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| if args.sft_hf_dataset: | ||
| if not args.sft: | ||
| raise ValueError("--sft_hf_dataset requires --sft.") | ||
| if not HAS_DIRECT_HF_SFT: | ||
| raise ValueError( | ||
| "--sft_hf_dataset needs a Megatron-Bridge providing DirectHFSFTDatasetConfig " | ||
| "(added 2026-07-09). Use a newer Bridge or --sft_dataset_root." | ||
| ) | ||
| if args.eval_iters > 0 and not args.sft_hf_validation_split: | ||
| raise ValueError( | ||
| "--sft_hf_dataset with --eval_iters > 0 needs --sft_hf_validation_split." |
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[IMPORTANT Robustness] The new branch skips the early-validation convention the --sft_dataset_root branch below it establishes.
Issue. For the documented primary usage (--sft_hf_dataset json), data_files is mandatory for datasets.load_dataset("json", ...), but nothing checks it here. _hf_source (line 609) passes load_kwargs=None when data_files is falsy, so:
--sft_hf_dataset jsonwith no--sft_hf_data_files→ dies inside the Bridge data builder.--sft_hf_validation_split trainwith no--sft_hf_validation_data_files→ same, for the validation source only (so it can survive until the first eval).- A typo'd jsonl path → same late failure.
Why it matters. The --sft_dataset_root branch 9 lines below deliberately front-loads exactly this class of check, with the rationale in a comment: "Fail on a mistyped root here rather than after both checkpoints have loaded onto GPUs." The new path is the one used for 8-node QAD runs, where the failure lands after both teacher and student checkpoints are resident on GPU — and in the validation-split case, potentially not until --eval_interval iterations in.
Suggested fix — append to this block:
if args.sft_hf_dataset == "json":
if not args.sft_hf_data_files:
raise ValueError("--sft_hf_dataset json needs --sft_hf_data_files.")
if args.eval_iters > 0 and not args.sft_hf_validation_data_files:
raise ValueError(
"--sft_hf_dataset json with --eval_iters > 0 needs "
"--sft_hf_validation_data_files."
)
# Fail on a mistyped path here rather than after both checkpoints are on GPUs.
absent = [
f
for f in (args.sft_hf_data_files, args.sft_hf_validation_data_files)
if f and not os.path.isfile(f)
]
if absent:
raise ValueError(f"--sft_hf_dataset json data files missing: {absent}.")Separately, --sft_hf_data_files / --sft_hf_validation_* are silently ignored when --sft_hf_dataset is absent — the file raises for the analogous --sft_dataset_root without --sft, so a matching guard here would be consistent.
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Addressed in 68e99af, and the flags were simplified along the way. --sft_hf_split, --sft_hf_data_files, --sft_hf_validation_split and --sft_hf_validation_data_files are gone. --sft_hf_dataset and the new --sft_hf_validation take one spec each: a local <file>.jsonl, or <hub_id>[:<split>] (_hf_source, distill.py:135). So json without data files can no longer be expressed. get_args() now requires --sft_hf_validation when --eval_iters > 0 (line 408) and checks that local .json/.jsonl files exist (line 416), so a mistyped path fails before either checkpoint loads. HF options passed without --sft_hf_dataset now raise (line 418). I also added a comment saying why the import is guarded (line 52).
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Follow-up: simplified further in 71b4ec1. I dropped the local file-existence check, the guard on HF options without --sft_hf_dataset, and the import comment, to keep get_args() small. The one-spec flags already make the json-without-data-files case impossible. A mistyped local path still fails, just later, in the Bridge builder. --sft_hf_validation is still required when --eval_iters > 0.
