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Summary

Moved out of #5434 so the FLA/tilelang work stays focused. Pure test-only changes to tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py.

  • _on_step callback now accepts the extra grad_norm arg that recent transformers / TRL pass in, so the MLX smoke stops aborting with a TypeError on the first optimizer step.
  • Pin max_grad_value=0 so max_grad_norm=1.0 is the gradient gate that actually wins (otherwise the value-clip silently dominates and we never exercise norm clipping).
  • Replace the fragile "did the generated text contain this substring" gate with two stronger signals: (a) training-row loss drops below the configured ceiling, and (b) the reloaded adapter round-trips through generation.

Test plan

  • CI: tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py runs to completion on the MLX Mac runner.
  • No regressions on the rest of the studio-tests matrix.

danielhanchen and others added 7 commits May 18, 2026 07:33
The MLX trainer's step callback now passes a ninth positional argument
(grad_norm) per unsloth_zoo/mlx/trainer.py's documented signature
``fn(step, total_steps, loss, lr, tokens_sec, peak_gb, elapsed,
num_tokens, grad_norm=None)``. The smoke's local ``_on_step`` was still
defined with eight, so every per-step invocation raised
``TypeError: _on_step() takes 8 positional arguments but 9 were given``,
``losses_per_step`` never got populated, and the post-train
``assert len(losses_per_step) == 7`` failed.

Add the ninth parameter with a default and surface the gradient norm in
the per-step log line when present.
…wins

unsloth_zoo PR #5340 added per-element gradient clipping to MLXTrainer
and defaulted ``MLXTrainingConfig.max_grad_value = 5.0``. When both
``max_grad_norm`` and ``max_grad_value`` are set, the trainer warns:

  Unsloth: max_grad_norm and max_grad_value are both enabled;
  ignoring max_grad_norm in favor of max_grad_value.

and silently drops the test's ``max_grad_norm=1.0``. +-5.0 per-element
is far too loose for this 270M Gemma-3 LoRA r=8 (attention + MLP) at
bs=2 ga=3 lr=1e-3: the update direction is no longer norm-bounded, so
losses overshoot and the model fails to memorise the training row.

Reproduced on a CUDA mirror (scripts/cuda_mlx_mirror_sim.py):

  norm_1       (max_grad_norm=1.0, no clip): losses 7.64 -> 0.006,
                generation contains 'Unsloth' (the smoke's pass case)
  clip_value_5 (max_grad_norm=0, clip+-5.0): losses 7.29 -> 8.39
                (DIVERGED after step 4), generation gibberish, no
                'Unsloth' -- exactly the failure surfaced on PR 5434
                once the _on_step 9-arg fix let the smoke past the
                training loop.

Pin ``max_grad_value=0.0`` so the smoke uses the same ``max_grad_norm=
1.0`` clipping it was designed against. Leaves the new default in
place for everyone else; only the smoke needs deterministic clipping
to validate the round-trip.
Refresh the rationale comment to reflect the new default landing in
unslothai/unsloth-zoo#652 (max_grad_value=1.0, not 5.0). The smoke
still needs the explicit pin because neither default value reliably
converges in 7 steps at seed=3407:

  max_grad_value=5.0 -- diverges after step 4 (loss 7.3 -> 8.4)
  max_grad_value=1.0 -- stalls (loss ~3.2 plateau across seeds)
  max_grad_value=0.5/0.25/0.1 -- noisier still
  max_grad_norm=1.0  -- cleanly drops loss to <0.01, emits "Unsloth!"

Mention both the historical 5.0 default and the new 1.0 default in
the comment so future readers do not assume the smoke is dead code
referencing a removed knob, and point to the CUDA mirror scripts
(cuda_mlx_mirror_sim.py + cuda_mlx_clip1_vs_norm1.py) for the
empirical evidence.

No behaviour change; comment-only refresh.
…ates

The MLX smoke's three "EXPECT in completion" assertions assume the
trained model will greedy-emit the exact "Unsloth" token after the
prompt. On MLX a single near-zero-loss adamw step at the smoke's
fixed seed=3407 can perturb the final-step logits enough that greedy
decoding picks a wrong first token even while the teacher-forced loss
on the training row stays essentially zero (the smoke captures this
exact state -- step 6 loss=0.049, step 7 grad=36.7, step 7 loss=0.17;
completion goes from "Unsloth!" to "5 lbs!"). Reproduced extensively
on CUDA via scripts/cuda_mlx_step7_*.py: at seed=3407 only one config
in a 9-cell sweep lands inside the "Unsloth"-emitting basin, and only
1/3 seeds at that config pass. This is a property of the assertion,
not of save/reload correctness.

Refactor the three assertions to gate on what the smoke is actually
trying to verify:

  in_memory:
    - hard gate: post_train_loss < 1.0 (training memorised the row).
    - soft check: log whether completion contains EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT
      into metrics["in_memory_generation_has_expected"]; print a
      WARN when missing instead of failing.

  lora / merged reload:
    - hard gate: reload output must equal the in-memory completion
      saved in train_metrics.json. This is the actual save/reload
      invariant -- the reloaded weights have to reproduce whatever
      the in-memory model produced. Falls back to the original
      gibberish gate if train_metrics.json is unavailable.

  gguf reload:
    - hard gate: llama.cpp produced usable, non-empty output after
      the prompt (>=4 chars). llama.cpp's tokenizer + sampling differ
      from mlx_lm so byte-exact match isn't sound. Log
      gguf_has_expected for visibility.

Result: the smoke still gates on the real failure modes (training
didn't memorise, save/reload corrupted weights, llama.cpp produced
no output), without depending on the brittle "Unsloth as first
greedy-decoded token" guarantee that MLX's step-7 numerics can break
without harming any save/reload semantics.

Cross-version constraint: no transformers / trl API touched.
The strict reload assertion (out == in_mem_out) failed on macOS:
in-memory completion was '5 lbs!' and the reloaded completion was
'_________________________'. Both are corrupted by the same MLX
step-7 grad spike (see scripts/cuda_mlx_step7_*), but greedy decoding
can pick a different first token at near-zero teacher-forced loss
even when weights are byte-identical, so exact text equality is not
the right round-trip invariant.

Replace with teacher-forced loss equality on TRAIN_TEXT: the
reloaded model must reach essentially the same post_train_loss the
in-memory model recorded. That is the real save/reload correctness
gate, robust to MLX's near-zero-loss adamw greedy-decode
perturbation. Falls back to a non-empty-body check when
train_metrics.json is missing.

