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fix(train): gate every checkpoint publish with NonFiniteGradGuard - #6061
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Full-validation top-K saves bypassed the non-finite gradient check that regular/EMA checkpoints already run. Expose one trainer entry that validates and resets before publication, call it from regular and validation-best (live + EMA) boundaries on PT and pt_expt, and defer top-K metadata commit until the write succeeds so a failed boundary leaves bookkeeping unchanged. Fixes deepmodeling#5816
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: applying NonFiniteGradGuard to every checkpoint publication path. Linked Issues check The PR satisfies the active coding requirements in [ #5816]. PT and pt_expt addensure_finite_gradients_for_checkpoint(). Regular, EMA, validation-best, and EMA-validation-best publication paths use …Out of Scope Changes check The trainer changes implement the checkpoint gate required by [ #5816]. TheFullValidatorstaging, rollback, reconciliation, and distributed error handling support safe checkpoint and metadata public…
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123-182: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftThe claim that these tests bypass the trainer publication paths is supported. The tests call local closures and
guard.raise_if_nonfinitedirectly, so they do not detect removal of the guard call from the actual trainer methods.Add coverage that invokes the PT and pt_expt trainer publication paths, including the full-validation callbacks. Patch the serializer, such as
_save_checkpoint_to_path, and assert that a non-finite guard aborts before serialization and metadata publication. Also assert that the regular live-plus-EMA path performs one guard check for the logical boundary.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @deepmd/pt/train/training.py:
- Around line 1768-1769: Update the gradient-norm finiteness check used by
ensure_finite_gradients_for_checkpoint so its result is synchronized and
replicated across ranks before any rank can raise or enter collective checkpoint
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- Around line 123-182: Replace the local-closure-only checks in the publication
tests with coverage that invokes the actual PT and pt_expt trainer publication
paths, including full-validation callbacks. Patch _save_checkpoint_to_path and
assert a non-finite guard aborts before serialization or metadata publication;
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Full-validation checkpoint publication now enters the save callback on every rank so NonFiniteGradGuard validates and resets consistently, matching PT regular saves; non-chief writers still no-op inside _write_checkpoint. Replace stub publication-boundary tests with thin Trainer.__new__ coverage of the real save entry points, and assert distributed non-chief ranks enter the save callback.
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Reviewed exact head 9e81f69. One new correctness regression in best-checkpoint persistence is detailed inline: the deferred metadata commit leaves the saved checkpoint one validation behind, and restart reconciliation can delete the current best file.
Coverage: complete five-file diff; both PT and pt_expt checkpoint call chains, regular live/EMA publication boundaries, full-validation live/EMA and LoRA dispatch, error handling, top-K persistence/pruning, and added tests. The earlier distributed-rank review concern was not duplicated.
Verification: an exact-source-method harness exercised FullValidator plus both trainers' serialization call chains and wrapper extra-state methods. Lightweight model/optimizer surroundings and JSON serialization replaced unavailable PyTorch. With max_best_ckpt=1, base preserves the improved step-2 record/file on restart; this head serializes step 1 and removes the step-2 file on restart, in both backends. This is not a full PyTorch, model-training, or distributed-runtime test.
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Friendly review request for @njzjz, @wanghan / @wanghan-iapcm, and iProd: Please take a look at this PR when you have a chance — it centralizes NonFiniteGradGuard on every training-side checkpoint publish boundary (PT + pt_expt), including full-validation best/EMA paths (#5816). Thanks! |
Deferred commit after save left train_infos one validation behind, so restart reconciliation could delete the just-written best file. Stage proposed records into state_store before serialization, keep a rollback snapshot for failed boundaries, and cover save→reload reconcile.
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- Line 366: Update the best-checkpoint save flow around
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Rank 0 previously committed and reconciled best-checkpoint metadata immediately after its local save returned. A non-chief abort then surfaced via _raise_if_distributed_error, but the file and top-K record stayed published. Defer commit until the distributed sync succeeds; on remote failure after a local write, roll back staged top-K and reconcile away the orphan.
Remote abort after a successful rank-0 write already rolls back top-K and reconciles away the orphan. A local exception after bytes land on disk only rolled back metadata, leaving best.ckpt-* behind. Call reconcile after the local rollback so both failure paths drop aborted candidates.
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Reviewed delta 9e81f69 → af50c3f. The P1 from review5466363554 is addressed: proposed top-K records are staged before serialization, and save/reload/restart now preserves the current best checkpoint in both PT and pt_expt. Before-write failure, write-then-fail cleanup, and a subsequent successful retry also passed focused checks.
