build: bump vllm 0.20.0 → 0.25.1#3280
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nemo-ci validation runs (per Yuki's guidance on #3137)Triggered at head
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Correction: the two GB200 runs were retriggered — the original triggers were misconfigured on my end and generated no tests. Updated GB200 runs:
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GB200 runs retriggered once more: the previous attempts hit a CI infra issue that killed every test job at startup, before any RL code ran — independent of this PR. Final validation set:
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DSv3 perf: deterministic startup failure found & fixed (
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fp8-rollouts: GPU memory creep found & fixed (
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nemo-ci validation summary — vLLM 0.20 → 0.25.1 (head
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| H100 nightly | ✅ 31 failed vs 41 on the reference — zero unexplained deltas |
| GB200 nightly | ✅ 22/24 pass — both failures pre-existing/environmental |
| qwen3.5 disabled tests | ✅ 3/4 now pass on 0.25.1 (confirms the bump fixes vllm-project/vllm#36237); 397B blocked by an infra gap |
| DSv3 perf (H100+GB200) | |
| GitHub CI (L1) | ✅ green on 61c66de71 — only reds are the intentional pinned-base check + its aggregate |
H100 nightly — nemo-ci#58665697 vs reference
- 12 tests that failed on the reference pass on this PR (incl.
grpo_..._megatron_fp8_e2e_tq_mooncake,megatron_generation_tq_mooncake,yarn_256k, VLM megatron tests). - 29 of 31 PR failures fail identically on the reference → pre-existing.
- Delta triage:
- ~14 Slurm
DUE TO TIME LIMITkills during a slow-cluster window (mostly SFT tests, which don't touch vLLM; healthy metrics up to the kill) — all passed on retry. llm_distillation_qwen3_1_7b_1n8g_megatron_qa_nvfp4— fails identically on today's scheduled main run and on a base-commit control (nemo-ci#58682073): Megatron strict-instantiation allowlist rejects a_target_in the shared pretrained NVFP4 checkpoint'srun_config.yaml. Environment drift on the shared checkpoint, unrelated to this PR.- fp8-rollouts — see next section.
- ~14 Slurm
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yarn_256k, still finishing at time of writing; it already passed once in this pipeline's first attempt wave on the reference side.)
fp8-rollouts (H100): wake-up OOM — mitigated, residual flakiness
Both nightly fp8-rollouts variants initially died with CUDA Error: out of memory at csrc/cumem_allocator.cpp:163 at vLLM wake-up (steps 74 and 87 of 100), then stalled to the Slurm limit. Fix 47d835e89 restores 0.20's in-place weight/scale updates in our patched Fp8LinearMethod.process_weights_after_loading (the 0.25 port rebound every linear layer's weight/weight_scale_inv storage on every refit, fragmenting device memory across sleep/wake cycles).
Validation (nemo-ci#58693850): ..._tq_simple passes the full 100 steps with the fix; the plain variant OOM'd once at step 37 and is on a second attempt. Combined tally across all attempts: 0.20 = 2/2 pass (reference), 0.25 = 2 pass / 3 OOM. So 0.25 leaves the fp8-rollouts colocated setup with thinner wake-up headroom (its default FULL_AND_PIECEWISE cudagraph capture set is much larger). If flakiness persists, suggested follow-up: trim cudagraph_capture_sizes or lower gpu_memory_utilization in the two fp8-rollouts recipes.
GB200 nightly — nemo-ci#58695371
The reference run's GB200 results are unusable as a baseline (all of its GB200 jobs failed to a storage-quota infra issue), so comparison is against the scheduled main-branch nightly run from the same day.
- 22/24 pass (4 infra failures at job startup all passed on retry).
llm_dpo_nanov3_30B3AB_1n4g_fsdp4ep4_automodel— also fails on main's same-day run → pre-existing.llm_grpo_moonlight_16ba3b_4n4g_megatron— fails at tokenizer load in the driver (Couldn't instantiate the backend tokenizer... need sentencepiece or tiktoken), reproducible (2/2), while main's same-day run passes. Everything relevant is byte-identical between the base lock and ours (transformers 5.8.1, tiktoken/blobfile/sentencepiece are explicit base deps with identical versions and ARM wheels; the tokenizer loads fine locally with this exact package set). Needs someone with cluster access to inspect the driver venv in the freshly built ARM image — not attributable to any dependency change in this PR.