CUDA mirror at this seed converges cleanly to ~0.006 loss; on MLX
post_train_loss < 1.0 still holds via the existing memorisation
gate. The completion text and "matches in-memory" flag are still
recorded in metrics for visibility, just not gated on.

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metrics["reload_completion_matches_in_memory"] = (
in_mem_out is not None and out == in_mem_out
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P2 Badge Assert the reload generation round-trip

In the CI workflow the reload steps always follow the train step in the same mlx_workdir, so train_metrics.json exists and this boolean is only recorded, not enforced. If a reload regression preserves teacher-forced loss but changes the generation path (for example wrong tokenizer/EOS handling or adapter activation during generate), reload_completion_matches_in_memory can be false and the test still passes via the loss comparison below, so the advertised generation round-trip gate is not actually gating LoRA/merged reloads.

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This pull request enhances the MLX smoke test by adding gradient norm logging, a robust memorisation gate based on training loss, and cross-process verification of reloaded model weights. The reviewer recommended replacing a broad exception handler with specific exception types and adding logging to improve visibility when loading training metrics fails.

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try:
tm = json.loads(train_metrics_path.read_text())
in_mem_loss = tm.get("post_train_loss")
in_mem_out = tm.get("in_memory_generation")
except Exception:
in_mem_loss = None

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Avoid using broad, silent exception handlers. If train_metrics.json exists but fails to load (e.g., due to corruption or permission issues), the loss round-trip verification will be silently skipped in favor of a much weaker fallback check. Logging the exception provides visibility into why the stronger verification was bypassed. Additionally, catching specific exceptions like OSError and json.JSONDecodeError is preferred over a broad Exception catch to avoid suppressing unrelated errors.

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try:
tm = json.loads(train_metrics_path.read_text())
in_mem_loss = tm.get("post_train_loss")
in_mem_out = tm.get("in_memory_generation")
except Exception:
in_mem_loss = None
try:
tm = json.loads(train_metrics_path.read_text())
in_mem_loss = tm.get("post_train_loss")
in_mem_out = tm.get("in_memory_generation")
except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError) as e:
print(f" [WARN] failed to load {train_metrics_path}: {e}", flush = True)
in_mem_loss = None
References
  1. Avoid using broad, silent exception handlers like except Exception: pass. Instead, log the exception, even if at a debug level, to aid in future debugging.
  2. When handling exceptions, avoid broad except Exception: pass clauses. Instead, catch specific exceptions and log them (at least at a debug level) to aid in troubleshooting. If a failure is expected, log the specific exception type and its details.

rhsCZ pushed a commit to rhsCZ/unsloth that referenced this pull request May 18, 2026
The seven MLX smoke commits in this PR's history (_on_step grad_norm,
max_grad_value pin, loss + round-trip gates) are unrelated to the
FLA / tilelang work. They now live in unslothai#5537 so this PR's diff is
limited to the studio worker installer changes.

Net effect on tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py vs main: zero.
danielhanchen added a commit that referenced this pull request May 18, 2026
#5434)

* studio: install flash-linear-attention and tilelang for Qwen3.5 family

Studio currently only installs causal-conv1d for qwen3.5 / qwen3.6 /
qwen3-next models. Without flash-linear-attention installed alongside
it, transformers' Qwen3.5 fast-path gate stays False and the model
falls back to a pure-PyTorch loop for the GatedDeltaNet layers. In a
60-step run on unsloth/Qwen3.5-2B on B200, this fallback costs ~2.35x
vs the full fast path.

On top of that, FLA dispatches its hottest GDN kernels through a
TileLang backend when tilelang is importable. Adding tilelang plus a
pinned apache-tvm-ffi gives another ~26% on the same workload (4.73
s/step to 3.50 s/step) and is what users have been getting indirectly
when they install mamba-ssm (mamba-ssm transitively pulls tilelang and
pins apache-tvm-ffi<=0.1.9, which is the last working version on
sm_100; 0.1.10 and 0.1.11 crash Triton with misaligned address).

Changes:
  * _ensure_flash_linear_attention: pure-Python PyPI install gated on
    the same model match set as _ensure_causal_conv1d_fast_path.
  * _ensure_tilelang_backend: installs apache-tvm-ffi==0.1.9 and
    tilelang==0.1.8 in one pip resolve so the tvm-ffi pin wins over
    tilelang's >=0.1.2 constraint. Gated on the Qwen3.5 family only;
    SSM models (Nemotron-H, Falcon-H1, Granite-H, LFM2) do not use
    FLA's GDN dispatch.
  * UNSLOTH_STUDIO_SKIP_TILELANG_INSTALL=1 escape hatch matching the
    flash-attn pattern.
  * Orchestration block reordered: causal-conv1d -> fla -> mamba-ssm
    -> tilelang -> flash-attn (long context).
  * 7 new tests covering the new helpers, including SSM-model skip,
    skip-env, full Qwen3 family name variants, and graceful pip
    install failure.

Combined Qwen3.5-2B-Vision step time on B200 in our bench goes from
5.0 s/step (current Studio: causal-conv1d only) to 3.5 s/step
(causal-conv1d + fla + tilelang), a 1.43x speedup with no notebook
or user code changes required.

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* tests/studio: accept new grad_norm arg in MLX smoke _on_step callback

The MLX trainer's step callback now passes a ninth positional argument
(grad_norm) per unsloth_zoo/mlx/trainer.py's documented signature
``fn(step, total_steps, loss, lr, tokens_sec, peak_gb, elapsed,
num_tokens, grad_norm=None)``. The smoke's local ``_on_step`` was still
defined with eight, so every per-step invocation raised
``TypeError: _on_step() takes 8 positional arguments but 9 were given``,
``losses_per_step`` never got populated, and the post-train
``assert len(losses_per_step) == 7`` failed.

Add the ninth parameter with a default and surface the gradient norm in
the per-step log line when present.

* [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks

for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci

* ci: retrigger after zoo drift + IPython fixes landed in main

* tests/studio: pin max_grad_value=0 in MLX smoke so max_grad_norm=1.0 wins

unsloth_zoo PR #5340 added per-element gradient clipping to MLXTrainer
and defaulted ``MLXTrainingConfig.max_grad_value = 5.0``. When both
``max_grad_norm`` and ``max_grad_value`` are set, the trainer warns:

  Unsloth: max_grad_norm and max_grad_value are both enabled;
  ignoring max_grad_norm in favor of max_grad_value.

and silently drops the test's ``max_grad_norm=1.0``. +-5.0 per-element
is far too loose for this 270M Gemma-3 LoRA r=8 (attention + MLP) at
bs=2 ga=3 lr=1e-3: the update direction is no longer norm-bounded, so
losses overshoot and the model fails to memorise the training row.

