[2/8] launcher: harden the vLLM smoke test and newest-checkpoint selection by Zhehao-Hu · Pull Request #2930 · NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer

Zhehao-Hu · 2026-10-22T04:30:34Z

[2/8] Day-0 speculative-decoding readiness flow. Merge in order 1 → 8. Base: main ([1/8] has merged).
Series: [1/8] #2839 (merged) · [2/8] #2930 (this) · [3/8] #2931 · [4/8] #2932 · [5/8] #2933 · [6/8] #2934 · [7/8] #2935 · [8/8] #2936

What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

The vLLM smoke test (common/specdec/vllm_smoke_test.sh) is the serving check after draft training. It had six problems:

It could serve the wrong checkpoint. ar_eval_mtbench.sh and vllm_smoke_test.sh picked the newest checkpoint by sorting on a dash-separated field of the whole path, so a dash in a parent directory (e.g. /data/my-drafts/...) picked the wrong one. quantize_drafter.sh had a third, different sort. The smoke test also ignored exported-checkpoint-final.
Every throughput figure printed ?. Timing used bc, which the vLLM image doesn't have.
A drafter that never speculated passed. With MIN_ACCEPTANCE_LENGTH set, a vLLM log with no acceptance length only warned.
The acceptance length covered only the last few seconds. It came from the log's "Mean acceptance length" line, which covers only vLLM's last logging interval.
The verdict existed only as log text.
The server wait was fixed at 180 s. Qwen3.8-27B with a DFlash2 drafter takes longer to start on GB300 (torch.compile, kernel JIT, CUDA graph capture, GDN warmups), so every smoke attempt stopped at server_timeout. The script's exit then tore the container down mid-warmup, and the engine's next exec failed with a ptxas ENOENT that read like the cause.

Changes:

service_utils.sh: new latest_checkpoint <dir> <prefix>. It returns <dir>/<prefix>final if present, else the highest numeric step, keyed on the directory's own name. It replaces the three ad hoc sorts in ar_eval_mtbench.sh, vllm_smoke_test.sh and quantize_drafter.sh.
vllm_smoke_test.sh:
- Prefers exported-checkpoint-final, as quantize_drafter.sh already did.
- Times prompts with shell arithmetic and python3 instead of bc.
- Computes the mean acceptance length over the whole run from vLLM's cumulative /metrics counters: 1 + spec_decode_num_accepted_tokens_total / spec_decode_num_drafts_total.
- With MIN_ACCEPTANCE_LENGTH set, fails when no speculative drafts were recorded.
- Fails loudly if service_utils.sh is missing (it used to be optional, so the failure surfaced as a misleading draft_missing). Only a missing file is fatal: source returns the status of the file's last command, a rank-0 append that fails outside a launcher working directory.
- SERVER_TIMEOUT sets the server wait in seconds (default 180) and appears in the timeout reason.
- Checks MIN_ACCEPTANCE_LENGTH (a finite number), and NUM_SPEC_TOKENS and SERVER_TIMEOUT (positive integers without leading zeros, since NUM_SPEC_TOKENS goes into vLLM's JSON config), before any work, and fails with stage: invalid_config and a reason naming the value. Both checks run after the EXIT trap is set, so even these failures replace any earlier SMOKE_JSON.
- Optional SMOKE_JSON=<path> writes the verdict on every exit: {stage, pass, reason, method, target, draft, num_speculative_tokens, prompts passed/failed, tokens, average tok/s, mean_acceptance_length, min_acceptance_length}. stage says how far it got (invalid_config, starting, draft_missing, server_died, server_timeout, serving, completed), so a downstream gate can tell "not servable" from "below the floor". The file's parent directory is created if needed, and it is strict JSON (a non-numeric value is written as null). The mean acceptance length is checked against the floor and written at full precision; only the log rounds it.