DSv3 perf — the honest picture
The 32-node DSv3 perf test has no green baseline at this base commit. A base-commit control (nemo-ci#58698490, vLLM 0.20) fails during refit with a pre-existing NeMo-RL bug: AssertionError: Parameter model.embed_tokens.weight too large for buffer: 1853358080 > 1771261132 in stream_weights_via_ipc_zmq_impl.
On 0.25 the test failed earlier, at engine startup, with EADDRINUSE on the TCPStore port — root cause: NeMo-RL assigns each engine a deterministic VLLM_PORT, and in 0.25 RayExecutorV2 probes that range for the TCPStore while the cross-node broadcast MessageQueue allocates from the same range in between probe and bind. Only engines that span nodes hit this (DSv3 TP=32), which is why nothing else was affected. After two patch-based attempts didn't take effect inside the CI container's EngineCore, the operative fix (61c66de71) drops VLLM_PORT for node-spanning engines so all consumers use ephemeral ports, exactly like vanilla vLLM. Validated: no more port collisions on either platform (H100 nemo-ci#58718348, GB200 nemo-ci#58718647).
Remaining: with ports fixed, the DSv3 EngineCore now dies silently during executor init on both platforms (Engine core initialization failed... Failed core proc(s): {} — SIGKILL profile, all 32 RayWorkerProcs already up; suggests host-memory pressure during TP32 init on colocated nodes). Diagnosing this needs Ray session logs / dmesg from the run itself — not reachable from the CI logs. Given the test is equally broken at the base commit (different stage, same net result), I'd suggest not blocking the bump on it and tracking both issues (the pre-existing refit buffer assertion + the 0.25 init death) as follow-ups.
qwen3.5 disabled tests — nemo-ci#58665710
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grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-2n8g-automodel-ep16 |
✅ pass |
vlm_grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-geo3k-2n8g-automodel-ep16 |
✅ pass |
vlm_grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-geo3k-2n8g-megatron-ep16 |
✅ pass |
grpo-qwen3.5-397ba17b-32n8g-megatron.v2 |
❌ infra: Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is not in CI's offline model cache — fails at tokenizer load before any vLLM code runs. Needs cache seeding; independent of the bump. |
The three passes confirm the 0.25.1 bump resolves the hang/crash (vllm-project/vllm#36237) these tests were disabled for → they can be re-enabled with this PR.
Fixes added during validation (beyond the original port)
a213ac534/db34114f2/61c66de71— TCPStore/MessageQueue port-collision fixes for node-spanning engines (ephemeral-port approach is the operative one; the two patch-based attempts are retained as harmless hardening).47d835e89— fp8 refit: in-place weight/scale updates to stop per-refit device-memory churn.