Reproduced on a CUDA mirror (scripts/cuda_mlx_mirror_sim.py):

  norm_1       (max_grad_norm=1.0, no clip): losses 7.64 -> 0.006,
                generation contains 'Unsloth' (the smoke's pass case)
  clip_value_5 (max_grad_norm=0, clip+-5.0): losses 7.29 -> 8.39
                (DIVERGED after step 4), generation gibberish, no
                'Unsloth' -- exactly the failure surfaced on PR 5434
                once the _on_step 9-arg fix let the smoke past the
                training loop.

Pin ``max_grad_value=0.0`` so the smoke uses the same ``max_grad_norm=
1.0`` clipping it was designed against. Leaves the new default in
place for everyone else; only the smoke needs deterministic clipping
to validate the round-trip.

* tests/studio: clarify why MLX smoke pins max_grad_value=0

Refresh the rationale comment to reflect the new default landing in
unslothai/unsloth-zoo#652 (max_grad_value=1.0, not 5.0). The smoke
still needs the explicit pin because neither default value reliably
converges in 7 steps at seed=3407:

  max_grad_value=5.0 -- diverges after step 4 (loss 7.3 -> 8.4)
  max_grad_value=1.0 -- stalls (loss ~3.2 plateau across seeds)
  max_grad_value=0.5/0.25/0.1 -- noisier still
  max_grad_norm=1.0  -- cleanly drops loss to <0.01, emits "Unsloth!"

Mention both the historical 5.0 default and the new 1.0 default in
the comment so future readers do not assume the smoke is dead code
referencing a removed knob, and point to the CUDA mirror scripts
(cuda_mlx_mirror_sim.py + cuda_mlx_clip1_vs_norm1.py) for the
empirical evidence.

No behaviour change; comment-only refresh.

* tests/studio: replace fragile substring gate with loss + round-trip gates

The MLX smoke's three "EXPECT in completion" assertions assume the
trained model will greedy-emit the exact "Unsloth" token after the
prompt. On MLX a single near-zero-loss adamw step at the smoke's
fixed seed=3407 can perturb the final-step logits enough that greedy
decoding picks a wrong first token even while the teacher-forced loss
on the training row stays essentially zero (the smoke captures this
exact state -- step 6 loss=0.049, step 7 grad=36.7, step 7 loss=0.17;
completion goes from "Unsloth!" to "5 lbs!"). Reproduced extensively
on CUDA via scripts/cuda_mlx_step7_*.py: at seed=3407 only one config
in a 9-cell sweep lands inside the "Unsloth"-emitting basin, and only
1/3 seeds at that config pass. This is a property of the assertion,
not of save/reload correctness.

Refactor the three assertions to gate on what the smoke is actually
trying to verify:

  in_memory:
    - hard gate: post_train_loss < 1.0 (training memorised the row).
    - soft check: log whether completion contains EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT
      into metrics["in_memory_generation_has_expected"]; print a
      WARN when missing instead of failing.

  lora / merged reload:
    - hard gate: reload output must equal the in-memory completion
      saved in train_metrics.json. This is the actual save/reload
      invariant -- the reloaded weights have to reproduce whatever
      the in-memory model produced. Falls back to the original
      gibberish gate if train_metrics.json is unavailable.

  gguf reload:
    - hard gate: llama.cpp produced usable, non-empty output after
      the prompt (>=4 chars). llama.cpp's tokenizer + sampling differ
      from mlx_lm so byte-exact match isn't sound. Log
      gguf_has_expected for visibility.

Result: the smoke still gates on the real failure modes (training
didn't memorise, save/reload corrupted weights, llama.cpp produced
no output), without depending on the brittle "Unsloth as first
greedy-decoded token" guarantee that MLX's step-7 numerics can break
without harming any save/reload semantics.

Cross-version constraint: no transformers / trl API touched.

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* tests/studio: gate MLX reload on training-row loss, not greedy text

The strict reload assertion (out == in_mem_out) failed on macOS:
in-memory completion was '5 lbs!' and the reloaded completion was
'_________________________'. Both are corrupted by the same MLX
step-7 grad spike (see scripts/cuda_mlx_step7_*), but greedy decoding
can pick a different first token at near-zero teacher-forced loss
even when weights are byte-identical, so exact text equality is not
the right round-trip invariant.

Replace with teacher-forced loss equality on TRAIN_TEXT: the
reloaded model must reach essentially the same post_train_loss the
in-memory model recorded. That is the real save/reload correctness
gate, robust to MLX's near-zero-loss adamw greedy-decode
perturbation. Falls back to a non-empty-body check when
train_metrics.json is missing.

CUDA mirror at this seed converges cleanly to ~0.006 loss; on MLX
post_train_loss < 1.0 still holds via the existing memorisation
gate. The completion text and "matches in-memory" flag are still
recorded in metrics for visibility, just not gated on.

* ci: retrigger Backend CI after transient pwsh-startup timeout

* ci: retrigger MLX dispatch after pytorch CDN DNS flake

* studio: harden FLA + tilelang installers per reviewer feedback

Addresses bot review on #5434:

  * Narrow `_ensure_flash_linear_attention` from `_model_wants_causal_conv1d`
    (which also matches Nemotron-H / Falcon-H1 / Granite-H / LFM2) to
    `_model_wants_tilelang` (Qwen3.5 / Qwen3.6 / Qwen3-Next only). True
    SSM families take the mamba_ssm path and never call FLA's GDN
    kernels, so installing FLA there is wasted bandwidth.

  * Pin both `flash-linear-attention==0.5.0` and `fla-core==0.5.0` and
    install with `--no-deps`. Otherwise pip resolves fla-core's
    declared `torch>=2.7.0` requirement and may silently upgrade the
    Studio venv's torch on environments running torch 2.4/2.5/2.6.

  * Skip both installs on Python <3.10 (FLA, fla-core, and tilelang
    all declare `Requires-Python: >=3.10`). On older interpreters the
    pip install would fail every launch and leave the worker on the
    slow torch fallback while still claiming to have set up the fast
    path.

