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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 10 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change validates conversation IDs, disables cached resume filtering, adds atomic output writes, and processes vLLM hidden-state dumps in configurable chunks. Temporary and staged files are cleaned up after failed or completed processing. ChangesHidden-state collection flow
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: High Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Hidden-state output handling may still permit a conversation ID to direct writes outside the intended output directory, creating a data-integrity and filesystem-safety risk that should be resolved before merge. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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User->>CollectionScript: Start hidden-state collection
CollectionScript->>Dataset: Filter with current disk state
Dataset->>Filesystem: Check completed output files
Filesystem-->>Dataset: Return existing files
Dataset-->>CollectionScript: Return pending conversations
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- Around line 113-121: Validate --save-chunk-size at argument parsing by
requiring a strictly positive integer, causing argparse to reject zero and
negative values. In the processing logic around the save-chunk-size usage,
remove the silent conversion to 1 and use args.save_chunk_size directly.
- Around line 318-354: Wrap all processing after hidden_states_path is acquired,
including validation and file saving, in a try block, and move
cleanup_hidden_states(hidden_states_path) to a finally block so it runs on every
path, including the short loss_mask continue. Use the existing
hidden_states_path and example_hidden_states_connector symbols without changing
the processing behavior.
- Around line 342-343: Validate and constrain conversation_id at the dataset
boundary before constructing output_file, including the resume check and write
around output_file. Reject absolute paths and traversal components, allowing
only safe identifiers that remain within output_dir, and preserve normal
processing for valid IDs.
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- Around line 371-382: Update the save path in compute_hidden_states_vllm so
each conversation dump is written atomically: write the torch.save payload to a
temporary file in output_dir first, then replace the final output_file only
after serialization succeeds. Keep the existing output_file naming and payload
structure in the same save block, and anchor the change around the
open(output_file, "wb") / torch.save call site so the resume filter never sees a
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| output_file = output_dir / f"{conv_id}.pt" | ||
| with open(output_file, "wb") as f: | ||
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| { | ||
| "input_ids": token_ids.cpu(), | ||
| "hidden_states": output_hidden_states, | ||
| "aux_hidden_states": aux_hidden_states, | ||
| "loss_mask": loss_mask[: output_hidden_states.shape[0]].cpu(), | ||
| "conversation_id": conv_id, | ||
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] Non-atomic write makes the newly-advertised resume path able to permanently skip a truncated .pt.
The PR now sells interrupt-and-resume as a feature ("an interrupted run keeps its finished conversations and the resume path above continues from them"), which makes keep_conversation's existence check load-bearing in a way it wasn't before. But torch.save into the final path is not atomic: if the run is killed mid-serialization — the exact scenario named in the PR description (walltime limit, node failure), and the save loop spends a large fraction of its wall time inside torch.save for multi-MB tensors — the partially-written <id>.pt is left on disk. On the next requeue keep_conversation sees the file exists, filters that conversation out, and the truncated file stays in the dataset permanently. It then blows up at training time in torch.load, and the only recovery is manually hunting down the bad file.
Same three-line fix as CodeRabbit suggested, restated here because chunking is what makes it matter: serialize to a sibling temp path and os.replace it into place, so the resume filter only ever sees complete files.
output_file = output_dir / f"{conv_id}.pt"
# Write-then-rename: the resume filter treats any existing <id>.pt as finished work,
# so a partial file from an interrupted run would be skipped forever. os.replace is
# atomic within the same directory.
tmp_file = output_file.with_suffix(".pt.tmp")
try:
with open(tmp_file, "wb") as f:
torch.save({...}, f)
os.replace(tmp_file, output_file)
except BaseException:
tmp_file.unlink(missing_ok=True)
raise
num_success += 1Note compute_hidden_states_hf.py:190-193 has the identical pattern, so if you'd rather fix both together that's reasonable — but this script is the one whose resume semantics this PR is hardening.
| default=256, | ||
| help="Number of conversations to generate before saving and freeing their staged " | ||
| "hidden states. Bounds how much the KV connector stages at once (its shared_storage_path " | ||
| "defaults to /dev/shm, i.e. RAM); larger values amortize generate() calls, smaller ones " | ||
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[SUGGESTION] The knob bounds staging in conversations, but the resource it protects is bytes — and the conversion factor spans two orders of magnitude across configs.