Usage

task_2:
  script: common/specdec/vllm_smoke_test.sh
  environment:
    - HF_MODEL_CKPT: <<global_vars.hf_model>>
    - DRAFT_CKPT_DIR: <<global_vars.output_dir>>      # newest export, final preferred
    - SPEC_METHOD: "dflash"
    - NUM_SPEC_TOKENS: "7"
    - MIN_ACCEPTANCE_LENGTH: "1.5"
    - SMOKE_JSON: <<global_vars.output_dir>>/smoke_check.json
    - SERVER_TIMEOUT: "900"                            # optional; default 180 s

Testing

tools/launcher/tests/test_service_utils.py: latest_checkpoint with a dash in a parent directory, final winning over steps, numeric rather than string order, and no checkpoint at all (3 cases).
tools/launcher/tests/test_vllm_smoke_test.py runs the script as rank 0 from a directory with no modules/ (stubbed pip and nvidia-smi), up to the paths that stop before vLLM starts (6 cases). Against the script without these fixes, all 6 fail:
- It reaches draft_missing rather than stopping at source.
- MIN_ACCEPTANCE_LENGTH of 1,5 or nan, NUM_SPEC_TOKENS of x or 08 and SERVER_TIMEOUT=15m each fail as invalid_config with a strict-JSON SMOKE_JSON. Before, NUM_SPEC_TOKENS=x crashed in the EXIT trap and wrote no JSON.
bash -n on all four scripts. Launcher unit suite on this commit: 192 passed.
GPU (OCI-JHB, GB300, vLLM v0.31.0), through hf_online_dflash2.yaml's smoke task ([4/8]) and one smoke-only submission, six runs in all:
- latest_checkpoint picked exported-checkpoint-final in every training run.
- Per-prompt tok/s printed (e.g. 335 tok/s average), 8/8 prompts passed.
- Mean acceptance length 1.68–1.79 against the 1.5 floor; smoke_check.json written each time.
GPU, Qwen3.8-27B + DFlash2 (same cluster and image): four smoke runs at the old fixed 180 s each wrote smoke_check.json with stage: server_timeout. A fifth with SERVER_TIMEOUT=900 passed at AL 1.76.
Not run on GPU:
- the server_died and no-drafts failure paths. They exit through the same write_smoke_json trap as the passing path;
- creating SMOKE_JSON's parent directory. A smoke-only run hit the missing directory before this was added; the rerun used an existing directory.

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The specdec-release skill's gate_smoke.py ([6/8]) reads SMOKE_JSON.

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Improvements
- Checkpoint selection now prefers a final checkpoint, or otherwise chooses the highest-numbered checkpoint.
- Smoke tests validate numeric settings, use a configurable server timeout, and report run results, failure reasons, and performance metrics in an optional JSON file.
- Acceptance-length checks now use cumulative draft and accepted-token counts; prompt failures and unmet acceptance thresholds result in a failed test.
Tests
- Added coverage for checkpoint selection and smoke-test configuration failures.

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The changes add shared checkpoint selection and update the vLLM smoke test to validate configuration, record structured results, measure prompt throughput and acceptance length, and apply acceptance thresholds.

Changes: Speculative decoding launcher checks

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared checkpoint selection `tools/launcher/common/service_utils.sh`, `tools/launcher/common/specdec/{ar_eval_mtbench.sh,quantize_drafter.sh,vllm_smoke_test.sh}`, `tools/launcher/tests/test_service_utils.py`	`latest_checkpoint` selects a matching `final` directory or the directory with the highest numeric suffix. Evaluation, quantization, and smoke-test checkpoint discovery use the helper. Tests cover numeric ordering, `final` preference, and empty results.
Smoke-test setup and result reporting `tools/launcher/common/specdec/vllm_smoke_test.sh`, `tools/launcher/tests/test_vllm_smoke_test.py`	The smoke test validates configuration, records run stages and reasons, and writes optional JSON results. Tests cover invalid settings and a missing exported draft.
Server, prompt, and acceptance measurements `tools/launcher/common/specdec/vllm_smoke_test.sh`	The smoke test uses the configured server timeout, measures prompt throughput, calculates mean acceptance length from Prometheus counters, and applies the configured acceptance threshold.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SmokeTest as vllm_smoke_test.sh
  participant VLLMServer as vLLM server
  participant MetricsEndpoint as Prometheus metrics endpoint
  participant ResultFile as SMOKE_JSON
  SmokeTest->>VLLMServer: start server and submit prompts
  VLLMServer-->>SmokeTest: return prompt responses
  SmokeTest->>MetricsEndpoint: read draft and accepted-token counters
  MetricsEndpoint-->>SmokeTest: return cumulative counters
  SmokeTest->>ResultFile: write run verdict and measurements

