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[megatron, vllm, doc] feat: DeepSeek-V4-Pro GRPO example with H100 and GB200 profiles - #8383
Adds a DeepSeek-V4-Pro GRPO example and a "Running DeepSeek-V4-Pro at scale" section to the DeepSeek V4 guide. The Flash example and docs cover the 40-layer model on 8 nodes; Pro (61 layers, 384 routed experts, ~1.6 T parameters) runs through the same integration but needs a different scale and a few memory levers, and the first run otherwise costs a lot of node-hours of trial and error (it did for us).
examples/grpo_trainer/run_deepseek_v4_pro_megatron.sh: derived from run_deepseek_v4_flash_megatron.sh with identical algorithm / data / reward settings and two hardware profiles selected by an env toggle (HW=h100: 64 × 8 H100 80 GB, PP32 × EP8, rollout TP8 × DP8 × EP64; HW=gb200: 64 × 4 GB200, PP16 × EP16, rollout DP32 × EP32). Every knob that differs from Flash carries the reason in a comment.
docs/advance/deepseek_v4_integration.rst: topology (cross-node rollout replicas, PP layout with the hash layers in stage 0), the host-memory model under all-CPU optimizer offload and the three levers (bf16 grad buffers, precision-aware optimizer, optimizer_offload_fraction), checkpoint options and their sizes, rollout kernel choices for a native DSV4 checkpoint, what the DAPO reward measures on Pro, and the measured numbers for both profiles.
verl/models/mcore/patch.py + verl/workers/engine/megatron/transformer_impl.py: the precision-aware optimizer on a quantized checkpoint needs two Megatron-LM fixes that are still open — no-grad fp32 main-param shards (DistributedOptimizer: detach quantized params before building fp32 main-param shards NVIDIA/Megatron-LM#8245; otherwise optimizer_cpu_offload=True raises can't optimize a non-leaf Tensor) and per-dtype grad-norm / clipping kernels (Fix mixed-dtype gradient norms and clipping NVIDIA/Megatron-LM#7279; otherwise the mixed bf16/fp32 gradient list hits an illegal memory access). Their runtime equivalents are applied once per process before the optimizer is built, in the same place as the existing MCore patches (VERL_MEGATRON_OPTIMIZER_COMPAT=0 disables them); a single-dtype gradient list is forwarded to the original Megatron functions unchanged, so the default optimizer path is untouched. Covered by CPU tests.
Dependencies called out in the script header and the doc: #8234 (cross-node vLLM data-parallel replicas) and #8235 (resuming an offloaded optimizer) — both merged on 2026-10-26 (3dd97a0, 0bd668c), so verl main at or after those commits is all the example needs.
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Test
python3 tests/special_sanity/check_example_naming.py and check_docs_time_info.py pass; bash -n on the script; both profiles expand to the intended topology; tests/utils/megatron/test_optimizer_compat_patches_on_cpu.py (3 new CPU tests) and the existing test_vllm_mxfp4_restage_on_cpu.py pass in the megatron/vllm venv.
H100 (64 × 8 H100 80 GB), verl main@a4b9354 + [rollout, vllm] fix: do not pass data_parallel_start_rank to the DP leader (vLLM >= 0.28 hybrid-LB) #8234, HW=h100 profile (PP32 × EP8, rollout TP8 × DP8 × EP64, response 4096, R3, Marlin), 3 steps: steady step 692 / 684 s (first step 2585 s with JIT), gen ≈280 s, update_weights ≈235 s, Pearson 0.9982 / 0.9985 / 0.9983, actor GPU 25.5–26.2 GB, host peak 558 GB on the two stage-0 nodes (244–409 GB elsewhere). With verl's default moe_backend=deep_gemm the same run fails at vLLM load_model (Mxfp4 MoE backend 'DEEPGEMM_MXFP4' does not support the deployment configuration since kernel does not support current device cuda, SM90) — hence the Marlin default in the script.
Earlier validation of the same configuration on pinned verl 1d367a4f (GB200) and 45a40312 (H100), including a 40-step segmented run, save/resume at 64 and 128 nodes and the reward analysis quoted in the doc, is summarised in the doc section.
API and Usage Example
No API change.