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fp8-rollouts update: plain variant needs memory headroom, not just the refit fixThe plain
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fp8-rollouts: resolved ✅With
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- vLLM wheel URLs -> v0.25.1 (manylinux_2_28); flashinfer 0.6.13; xgrammar override relaxed to >=0.2.1,<1.0.0 (vLLM 0.25 needs xgrammar.normalize_tool_choice) - openai stays at 2.6.1: vLLM 0.25's NamespaceTool import (openai>=2.25) is handled by a source patch that injects a never-matching stub for older openai clients (nemo-gym pins openai<=2.7.2 and its child server venvs must match the parent's version, so a global override is not viable) - async OpenAI-compatible server: chat preprocessing moved from OpenAIServingRender (deleted upstream) to OnlineRenderer; NeMo-RL prefix token override moves to an OnlineRenderer subclass; ServingTokenization signature update; tool/reasoning parser args folded into 'parser'; max-context-length log filter targets the new module logger name - fp8 generation: detect MoERunner/RoutedExperts (FusedMoE is a factory in 0.25); keep block-quant scale under weight_scale_inv; make_fp8_moe_kernel call updated to the 0.25 signature - patches: ADDITIONAL_ENV_VARS removed upstream (prefix-based propagation + VLLM_RAY_EXTRA_ENV_VARS_TO_COPY hook); drop obsolete Hermes tool-parser thread-safety patch; NamespaceTool guard applied in server and direct-vLLM diagnostics tools; cap max_num_seqs in decode-vs-prefill diagnostic for the 0.25 Mamba check - test_vllm_generation: mock modules follow the new layout; http-server golden response updated for the 0.25.1 response schema Signed-off-by: Terry Kong <terryk@nvidia.com>
vLLM 0.25's PyNcclCommunicator enqueues broadcasts on the current stream without blocking, exposing a latent race in packed_broadcast_producer/ consumer: both return while the final broadcast (producer) and the unpack/load_weights copies (consumer) are still in flight on their side streams. In non-colocated refit this let generation start reading model weights mid-load (train/token_mult_prob_error blew up to ~1e5-1e6 in tests/functional/grpo_non_colocated.sh; transport checksums verified intact, so the corruption was purely ordering). Join the side streams before returning from both functions. Verified locally: grpo_non_colocated.sh now passes with max(token_mult_prob_error)=1.015 (limit 1.05); colocated paths unaffected. Signed-off-by: Terry Kong <terryk@nvidia.com>
- drop function-valued keys from ModelOpt's QuantModuleRegistry before the fakequant prolog (vLLM 0.25 registers factory functions there, breaking issubclass checks) - eagerly attach input_amax_loader for fakequant refit: vLLM 0.25's per-module LinearBase.load_weights calls param.weight_loader directly and never iterates named_parameters(), so the old lazy shim never fired Signed-off-by: Terry Kong <terryk@nvidia.com>
vLLM 0.25's RayExecutorV2 probes the torch TCPStore port starting from VLLM_PORT (NeMo-RL assigns a deterministic per-engine base) but only binds it later in the rank-0 worker; in between, the cross-node broadcast MessageQueue allocates from the same range via get_open_port(), deterministically stealing the probed port for any engine that spans nodes (observed with DeepSeek-V3 gen TP=32: EADDRINUSE at engine startup, 3/3 runs). Single-node engines use a shm-only MessageQueue and are unaffected. Fix: pop VLLM_PORT in the worker when tensor_parallel_size * pipeline_parallel_size exceeds the node-local bundle count, so node-spanning engines use ephemeral ports exactly like vanilla vLLM deployments, where this collision does not exist. Single-node engines keep the deterministic per-engine base assigned by configure_worker. Two earlier patch-based attempts (offsetting RayExecutorV2's _select_tcpstore_port search window via a source patch and an in-memory rebind) failed to take effect inside the CI container's EngineCore and are not retained. Signed-off-by: Terry Kong <terryk@nvidia.com>
…reep process_weights_after_loading runs after every refit, and rebinding each linear layer's weight/weight_scale_inv .data to the fresh tensors returned by process_fp8_weight_block_strategy slowly fragments device memory across sleep/wake cycles until CuMemAllocator wake_up fails with 'CUDA Error: out of memory at csrc/cumem_allocator.cpp' (~75-87 steps into both nightly fp8-rollouts variants; vllm 0.20 copied the scale in place). Copy into the existing storages when the processed layout is stable and only rebind on the first call when shapes change. Signed-off-by: Terry Kong <terryk@nvidia.com>
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Rebased onto main + revalidation kicked offThe branch is rebased from New in the rebase: porting main-side features that landed since the old baseMain gained several vLLM-facing features between
Checkpoint-engine/delta-refit, MTP spec dec, NUMA binding, and the sampled-token logprob fix audited clean — no changes needed. Also re-enabled the 3 qwen3.5 tests in Revalidation runs (head
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| H100 nightly (full suite) | nemo-ci#59133030 |
| GB200 nightly (full suite) | nemo-ci#59133046 |
Any failures will be re-run against the rebase base (bc382dc4, current main) to separate pre-existing failures from bump regressions.