| "--sft_loss_mode", | ||
| type=str, | ||
| default="assistant", | ||
| choices=["assistant", "last_turn", "full"], | ||
| help="Which tokens --sft_hf_dataset trains on: every assistant turn, only the final one, " | ||
| "or the whole conversation. Multi-turn records train all of their responses under " | ||
| "'assistant'.", |
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[SUGGESTION] Two things about --sft_loss_mode:
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It is silently ignored on the
--sft_dataset_rootpath. That branch hardcodesanswer_only_loss=Truewith a"{input}{output}"template, so its masking is fixed regardless of this flag. A user who passes--sft_dataset_root ... --sft_loss_mode fullgets answer-only masking with no warning. The help text says "Which tokens--sft_hf_datasettrains on", which is accurate, but the file raises for other mis-paired flags (--sft_dataset_rootwithout--sft) — a matching guard would be more consistent than relying on help text. -
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assistantis exercised. Per the PR description the 16 QAD runs all usedassistant;last_turnandfullare asserted here viachoicesbut never validated againstChatSFTPreprocessingConfig.loss_mode's accepted values. Worth confirming those two strings are what Bridge actually accepts — an argparsechoiceslist that disagrees with the downstream config turns a clean CLI rejection into a late crash (or, worse, a silently-accepted-but-unintended mode).
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- Addressed in 68e99af: a non-default
--sft_loss_modewithout--sft_hf_datasetnow raises (distill.py:418), so it can't be silently ignored on the--sft_dataset_rootpath. - Checked against Megatron-Bridge.
ChatSFTPreprocessingConfig.loss_modeisLiteral["assistant", "last_turn", "full"]and is validated in__post_init__(megatron/bridge/data/sft_processing.py:55-60, onmainand on the 0.6.0 we run). That matches the argparsechoicesexactly, so no change.
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Follow-up on 1: in 71b4ec1 I dropped the guard again to keep get_args() small. --sft_loss_mode's help already scopes it to --sft_hf_dataset. Point 2 stands.
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| # Chat rows rendered by the model's own chat template, with the loss covering every | ||
| # assistant turn, so multi-round records train all of their responses rather than the last. |
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[SUGGESTION] The TokenizerConfig at line ~704 is still gated on bare args.sft, which is now true for both SFT sources, but its include_special_tokens: False comment only explains the --sft_dataset_root case:
# Default True would make text_to_ids inject a BOS at the answer boundary,
# since "{input}" and "{output}" are tokenized separately.There is no {input}/{output} boundary on this path — the chat template renders one string per conversation. As far as I can tell the setting is still correct here (a chat template emits its own BOS/control tokens, so suppressing an extra prepended BOS is what you want, and add_special_tokens=False does not stop HF from recognizing special tokens already present in the rendered text), so this is not a bug — but the comment now sits on a shared branch and justifies itself with a reason that applies to only one of the two consumers. A reader debugging chat tokenization will bounce off it.
Worth a half-line: note that the chat path wants the same setting because the template emits BOS itself. Since this is the one config in the shared path whose rationale is source-specific, and the chat path hasn't been run against this exact file, it's also the one worth double-checking on the smoke run you offered in the description.
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Not changed by this PR. include_special_tokens is existing --sft_dataset_root code on main. It also has no effect on the --sft_hf_dataset path: Bridge's chat builder unwraps to the HF tokenizer and calls its apply_chat_template directly (conversation_processing.py, tokenize_chat_example), so text_to_ids, the only reader of that kwarg, is never called there.
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Scope: full review. 1 file changed (+90 / −4), reviewed in full including the surrounding arg-validation, dataset-config, and tokenizer-config regions for composition context.
Findings — CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 1 · SUGGESTION: 2
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[IMPORTANT] Missing early validation on the new data path (inline). _hf_source passes load_kwargs=None when data_files is falsy, and nothing in get_args requires --sft_hf_data_files for --sft_hf_dataset json — the documented primary usage. Forgetting it, or typo'ing the jsonl path, fails inside the Bridge data builder after both teacher and student checkpoints are resident on GPU; in the validation-source case it can survive until the first eval. The --sft_dataset_root branch nine lines below front-loads exactly this check with the rationale spelled out in a comment, so the convention is already established in this file — the new branch just doesn't follow it. Suggested block is in the inline comment.