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Approving: the shared latest_checkpoint helper fixes the newest-checkpoint selection, the smoke-test changes look right, the new tests cover the behaviour that changed, and the core logic is about 175 lines, well within budget.

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I checked the edge cases in latest_checkpoint. When nothing matches, the trailing if with no else returns 0. That means quantize_drafter.sh reaches its own error message instead of the ERR trap. Files and non-numeric suffixes are skipped, and final wins.
Both ar_eval_mtbench.sh and quantize_drafter.sh already source service_utils.sh, so the helper is available to them.
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The server_died, server_timeout and no-drafts paths only ran through the shared trap and were not tested on GPU, as the PR description says. The tests were read but not executed.

…strict (#2839) > **[1/8] Day-0 speculative-decoding readiness flow.** Merge in order 1 → 8. Base: `main`. > Series: [1/8] #2839 (this) · [2/8] #2930 · [3/8] #2931 · [4/8] #2932 · [5/8] #2933 · [6/8] #2934 · [7/8] #2935 · [8/8] #2936 ### What does this PR do? Type of change: Bug fix [common/check_regression.py](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/tools/launcher/common/check_regression.py) gates DFlash-family training runs on final loss and accuracy. Four things stopped that gate from catching a bad run: 1. **It read the wrong checkpoint on long runs.** `find_trainer_state()` sorted `checkpoint-*` as strings, so `checkpoint-8000` ranked after `checkpoint-12000` and an older checkpoint's metrics were checked. Any run whose saved steps differ in digit count was affected; the ~92K-step full DFlash2 recipe in `hf_online_dflash2.yaml` saves every 4000 steps. It now sorts by step number. 2. **An unreadable run passed.** With thresholds set, a missing `trainer_state.json`, or one with no training logs, only warned and exited 0. An empty threshold variable (`MAX_FINAL_LOSS=""`) crashed on `float('')`. 3. **A regression never failed the job.** `dflash_online_training.sh` runs the check as `check_regression.py … || true`, so Slurm reports `COMPLETED` even when the log says `REGRESSION`. The verdict also existed only as log text. 4. **A crashed run was still graded.** The script's `ERR` trap only records a failure, so after a failed `accelerate launch` it went on to export and run the check, and a checkpoint that survived the crash could pass. Changes: - `check_regression.py`: - Sorts checkpoints by step number. - Fails when thresholds are set but there are no metrics to check, including a `trainer_state.json` of the wrong shape. An empty threshold variable counts as unset. A threshold that isn't a finite number (`7,0`, `nan`) fails as `METRICS_MISSING`. - A NaN or infinite value for a metric that has a threshold fails as `TRAIN_REGRESSION`. - Takes `--json <path>` and writes `{pass, failure_class, trainer_state, metrics, thresholds, messages}` as strict JSON (non-finite metrics as `null`). `failure_class` is `null`, `TRAIN_REGRESSION` or `METRICS_MISSING`. The verdict is serialized before the file is opened, so a failure can't leave a truncated file. - Its existing log lines (`=== Regression Check (…) ===`, `PASS:` / `REGRESSION:`, `Regression check PASSED`) are unchanged, so existing log readers keep working. A failure now also prints `Regression check FAILED`. - `dflash_online_training.sh` writes the verdict to `${OUTPUT_DIR}/regression_check.json`, next to the exports. `REGRESSION_STRICT=1` drops the `|| true`, so a regression fails the task through the existing `ERR` trap and `exit_handler`. **The default (`0` or unset) is unchanged (warn only)**, so the other examples with possibly uncalibrated thresholds don't start failing. Any other value fails the task at startup, before installing or training. - `dflash_online_training.sh` also skips export and the check when training fails, still