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Correction: the GB200 nightly run is nemo-ci#59149043 (replaces nemo-ci#59133046, which was triggered with a malformed suite name on my end and generated no tests). |
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Second GB200 correction: the GB200 nightly run for this validation is nemo-ci#59153735. nemo-ci#59149043 was routed to a GB200 cluster whose CI runner hosts are currently rejecting the pipeline's own setup step (a PEP 668 |
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…ke-up
On vLLM 0.25 the colocated fp8 recipes (fp8-rollouts.v3 incl. tq_simple,
moonlight fp8-e2e) die when the CuMemAllocator fails to re-map its sleep
pool at wake-up ("CUDA Error: out of memory at csrc/cumem_allocator.cpp"),
while 0.20 passes. Measured on moonlight at identical
gpu_memory_utilization=0.5: 0.20 sizes the KV cache to 19.83 GiB (sleep
pool ~36 GiB) while 0.25 sizes it to 34.29 GiB (sleep pool 49.96 GiB) —
the pool now exceeds what can be re-mapped next to the colocated Megatron
policy's residual footprint.
Utilization tuning cannot express the old footprint (0.5 still OOM'ed on
fp8-rollouts, and cudagraph capture measured only 0.45 GiB, ruling out the
FULL_AND_PIECEWISE default as the consumer), so pin
vllm_kwargs.kv_cache_memory_bytes to the 0.20-proven 20 GiB on both
recipes; it takes precedence over gpu_memory_utilization.
Signed-off-by: Terry Kong <terryk@nvidia.com>
All observed metrics are healthy on-policy values; the old bounds were tuned tightly around vLLM 0.20 behavior: - eval_async score ceiling 0.14 -> 0.2 - ppo_automodel critic grad-norm ceiling 350 -> 1500 (The w4a8 fakequant token_mult_prob_error bound this branch previously relaxed to 1.08 was superseded by main relaxing it to 1.15.) Signed-off-by: Terry Kong <terryk@nvidia.com>
vLLM 0.25 turned FusedMoE into a factory returning a MoERunner whose expert weights live on a nested RoutedExperts submodule: - expert parameter names gain a '.routed_experts.' segment in named_parameters(); parse_hf_expert_weight now targets the qualified name (both the vLLM-side layout advertisement and the policy-side sender lookup key by the same function, so the mapping stays consistent) - the weight_loader owner is now the RoutedExperts module: the unquantized backend check reads owner.quant_method.unquantized_backend (the base_quant_method attribute no longer exists and the old getattr default made the guard reject valid Triton setups), and tp_rank/tp_size/ num_logical_experts/enable_eplb moved onto owner.moe_config (the old getattr defaults silently produced rank-0/size-1 sharding for TP>1) Unit tests updated for the qualified names; the storage-parity test now instantiates RoutedExperts (which owns _load_w13/_load_w2 in 0.25) instead of the removed FusedMoE class. Signed-off-by: Terry Kong <terryk@nvidia.com>
- FusedMoeWeightScaleSupported moved out of fused_moe.layer in vLLM 0.25; import it from the fused_moe package re-export (both mxfp8 MoE helpers raised ImportError otherwise) - accept both FlashInferCutedslMxfp8LinearKernel and FlashInferCutlassMxfp8LinearKernel in the mxfp8 linear refit guard: 0.25 prefers the Cutedsl kernel and both process weight scales with the same swizzle_mxfp8_scale layout this refit replicates Signed-off-by: Terry Kong <terryk@nvidia.com>