The two SUGGESTIONs cover --sft_loss_mode being silently inert on the --sft_dataset_root path (plus last_turn/full being unexercised against ChatSFTPreprocessingConfig), and the now source-specific include_special_tokens comment on the shared TokenizerConfig branch.
What checked out
- Mutual exclusion and branch routing are correct.
--sft_dataset_root/--sft_hf_datasetare rejected together,--sft_hf_datasetrequires--sft, and the existing branch becomingelif args.sft:preserves its behavior exactly when--sft_hf_datasetis absent. - No latent
AttributeErrorfrom theif args.sft:→if args.sft and args.sft_dataset_root:narrowing.args.sft_add_bosis now set only on the dataset-root path, but its sole reader (line 652) lives inside that same branch, so the HF path never touches it. do_validation/validation_sourceare consistently gated.--eval_iters > 0forces--sft_hf_validation_split, and--validate_onlyalready requireseval_iters > 0, sodo_validation=Truewithvalidation_source=Noneis unreachable.- Tokenizer wiring reaches the new path.
args.sftselects the realHuggingFaceTokenizeroverNullTokenizer, which the chat template needs. dataloader_type="batch"andseed=args.seedmatch the existingFinetuningDatasetConfigbranch rather than the pretrainingdataset_kwargsdict — correct for an SFT dataset.- Optional-dependency gating is the right shape. The
try/except ImportError+HAS_DIRECT_HF_SFTguard means an older Bridge still runs every other mode, and--sft_hf_datasetreports why it is unavailable instead of dying at import. One minor note: CONTRIBUTING asks for a brief comment naming the reason on guarded imports — this block has none (the rationale is only in the PR description). - No
CHANGELOG.rstentry needed. Examples-only change, consistent with the repo's changelog policy.
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Low. Additive and well-fenced: the existing --sft_dataset_root path is untouched, the new code is reachable only behind a new flag, and an older Megatron-Bridge degrades to a clear error rather than an import failure. Bridge is not installed in this review environment, so DirectHFSFTDatasetConfig / ChatSFTPreprocessingConfig / HFDatasetSourceConfig field names and accepted loss_mode values could not be verified against the real signatures — combined with the author's own note that this port has not been run, the smoke run offered in the description would be worth taking up before merge.
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- Around line 395-396: Add validation alongside the existing SFT dataset
exclusivity check so non-default HF-specific options are rejected when
`args.sft_hf_dataset` is unset. Check `args.sft_hf_split`,
`args.sft_hf_data_files`, `args.sft_hf_validation_split`,
`args.sft_hf_validation_data_files`, and `args.sft_loss_mode`; preserve the
existing defaults and raise a clear `ValueError` requiring `--sft_hf_dataset`.
- Around line 397-399: Update the get_args validation in the sft_hf_dataset
block: when the dataset is json, require sft_hf_data_files, and require
sft_hf_validation_data_files only when eval_iters is greater than zero. Keep the
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| def _hf_source(spec: str) -> "HFDatasetSourceConfig": | ||
| """``<file>.json[l]`` -> local chat jsonl; otherwise ``<hub_id>[:<split>]`` (split defaults to train).""" | ||
| if spec.endswith((".json", ".jsonl")): | ||
| return HFDatasetSourceConfig( | ||
| path_or_dataset="json", split="train", load_kwargs={"data_files": spec} | ||
| ) | ||
| dataset, _, split = spec.partition(":") | ||
| return HFDatasetSourceConfig(path_or_dataset=dataset, split=split or "train") |
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] The combined spec discriminates "local file" from "hub id" solely on a .json/.jsonl suffix, and nothing validates either branch before the checkpoints load — so a plausible user input fails late and with a misleading error.