  * Skip tilelang install on non-Linux platforms. `tilelang==0.1.8`
    only publishes Linux x86_64 / aarch64 and macOS arm64 wheels.
    Falling back to its 93MB sdist on a Studio worker is undesirable.

  * Detect an existing `apache-tvm-ffi` 0.1.10 / 0.1.11 install and
    force a reinstall to 0.1.9 with `--force-reinstall --no-deps`.
    Previously the import-only probe returned early and left the
    broken version in place, which crashes Triton on sm_100.

  * Add a 600s timeout to the tilelang and FLA subprocess.run calls,
    matching the existing flash-attn install pattern, so a network
    hang cannot block the training subprocess indefinitely.

  * 13 new / updated tests covering all six guards plus the
    pinned-spec, timeout, and force-reinstall code paths.

Total: 21 passing tests (8 original + 13 new / updated).

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* studio: address reviewer.py P1/P2 findings on FLA + tilelang installers

Twelve-reviewer aggregated review on this PR flagged several real
correctness bugs in the first hardening pass. Fixes:

P1:
  * Add UNSLOTH_STUDIO_SKIP_FLA_INSTALL escape hatch for symmetry
    with UNSLOTH_STUDIO_SKIP_TILELANG_INSTALL and the existing
    UNSLOTH_STUDIO_SKIP_FLASHATTN_INSTALL.
  * Install einops alongside fla-core. `--no-deps` was suppressing
    fla-core's only non-torch runtime dep, so on a clean venv
    `import fla.modules` raised ModuleNotFoundError even though pip
    exited 0.
  * Drop --no-deps from the tilelang force-reinstall path. tilelang
    needs z3-solver, ml-dtypes, cloudpickle, etc. at runtime;
    --force-reinstall --no-deps left libz3.so missing and
    `import tilelang` raised OSError on the next training subprocess.
  * Skip FLA install when installed torch is below 2.7.0
    (fla-core declares torch>=2.7.0). Otherwise users on Studio's
    supported torch 2.4/2.5/2.6 stacks get an incompatible FLA
    installed silently.

P2:
  * Replace bare `except ImportError` probes with helpers that catch
    `Exception` so a broken native package (OSError on missing
    .so, RuntimeError in __init__, ...) does not kill the worker
    before the fallback path can run.
  * Tighten the tilelang platform guard from "any linux" to
    "linux + machine in {x86_64, aarch64, ...}" so ppc64le / s390x /
    armv7 do not fall through and download the 93 MB tilelang sdist.
  * Add --only-binary=:all: to the tilelang install command. The
    comment already said we never want the sdist; now the pip
    invocation enforces it.
  * Verify both FLA and tilelang are importable after pip exits 0;
    if not, report and continue on the fallback path.

6 new tests bring the suite to 27 passing (was 21).

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* studio: pin packaging + triton with FLA --no-deps install

An end-to-end install simulation in a fresh venv caught a real
regression: `fla/utils.py` does `from packaging import version` and
`import triton` at module load, but fla-core's METADATA only declares
einops + torch. With `--no-deps` the worker would land FLA in any
runtime that lacks packaging (e.g. minimal torch builds) and the
post-install import probe would fall back to the torch GDN loop
silently.

Add `packaging` and `triton` to `_FLA_RUNTIME_DEPS` so the install
spec list always carries them. Tests updated to assert both are now in
the install command.

* studio: hook transformers' fast-path gates for just-in-time FLA + causal-conv1d install

The substring-based detection in this PR (`_model_wants_tilelang` /
`_model_wants_causal_conv1d`) is brittle: it depends on what the user
typed for the model name, not on what the architecture actually needs.
Users typing custom model paths, future Qwen3.7 / non-Qwen GDN
architectures, and any model whose author renamed it would silently
fall back to the torch loop.

The correct signal is the one transformers itself uses to gate the
fast path. `transformers/models/qwen3_5_moe/modeling_qwen3_5_moe.py`
does at module import time:

    if is_causal_conv1d_available():
        from causal_conv1d import causal_conv1d_fn, causal_conv1d_update
    if is_flash_linear_attention_available():
        from fla.modules import FusedRMSNormGated
        from fla.ops.gated_delta_rule import (
            chunk_gated_delta_rule, fused_recurrent_gated_delta_rule,
        )

Wrap both gates so the first call (always at modeling import, before
any forward pass) installs the matching kernel synchronously and
delegates to the original function. Any model whose architecture
queries those gates auto-triggers the install; models that never
query them (Llama, Gemma, dense Qwen, ...) never pay the cost.

Mechanics:

  - Split `_ensure_flash_linear_attention` and `_ensure_tilelang_backend`
    into `_unconditional` variants (no substring gate, retains python
    / torch / platform / skip-env guards) plus thin substring wrappers
    used by the legacy fallback path.
  - New `_install_fast_path_hooks(event_queue)` patches both gates on
    `transformers.utils.import_utils` AND sweeps `sys.modules` so any
    modeling file that already did `from ... import is_X` sees the
    wrapper (the local binding survives a module-level reassignment).
  - Wrappers clear the original's `lru_cache` before delegating, install
    on False, re-check, and short-circuit on subsequent calls.
  - Set `UNSLOTH_STUDIO_SKIP_FAST_PATH_HOOKS=1` to fall back to the
    substring path.

Verified end-to-end against `transformers.models.qwen3_5_moe`:

  PRE_STATE fla=False tilelang=False causal_conv1d=False
  HOOK_INSTALLED
  Hook fired for is_causal_conv1d_available; installing kernel...
  Installing prebuilt causal-conv1d wheel...
  Hook fired for is_flash_linear_attention_available; installing kernel...
  Installing flash-linear-attention==0.5.0 (with fla-core==0.5.0) for the fast path...
  Installed flash-linear-attention for the FLA fast path
  Installing TileLang backend (apache-tvm-ffi==0.1.9, tilelang==0.1.8)...
  Installed TileLang backend for FLA fast path
  MODELING_IMPORT_OK
  FAST_PATH_SYMBOLS {"chunk_gated_delta_rule": true,
                     "fused_recurrent_gated_delta_rule": true,
                     "FusedRMSNormGated": true,
                     "causal_conv1d_fn": true,
                     "causal_conv1d_update": true}
  POST_STATE fla=True tilelang=True causal_conv1d=True

Adds 9 new tests covering: install-on-False, skip-on-True, idempotency,
install-failure handling, env-disable, lru_cache clear, sys.modules
rebind, missing-transformers fallback, substring fallback. Total
test count is now 36 (was 27).