- vLLM 0.25's ModelOptNvFp4Config.__init__ installs LinearMethodCls as an instance attribute keyed off the quant algo, shadowing the NeMo subclass class attribute: the W4A16 config silently instantiated the native W4A4 linear method, whose process_weights_after_loading reads an input_scale a W4A16 checkpoint never loads. from_config now rebinds the instance attribute to the NeMo Marlin weight-only method. - W4A16_NVFP4 is a natively understood algo in 0.25, so the from_config normalization to NVFP4 is gone (validate-only); the base FusedMoE __init__ keys weight-only mode off the algo (activation_key=None), replacing the 0.20-era duplicated __init__ in NemoModelOptW4A16FusedMoE. - vLLM 0.25's prepare_nvfp4_moe_layer_for_marlin pads rank-local intermediate tiles itself and asserts on unpadded checkpoint shapes, so the NeMo-side Marlin pre-padding (_pad_nvfp4_moe_for_marlin) would double-pad and trip that assertion; it is removed. Only the E4M3 sign-bit canonicalization of ModelOpt scale exports remains NeMo's concern. Fake-vllm test harness updated to model the 0.25 instance-attribute and use_a16 behavior so the shadowing bug is covered by a regression test. Signed-off-by: Terry Kong <terryk@nvidia.com>
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fp8 wake-up OOMs: root-caused and fixed ✅The colocated fp8 recipes (fp8-rollouts.v3 incl. tq_simple, moonlight fp8-e2e) were dying mid-run on the rebased branch with Root cause (measured, not the earlier cudagraph theory): at identical Fix: pin Validation (nemo-ci#59283710):
Moonlight was the single remaining H100 test that passed on main ( GB200 (nemo-ci#59224654): 23/28 pass. The 5 failures are being triaged the same way (merge-base control nemo-ci#59311148 + head rerun nemo-ci#59311151): 3 are the new-on-main ModelOpt NVFP4 real-quant tests (one was functionally healthy and only tripped a 0.20-era log assertion, fixed; two fail during real-quant refit and now have added diagnostics), 1 was an external Slurm cancellation, and 1 is a 2.6% perf-threshold miss with healthy convergence. 🤖 Generated with Claude Code |
- the real-quant test scripts assert on the engine log's quantization= tag, which on vLLM 0.25 prints the registered NeMo config name (e.g. nemo_modelopt_w4a16_nvfp4) instead of modelopt; accept both (the w4a16-real GB200 run trained and produced healthy metrics but failed only this grep) - log the full traceback when an IPC weight batch load fails: the refit manifest only records the exception message, which for bare assertions (e.g. 'AssertionError: ') leaves nothing to diagnose in CI logs Signed-off-by: Terry Kong <terryk@nvidia.com>
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What does this PR do ?
Bumps vLLM from 0.20.0 to 0.25.1 (supersedes the 0.24.0 draft #3137), rooted at 26effe2 for comparison against an existing CI reference run.
Changes
Dependencies (
pyproject.toml/uv.lock)v0.25.1(manylinux_2_28, changed frommanylinux_2_35in 0.24+)flashinfer-python/-cubin/-jit-cache→0.6.13in thevllmextra (pinned by vLLM 0.25.1'srequirements/cuda.txt)==0.1.33→>=0.2.1,<1.0.0(vLLM 0.25 importsxgrammar.normalize_tool_choice, added in 0.2.x; resolver picks 0.2.3)openai<=2.7.2and its child server venvs must exactly match the parent's openai version, so a global override is not viable). vLLM 0.25.1's import ofopenai.types.responses.NamespaceTool(added in openai 2.25.0) is handled by a new source patch instead — see below.Async OpenAI-compatible server (
vllm_worker_async.py)OpenAIServingRender(module deleted) toOnlineRenderer(vllm/renderers/); both/v1/chat/completionsand/tokenizestill route throughpreprocess_chat, so the NeMo-RL prefix-token override moves to anOnlineRenderersubclassOpenAIServingTokenization→ServingTokenization(takesonline_renderer, noengine_client)preprocess_chat'stool_parser/reasoning_parserargs were folded into a singleparserarg upstreamvllm.entrypoints.openai.chat_completion.serving(module logger name)fp8 generation (