The case I'd most expect in practice: a QAD pool kept as a directory of sharded jsonl (or any local path without the extension). --sft_hf_dataset /lustre/pool/train has no .json/.jsonl suffix, so it falls through to spec.partition(":") and becomes HFDatasetSourceConfig(path_or_dataset="/lustre/pool/train", split="train"). The user then gets an HF HFValidationError about repo-id format for a path that exists on disk — which points them at the wrong thing entirely. Two narrower variants land the same way: a case-mismatched suffix (train.JSONL), and .jsonl.gz/.parquet shards.
The typo'd-file case is less confusing but still costly: load_kwargs={"data_files": "<typo>"} raises inside the Bridge data builder, i.e. after both the teacher and the student checkpoint are resident on GPU. On the 8-node runs this flag exists to support, that is a real amount of wasted allocation for a one-character mistake.
Why this is worth a check rather than left to the builder: the --sft_dataset_root branch at line 409 front-loads exactly this validation, with the rationale spelled out in its own comment — "Fail on a mistyped root here rather than after both checkpoints have loaded onto GPUs." The convention is already established in this file; the new branch is the one that doesn't follow it. I see the last commit deliberately dropped the file-existence check, so this is a judgment call you've already made once — but I don't think the earlier review covered the directory/hub-id ambiguity, which is specific to the newer single-spec form and is the misleading failure rather than merely the late one.
A cheap version that keeps the spec as-is and only disambiguates when the answer is knowable locally:
def _hf_source(spec: str) -> "HFDatasetSourceConfig":
"""``<file>.json[l]`` -> local chat jsonl; otherwise ``<hub_id>[:<split>]`` (split defaults to train)."""
if spec.lower().endswith((".json", ".jsonl")):
if not os.path.isfile(spec):
raise ValueError(f"{spec} is not a file.")
return HFDatasetSourceConfig(
path_or_dataset="json", split="train", load_kwargs={"data_files": spec}
)
dataset, _, split = spec.partition(":")
# A local path reaching the Hub branch fails as a malformed repo id deep in the data
# builder; say so here instead.
if os.path.exists(dataset):
raise ValueError(
f"{dataset} is a local path but not a .json/.jsonl file; --sft_hf_dataset takes a "
"single chat jsonl file or a '<hub_id>[:<split>]'."
)
return HFDatasetSourceConfig(path_or_dataset=dataset, split=split or "train")os is already imported. Calling it from get_args (next to the line-409 check) rather than at config-build time would move both errors ahead of checkpoint load; as written in _hf_source they at least precede the data builder.
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Intentional: the flag takes <file>.json[l] or <hub_id>[:<split>] as documented, and 71b4ec130 deliberately leaves path validation to the Bridge builder to keep get_args() small.
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Follow-up in 792a8436b: the --sft_hf_dataset help now states that only .json/.jsonl are read as local files and anything else is taken as a Hub id, and test_hf_source_spec pins the spec parsing. No existence check added.
| if args.sft_hf_dataset: | ||
| if not args.sft: | ||
| raise ValueError("--sft_hf_dataset requires --sft.") | ||
| if not HAS_DIRECT_HF_SFT: | ||
| raise ValueError( | ||
| "--sft_hf_dataset needs a newer Megatron-Bridge (DirectHFSFTDatasetConfig)." | ||
| ) | ||
| if args.eval_iters > 0 and not args.sft_hf_validation: | ||
| raise ValueError("--sft_hf_dataset with --eval_iters > 0 needs --sft_hf_validation.") |
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[SUGGESTION] --sft_loss_mode and --sft_hf_validation are silently inert on the --sft_dataset_root path — both are read only inside the args.sft and args.sft_hf_dataset branch at line 599. A user who passes --sft --sft_dataset_root <dir> --sft_loss_mode full gets assistant-only masking (answer_only_loss=True) with no indication the flag did nothing, and --sft_hf_validation likewise vanishes.