Peak staging is roughly chunk_size × num_tokens × len(extract_layer_ids) × hidden_size × 2. For the MiniMax-M3 dump this PR was validated on that's fine, but for e.g. max_seq_len=8192, 4 extracted layers, hidden_size=4096, the default 256 is 256 × 8192 × 4 × 4096 × 2 ≈ 68 GB of /dev/shm at peak — which is comfortable on a 2 TB node and instant death on a container with a modest --shm-size. Someone hitting No space left on device after this PR gets no hint that they should lower the value, only that a knob exists.
Worth putting the formula in the help text so the failure is self-diagnosing, e.g. append:
Peak staging is about
chunk_size * max_seq_len * num_extracted_layers * hidden_size * 2bytes; lower this if you hitNo space left on deviceon the staging path.
Second, minor: each llm.generate() call is a drain barrier, so at 256 the engine ramps down and back up once per chunk (~758 times on the 194k dump) and the tail of every chunk under-fills the batch. Not worth restructuring for — just noting that the default sits on a real throughput/staging tradeoff, which the same help-text note would make visible.
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Done in c6cf87e — added the peak-staging byte formula (chunk_size * max_seq_len * num_extracted_layers * hidden_size * 2) to the --save-chunk-size help text so a No space left on device is self-diagnosing.
| progress = tqdm(total=len(prompts), desc="Dumping") | ||
| for chunk_start in range(0, len(prompts), chunk_size): | ||
| chunk = slice(chunk_start, chunk_start + chunk_size) | ||
| outputs = llm.generate(prompts[chunk], sampling_params) | ||
| for conv_id, loss_mask, output in zip(conversation_ids[chunk], loss_masks[chunk], outputs): |
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[SUGGESTION] Two small things at this new boundary:
llm.generate()prints its own progress bar per call, so the 194k dump now emits ~758 vLLM bars interleaved with the outerDumpingbar — a lot of noise in a SLURM log where before there were two bars total. Since you already own the outer bar, passuse_tqdm=False:
outputs = llm.generate(prompts[chunk], sampling_params, use_tqdm=False)- The
zipbelow pairsconversation_ids[chunk]/loss_masks[chunk]/outputspositionally, so a short or reorderedoutputswould silently write one conversation's hidden states under another's id and loss mask — a corruption that is invisible in the dump and only shows up as a bad draft model. vLLM does return one output per prompt in input order, so this is a guard rather than a known bug, but it's a one-liner at exactly the place where the assumption is made:
assert len(outputs) == len(conversation_ids[chunk]), (
f"vLLM returned {len(outputs)} outputs for {len(conversation_ids[chunk])} prompts"
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Scope: full review. 2 files changed (+112/-52): examples/speculative_decoding/collect_hidden_states/compute_hidden_states_vllm.py and CHANGELOG.rst. Both reviewed; also cross-checked the sibling compute_hidden_states_hf.py save/resume path for consistency.
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Both core fixes are correct
- Resume (
load_from_cache_file=False) — the diagnosis is right and the fix is the right one.keep_conversationcloses over on-disk state, whichdatasetscannot see in its fingerprint (it hashes the function and the dataset), so a persistentHF_HOMEreplays a stale "keep everything" result. The inline comment explaining why the flag is load-bearing is exactly what stops someone deleting it later as redundant. The dataset here is a materializedDataset(len()and.shard()are already used above), so the kwarg is valid — it would have been aTypeErroron a streaming dataset. - Chunked staging — bounds peak staging to one chunk, which is the actual fix for the
/dev/shmexhaustion. Slicing with asliceobject acrossprompts/conversation_ids/loss_maskskeeps the three lists aligned, andcontinueinsidetry/finallydoes run the cleanup, so the short-loss_maskstaging leak is genuinely closed. _conversation_idvalidation is sound (Path(id).namecatches separators and..), and becausedataset.filteris eager it fails within seconds of startup rather than hours in — so raising instead of counting intonum_invalidis a reasonable call.
The one thing worth fixing before merge
[IMPORTANT] torch.save still writes straight into the final <id>.pt. That was tolerable when interruption meant losing the whole run; now that chunking makes resume a designed path, a kill mid-serialization leaves a truncated file that keep_conversation reads as finished work and skips forever, surfacing later as a torch.load failure during draft training with no pointer to which file is bad. Write-then-os.replace is three lines. (CodeRabbit raised this on the last commit; restating it because chunking is what changes its severity.)
The two SUGGESTIONs are non-blocking: documenting the staging-bytes formula behind --save-chunk-size so an out-of-space failure is self-diagnosing, and use_tqdm=False plus a length assert at the new per-chunk generate() boundary.