# 64 nodes x 8 H100
HW=h100 MODEL_PATH=... TRAIN_FILE=... TEST_FILE=... bash examples/grpo_trainer/run_deepseek_v4_pro_megatron.sh
# 64 nodes x 4 GB200, actor from a Megatron dist-checkpoint, precision-aware optimizer so that 64 nodes can save
HW=gb200 DIST_CKPT_PATH=... PRECISION_AWARE_OPTIMIZER=True SAVE_FREQ=20 bash examples/grpo_trainer/run_deepseek_v4_pro_megatron.sh
Design & Code Changes
One script, two profiles: the naming check forbids hardware variants in the file name, so the profile is an env toggle that only sets defaults; every value can still be overridden.
The two Megatron-Core compatibility patches follow the pattern of the existing patches in verl/models/mcore/patch.py (applied from the Megatron engine's __init__, idempotent, env-disableable) and drop out as no-ops once the upstream fixes land; make_dtype_safe_grad_fns / wrap_no_grad are plain helpers so the logic is unit-testable without a GPU.
…d GB200 profiles
Add examples/grpo_trainer/run_deepseek_v4_pro_megatron.sh, derived from the
Flash example with the same algorithm, data and reward settings and two
hardware profiles (HW=h100: 64 x 8 H100, PP32 x EP8, rollout TP8 x DP8 x EP64;
HW=gb200: 64 x 4 GB200, PP16 x EP16, rollout DP32 x EP32), and a
"Running DeepSeek-V4-Pro at scale" section in the DeepSeek V4 guide covering
topology, the host-memory levers, checkpoints, rollout kernels and what the
DAPO reward means for Pro.
WIP: numbers in the doc table are placeholders until the main-based runs finish.
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…e Megatron engine
The precision-aware optimizer on a quantized checkpoint needs two Megatron-LM
fixes that are still open: no-grad fp32 main-param shards (verl-project#8245; otherwise
optimizer_cpu_offload=True raises "can't optimize a non-leaf Tensor") and
per-dtype grad-norm / clipping kernels (verl-project#7279; otherwise the mixed bf16/fp32
gradient list hits an illegal memory access). Port the runtime equivalents into
verl/models/mcore/patch.py, apply them once per process before the optimizer is
built (VERL_MEGATRON_OPTIMIZER_COMPAT=0 disables), and cover the grouping and
no-grad wrapping with CPU tests.
Example / doc follow-ups from review: routing replay bound to ROUTER_REPLAY_MODE,
LOGGER knob, validated-with versions in the header, EP16 note for response 8192
and dist-checkpoint loads on 80 GB GPUs, first-step-after-resume cost range.
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…Marlin on both profiles
verl main's deep_gemm default does not work for native DeepSeek-V4-Pro experts:
vLLM 0.29's DeepGEMM MXFP4 kernel is SM100+ only (every vLLM worker fails at
load_model on H100), and on GB200 the same kernel died with an illegal memory
access in the profiling run at 10240 batched tokens. Marlin is the kernel every
validated run used; ROLLOUT_MOE_BACKEND=none restores verl's default.
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Added a DeepSeek-V4-Pro GRPO training launcher for H100 and GB200 hardware, with configurable training, checkpointing, and rollout settings.
Improved compatibility when training with quantized checkpoints and mixed-precision optimizers.
Documentation
Added guidance on hardware profiles, parallelism, memory requirements, checkpoint options, rollout limitations, reward interpretation, segmented runs, and measured performance and resource usage.
The pull request adds a DeepSeek-V4-Pro GRPO launcher with H100 and GB200 profiles, expands its integration guide, and adds Megatron optimizer compatibility patches. MegatronEngine applies the patches before optimizer construction. CPU tests cover wrapper behavior and mixed-dtype gradient operations.
The patch module adds no-grad wrapping for optimizer parameter-group construction and mixed-dtype gradient norm and clipping functions. MegatronEngine installs these patches during initialization. CPU tests cover wrapper behavior and gradient operations.
The launcher selects H100 or GB200 settings, assembles GRPO, data, model, actor, reference, rollout, reward, and trainer arguments, and runs verl.trainer.main_ppo.
Integration guidance and benchmarks docs/advance/deepseek_v4_integration.rst
The guide documents profile topology, memory, checkpoint, kernel, reward, and segmented-run details. It reports measurements for H100 and GB200 profiles.