This file is otherwise strict about exactly this class of mistake: the --sft / --data_paths check at line 402 rejects the combination rather than letting the loser be ignored, and gives the reason ("those inputs would be silently ignored"). Line 407 does the same for --sft_dataset_root without --sft.
Non-blocking because the wrong-loss-mode run still trains sensibly — it just isn't the masking the user asked for, which on a 400-iteration 8-node job is an expensive thing to discover from a wandb curve. The prior review raised the --sft_loss_mode half of this and the last commit dropped the guard, so you may have already decided against it; flagging that --sft_hf_validation has the same shape in case that part was unintentional. If you want it back, it's two lines next to the existing mutual-exclusion check:
if args.sft_dataset_root and (args.sft_hf_validation or args.sft_loss_mode != "assistant"):
raise ValueError(
"--sft_hf_validation / --sft_loss_mode only apply to --sft_hf_dataset; the "
"--sft_dataset_root path would silently ignore them."
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Same trade-off as 71b4ec130: both flags are documented as --sft_hf_dataset-only; not adding a guard.
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Reversed in 792a8436b at a maintainer's request: --sft_hf_validation or a non-default --sft_loss_mode without --sft_hf_dataset now raises.
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Claude review — examples/megatron_bridge/distill.py
Scope: full review (just /claude review, no scoping instructions). 1 file changed (+73 / −4); reviewed in full, plus the surrounding arg-validation, dataset-config, and tokenizer-config regions for composition context.
Findings — CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 1 · SUGGESTION: 2
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[IMPORTANT] _hf_source discriminates local-file vs hub-id on a filename suffix alone, with no validation on either branch (inline).
The case I'd most expect in practice is a QAD pool kept as a directory of sharded jsonl. --sft_hf_dataset /lustre/pool/train has no .json/.jsonl suffix, so it falls through to the partition(":") branch and becomes path_or_dataset="/lustre/pool/train" — the user gets an HF repo-id validation error for a path that exists on disk, which points them at the wrong problem. A case-mismatched suffix (train.JSONL) and .jsonl.gz/.parquet shards land the same way. Separately, a typo'd filename fails inside the Bridge data builder, i.e. after both checkpoints are already resident on GPU.
What makes this a should-fix rather than a nit: the --sft_dataset_root branch nine lines above front-loads exactly this check, with the rationale in its own comment — "Fail on a mistyped root here rather than after both checkpoints have loaded onto GPUs." The convention is established in this file; the new branch is the one that departs from it. I can see the last commit (71b4ec13) deliberately trimmed the file-existence check after the previous round, so you've made that call once already — but the directory/hub-id ambiguity is specific to the newer single-spec form and wasn't covered then, and it's the misleading failure rather than merely the late one. A ~6-line version is in the inline comment.
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[SUGGESTION]
--sft_loss_modeand--sft_hf_validationare silently inert on the--sft_dataset_rootpath (inline) — both are read only inside theargs.sft and args.sft_hf_datasetbranch. The--sft_loss_modehalf was raised last round and the guard was dropped; flagging that--sft_hf_validationhas the same shape in case that part wasn't intentional. -
[SUGGESTION] The
include_special_tokens: Falsecomment at line ~694 is now source-specific but applied to both paths. GitHub wouldn't take an inline comment there (outside the diff), so it's here instead. Its stated reason — "{input}and{output}are tokenized separately" — is theFinetuningDatasetConfig/prompt_templatemechanism; the chat path renders whole conversations and never splits at an answer boundary, so a later reader can't tell whetherFalsewas chosen for it or inherited. Two directions worth a look: the comment reads stale, and more substantively, chat templates emit their own specials as literal text, so whetherinclude_special_tokens=Falsestrips them back out on the chat path is worth confirming against the real Bridge tokenizer wrapper. Scoping it would be clearer ifFalseis only correct for the dataset-root path:hf_tokenizer_kwargs={ "trust_remote_code": args.trust_remote_code, # Only the --sft_dataset_root path needs this: it tokenizes "{input}" and # "{output}" separately, and the default True would inject a BOS at the # answer boundary. Consumed by Bridge in training/tokenizers/config.py. # The chat path renders whole conversations, so the boundary never arises. **({"include_special_tokens": False} if args.sft_dataset_root else {}), },
What checked out
- Branch routing and mutual exclusion are correct.