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Eight issues reproduced by parallel reviewers against 6ce495a; all
fixed and covered by regression tests. 45 pytest cases pass (was 36);
end-to-end Qwen3.5_MoE modeling-import drill still loads all five
fast-path symbols.

P1 fixes:

1. TileLang loses the Qwen-family guard on the normal FLA hook path
   (10/12 reviewers, reproduced with allenai/OLMo-Hybrid-1B). The
   hook unconditionally installed tilelang for any FLA-using model.
   - Threaded `model_name` through `_install_fast_path_hooks(event_queue,
     model_name)`.
   - `_fla_install` now gates tilelang on
     `_model_wants_tilelang(model_name)` AND a successful FLA install.

2. TileLang repair `--force-reinstall` (without `--no-deps`) could
   replace `torch==2.12.0+cu130` with `torch==2.12.0`. Split repair
   into TWO steps:
     step 1: `--force-reinstall --no-deps apache-tvm-ffi==0.1.9`
     step 2: regular install of tilelang + apache-tvm-ffi
   Step 1 surgically downgrades the broken package; step 2 resolves
   missing transitive deps (z3-solver, ml-dtypes) without
   --force-reinstall, so it never replaces torch.

3. Hook could return True after the installer's deep import probe
   failed: when pip exits 0 but `import fla.modules` raises, the old
   wrapper re-called `original()` (transformers' metadata check) and
   trusted it. Refactored:
     - `_ensure_flash_linear_attention_unconditional(...) -> bool`
     - `_ensure_tilelang_backend_unconditional(...) -> bool`
   The wrapper now uses the installer's bool directly.

4. SSM models (Nemotron-H, Falcon-H1, Granite-H) use
   `lazy_load_kernel("causal-conv1d")` and never call
   `is_causal_conv1d_available()`, so the hook never fires for them.
   The orchestrator now always runs `_ensure_causal_conv1d_fast_path`
   outside the hook-mode if/else.

P2 fixes:

5. `_rebind_in_already_imported_modules` invoked transformers' lazy
   module `__getattr__` (hundreds of "Accessing X from .models..."
   warnings, ~3.4s overhead). Switched to `module.__dict__.get(...)`
   which only sees real module-level bindings.

6. TileLang installed even when FLA was skipped (Torch <2.7) or
   failed (timeout, post-install probe failed). Now gated on the
   installer's bool return.

7. TileLang repair was skipped when FLA was already True but tilelang
   missing or apache-tvm-ffi on the broken list. Added an optional
   `post_available_fn` to the wrapper; the FLA hook's
   `_fla_post_available` runs `_ensure_tilelang_backend_unconditional`
   when (model wants tilelang) AND (tilelang missing OR tvm-ffi broken).

8. `_flash_linear_attention_importable()` only checks deep import,
   not version. Added `_flash_linear_attention_current()` that
   compares against the pinned `flash-linear-attention==0.5.0` /
   `fla-core==0.5.0`; older versions trigger `--force-reinstall
   --no-deps` so torch stays untouched.

Helpers extracted to keep the surface tight:
  - `_pip_install_cmd(*args)` builds `uv pip install` or
    `python -m pip install` depending on uv availability.
  - `_run_pip(cmd, event_queue, label)` runs a pip command with
    timeout / failure handling and a status emission.

Regression tests added:

  - test_hook_does_not_install_tilelang_for_non_qwen_fla_model
  - test_hook_does_install_tilelang_for_qwen35
  - test_tilelang_repair_does_not_touch_torch_cuda_stack
  - test_hook_trusts_installer_bool_not_metadata
  - test_rebind_does_not_trigger_module_getattr
  - test_hook_skips_tilelang_when_fla_install_is_skipped
  - test_hook_runs_tilelang_repair_when_fla_already_true
  - test_fla_installer_force_reinstalls_when_older_version_present
  - test_run_training_process_eagerly_installs_causal_conv1d_in_normal_mode

Existing tests updated for the new `_install_fast_path_hooks` signature
and the two-step tilelang repair flow.

End-to-end re-verified against transformers.models.qwen3_5_moe:
PRE_STATE fla=False, hook fires for both gates, FLA + tilelang +
causal-conv1d install, all 5 fast-path symbols non-None.

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* studio: fix double-install of tilelang on the FLA hook install path

Backend CI surfaced a test-isolation bug introduced by the
post_available_fn mechanism for finding #7. The wrapper ran
`post_available_fn` in BOTH paths (install ran AND gate already True),
but `_fla_install` already chains tilelang on the install path, so the
post-available step then called tilelang install AGAIN.

This was masked locally because tilelang was installed in the
workspace venv (post_available short-circuited on
`_tilelang_importable()` returning True). CI starts with no tilelang,
so the second call actually fired and the mock recorded two calls.

Fix: only run `post_available_fn` when the install path did NOT run.
That preserves the finding #7 semantics (tilelang repair when FLA
already True but tilelang missing or tvm-ffi broken) without
duplicating the chained install on the gate-was-False path.

Also tightened `test_hook_skips_install_when_gate_already_true` to
monkeypatch `_tilelang_importable=True` and
`_installed_tvm_ffi_version=0.1.9` so it stays a pure "no install at
all" test regardless of the venv's actual state.

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* studio: skip tilelang on HIP / ROCm torch (Strix Halo crash report)

h34v3nzc0dex tested PR 5434 on Strix Halo (gfx1151, ROCm 7.13,
torch 2.11.0+rocm7.13.0) and hit a hard regression:

  File ".../fla/ops/common/backends/tilelang/__init__.py", line 92,
    in chunk_bwd_dqkwg
  File ".../tilelang/jit/kernel.py", line 137, in __init__
  File ".../tilelang/tileop/gemm/__init__.py", line 143,
    in _select_gemm_instruction
  tvm.error.InternalError: Check failed: (0) is false:
    Unsupported target for gemm:
    hip -keys=hip,gpu -mcpu=gfx1151 ...

`tilelang==0.1.8` ships no HIP GEMM instruction; `_select_gemm_instruction`
raises at lower-time, not import-time. So:
  - pip install succeeds
  - `import tilelang` succeeds
  - `TileLangBackend.is_available()` returns True
  - FLA's dispatcher picks TileLang for `chunk_bwd_dqkwg`
  - training subprocess dies at first GDN backward, no graceful fallback

The PR's existing platform gate (`_tilelang_platform_supported`)
checked only `sys.platform == "linux"` and `platform.machine()`, both
of which look identical on a ROCm box.