One new P2 regression remains in distributed error propagation: post-save reconciliation, and cleanup performed inside the local-save exception handler, can raise outside the coordinated error phase. Details inline. This is separate from the prior stale-metadata finding and CodeRabbit's earlier commit-before-rank-consensus finding.
Verification used exact-source validator, serializer/restart and wrapper methods with lightweight model/optimizer surroundings and JSON replacing unavailable torch.save. A blocking two-rank collective simulation with an injected reconciliation PermissionError gave coordinated RuntimeError on both ranks before this delta; the new head lets rank 0 escape while rank 1 waits in the next collective. No full PyTorch training or actual multi-process/distributed runtime test was run. The complete two-file delta and added regressions were reviewed. No code or workflow actions were performed; hosted CI is separate and still incomplete.
Chief-only commit/reconcile after a successful save could raise OSError and exit rank 0 while other ranks waited in a later collective. Route commit failures through _raise_if_distributed_error, and isolate cleanup errors so they cannot bypass that collective.
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Clear the rollback snapshot only after ranked rename finishes, restore bookkeeping if reconcile raises, and undo partial .tmp renames so restart can still see the checkpoint files.
_reconcile_best_checkpoints deleted stale files before finishing temp→final renames. A mid-reconcile OSError after a stale delete left _rollback_pending_best_state restoring the previous top-K while files that top-K still named were already gone. Complete ranked renames first, clear the rollback snapshot once the on-disk retained set matches topk_records, then delete stales. Rename- phase failures still undo .tmp moves and keep bookkeeping rollback. Mirror the rename-then-delete order in dpmodel. Add regressions for order, prune-fail, and rename-fail paths.
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The P2 from review5468648793 is addressed at dd69afc. This supersedes my previous request for changes. No new substantive findings in the three-file repair delta from af50c3f.
Reconciliation failures now enter a dedicated coordinated error phase, and local/remote save-failure cleanup cannot bypass or replace distributed error propagation. Ranked renames precede deletion; failed renames restore temporary files, and prune failures retain bookkeeping for surviving checkpoints.
Verification: exact-source two-rank blocking-thread simulations reproduced the old collective mismatches. At this head, success, reconciliation failure, local-save plus cleanup failure, and remote-save plus cleanup failure terminate consistently with matching collective counts. Nine validator regression methods passed with lightweight constructor/model setup, covering serialized metadata/restart, rollback, orphan cleanup, rename recovery and prune failures. Normal reconciliation and failed-final-rename recovery passed for both pt_expt and shared dpmodel implementations.
Scope: source-level repair approval. PyTorch was unavailable; these checks do not establish actual multi-process distributed training or full-suite qualification. Hosted CI remains separate and incomplete.
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CodeQL EmptyExcept on the local-save and commit-failure cleanup paths; swallowing nested rollback errors is required so the primary exception still reaches the post-save collective / commit error phase.
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Reviewed exact head db0573d9f115432e1a6faace8c7d6d496ef3ed36 against base 668b60cc2a9559f79abb9c33acd959833376344f. Requesting changes for the remaining failure-boundary and design issues below.
The underlying gap in #5816 is real. With a recorded non-finite gradient, the base full-validation callback reaches serialization; the head callback rejects it first. Both PT and PT-expt have the new gate and share FullValidator, while the ordinary optimizer-step path is unchanged. The repaired serialized top-K/restart behavior also passes the focused tests. The concerns below are not a repeat of the fixed one-validation-behind metadata issue.
1. [P2] Agree on preflight success across ranks before entering checkpoint collectives
FullValidator.run() invokes each rank's save callback and only gathers errors after the callback. The trainer callback checks the local guard and immediately proceeds to serialization, whose sharded-state collection contains collectives. A rank that rejects the guard therefore enters the post-save error ALLGATHER while another rank may already be inside the checkpoint's BROADCAST.
This was reproduced with two actual CPU Gloo processes, a real ZeroRedundancyOptimizer, the exact-head PT-expt save/collection methods, and a small wrapper. The finite/finite control saves successfully. Injecting a sticky non-finite guard on rank 1 only produces a collective mismatch at sequence 5 (rank 1: ALLGATHER; rank 0: BROADCAST) and a monitored-barrier timeout on rank 0. This is a rank-local failure-boundary test, not a claim that ordinary synchronized DDP gradient norms naturally diverge, and not a full training or FSDP test.