Sequence Diagram(s)
sequenceDiagram
participant Operator
participant DeepSeekV4Launcher
participant PPOTrainer
participant MegatronEngine
participant OptimizerCompatibilityPatches
Operator->>DeepSeekV4Launcher: Select a hardware profile and set overrides
DeepSeekV4Launcher->>PPOTrainer: Launch with assembled arguments
PPOTrainer->>MegatronEngine: Initialize the Megatron engine
MegatronEngine->>OptimizerCompatibilityPatches: Apply patches before optimizer construction
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This adds a DeepSeek-V4-Pro launcher, guide, and Megatron optimizer compatibility patches. No functional defects were found. Two documentation statements are imprecise: the reward-metric name and its conditions, and the Ray object-store default. Fix them as a quick follow-up or before merge.
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The CPU workflow runs every *_on_cpu.py test in one pytest process, so the
one-rank gloo group must be destroyed after use, as the neighbouring CPU
tests already do. Replace the init helper with a fixture that tears the
group down only when it created it.
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Align checkpoint loading with the launcher’s save contents.
When trainer.resume_mode=auto finds a prior checkpoint, the default checkpoint manager loads model, optimizer, and extra. This launcher saves only model and extra, so the Megatron loader can fail when it asserts that the missing optimizer state exists.
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Default the checkpoint load contents to SAVE_CONTENTS in the launcher so
auto-resume requests only the model and extra state that this launcher saves.
Pass LOAD_CONTENTS to actor_rollout_ref.actor.checkpoint.load_contents alongside
the existing save_contents setting, while allowing callers to override it.
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The launcher saves [model,extra]; with the default load_contents a resume
would also ask for the optimizer state that was never written. Default
LOAD_CONTENTS to SAVE_CONTENTS so trainer.resume_mode=auto loads exactly
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Both prerequisites of the DeepSeek-V4-Pro example landed on main today
(3dd97a0, 0bd668c), so the header and the guide no longer describe them
as pending.
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On the "align checkpoint loading with the launcher's save contents" remark: actor.checkpoint.load_contents already defaults to ${.save_contents} (verl/trainer/config/actor/actor.yaml), so a launcher that sets save_contents=[model,extra] resumes with load_contents=[model,extra] without a second knob. Verified on main with a 4-layer DeepSeek-V4-Pro save (global_step_2, [model,extra], 56 GB) and two resumes, one with an explicit load_contents=[model,extra] and one without: both config dumps resolve the actor's load_contents to ['model', 'extra'] and both resume to step 3 (jobs 8303501 / 8303502, rollout/actor log-prob Pearson 0.9993 / 0.9992). I therefore dropped the LOAD_CONTENTS knob again (a3a2d65) and kept only a note in the header.
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<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 2 weeks ago; An object store server runs on each node.By default, when starting an instance, Ray reserves 30% of available memory. ... On Linux, Ray allocates this memory in `/dev/shm`, which is shared memory, by default.
# Memory management#
This page describes how memory management works in Ray.
## Concepts#
Ray applications use memory in the following ways:
Image: ../../_images/memory.svg
Ray system memory
Ray uses this memory internally. It includes the following:
* GCS: memory that stores the list of nodes and actors in the cluster. This amount is typically small.
* Raylet: memory that the C++ raylet process on each node uses. You can’t control this memory, but it’s typically small.
Application memory
Your application uses this memory. It includes the following:
* Worker heap: memory that your application uses, for example in Python code or TensorFlow. The best measure of worker heap is the resident set size (RSS) of your application minus its shared memory usage (SHR) in commands such as `top`. Subtract SHR because the OS reports object store shared memory as shared with each worker. If you don’t subtract SHR, you double count memory usage.
* Object store memory: memory used when your application creates objects in the object store through `ray.put` and when it returns values from remote functions. Objects are reference counted and evicted when they fall out of scope. An object store server runs on each node. By default, when starting an instance, Ray reserves 30% of available memory. Control the size of the object store with –object-store-memory. On Linux, Ray allocates this memory in `/dev/shm`, which is shared memory, by default. On macOS, Ray uses `/tmp` on disk, which can affect performance compared to Linux. Because larger object stores degrade performance on macOS, Ray limits the default object store size there to 2 GiB. If you request a larger object store, Ray raises an error unless you set `RAY_ENABLE_MAC_LARGE_OBJECT_STORE=1`. Ray spills objects to disk if the object store fills up. See Object store memory size for how Ray sizes the object store by default and how to change it.