--sft_dataset_root/--sft_hf_datasetare rejected together,--sft_hf_datasetrequires--sft, and the existing branch becomingelif args.sft:preserves its behavior exactly when--sft_hf_datasetis absent. - No latent
AttributeErrorfrom narrowingif args.sft:toif args.sft and args.sft_dataset_root:.args.sft_add_bosis now set only on the dataset-root path, but its sole reader (line 635) sits inside that same branch, so the HF path never touches it.mlflow_utils.print_args/masked_argsenumeratevars(args)rather than a fixed key list, so the conditional attribute doesn't break logging either. do_validation/validation_sourceare consistently gated.--eval_iters > 0forces--sft_hf_validation, and--validate_onlyalready requireseval_iters > 0, sodo_validation=Truewithvalidation_source=Noneis unreachable.dataloader_type="batch"matches the siblingFinetuningDatasetConfigbranch rather than the pretrainingdataset_kwargsdict — correct for an SFT dataset.per_token_loss(line 472) is already driven byargs.sft, socalculate_per_token_lossandaverage_in_collectiveare set correctly for the new path with no change needed.- Tokenizer wiring reaches the new path.
args.sftselects the realHuggingFaceTokenizeroverNullTokenizer, which the chat template requires. - Optional-dependency gating is the right shape. The
try/except ImportError+HAS_DIRECT_HF_SFTguard means an older Bridge still runs every other mode, and--sft_hf_datasetreports why it is unavailable instead of dying at import. - No
CHANGELOG.rstentry needed — examples-only change, consistent with the repo's changelog policy. On the open docs question in the description: the README's existing--sft_dataset_rootparagraph (lines 166–177) is detailed about tokenization and truncation semantics, so a short companion paragraph for the chat path would fit naturally there, but that's your call.
Risk assessment
Low. Additive and well-fenced: the existing --sft_dataset_root path is untouched, the new code is reachable only behind a new flag, and an older Megatron-Bridge degrades to a clear error rather than an import failure. The single IMPORTANT is a failure-mode/ergonomics issue on the new path, not a correctness bug in training — nothing here can silently produce a wrong-but-plausible distillation result.
One limitation worth stating plainly: Megatron-Bridge is not installed in this review environment and I could not reach its sources, so DirectHFSFTDatasetConfig / ChatSFTPreprocessingConfig / HFDatasetSourceConfig field names and the accepted loss_mode values are unverified against the real signatures. The ~16 QAD runs plus the Nemotron-3.5 Super VL runs described in Testing are the evidence that carries that part, and the description's note that the two-flag spec postdates those runs — with the spec parsing checked separately on local, Hub and sliced-split inputs — is the right caveat to have called out.
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The new --sft_hf_dataset path looks correctly wired and keeps the --sft_dataset_root path unchanged, but it ships with no test, even though test_distill_llm_sft already shows the pattern to copy.
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test_distill_llm_sft_hf_chattotests/examples/megatron_bridge/test_distill.py. It should build a tiny chat jsonl withmessagesrows and rundistill.py --sft --sft_hf_dataset <train.jsonl> --sft_hf_validation <val.jsonl>. Add unit asserts for_hf_sourceon local,hub,hub:testandhub:train[:10]specs. - Reject
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include_special_tokens: Falseis correct for chat-templated text. Some templates leave the BOS to the tokenizer, and those would lose it here. Also update the tokenizer comment, which only explains the{input}{output}path. - Add a short README section for the chat-data path and a
CHANGELOG.rstentry. The--sfthelp text also still names only--sft_dataset_root.