quantization/fp8.py)FusedMoEis a factory function in vLLM 0.25 (returnsMoERunnerdelegating to a weight-owningRoutedExpertssubmodule) — fp8 weight classification now detectsMoERunner/RoutedExpertsweight_scale_inv(0.25'sFp8BlockScaledMMLinearKernelforward path readsweight_scale_inv, no more rename toweight_scale)make_fp8_moe_kernelcall updated to 0.25 signature (routing_tables=layer._expert_routing_tables(),layer=layer;shared_expertskwarg removed upstream)vLLM source patches (
patches.py)ADDITIONAL_ENV_VARSno longer exists in vLLM 0.25; env propagation is prefix-based (NCCL_*,HF_*,HUGGING_FACE_*auto-copied — covers the PR fix: fix async vllm nccl fail on dsv3 tp16pp2 and non-colocated on single node #898 NCCL workaround) plus the additiveVLLM_RAY_EXTRA_ENV_VARS_TO_COPYhook, which we now set forRAY_ENABLE_UV_RUN_RUNTIME_ENV+ userextra_env_varsHermes2ProToolParser.__init__, which was the race the patch guarded_patch_vllm_tool_parser_namespace_tool: guards vLLM'sNamespaceToolimport (tool_parsers/utils.py) with a never-matching stub for openai < 2.25.NamespaceToolis only isinstance-checked for Responses-API namespace tools, which an openai 2.6.1 client cannot constructpy_executableruntime_env patch and llama_eagle3 lm_head patch verified to still apply cleanly against the 0.25.1 wheelRefit race fix (
nemo_rl/utils/packed_tensor.py)PyNcclCommunicatorenqueues broadcasts on the current stream without blocking, exposing a latent race:packed_broadcast_producer/consumerreturned while the final broadcast / unpack+load_weightscopies were still in flight on their side streams. In non-colocated refit this let generation race with weight loading (token_mult_prob_errorblew up to ~1e5–1e6 ingrpo_non_colocated.sh; transport checksums were verified byte-identical, so it was purely an ordering bug). Both functions now join their side streams before returning.Tests
test_vllm_generation.py: mock modules follow the new layout (vllm.renderers.online_renderer);test_vllm_http_servergolden response updated for 0.25.1 schema (emptytool_callsomitted on serialization,reasoning_contentremoved, newrouted_experts/prompt_text/metricsfields)ModelOpt quantization (
nemo_rl/modelopt/...)_drop_nonclass_quant_registry_keys(): purges non-class keys from ModelOpt'sQuantModuleRegistrybefore fakequant prolog (vLLM 0.25 registers factory functions there, which brokeissubclasschecks)input_amax_loaderattach for fakequant refit: vLLM 0.25's per-moduleLinearBase.load_weightscallsparam.weight_loaderdirectly and never iteratesnamed_parameters(), so the old lazy shim never fired ('Tensor' object has no attribute 'weight_loader')Fixes found during CI validation (H100/GB200 nightly + DSv3 perf babysitting)
61c66de71, witha213ac534/db34114f2as retained hardening): vLLM 0.25'sRayExecutorV2probes NeMo-RL's per-engineVLLM_PORTfor the torch TCPStore while the cross-node broadcastMessageQueueallocates from the same range between probe and bind → deterministicEADDRINUSEat engine startup for any engine spanning nodes (DSv3 TP=32, qwen3.5-397B TP=16). Operative fix: popVLLM_PORTwhentp*ppexceeds the node-local bundle count so node-spanning engines use ephemeral ports like vanilla vLLM; single-node engines keep the deterministic base. Validated: no more port collisions on H100 or GB200.47d835e89): the 0.25 port of our patchedFp8LinearMethod.process_weights_after_loadingreboundweight/weight_scale_invstorage on every refit (0.20 copied in place), fragmenting device memory across sleep/wake cycles untilCuMemAllocatorwake-up OOM'd mid-run in the fp8-rollouts nightlies. Restored in-place copies once the processed layout is stable.5842ddac4): vLLM 0.25 keeps more device memory outside the sleep pool (larger default cudagraph capture set), so the fp8-rollouts recipe dropsgpu_memory_utilization0.6 → 0.55. With both fp8 fixes, both fp8-rollouts variants pass the full 100 steps (previously 1-of-4).eval_asyncscore ceiling 0.14 → 0.2,ppo_automodelcritic grad-norm ceiling 350 → 1500, w4a8 fakequanttoken_mult_prob_error1.06 → 1.08.Notes for reviewers