* Object store shared memory: memory used when your application reads objects through `ray.get`. If an object is already on the node, reading it doesn’t cause additional allocations, so many actors and tasks can share large objects efficiently.
### `ObjectRef` reference counting#
Ray implements distributed reference counting so that any object ref in scope in the cluster is pinned in the object store. This includes local Python references, arguments to pending tasks, and IDs serialized inside other objects.
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<excerpt>citeturn1search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 2 weeks ago; See Object store memory size for how Ray sizes the object store by default and how to change it. ... By default, Ray sizes each node’s object store at 30% of that node’s available memory, up to a maximum of 200 GB.
# Memory management#
This page describes how memory management works in Ray.
## Concepts#
Ray applications use memory in the following ways:
Image: ../../_images/memory.svg
Ray system memory
Ray uses this memory internally. It includes the following:
* GCS: memory that stores the list of nodes and actors in the cluster. This amount is typically small.
* Raylet: memory that the C++ raylet process on each node uses. You can’t control this memory, but it’s typically small.
Application memory
Your application uses this memory. It includes the following:
* Worker heap: memory that your application uses, for example in Python code or TensorFlow. The best measure of worker heap is the resident set size (RSS) of your application minus its shared memory usage (SHR) in commands such as `top`. Subtract SHR because the OS reports object store shared memory as shared with each worker. If you don’t subtract SHR, you double count memory usage.
* Object store memory: memory used when your application creates objects in the object store through `ray.put` and when it returns values from remote functions. Objects are reference counted and evicted when they fall out of scope. An object store server runs on each node. By default, when starting an instance, Ray reserves 30% of available memory. Control the size of the object store with –object-store-memory. On Linux, Ray allocates this memory in `/dev/shm`, which is shared memory, by default. On macOS, Ray uses `/tmp` on disk, which can affect performance compared to Linux. Because larger object stores degrade performance on macOS, Ray limits the default object store size there to 2 GiB. If you request a larger object store, Ray raises an error unless you set `RAY_ENABLE_MAC_LARGE_OBJECT_STORE=1`. Ray spills objects to disk if the object store fills up. See Object store memory size for how Ray sizes the object store by default and how to change it.
* Object store shared memory: memory used when your application reads objects through `ray.get`. If an object is already on the node, reading it doesn’t cause additional allocations, so many actors and tasks can share large objects efficiently.
### `ObjectRef` reference counting#
Ray implements distributed reference counting so that any object ref in scope in the cluster is pinned in the object store. This includes local Python references, arguments to pending tasks, and IDs serialized inside other objects.
## Object store memory size#
By default, Ray sizes each node’s object store at 30% of that node’s available memory, up to a maximum of 200 GB. On Linux, Ray also caps the object store at 95% of the size of `/dev/shm`, because that’s where it allocates object store memory. The 200 GB maximum means a large-memory node gets a 200 GB object store rather than 30% of its total memory. For example, a node with 2 TB of RAM gets a 200 GB object store, not 600 GB.
To set an absolute size, pass `--object-store-memory` to `ray start` or `object_store_memory` to `ray.init()`. Both take a number of bytes.
To change the defaults instead of setting a fixed size, set these environment variables before Ray starts:
* `RAY_DEFAULT_OBJECT_STORE_MEMORY_PROPORTION` overrides the 30% proportion. For example, set it to `0.5` to reserve half of available memory.
* `RAY_DEFAULT_OBJECT_STORE_MAX_MEMORY_BYTES` overrides the 200 GB maximum.
Ray reads both variables when it starts, so set them on every node before the Ray processes launch. Changing them after a cluster starts has no effect.
## Debugging using `ray memory`#
Use the `ray memory` command to help track down which object refs are in scope and might be causing an `ObjectStoreFullError`.