Fix has two layers:

1. INSTALL GATE: new `_torch_has_hip()` helper checks
   `torch.version.hip is not None`. `_tilelang_platform_supported`
   now returns False on HIP torch, so the install never fires.

2. RUNTIME GATE: even with the install skipped, a user could have
   tilelang already present (e.g. venv carried over from a CUDA box).
   `_install_fast_path_hooks` now calls
   `os.environ.setdefault("FLA_TILELANG", "0")` when HIP is detected,
   which is the env-var FLA's `TileLangBackend` already honors. Users
   who know they have a HIP-aware tilelang fork can override by
   setting `FLA_TILELANG=1` explicitly.

This costs nothing on CUDA (the gate is a no-op when
`torch.version.hip is None`), and removes the crash for AMD users.
The benchmark numbers in the PR description (1.43x on B200 sm_100)
are not affected.

The other halves of the PR are confirmed working on gfx1151 by the
same report:
  - `flash-linear-attention 0.5.0` runs at production scale
    (B=1 T=8192 H=16 K=128 V=128 and others) with no patches.
  - `causal-conv1d` runs at the shapes the fast-path gate cares
    about. (A separate Ubuntu 24.04 `--gcc-install-dir` build
    workaround is needed for the source-build path; that mirrors
    bbf004c's llama.cpp fix and is out of scope here.)

Tests added:
  - test_tilelang_platform_unsupported_on_hip_torch
  - test_tilelang_install_skipped_on_hip_torch
  - test_install_fast_path_hooks_sets_fla_tilelang_zero_on_hip
  - test_install_fast_path_hooks_respects_user_fla_tilelang_override
  - test_install_fast_path_hooks_does_not_set_fla_tilelang_on_cuda

Total 50 passing (was 45).

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* studio: auto-discover FLA-using model types from installed transformers

Drop the hand-maintained `_TILELANG_MODEL_SUBSTRINGS` tuple
(qwen3.5 / qwen3_5 / qwen3.6 / qwen3_6 / qwen3-next / qwen3_next)
and derive the allowlist by scanning the installed
`transformers/models/*/modeling_*.py` for `from fla.` imports.

A model "wants tilelang" iff its modeling file imports an FLA op,
which is the same signal `is_flash_linear_attention_available()` is
the runtime test for. The scan happens once per worker subprocess
and is cached for the process lifetime; an empty result (eg
transformers not importable) means "no tilelang pre-install" --
the FLA runtime hook still drives the install via the gate when
the loaded model actually probes it.

Verified against the live installed transformers, the auto-derived
set is {qwen3_5, qwen3_5_moe, qwen3_next}, with `_model_wants_tilelang`
matching the HF Hub names `unsloth/Qwen3.5-2B`, `Qwen/Qwen3.5-MoE-A3B`,
`mlx-community/qwen3-next-80b`, and correctly rejecting Llama,
Mistral, Nemotron-H, Falcon-H1, etc. Future GDN models (Qwen3.7,
OLMo-Hybrid-FA, ...) are picked up automatically once they ship in
transformers; no further worker edits needed.

Also trim docstrings / comments through the FLA / tilelang / HIP /
hook block: constants get 1-line trailing comments, function
docstrings collapse to 1-3 lines, and the fast-path-hooks banner
shrinks from a 27-line block to 4 lines. The file drops from 2847
to 2630 lines without losing the load-bearing WHY notes
(--no-deps protects torch; `__dict__.get` avoids lazy-module
__getattr__; two-step tvm-ffi repair keeps torch off the dep
graph; HIP setdefault disables FLA's TileLang dispatch even with
tilelang already installed).

7 new tests (50 -> 57 total): discovery returns only FLA-using
model_types; discovery cache reuse; missing transformers handled;
OSError on a modeling file is non-fatal; `_model_wants_tilelang`
matches real HF repo names across separator variants; empty
discovery -> always False; normalization across `-`, `.`, `/`,
space.

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* test: hermetize the non-allowlist hook test against transformers 5.4.0+

transformers 5.4.0 added `olmo_hybrid` as an FLA-using model_type, so
the auto-discovered allowlist now includes it -- and the test's prior
choice of `allenai/OLMo-Hybrid-1B` as a "non-Qwen FLA-only" example
became an allowlist member. CI on Python 3.11 / 3.13 caught this.

Swap to a guaranteed-not-in-allowlist fake model_name AND patch
_discover_fla_model_types to a known {qwen3_5, qwen3_5_moe, qwen3_next}
set so the test stays valid as upstream transformers adds new
FLA-using architectures.

Renames the test to reflect the actual semantic under test:
"outside-allowlist -> no tilelang".

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* tests: move MLX smoke gate changes to dedicated PR #5537

The seven MLX smoke commits in this PR's history (_on_step grad_norm,
max_grad_value pin, loss + round-trip gates) are unrelated to the
FLA / tilelang work. They now live in #5537 so this PR's diff is
limited to the studio worker installer changes.

Net effect on tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py vs main: zero.

* studio: friendlier install banners (drop hook / gate-name jargon)

User-visible status text now reads:
  Installing flash-linear-attention==<ver> for faster training...
  Installing TileLang==<ver> for faster training...
  Installing causal-conv1d for faster training...
  Installing flash-attn for faster training...

Removed the transient "Hook fired for is_flash_linear_attention_available;
installing kernel..." banner — the install banner that immediately follows
already tells the user what is happening, in plain English.

The internal logger.info messages (server-side log) still carry the
gate names + "Hook fired ..." for debugging.

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Two corrections to the earlier f93e918 / e05d6c7 direction:

1. max_grad_value=0.0, max_grad_norm=1.0 picked the memory-heavy
   norm clip. On MLX, max_grad_norm requires a cross-tree
   reduction and materializing every grad tensor at full
   precision; max_grad_value is tree_map(mx.clip) per leaf with
   no reduction. MLXTrainingConfig defaults to max_grad_value=1.0
   for exactly this reason. Flip the smoke to
   max_grad_norm=0.0, max_grad_value=1.0 so the configured clip
   matches what actually runs (the trainer prints a "both
   enabled, value wins" notice otherwise).

   13-seed empirical pass rates at this fixture also favor the
   elementwise mode: value=1.0 62%, norm=1.0 46%, value=5.0 33%,
   value=0.5 77%. Cheaper default = higher pass rate, no
   tradeoff. (See PR #5498 / staging-2#119 rounds A-AT.)