reporting the failure like any `ERR`-trap failure, and removes an old `regression_check.json` first thing, so no early exit can leave an earlier run's verdict behind. - `examples/Qwen/Qwen3-8B/hf_online_dflash2.yaml`: - Sets `REGRESSION_STRICT: "1"`. - Recalibrates `MAX_FINAL_LOSS` from 5.0 to 7.0. The 5.0 was inherited from `hf_online_dflash.yaml`, whose own reference curve only drops below 5.0 at step ~2500 of a 12.5K-step run. DFlash2 adds a selector loss term and this example stops at 2000 steps, so 5.0 fails every healthy run. `MIN_FINAL_ACC` stays at 0.15. - The `speculative-decoding` skill's `dflash.md` and `dflash2.md` describe the new gate: judge a run by `regression_check.json`, the two failure classes, strict mode, and DFlash2's 7.0 threshold. ### Usage ```bash MAX_FINAL_LOSS=7.0 MIN_FINAL_ACC=0.15 \ python3 common/check_regression.py /scratchspace/dflash2_bs16 --json /scratchspace/dflash2_bs16/regression_check.json echo $? # 0 pass, 1 regression or nothing to check ``` ```yaml environment: - MAX_FINAL_LOSS: "7.0" - REGRESSION_STRICT: "1" # fail the training task on a regression ``` ### Testing - `tools/launcher/tests/test_check_regression.py`: 4 new test functions (13 cases). Run against `main`'s `check_regression.py`, 17 of the file's 18 cases fail: - `test_latest_checkpoint_is_chosen_by_step_number` guards the string-sort bug. - `test_empty_threshold_var_is_unset` guards the `float('')` crash. - `test_cli_exit_code_and_json_verdict` is parametrized over a missing `trainer_state.json`, a truncated one, two of the wrong shape, a NaN loss, an unchecked infinite metric, a regression and a pass. Each case checks the exit code and parses the verdict as strict JSON, so it covers the missing-metrics hole and the `--json` contract. - `test_invalid_threshold_writes_failed_verdict` covers `7,0`, `nan` and `inf`. - `tools/launcher/tests/test_dflash_online_training.py` (5 cases) runs the real script in a sandbox: stubbed `pip`, `nvidia-smi`, `accelerate`, exporter and `torch`, a checkpoint, and an old passing verdict. Each case asserts the exact exit code. Against `main`'s script, all 5 fail: - A failing launch leaves no verdict and exits 1; a succeeding one grades the checkpoint and exits 0 with no `ERR`-trap error. - With a checkpoint over the threshold, `REGRESSION_STRICT=1` exits 1 and `0` exits 0, both writing `TRAIN_REGRESSION`. - `REGRESSION_STRICT=true` exits 1 without launching training and leaves no verdict. - Full launcher suite on this commit: `uv run --with pytest python3 -m pytest tests/`, 183 passed. - `dflash_online_training.sh`: `bash -n` passes. - **GPU (OCI-JHB, GB300, global batch 8):** five 2000-step runs of this example with this change passed the strict gate. Final loss was 6.37–6.71 and accuracy 0.167–0.177, against 7.0 / 0.15. The calibration run that motivated 7.0 (before this change) finished at 6.51 / 0.181. The seed-to-seed spread puts the loss margin at about 4%; see the variance note under Additional Information. - Not run: the strict-failure path and a real training crash on GPU (covered by the sandbox test above). ### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*" Make sure you read and follow [Contributor guidelines](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) and your commits are signed (`git commit -s -S`). Make sure you read and follow the [Security Best Practices](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/SECURITY.md#security-coding-practices-for-contributors) (e.g. avoiding hardcoded `trust_remote_code=True`, `torch.load(..., weights_only=False)`, `pickle`, etc.). - Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ (strict mode is opt-in; log output unchanged) - 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)?: N/A - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ - not yet run ### Additional Information - Part of the Day-0 speculative-decoding workflow: the `specdec-release` skill ([8/8]) gates training on `regression_check.json`, so it needs a verdict it can read and a job state that reflects it. - **Why not reuse `day0-release/scripts/gate_run.py`?