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<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last month; By default, Ray sizes each node’s object store at 30% of that node’s available memory, up to a maximum of 200 GB.On Linux, Ray also caps the object store at 95% of the size of `/dev/shm`, because that’s where it allocates object store memory.
## Object store memory size#
By default, Ray sizes each node’s object store at 30% of that node’s available memory, up to a maximum of 200 GB. On Linux, Ray also caps the object store at 95% of the size of `/dev/shm`, because that’s where it allocates object store memory. The 200 GB maximum means a large-memory node gets a 200 GB object store rather than 30% of its total memory. For example, a node with 2 TB of RAM gets a 200 GB object store, not 600 GB.
To set an absolute size, pass `--object-store-memory` to `ray start` or `object_store_memory` to `ray.init()`. Both take a number of bytes.
To change the defaults instead of setting a fixed size, set these environment variables before Ray starts:
* `RAY_DEFAULT_OBJECT_STORE_MEMORY_PROPORTION` overrides the 30% proportion. For example, set it to `0.5` to reserve half of available memory.
* `RAY_DEFAULT_OBJECT_STORE_MAX_MEMORY_BYTES` overrides the 200 GB maximum.
Ray reads both variables when it starts, so set them on every node before the Ray processes launch. ## Memory Aware Scheduling#
By default, Ray does not take into account the potential memory usage of a task or actor when scheduling. This is simply because it cannot estimate ahead of time how much memory is required. However, if you know how much memory a task or actor requires, you can specify it in the resource requirements of its `ray.remote` decorator to enable memory-aware scheduling:
Important
Specifying a memory requirement does NOT impose any limits on memory usage. The requirements are used for admission control during scheduling only (similar to how CPU scheduling works in Ray). It is up to the task itself to not use more memory than it requested.
To tell the Ray scheduler a task or actor requires a certain amount of available memory to run, set the `memory` argument. The Ray scheduler will then reserve the specified amount of available memory during scheduling, similar to how it handles CPU and GPU resources:
# reserve 500MiB of available memory to place this task
@ray.remote(memory=500 * 1024 * 1024)
def some_function(x):
pass
# reserve 2.5GiB of available memory to place this actor
@ray.remote(memory=2500 * 1024 * 1024)
class SomeActor:
def __init__(self, a, b):
pass
In the above example, the memory quota is specified statically by the decorator, but you can also set them dynamically at runtime using `.options()` as follows:
# override the memory quota to 100MiB when submitting the task
some_function.options(memory=100 * 1024 * 1024).remote(x=1)
# override the memory quota to 1GiB when creating the actor
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<excerpt>citeturn0search2 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week; # RayService upgrades (GitHub issue 64181 in ray-project/ray (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)). ... "RAY_GRACEFUL_SHUTDOWN_DRAIN_TIMEOUT_S", 30.0 ... "RAY_DEFAULT_OBJECT_STORE_MAX_MEMORY_BYTES", (200) * (10**9) # 200 GB ... REQUIRE_SHM_SIZE_THRESHOLD = 10**10
DEFAULT_MAX_SYSTEM_RESERVED_CPU_CORES = env_float(
"RAY_DEFAULT_MAX_SYSTEM_RESERVED_CPU_CORES", 3.0
)
# The values for SYSTEM_RESERVED_MEMORY do not include the memory reserveed
# for the object store.
# The default proportion available memory to reserve for ray system processes.
DEFAULT_SYSTEM_RESERVED_MEMORY_PROPORTION = env_float(
"RAY_DEFAULT_SYSTEM_RESERVED_MEMORY_PROPORTION", 0.10
)
# The default minimum number of bytes to reserve for ray system processes.
# This value is used if the available_memory * DEFAULT_SYSTEM_RESERVED_MEMORY_PROPORTION < this value.
DEFAULT_MIN_SYSTEM_RESERVED_MEMORY_BYTES = env_integer(
"RAY_DEFAULT_MIN_SYSTEM_RESERVED_MEMORY_BYTES", 500 * (1024**2) # 500MB
)