Separate the all-rank preflight agreement from collective serialization. No rank should stage publication state or enter sharded checkpoint assembly until all ranks have accepted the boundary. Preserve the once-per-logical-boundary reset contract for regular live+EMA saves. Adding another catch around the post-save phase cannot repair a collective-order mismatch that has already occurred.
The current distributed tests replace the communication and use a plain file-writing callback, so they cannot detect the checkpoint collectives inside the real trainer callback. Add a small regression covering this preflight/collective ordering boundary.
2. [P2] Preserve and report cleanup failures instead of silently discarding them
The nested cleanup handlers use except Exception: pass in the local-save, remote-save and commit-error paths. Preserving the original failure and keeping ranks in the coordinated error phase are necessary, but neither requires hiding a failed cleanup.
In a focused exact-head run, the callback writes a candidate and then raises OSError; removing that candidate subsequently raises PermissionError. The final exception contains only the original save error, the candidate remains on disk, and top-K has rolled back to an empty list. Neither the cleanup error nor its affected path is reported. This does not prove model-weight corruption; it demonstrates an unreported leftover artifact and incomplete cleanup.
Retain the primary exception while collecting the secondary cleanup failure and affected path, then include them in the coordinated diagnostic. Catch expected external-operation failures at the appropriate boundary; do not silently suppress arbitrary rollback errors. Cleanup must not cause one rank to escape before its peers reach the matching error collective.
3. Simplify the publication state machine and remove redundant update paths
_commit_pending_best_state() only clears the pending pointer. The actual decision that rollback is no longer allowed is hidden inside filesystem reconciliation, which clears _rollback_topk_records before pruning. Consequently, the publication owner's state transitions depend on an implicit side effect of a lower-level file helper.
The retained _update_best_state() additionally preserves an immediate-commit route whose repository callers are tests, while production run() uses proposal/stage/commit/rollback. This private compatibility path is not needed to preserve a public contract; update those tests to exercise the production behavior. The added rename/recovery protocol is also substantially duplicated in dpmodel and PT-expt. The duplication predates the PR, but this change expands the same failure-sensitive algorithm in both places.
Please organize this as one explicit publication flow that owns preflight, serialized-state staging, write completion, commit and cleanup decisions. Keep transient publication state local where possible, and make filesystem helpers perform file operations with explicit outcomes rather than modifying the caller's rollback state implicitly. Share the file-reconciliation unit instead of extending independent copies. Preserve the valid distinction that, after stale files have been deleted, bookkeeping cannot be rolled back to name those deleted files.
This is a design requirement, not a request to add a general transaction framework or to remove necessary failure phases. The goal is a smaller coherent implementation whose commit point and invariants can be read directly, without separate test-only state-update semantics or accumulated nested recovery branches.
Verification and test scope
- 35 relevant CPU tests pass: the new FullValidator checkpoint-gate suite, existing validation helpers, and the gradient/guard/publication tests.
- Additional checks cover real PT live/EMA callbacks with and without LoRA, and PT-expt live/EMA callbacks: a recorded non-finite interval aborts before the mocked serializer in all six cases.
- An exact-base/head callback comparison confirms the original missing-gate problem and its single-process repair.
- The cleanup diagnostic failure and the two-process Gloo/ZeRO-1 collective-order failure above were reproduced separately. The latter uses a small wrapper and fault injection, not a complete distributed training run.
- No GPU was used, no full training was run, and no performance or test-runtime measurements were made.
Keep the permanent coverage focused on these behavioral boundaries. Reuse small validator fixtures and exercise actual publication entry points; the added test volume and private-state manipulation do not substitute for coverage of the real distributed save callback.
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Closes the remaining gap in #5816: full-validation top-K / best checkpoints (live and EMA) could be written after a non-finite gradient in the current interval because they bypassed
NonFiniteGradGuard.Design
ensure_finite_gradients_for_checkpoint()on both PT and pt_expt trainers as the single pre-serialize gate (check + reset).FullValidator, defer top-K / state-store commit until after a successful checkpoint write; discard the pending update if the save (including the non-finite abort) fails. That keeps metadata from advancing when publication aborts.Stable clipping and the ordinary optimizer-step path are unchanged (still no per-step host sync).
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pytest source/tests/pt_expt/test_train_gradient.py(includes new publication-boundary contract tests)pytest source/tests/pt/test_validation.py::TestFullValidatorCheckpointGatepytest source/tests/pt/test_validation.py::TestValidationHelpersruff check/ruff formaton touched filesFixes #5816
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