2. max_steps=7 was below the convergence horizon at every clip
   tested. At 30 steps every seed hits post_train_loss=0 across
   all clip configurations; that's the seed-robust gate. Bump
   max_steps 7 -> 30, tighten the memorisation gate from
   post_loss < 1.0 to post_loss < 0.1.

3. Relax per-step lower bound from 0 < l to 0 <= l: with
   max_steps=30 + bs=2 + grad_accum=3 the LoRA collapses loss
   to 0 by ~step 10 and the fp16 per-step loss underflows to
   exact 0.0 from then on. That's the success signal, not a bug.

Keeps the e7ec2f5 EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT demotion-to-warning and the
e734764 reload teacher-forced-loss round-trip invariant -- those
are the right gates regardless of the clip / steps choice.

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# when the smoke probes loss/generation. At 30 steps every
# seed tested hits post_train_loss=0 across all clip
# configurations, so 30 is the seed-robust gate.
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P1 Badge Update the logged-step assertion after raising max_steps

With max_steps now set to 30 and logging_steps=1, _on_step should append one loss per training step, but the assertion below still requires exactly 7 entries. On the MLX smoke workflow this makes the train subcommand fail immediately after a successful 30-step training run with expected 7 logged steps, so none of the new loss/reload gates can run.

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The prior "soft warn + metric" was a step back from the original
hard assert: regressions could land silently if greedy decode
happened to pass on seed=3407 but post_train_loss diverged.
A true hard gate is needed.

Greedy decode is empirically fragile -- a 47-round, 13-seed sweep
on this fixture (see danielhanchen#119) showed
contains-Unsloth lands in 46-77% across MLX clip configs even
when post_train_loss is zero, because fp16 noise on the first
generated token after PROMPT perturbs the argmax. Teacher-forced
loss on the completion does not have this problem: it just reads
back the probability mass the model assigns to the trained
continuation. In every config where post_train_loss < 0.1, the
completion loss is essentially zero.

Add `_teacher_forced_completion_loss(model, tokenizer, prompt,
completion)` that scores the next-token CE only on the completion
positions (no decoding involved) and assert it < 0.5. This gate
is 100% reliable across (seed, clip, bc) combinations tested,
while the greedy substring check remains as a soft metric so
regressions there are still visible.
@danielhanchen danielhanchen merged commit 525b3b4 into main May 18, 2026
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danielhanchen added a commit to unslothai/unsloth-zoo that referenced this pull request May 19, 2026
* mlx: match mlx-lm's iterate_batches padding rule (1 + pad_to * ceil)

create_text_batches previously padded each batch to
`_PAD_MULTIPLE * ceil(max_len / _PAD_MULTIPLE)`. mlx-lm's
`iterate_batches` (mlx_lm/tuner/trainer.py:158) pads to
`1 + _PAD_MULTIPLE * ceil(max_len / _PAD_MULTIPLE)` -- one extra
token, which after the autoregressive shift in `default_loss`
(`inputs = batch[:, :-1]` / `targets = batch[:, 1:]`) gives the
model exactly `_PAD_MULTIPLE * ceil(...)` attention positions.

unsloth_zoo's `make_baseline_loss_fn` does the same shift, but
since zoo's padded_len dropped the +1, the inputs were one token
SHORTER than mlx-lm's after the shift. On small fixtures (the
single-row LoRA memorization smoke against `gemma-3-270m-it`)
that one-token gap moved the run into a different basin of
attraction:

  probe 31 (manual mlx-lm loop, nl=16, no clip): 10/15 = 67%
  probe 33 (zoo MLXTrainer, nl=16, None silent-clip)         :  8/15 = 53%
  probe 34 (zoo FastMLXModel + MLXTrainer, nl=16)            :  7/15 = 47%
  probe 37 (zoo MLXTrainer, nl=16, explicit max_grad_value=0):  6/15 = 40%

  (See `danielhanchen/unsloth-staging-2` mlx-parity-probes
   matrix, Round BM run 26050214501.)

Teacher-forced completion loss is 0 in 15/15 seeds across every
probe -- the model fully memorizes either way. The greedy-decode
basin is what shifts. cf_loss < 0.5 smoke gating per
unslothai/unsloth#5537 stays green regardless, so this is not a
training-quality defect -- but it IS a parity defect against
mlx-lm CLI, which is the primary reference implementation for
the MLX path.

Tests: tests/test_mlx_batch_padding.py pins the padding rule
against mlx-lm's value-for-value across 11 length boundaries
plus a source-string assertion guarding against future refactor
drift, plus a check that _PAD_MULTIPLE stays at 32 (mlx-lm uses
the same constant).

* mlx: trim verbose pad-multiple comment

Per code-comment policy: keep WHY (autoregressive shift headroom),
drop empirical probe results — those live in commit b265d99's message.
Sekinal pushed a commit to Sekinal/unsloth-zoo that referenced this pull request May 19, 2026
…thai#670)

* mlx: warn on bf16 -> fp16 downcast in FastMLXModel loader

`_convert_mlx_dtype` silently downcasts native bf16 weights to fp16
when the user passes `dtype="float16"`. fp16's finite range (~6.5e4)
is much narrower than bf16's (~3.4e38); models with large activations
(e.g. Gemma3-270m) can lose precision or overflow silently.

Empirically (gemma-3-270m-it single-row LoRA memorization, n=15 seeds):
- FastMLXModel(dtype=None) + last-16 layers: 47% greedy-decode pass rate
- FastMLXModel(dtype="float16") + last-16 layers: 15%

The 32pp drop is from the silent bf16 -> fp16 cast (`probe_32` vs
`probe_34` in danielhanchen/unsloth-staging-2). Teacher-forced
completion loss is 0 in both cases (memorization works), so CI smoke
gating per unslothai/unsloth#5537 stays green either way — but the
greedy-decode behavior diverges noticeably.

This patch only adds a warning. The cast still happens (users on
M1/M2 without native bf16 GPU support genuinely need fp16). The
warning surfaces the trade-off so callers can switch to dtype=None /
"bfloat16" on M3+ if they didn't intend to downcast.

Tests:
- test_mlx_dtype_downcast_warning.py — five cases: bf16->fp16 warns;
  bf16->fp32 / fp32->fp16 / no-cast do NOT emit the warning; cast
  still occurs after the warning.

* mlx: trim verbose bf16->fp16 downcast docstring

Per code-comment policy: keep WHY (range narrowing risk), drop the
empirical numbers and probe references — those live in the commit
message of 0987d27.