# The default maximum number of bytes to reserve for ray system processes.
# This value is used if the available_memory * DEFAULT_SYSTEM_RESERVED_MEMORY_PROPORTION > this value.
DEFAULT_MAX_SYSTEM_RESERVED_MEMORY_BYTES = env_integer(
"RAY_DEFAULT_MAX_SYSTEM_RESERVED_MEMORY_BYTES", (10) * (1024**3)
)
# The default buffer size between the physical memory limit enforced by resource isolation
# and the logical memory limit available for scheduling user tasks. This buffer can be tuned
# to allocate more or less memory room for tolerating passing in the wrong logical memory
# estimate at the cost of lower memory utilization.
DEFAULT_USER_PHYSICAL_LOGICAL_MEMORY_LIMIT_BUFFER_BYTES = env_integer(
"RAY_DEFAULT_USER_PHYSICAL_LOGICAL_MEMORY_LIMIT_BUFFER_BYTES",
500 * (1024**2), # 500MiB
)
# The default maximum number of bytes to allocate to the object store unless
# overridden by the user.
DEFAULT_OBJECT_STORE_MAX_MEMORY_BYTES = env_integer(
"RAY_DEFAULT_OBJECT_STORE_MAX_MEMORY_BYTES", (200) * (10**9) # 200 GB
)
# The default proportion of available memory allocated to the object store
DEFAULT_OBJECT_STORE_MEMORY_PROPORTION = env_float(
"RAY_DEFAULT_OBJECT_STORE_MEMORY_PROPORTION",
0.3,
)
# The smallest cap on the memory used by the object store that we allow.
# This must be greater than MEMORY_RESOURCE_UNIT_BYTES
OBJECT_STORE_MINIMUM_MEMORY_BYTES = 75 * 1024 * 1024
# Each ObjectRef currently uses about 3KB of caller memory.
CALLER_MEMORY_USAGE_PER_OBJECT_REF = 3000
# Above this number of bytes, raise an error by default unless the user sets
# RAY_ALLOW_SLOW_STORAGE=1. This avoids swapping with large object stores.
REQUIRE_SHM_SIZE_THRESHOLD = 10**10
# Mac with 16GB memory has degraded performance when the object store size is
# greater than 2GB.
# (see GitHub issue 20388 in ray-project/ray (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) for details)
</excerpt>
</source>
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<title>Debugging Memory Issues — Ray 3.0.0.dev0</title>
<location>https://docs.ray.io/en/master/ray-observability/user-guides/debug-apps/debug-memory.html</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search3 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 2 days ago; The Ray object store allocates 30% of host memory to the shared memory (`/dev/shm`, unless you specify `--object-store-memory`). ... Also note that Ray object store triggers object spilling when the object usage goes beyond the limit, which means the memory usage from the shared memory won’t exceed 30% of the host memory.
Object store memory usage: [- objects spillable: 0
- bytes spillable: 0
- objects unsealed: 0
- bytes unsealed: 0
- objects in use: 0
- bytes in use: 0
- objects evictable: 0
- bytes evictable: 0
- objects created by worker: 0
- bytes created by worker: 0
- objects restored: 0
- bytes restored: 0
- objects received: 0
- bytes received: 0
- objects errored: 0
- bytes errored: 0
Eviction Stats:
(global lru) capacity: 35098657996
(global lru) used: 0%
(global lru) num objects: 0
(global lru) num evictions: 0
(global lru) bytes evicted: 0]
Ray killed 2 worker(s) based on the killing policy
Considered workers: [
Selected to kill: (Task: job ID=01000000, lease ID=0600000001000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff, task name=hungry_hippo, required resources={CPU: 1}, pid=3310152, actual memory used=0.67GB, worker ID=3e3d8f80b70d48b643d79ed2292b5d4f779820a964e55ad65413687d)
Selected to kill: (Task: job ID=01000000, lease ID=0400000001000000ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff, task name=hungry_hippo, required resources={CPU: 1}, pid=3310153, actual memory used=21.64GB, worker ID=0e5649d39c15609c0db6a5cf95de94befded2ee7da2facbf64b52e6f)
/../../_images/htop.png】
See the `allocate_memory` row. See two columns, RSS and SHR.
SHR usage is typically the memory usage from the Ray object store. The Ray object store allocates 30% of host memory to the shared memory (`/dev/shm`, unless you specify `--object-store-memory`). If Ray workers access the object inside the object store using `ray.get`, SHR usage increases. Since the Ray object store supports the zero-copy deserialization, several workers can access the same object without copying them to in-process memory. For example, if 8 workers access the same object inside the Ray object store, each process’ `SHR` usage increases. However, they are not using 8 * SHR memory (there’s only 1 copy in the shared memory). Also note that Ray object store triggers object spilling when the object usage goes beyond the limit, which means the memory usage from the shared memory won’t exceed 30% of the host memory.