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Low, and well-contained: examples-only, no modelopt/ source, no mode registration, config schema, public API, or export path touched — so no mode/state composability, restore-fidelity, or checkpoint-compatibility surface. Backward compatible: --save-chunk-size is additive with a default, and behavior for a fresh single-shot dump is unchanged apart from chunked generate() calls. The absence of unit tests is justified — both failure modes are cross-run/at-scale (HF cache reuse across processes, connector RAM staging) and the author validated them on the 194k-conversation workload that surfaced them.
Not approving solely on the atomic-write item; everything else looks good to me.
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Two issues in compute_hidden_states_vllm.py that only surface on large offline dumps.
Resume re-processed finished work: keep_conversation skips conversations whose .pt already
exists, but that depends on on-disk state, which is not part of the fingerprint datasets
computes from the function and the dataset. With a persistent HF cache reused across a resumed
or requeued run, the cached 'keep everything' result from an earlier run (when fewer or no .pt
existed) was replayed, so the dump re-generated and overwrote conversations it had already
finished. Observed on a 194k-conversation dump: tens of thousands of .pt rewritten over a
multi-hour window with the output count flat. Pass load_from_cache_file=False so the filter
re-checks the disk each run.
Staging exhausted /dev/shm: the whole dataset was generated before anything was saved, so every
conversation's hidden states stayed staged in the connector's shared_storage_path (/dev/shm,
i.e. RAM, by default) until the single save loop freed them. Large dumps ran out of space
partway through ('No space left on device' from the connector's safetensors write). Generate
and save in chunks of --save-chunk-size (default 256) so at most one chunk is staged. This also
makes the dump incrementally durable: an interrupted run keeps its finished conversations and
resumes from them.
Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
…chunk size - Free each conversation's staged hidden states in a finally, so a conversation skipped mid-loop (short loss_mask) no longer leaks its staging file. This is the same failure this PR set out to prevent, on an error path. - Validate conversation_id as a plain filename where the dataset is read: it is used directly as the output filename, so an absolute path or one containing a separator or '..' would resolve outside --output-dir. - Reject non-positive --save-chunk-size at argument parsing instead of silently clamping. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
Address Claude review on the vLLM/HF hidden-state dump: - Atomic <id>.pt writes (write-to-tmp + os.replace) in both compute_hidden_states_vllm.py and compute_hidden_states_hf.py. The resume filter (keep_conversation) treats any existing <id>.pt as finished, so a partial file from a run killed mid-torch.save would be skipped forever and then fail in torch.load at training time. - Assert len(outputs) == len(conversation_ids[chunk]) before the positional zip, so a short/reordered vLLM result can't silently pair hidden states with the wrong id / loss_mask. - Pass use_tqdm=False to llm.generate() — the outer "Dumping" bar already covers progress; one vLLM bar per chunk floods the SLURM log. - Document peak staging bytes in --save-chunk-size help so a 'No space left on device' on /dev/shm is self-diagnosing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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…tate dump (#2410) ### What does this PR do? Type of change: Bug fix Fixes `nvbugs/6753684`, filed against #2080 by the ModelOpt QA Sentinel. The vLLM offline hidden-state dump rejected `--aux-layers eagle` — **the flag's own default** — so the documented invocation aborted before writing any state: ``` File "collect_hidden_states/compute_hidden_states_vllm.py", line 76, in _resolve_aux_layers_standalone ids = sorted({int(t) for t in aux_layers.split(',') if t.strip()}) ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'eagle' ``` **Root cause.** `compute_hidden_states_vllm.py` runs in a stock vLLM container, where importing `modelopt.torch` fails (the full init chain pulls in omegaconf and friends). It therefore carries `_resolve_aux_layers_standalone`, a local copy of the preset logic in `common.resolve_aux_layers`. That copy implemented the `dflash` preset and explicit id lists, but never `eagle` — while `add_aux_layers_args` defaults to `eagle`. The HF and TRT-LLM dumps call the shared helper and were unaffected; only the vLLM path forked, and nothing compared the fork against its source. This PR resolves `eagle` inline, mirroring `hf_eagle.default_eagle_aux_layer_ids`. It also fixes a second defect the bug exposes: the function already had a message naming the accepted values, but it was unreachable, because `int()` raised first. An unrecognised preset now reports what it accepts instead of surfacing the raw `int()` error — which is what made the original failure opaque. ### Usage The previously-broken documented invocation now works: ```bash cd examples/speculative_decoding python collect_hidden_states/compute_hidden_states_vllm.py \ --model Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct \ --input-data ../dataset/synthetic_conversations_1k.jsonl \ --output-dir /tmp/hs_vllm \ --max-seq-len 512 --tp 1 ``` `--aux-layers dflash` and explicit lists such as `--aux-layers 2,5,8` are unchanged. ### Testing Added `tests/unit/examples/test_vllm_hidden_states_aux_layers.py`, which pins the standalone copy to the shared implementation it mirrors: - `eagle` matches `hf_eagle.default_eagle_aux_layer_ids` across layer counts 4, 6, 8, 12, 24, 28, 32, 36, 48, 52, 61, 80 — deliberately including counts small enough that the `max(0, ...)