers<=0.23.0): 25 PASS, 0 FAIL.
- Spot-check with the bug reverted (bare `tokenizers`): the new
  "tokenizers pinned with upper bound excluding 0.23.1+" check
  FAILS as intended; the original "listed" check still passes.
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