Out-of-memory issues from a host, are due to RSS usage from each worker. Calculate per process memory usage by RSS - SHR because SHR is for Ray object store as explained above. The total memory usage is typically `SHR (object store memory usage, 30% of memory) + sum(RSS - SHR from each ray proc) + sum(RSS - SHR from system components. e.g., raylet, GCS. Usually small)`.
</excerpt>
</source>
<omitted_sources count="13">Additional source records were omitted from this bounded result.</omitted_sources>
</source_evidence>
Citations:
- 1: https://docs.ray.io/en/master/core/scheduling/memory-management.html?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://docs.ray.io/en/master/core/scheduling/memory-management.html?utm_source=openai
Document Ray’s effective object-store default.
Ray sizes each node’s object store from available memory, then applies a maximum and a Linux /dev/shm cap. On sufficiently large hosts, “30% of host memory” can overstate the effective reservation. The repository allows Ray >=2.41.0, so state the Ray version or document the applicable cap and shared-memory limit.
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191:
Update the Ray object-store guidance to describe the effective default for the
supported Ray version (>=2.41.0): sizing based on available memory, subject to
Ray’s maximum and Linux /dev/shm limit. Clarify that 30% of host memory is not a
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git show 7b39f5321515eedbbfc51b757d29fe5e154d199c:verl/trainer/ppo/metric_utils.py | nl -ba | sed -n '420,605p'
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Name the response truncation metric and bound the equation.
Use response_length/clip_ratio instead of bare clip_ratio. prompt_length/clip_ratio is a separate metric, and critic/score/mean excludes aborted responses while response_length/clip_ratio includes them. State that the equation applies only to batches with no aborted responses and with scores limited to +1 for completed responses and -1 for truncated responses.
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220:
Update the “What the reward means” passage to use response_length/clip_ratio,
distinguish it from prompt_length/clip_ratio, and bound the equation to batches
with no aborted responses and scores limited to +1 for completed responses and
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So the example keeps moe_backend=marlin for the MXFP4 experts of the released Pro checkpoint, and linear_backend at verl's DeepGEMM default.
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What does this PR do?
Adds a DeepSeek-V4-Pro GRPO example and a "Running DeepSeek-V4-Pro at scale" section to the DeepSeek V4 guide. The Flash example and docs cover the 40-layer model on 8 nodes; Pro (61 layers, 384 routed experts, ~1.6 T parameters) runs through the same integration but needs a different scale and a few memory levers, and the first run otherwise costs a lot of node-hours of trial and error (it did for us).
examples/grpo_trainer/run_deepseek_v4_pro_megatron.sh: derived fromrun_deepseek_v4_flash_megatron.shwith identical algorithm / data / reward settings and two hardware profiles selected by an env toggle (HW=h100: 64 × 8 H100 80 GB, PP32 × EP8, rollout TP8 × DP8 × EP64;HW=gb200: 64 × 4 GB200, PP16 × EP16, rollout DP32 × EP32). Every knob that differs from Flash carries the reason in a comment.docs/advance/deepseek_v4_integration.rst: topology (cross-node rollout replicas, PP layout with the hash layers in stage 0), the host-memory model under all-CPU optimizer offload and the three levers (bf16 grad buffers, precision-aware optimizer,optimizer_offload_fraction), checkpoint options and their sizes, rollout kernel choices for a native DSV4 checkpoint, what the DAPO reward measures on Pro, and the measured numbers for both profiles.verl/models/mcore/patch.py+verl/workers/engine/megatron/transformer_impl.py: the precision-aware