disabled.txtqwen3.5 entries are NOT re-enabled in this PR, but nightly validation confirmed 3 of 4 now pass on 0.25.1 (grpo-qwen3.5-35ba3b-2n8g-automodel-ep16+ both 35B VLM geo3k tests) — they can be re-enabled here or in a follow-up. The 397B test is blocked by a missing model in the offline CI HF cache (infra, independent of the bump).replace_parameternow preservesweight_loader, so a follow-up could drop parts of the fp8 monkeypatch entirely.stream_weights_via_ipc_zmqbuffer assertion on 0.20); on 0.25 the port collision is fixed but a silent EngineCore death during TP32 init remains and needs on-cluster debugging. Tracked as follow-ups — details in the validation report.Test plan
Per Yuki's guidance on #3137:
disabled.txt(expected ideally fixed by the bump)Local validation done (2× RTX 6000 Ada):
uv lock/uv sync --extra vllmresolve and install cleanly; all ported modules import against the real 0.25.1 wheel; file patches apply cleanly;pre-commit(ruff, pyrefly, taplo) passestest_vllm_http_serverandtest_vllm_http_server_correct_merged_tokens_matches_baselinepass end-to-end against a real 0.25.1 engine (plus the mock-based async-server tests)grpo.sh✅ (gen KL error 0.0005–0.0007, limit 0.002)grpo_multiturn.sh✅ (token_mult_prob_error 1.05, limit 1.1)gdpo_async_grpo.sh✅ (async engine; gen KL 0.00065, limit 0.001)grpo_non_colocated.sh❌→✅ after the packed-broadcast stream-sync fix (1.015, limit 1.05)eval.sh✅ (score 0.1333, expected [0.1, 0.14))test_decode_vs_prefill.sh(needs 80GB) deferred to CI runnersGitHub CI: green at
CI:L1on the final SHA (only reds are the intentional pinned-base up-to-date check + its aggregate; clears on rebase).nemo-ci nightly/perf results (full details in the validation report comment):
251949eb726effe27for apples-to-apples comparison — the same-day scheduled main-HEAD nightly fails only 3/104, i.e. most base-commit failures were since fixed on main and clear on rebase47d835e895842ddac4disabled.txttests251949eb7+ re-enable commitgrpo-deepseek-v3-32n8g(H100)61c66de71EADDRINUSE), silent EngineCore init death remains — see follow-upsgrpo-deepseek-v3-32n4g(GB200)61c66de7126effe2726effe2726effe27Open follow-ups (none block this PR)
Failed core proc(s): {}, SIGKILL profile — suspect host-memory pressure). Needs Ray session logs / dmesg from a live run. First cheap experiment: pinVLLM_USE_RAY_V2_EXECUTOR_BACKEND=0for this recipe (0.25 still ships the v1 Ray executor; 0.25 merely flipped the default to V2).Parameter model.embed_tokens.weight too large for bufferinstream_weights_via_ipc_zmq_impl): pre-existing NeMo-RL bug independent of this PR.grpo_moonlight_16ba3b_4n4g_megatron: reproducible tokenizer-load failure in the driver env on this PR's ARM image while main's same-day run passes; every tokenizer-path package (transformers/tiktoken/blobfile/sentencepiece/tokenizers/protobuf/huggingface-hub) is byte-identical to the base lockfile and the tokenizer loads fine locally with the same versions. Needs someone with cluster access to inspect the driver venv in the built image.Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17Binto CI's offline model cache, then it can be validated (fails at tokenizer download before any vLLM code).RayExecutorV2TCPStore port-selection TOCTOU (probe in_init_executorvs later bind in the rank-0 worker, colliding with the broadcast MessageQueue'sget_open_port()scan whenVLLM_PORTis set and the engine spans nodes).