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--sft_hf_validation and --sft_loss_mode are only read on the --sft_hf_dataset branch. With --sft_dataset_root, --sft_loss_mode last_turn or --sft_hf_validation x are silently dropped. That's the same silent-ignore case the --sft vs --data_paths check below was added to prevent. Suggest:
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Done in 792a8436b: --sft_hf_validation or a non-default --sft_loss_mode without --sft_hf_dataset now raises --sft_hf_validation / --sft_loss_mode require --sft_hf_dataset.
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Please add a small unit test for this parser. The test module already imports from examples/megatron_bridge through sys.path. Cover foo.jsonl, org/ds, org/ds:test and org/ds:train[:1000]; the last one depends on partition splitting only on the first :. Note that any other local format (.parquet, .csv, a directory) will be treated as a Hub id. That's worth a line in the help text.
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Done in 792a8436b: test_hf_source_spec covers data/foo.jsonl, data/foo.json, org/ds, org/ds:test and org/ds:train[:1000] (first-colon split). The --sft_hf_dataset help now says only .json/.jsonl are read as local files; anything else is taken as a Hub id.
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No test exercises this branch end to end. Following test_distill_llm_sft, a tiny-Qwen3 run with a few {"messages": [...]} rows (including one multi-turn record), --sft_hf_validation and eval_iters=1 would catch Bridge API drift in DirectHFSFTDatasetConfig and ChatSFTPreprocessingConfig. Also, if the CI Bridge lacks these symbols, decide whether the test should skip on HAS_DIRECT_HF_SFT.
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Done in 792a8436b: test_distill_llm_sft_hf_chat runs distill.py --sft --sft_hf_dataset ... --sft_hf_validation ... with eval_iters=1 on tiny Qwen3 with chat jsonl (every 4th record multi-turn), and skips when HAS_DIRECT_HF_SFT is false. It passed inside nemo:26.08 with the bundled Megatron-Bridge, so CI runs it rather than skipping. Also in this commit: README section, CHANGELOG entry, and --sft help naming both data sources.
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The fixture includes multi-turn records, but the test only checks that training creates a checkpoint. A regression that applies loss only to the final assistant response would still pass. Add a focused preprocessing assertion that both assistant spans have loss enabled.
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distill.py can only read SFT data from --sft_dataset_root, which expects
{"input", "output"} records already preprocessed into a Megatron dataset root.
This adds the complementary path: point --sft_hf_dataset at a Hub dataset id, or
at "json" with --sft_hf_data_files for a local chat jsonl, and each conversation
is rendered by the model's own chat template with the loss masked to assistant
turns. Multi-turn records train on all of their responses, not only the last.
The two sources are mutually exclusive and the existing --sft_dataset_root path
is unchanged. The Megatron-Bridge symbols this needs are imported defensively,
so an older Bridge still runs every other mode and --sft_hf_dataset reports why
it is unavailable instead of failing at import.