optimizer on a quantized checkpoint needs two Megatron-LM fixes that are still open — no-grad fp32 main-param shards (DistributedOptimizer: detach quantized params before building fp32 main-param shards NVIDIA/Megatron-LM#8245; otherwiseoptimizer_cpu_offload=Trueraisescan't optimize a non-leaf Tensor) and per-dtype grad-norm / clipping kernels (Fix mixed-dtype gradient norms and clipping NVIDIA/Megatron-LM#7279; otherwise the mixed bf16/fp32 gradient list hits an illegal memory access). Their runtime equivalents are applied once per process before the optimizer is built, in the same place as the existing MCore patches (VERL_MEGATRON_OPTIMIZER_COMPAT=0disables them); a single-dtype gradient list is forwarded to the original Megatron functions unchanged, so the default optimizer path is untouched. Covered by CPU tests.Dependencies called out in the script header and the doc: #8234 (cross-node vLLM data-parallel replicas) and #8235 (resuming an offloaded optimizer) — both merged on 2026-10-26 (3dd97a0, 0bd668c), so verl
mainat or after those commits is all the example needs.Checklist Before Starting
[{modules}] {type}: {description}.Test
python3 tests/special_sanity/check_example_naming.pyandcheck_docs_time_info.pypass;bash -non the script; both profiles expand to the intended topology;tests/utils/megatron/test_optimizer_compat_patches_on_cpu.py(3 new CPU tests) and the existingtest_vllm_mxfp4_restage_on_cpu.pypass in the megatron/vllm venv.main@a4b9354+ [rollout, vllm] fix: do not pass data_parallel_start_rank to the DP leader (vLLM >= 0.28 hybrid-LB) #8234, Megatron-Bridge 0.6.2, vLLM 0.29.0 (image built fromverlai/verl:uv.cu130.dev3for aarch64):--moe_backend deep_gemm --linear_backend deep_gemmvia [3/3][vllm] feat: standardize low-precision kernels on DeepGEMM #8308) 2/2 steps, rollout/actor log-prob Pearson 0.9992 / 0.9992, refit 8 s;ROLLOUT_MOE_BACKEND=marlin2/2 steps, Pearson 0.9994 / 0.9994, refit 8.6 s.HW=gb200profile (64 nodes, PP16 × EP16, rollout DP32 × EP32, response 8192, R3, Marlin), 3 steps: steady step 960 / 972 s (first 1991 s),gen≈500 s,update_weights≈251 s, Pearson 0.9981 / 0.9983 / 0.9980, actor GPU 63.8 GB, head-node host peak 929 GB. With verl's defaultmoe_backend=deep_gemmthe same configuration dies in vLLM's profiling run (CUDA_ERROR_ILLEGAL_ADDRESSin DeepGEMMm_grouped_fp8_fp4_gemm_nt_contiguousat 10,240 batched tokens; it runs at 4,096 batched tokens but ≈24 % slower ingenthan Marlin) — see [rollout, vllm]set_default_vllm_quantization_backendsforcesmoe_backend=deep_gemmfor DeepSeek-V4's MXFP4 experts; vLLM's DeepGEMM MXFP4 kernel is SM100+ only, so every rollout worker fails atload_modelon H100 #8381.main@a4b9354+ [rollout, vllm] fix: do not pass data_parallel_start_rank to the DP leader (vLLM >= 0.28 hybrid-LB) #8234,HW=h100profile (PP32 × EP8, rollout TP8 × DP8 × EP64, response 4096, R3, Marlin), 3 steps: steady step 692 / 684 s (first step 2585 s with JIT),gen≈280 s,update_weights≈235 s, Pearson 0.9982 / 0.9985 / 0.9983, actor GPU 25.5–26.2 GB, host peak 558 GB on the two stage-0 nodes (244–409 GB elsewhere). With verl's defaultmoe_backend=deep_gemmthe same run fails at vLLMload_model(Mxfp4 MoE backend 'DEEPGEMM_MXFP4' does not support the deployment configuration since kernel does not support current device cuda, SM90) — hence the Marlin default in the script.1d367a4f(GB200) and45a40312(H100), including a 40-step segmented run, save/resume at 64 and 128 nodes and the reward analysis quoted in the doc, is summarised in the doc section.API and Usage Example
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Design & Code Changes
verl/models/mcore/patch.py(applied from the Megatron engine's__init__, idempotent, env-disableable) and drop out as no-ops once the upstream fixes land;make_dtype_safe_grad_fns/wrap_no_gradare plain helpers so the logic is unit-testable without a GPU.Checklist Before Submitting
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