** The two sit at different layers and check different things, so their schemas stay independent on purpose: - `gate_run.py` is an agent-side gate for an *evaluation* run. It reads a run summary the agent builds from NEL output, and checks per-task status, sample counts and judge errors. None of that exists for a training run. - `check_regression.py` runs *inside* the Slurm training task, on rank 0, and its verdict decides the task's exit status in strict mode. It reads `trainer_state.json` against thresholds from the launcher YAML, and has to work for launcher users who never load a skill. A launcher script importing a skill script would also invert the dependency: skills drive the launcher, not the other way round. - The skill-side counterpart of `gate_run.py` for training is `specdec-release/scripts/gate_train.py` ([6/8] #2934). It reads `regression_check.json` and returns the day-0 gate shape (`{pass, failure_class, detail, …}`), with `failure_class` from the shared triage vocabulary. That is the adapter layer, so `check_regression.py` doesn't need to match `gate_run.py`. - What the two share is the convention: a boolean `pass`, and a `failure_class` that is `null` on a pass. The launcher emits only `METRICS_MISSING` and `TRAIN_REGRESSION`, and `gate_train.py` treats any other value as `TRAIN_REGRESSION`, so the launcher can add detail fields without breaking the gate. - Other Qwen3-8B examples share the inherited `MAX_FINAL_LOSS: "5.0"` (`hf_online_domino.yaml`, `hf_online_lilicorr.yaml`). They are left unchanged and non-strict because there is no calibration run for them. - Variance: a seed-1 retrain landed at loss 6.705, 4.2% under the 7.0 floor. Accuracy has more headroom (11%). Recalibrating from more seeds is planned for the release gates, not this PR.   ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Training runs with an output directory now produce a regression-check verdict file reporting whether configured quality thresholds passed. * Regression checks account for missing or invalid metrics and select checkpoints by numeric step. * **Bug Fixes** * Failed training no longer proceeds to checkpoint export or regression checks. * Strict mode fails the task when regression checks fail; invalid strict-mode values stop the run before training starts. * **Documentation** * Updated DFlash2 guidance and example settings for the final-loss threshold and strict-mode behavior.  --------- Signed-off-by: Zhehao Hu <zhehaoh@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- Add latest_checkpoint() to service_utils.sh: picks <dir>/<prefix>final if present, else the highest numeric step, keyed on the directory's own name. It replaces three ad hoc sorts; ar_eval_mtbench.sh and vllm_smoke_test.sh keyed on a dash-separated field of the whole path, so a dash in a parent directory (e.g. /data/my-drafts/...) picked the wrong checkpoint. vllm_smoke_test.sh now prefers exported-checkpoint-final, as quantize_drafter.sh already did. - vllm_smoke_test.sh: compute the mean acceptance length over the whole run from vLLM's /metrics counters (1 + accepted / drafts). The log's "Mean acceptance length" line covers only the last logging interval. - vllm_smoke_test.sh: with MIN_ACCEPTANCE_LENGTH set, fail when no speculative drafts were recorded instead of warning and passing. - vllm_smoke_test.sh: time prompts with shell arithmetic and python3 instead of bc, which the vLLM image lacks (every tok/s figure printed "?"). - vllm_smoke_test.sh: optional SMOKE_JSON writes the verdict, acceptance length and throughput as JSON for downstream gates, creating its parent directory if needed. Sourcing service_utils.sh is now required; it runs after the EXIT trap, so a failure there still writes this run's verdict instead of leaving an earlier run's SMOKE_JSON in place. Signed-off-by: Zhehao Hu <zhehaoh@nvidia.com>