Flags: --sft_hf_dataset, --sft_hf_split, --sft_hf_data_files,
--sft_hf_validation_split, --sft_hf_validation_data_files, --sft_loss_mode.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Yue Shen <yueshen@nvidia.com>
Megatron-Bridge's DirectHFSFTDatasetConfig does not accept a seed keyword, so building the --sft_hf_dataset config failed before training started. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Yue <yueshen@nvidia.com>
… it up front Replace --sft_hf_split, --sft_hf_data_files, --sft_hf_validation_split and --sft_hf_validation_data_files with a single format shared by --sft_hf_dataset and the new --sft_hf_validation: a local '<file>.jsonl', or '<hub_id>[:<split>]'. Check in get_args() that --eval_iters > 0 has validation data and that local files exist, rather than failing in the Bridge builder after both checkpoints are on GPUs; reject --sft_hf_validation / --sft_loss_mode without --sft_hf_dataset instead of ignoring them. Note why the DirectHFSFTDatasetConfig import is guarded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Yue <yueshen@nvidia.com>
Keep only the checks the HF path needs (--sft, a Bridge that has DirectHFSFTDatasetConfig, validation data when evaluating). Drop the local file-existence check, the guard on HF options without --sft_hf_dataset, and the guarded-import comment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Yue <yueshen@nvidia.com>
… without it - Raise when --sft_hf_validation or a non-default --sft_loss_mode is given without --sft_hf_dataset, instead of silently ignoring them. - Add test_distill_llm_sft_hf_chat (tiny Qwen3, multi-turn chat jsonl, validation) and test_hf_source_spec; both skip when Megatron-Bridge lacks DirectHFSFTDatasetConfig. - Note in --sft_hf_dataset help that only .json/.jsonl are read as local files; --sft help now names both data sources. - Document the chat path in the README and add a CHANGELOG entry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Yue <yueshen@nvidia.com>
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Type of change: new feature
distill.pycan currently only read SFT data from--sft_dataset_root, which expects{"input", "output"}records already preprocessed into a Megatron dataset root. This adds thecomplementary path: point
--sft_hf_datasetat a local chat<file>.jsonlor a Hub<hub_id>[:<split>], and each conversation is rendered by the model's ownchat template with the loss masked to assistant turns. Multi-turn records train on all of their
responses rather than only the last.
The two sources are mutually exclusive and the existing
--sft_dataset_rootpath is unchanged —its branch becomes
elif args.sft:and behaves identically when--sft_hf_datasetis absent.The Megatron-Bridge symbols this needs (
DirectHFSFTDatasetConfig,ChatSFTPreprocessingConfig,HFDatasetSourceConfig) are imported behind atry/except, so an older Bridge still runs everyother mode and
--sft_hf_datasetreports why it is unavailable instead of failing at import.Usage
New flags:
--sft_hf_dataset,--sft_hf_validation,--sft_loss_mode. Both data flags take thesame spec: a path ending in
.json/.jsonlis read as a local chat jsonl; anything else is<hub_id>[:<split>]with the split defaulting totrain, so HF split slicing works too(e.g.
--sft_hf_validation <hub_id>:train[:1000]).--sft_hf_validationis required when--eval_iters > 0.Why
This is the data path used to produce a published NVFP4 W4A16 QAD result on the public Nemotron
blend. Those flags do not exist upstream, so that result cannot currently be reproduced with
examples/megatron_bridge/distill.pyas shipped. Everything else those runs used(
--no_skip_lm_loss,--kd_loss_scale, parallelism, lr schedule,--recompute_*) is already here.Testing
The flags and wiring have been exercised over ~16 QAD training runs (Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B,
NVFP4 W4A16 and W4A4, 400 iterations each on 8 nodes) using this exact code path, with a
35.8k-conversation local chat jsonl and
--sft_loss_mode assistant.Since porting onto
main, the chat-data path of this PR has trained a new modelon GB300: a 600-iteration NVFP4 QAD (8 nodes, TP1/CP4/EP32, 32k seq), and a
main+ #2704 + this PR smoke run with no local patches. Those runs predate the switch to thetwo-flag spec above, which only changes how the
HFDatasetSourceConfigis built; the spec parsingwas checked on local, Hub and sliced-split inputs.
DirectHFSFTDatasetConfigtakes noseed(Bridge
mainand 0.6.0), so it is not passed.tests/examples/megatron_bridge/test_distill.pygainstest_distill_llm_sft_hf_chat(tiny Qwen3, multi-turn chat jsonl,--sft_hf_validation,eval_iters=1) andtest_hf_source_spec; both plus the existingtest_distill_llm_sftpass innvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08with its bundled Megatron-Bridge (7 passed).Before your PR is "Ready for review"
test_distill_llm_sft_hf_chat,test_hf_source_specCHANGELOG.rst? — yes, under Megatron FrameworkAdditional Information
Hub datasets with a named config (HF
name=/ Bridgesubset) are deliberately left out to keepthe spec minimal; it can be added as
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