` clamps collapse ids together. - A named regression case for `nvbugs/6753684`. - `dflash` and explicit-list behaviour unchanged. - Unknown specs (`bogus`, `EAGLE3`, `eagle3`, empty) raise the actionable message. - Out-of-range ids still rejected. Divergence here is silent — the dump would write plausible-looking hidden states from the *wrong* layers, surfacing much later as a poor acceptance rate. Hence pinning to the reference rather than asserting hardcoded lists alone. All 20 assertions verified and every pre-commit hook passes (`ruff`, `mypy`, `bandit`, RST lint, license headers). One caveat worth stating plainly: **pytest could not be run locally.** `tests/unit/conftest.py` imports `modelopt.torch.utils.distributed`, which needs `CPUOffloadPolicy` from `torch.distributed.fsdp` — absent in this machine's torch. Each assertion was executed directly against the real module instead, but CI is the first genuine pytest run. ### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*" - Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ — strictly widens accepted input; `dflash` and explicit lists behave identically. - If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A - Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ - Did you update [Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?: ✅ — bug fix for a defect present in a previous release. - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ — not yet run. ### Additional Information The underlying fragility is the duplicated implementation, not this one missing branch. The function's own `TODO: drop this once common.resolve_aux_layers is decoupled from the heavy modelopt.torch import chain` is the real fix; the new test narrows the gap but does not close it. Worth tracking separately if the vLLM dump is expected to keep pace with new presets. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Fixed `--aux-layers eagle` for vLLM offline hidden-state collection. * Added support for the documented `eagle` preset alongside `dflash` and explicit layer IDs. * Improved invalid-option errors to clearly list accepted formats. * Rejects `dflash` configurations when the target model has too few layers. * Continues rejecting layer IDs outside the model’s available range. * **Documentation** * Added a v0.48.0 changelog entry for the fix. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: Bug fix
Fixes two issues in the vLLM offline hidden-state dump
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examples/speculative_decoding/collect_hidden_states/compute_hidden_states_vllm.py).Both are invisible on small dumps and only bite at scale, which is why they survived until
now — they were found while dumping ~194k conversations for a MiniMax-M3 draft.
1. Resume silently re-processed already-finished work.
keep_conversationskips conversations whose.ptalready exists, but that predicate readson-disk state, which is not part of the fingerprint
datasetscomputes forfilter()(it hashes the function and the dataset). With a persistent HF cache reused across a resumed
or requeued run, the cached "keep everything" result from an earlier run — computed when
few or no
.ptfiles existed — is replayed. The run then re-generates and overwritesconversations it had already completed, and reports
Removed 0 conversations due to existing output fileswhile doing so.Observed on a 194k-conversation dump: ~62k
.ptrewritten over a two-hour window with thetotal output count completely flat.
Fix: pass
load_from_cache_file=Falseso the filter re-checks the disk on every run.2. Staging exhausted
/dev/shmpartway through large dumps.The script generated the entire dataset before saving anything. The KV connector stages
each conversation's hidden states under its
shared_storage_path(/dev/shm, i.e. RAM, bydefault) and they are only freed by
cleanup_hidden_states()in the save loop — so everyconversation stayed staged simultaneously. On a large dump this exhausts the space and the
connector starts failing writes:
Fix: generate and save in chunks of
--save-chunk-size(default 256), so at most one chunkis staged at a time. As a side benefit the dump becomes incrementally durable — an
interrupted run (walltime limit, node failure) keeps its finished conversations and the
resume path above continues from them, instead of losing the whole run's work.
Testing
confirmed both fixes on the same workload: after the change the output count advanced
monotonically across requeues (123k → 194k) with no rewrites, and
/dev/shmstayed boundedthrough completion.
pre-commit run --files ...passes (ruff check/format, mypy, bandit, license, rst checks).the default
--save-chunk-size 256is the only new knob.Additional Information
Extracted from #1749, which is otherwise superseded by the streaming DFlash/DSpark path — these
two fixes are model-agnostic and apply to any offline dump, so they are worth landing on their
own.
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