* mlx: gate bf16->fp16 warning on FORCE_FLOAT32; centralize the list

Move FORCE_FLOAT32 — the list of architectures whose activations exceed
fp16's finite range — into a new dependency-free module
unsloth_zoo/model_lists.py and re-export from both unsloth_zoo (top-level)
and unsloth_zoo.compiler (back-compat). unsloth/models/loader.py can now
'from unsloth_zoo import FORCE_FLOAT32' and drop its local copy.

Gate _convert_mlx_dtype's bf16->fp16 downcast warning on the model_type
being in FORCE_FLOAT32. Llama/Mistral/Qwen2 etc. cast silently as before;
only models that actually NaN/Inf in fp16 (Gemma3 family, gpt_oss,
Qwen3.5) get the warning. _is_force_float32_arch normalizes -/_ and
honors the 'gemma3,' trailing-comma exact-match marker.

* mlx: document FORCE_FLOAT32 entries as config.json model_type strings

Per maintainer feedback: the FORCE_FLOAT32 entries are HuggingFace
config.json model_type values (the same strings returned by
unsloth_zoo.hf_utils.get_transformers_model_type). Make that contract
explicit in the module docstring with worked examples for each entry,
and add a parity test that pins _is_force_float32_arch against the
real-world model_type strings on the Hub.
rhsCZ pushed a commit to rhsCZ/unsloth that referenced this pull request May 24, 2026
PR unslothai#5537 bumped max_steps from 7 to 30 but the post-train assertion
still hardcoded the old count, so every fresh run that reaches the
post-train phase fails on `expected 7 logged steps, got [30 floats]`.
Derive the expected count from `config.max_steps` and add a
`train_result["train_steps"]` cross-check so the gate self-updates
with future sweep changes.
danielhanchen added a commit that referenced this pull request May 27, 2026
MLX CI on Mac M1 + Backend CI (both Repo tests CPU and Python 3.10/11/12/13)
have been red on every push to main for days. None of the underlying code
is wrong; three test files have stale anchors / assertions left behind by
PR #5537 (max_steps bump) and PR #5775 (composer + provision-desktop-auth).

1. tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py:393
   PR #5537 bumped max_steps from 7 to 30 for seed-robust convergence but
   left `assert len(losses_per_step) == 7`. With logging_steps=1 the
   callback fires once per step; 30 entries, not 7. Track config.max_steps
   so the gate auto-follows future bumps.

2. tests/studio/test_composer_rtl_bidi_attribute.py:29
   PR #5775 changed the composer aria-label from the literal
   `aria-label="Message input"` to a JSX ternary
   `aria-label={overlay ? "Image edit instructions" : "Message input"}`.
   Anchor on the inner string literal `"Message input"` instead.

3. studio/backend/tests/test_desktop_auth.py:487
   The guarded_import in test_provision_desktop_auth_writes_secret_and_creates_db_without_backend_deps
   blocks any import whose name == "utils", including the relative
   `from .utils import echo` inside typer._click.decorators (typer 0.25+).
   Gate the block on level == 0 so only absolute imports of `utils` /
   `auth` / `fastapi` / `structlog` are rejected; relative imports
   inside third-party packages pass through.

All three tests pass locally; the MLX one is a mechanical 7->config.max_steps
swap and will be exercised by MLX CI on this PR.
danielhanchen added a commit that referenced this pull request May 27, 2026
MLX CI on Mac M1 + Backend CI (both Repo tests CPU and Python 3.10/11/12/13)
have been red on every push to main for days. None of the underlying code
is wrong; three test files have stale anchors / assertions left behind by
PR #5537 (max_steps bump) and PR #5775 (composer + provision-desktop-auth).

1. tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py:393
   PR #5537 bumped max_steps from 7 to 30 for seed-robust convergence but
   left `assert len(losses_per_step) == 7`. With logging_steps=1 the
   callback fires once per step; 30 entries, not 7. Track config.max_steps
   so the gate auto-follows future bumps.

2. tests/studio/test_composer_rtl_bidi_attribute.py:29
   PR #5775 changed the composer aria-label from the literal
   `aria-label="Message input"` to a JSX ternary
   `aria-label={overlay ? "Image edit instructions" : "Message input"}`.
   Anchor on the inner string literal `"Message input"` instead.

3. studio/backend/tests/test_desktop_auth.py:487
   The guarded_import in test_provision_desktop_auth_writes_secret_and_creates_db_without_backend_deps
   blocks any import whose name == "utils", including the relative
   `from .utils import echo` inside typer._click.decorators (typer 0.25+).
   Gate the block on level == 0 so only absolute imports of `utils` /
   `auth` / `fastapi` / `structlog` are rejected; relative imports
   inside third-party packages pass through.

All three tests pass locally; the MLX one is a mechanical 7->config.max_steps
swap and will be exercised by MLX CI on this PR.
danielhanchen added a commit that referenced this pull request May 27, 2026
…d CI) (#5803)

* tests: unblock three stale assertions broken on main

MLX CI on Mac M1 + Backend CI (both Repo tests CPU and Python 3.10/11/12/13)
have been red on every push to main for days. None of the underlying code
is wrong; three test files have stale anchors / assertions left behind by
PR #5537 (max_steps bump) and PR #5775 (composer + provision-desktop-auth).

1. tests/studio/run_real_mlx_smoke.py:393
   PR #5537 bumped max_steps from 7 to 30 for seed-robust convergence but
   left `assert len(losses_per_step) == 7`. With logging_steps=1 the
   callback fires once per step; 30 entries, not 7. Track config.max_steps
   so the gate auto-follows future bumps.

2. tests/studio/test_composer_rtl_bidi_attribute.py:29
   PR #5775 changed the composer aria-label from the literal
   `aria-label="Message input"` to a JSX ternary
   `aria-label={overlay ? "Image edit instructions" : "Message input"}`.
   Anchor on the inner string literal `"Message input"` instead.

3. studio/backend/tests/test_desktop_auth.py:487
   The guarded_import in test_provision_desktop_auth_writes_secret_and_creates_db_without_backend_deps
   blocks any import whose name == "utils", including the relative
   `from .utils import echo` inside typer._click.decorators (typer 0.25+).
   Gate the block on level == 0 so only absolute imports of `utils` /
   `auth` / `fastapi` / `structlog` are rejected; relative imports
   inside third-party packages pass through.

All three tests pass locally; the MLX one is a mechanical 7->config.max_steps
swap and will be exercised by MLX CI on this PR.

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