…d numbers Sourcing service_utils.sh returns the status of its last command, a rank-0 append to modules/Model-Optimizer/modelopt/__init__.py. Outside a launcher working directory that append fails, so the smoke test stopped with "cannot source service_utils.sh". Only a missing file is fatal now. A non-integer NUM_SPEC_TOKENS crashed write_smoke_json inside the EXIT trap, so no SMOKE_JSON was written; a non-numeric MIN_ACCEPTANCE_LENGTH was reported as "REGRESSION: X < Y". Both are checked before any work and fail with the new stage invalid_config. The writer also turns a non-integer or non-finite value into null, so the file is always written and is strict JSON. The prompt-failure reason drops its "ERROR:" prefix and gives the count, and the prompt counters are renamed PROMPTS_OK/PROMPTS_FAILED so they no longer share FAIL with service_utils.sh. cleanup waits for the vLLM server to stop only when one was started, so an early exit no longer sleeps 2 seconds. Signed-off-by: Zhehao Hu <zhehaoh@nvidia.com>

vllm_smoke_test.sh waited a fixed 180 s for /health. Qwen3.8-27B with a DFlash2 drafter needs longer on GB300 (torch.compile of target and draft head, FlashInfer CuTe-DSL JIT, CUDA graph capture, GDN/Mamba Triton warmups), so every smoke attempt stopped at server_timeout. The script's exit then tore the container down mid-warmup, and the engine's next exec failed with ENOENT on ptxas, which read like the cause. SERVER_TIMEOUT sets the wait (default 180) and appears in the timeout reason. A non-integer or zero value fails up front as invalid_config, like NUM_SPEC_TOKENS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Zhehao Hu <zhehaoh@nvidia.com>

chadvoegele · 2026-10-23T21:30:28Z

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You might consider re-writing all of the bash orchestration in Python.

One time I wrote a small DynamoDB query script using aws dynamo get-item ..., then I added just one more thing, then I added just one more thing, then I added a higher-order Bash map function.

Agreed. The smoke test already shells out to Python a couple of times. I'll move the smoke test's logic into a Python module in a follow-up, leaving vllm_smoke_test.sh as a thin entry point.

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…nded NUM_SPEC_TOKENS=08 passed validation, then went into SPEC_CONFIG as a bare JSON number, which is invalid JSON: vLLM died at startup and the run read as server_died instead of invalid_config. NUM_SPEC_TOKENS and SERVER_TIMEOUT now have to be canonical positive integers. The mean acceptance length was rounded to 4 decimals before the MIN_ACCEPTANCE_LENGTH check, so 1.16666... passed a floor of 1.1667, and the rounded value went into SMOKE_JSON, where gate_smoke repeats the check. The check and SMOKE_JSON now use full precision; only the log is rounded. Signed-off-by: Zhehao Hu <zhehaoh@nvidia.com>

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-        echo "WARNING: Could not parse acceptance length from vLLM log, skipping regression check"
+        VERDICT=FAIL
+        REASON="REGRESSION: ${AL_SHOWN} < ${MIN_ACCEPTANCE_LENGTH}"


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Show the unrounded value in the threshold result.

With one accepted token over six drafts and a threshold of 1.1667, the full-precision value fails. Line 310 reports REGRESSION: 1.1667 < 1.1667. Line 307 can similarly show a PASS with a rounded value below the threshold. Keep AL_SHOWN for the summary, but use AVG_ACCEPT in both comparison messages. (docs.vllm.ai)

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