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@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ def __init__(
optimizer: Optional[torch.optim.Optimizer] = None,
lr_scheduler: Optional[torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LRScheduler] = None,
processing_class: Union[PreTrainedTokenizer, ProcessorMixin] = None,
checkpoint_contents: DictConfig = None,
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is this a breaking change? if renaming is desired, we should record in #1902

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Actually, from namimg issue, yes, since from now checkpoint config can include some other configurations besides contents.

@@ -49,10 +49,11 @@ def __init__(
optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer,
lr_scheduler: torch.optim.lr_scheduler.LRScheduler = None,
processing_class: Union[PreTrainedTokenizer, ProcessorMixin] = None,
checkpoint_contents: DictConfig = None,
checkpoint_config: DictConfig = None,
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In the next PR, can we use a dataclass instead of DictConfig for checkpoint_config?

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OK, maybe define a checkpoint config class.

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Yangruipis commented Jun 21, 2025

Excellent work! This is exactly what i am looking forward to.

however, for dpsk 671B, load all weigts into one node is slow and will easily cause RAM OOM. I have implemented a distributed merger for large models, as every single node only processes a partition of model pipeline, and save as HF model separately(will not ensure every .safetensors file the same size, but, emmm, it's fast), if you are interested, i'm willing to contribute based on you PR~

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Excellent work! This is exactly what i am looking forward to.

however, for dpsk 671B, load all weigts into one node is slow and will easily cause RAM OOM. I have implemented a distributed merger for large models, as every single node only processes a partition of model pipeline, and save as HF model separately(will not ensure every .safetensors file the same size, but, emmm, it's fast), if you are interested, i'm willing to contribute based on you PR~

@Yangruipis that sounds great, looking forward to your contribution

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ETOgaosion commented Jun 21, 2025

@Yangruipis Maybe we can split into 2 PRs, I left some spaces for multi-node merger extensions, Thanks a lot for contribution~

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def upload_to_huggingface(self):
from huggingface_hub import HfApi

api = HfApi()
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we might need to handle authentication issues if hf_token is not provided.

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GPT says that error code 401 means auth error, does it make sense?


api = HfApi()
api.create_repo(repo_id=self.config.hf_upload_path, private=self.config.private, exist_ok=True)
api.upload_folder(folder_path=self.config.target_dir, repo_id=self.config.hf_upload_path, repo_type="model")
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some issues like network etc may cause upload folder failure. can you add some try/except to catch any potential failures?

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Would you check my try-catch is what you expected?

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os.environ["RANK"] = "0"
os.environ["WORLD_SIZE"] = "1"
os.environ["MASTER_ADDR"] = "localhost"
os.environ["MASTER_PORT"] = "12355"
torch.distributed.init_process_group(get_nccl_backend())
mpu.initialize_model_parallel(
tensor_model_parallel_size=1,
virtual_pipeline_model_parallel_size=None,
context_parallel_size=1,
expert_model_parallel_size=1,
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add one comment for single rank distributed set up and multiple rank loading is currently not supported. in the future consider warp environment into a reusable method.

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I added a comment here.

v = torch.cat(v_lst, dim=0)
return [q, k, v]
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return tensor is not consistent with return type list[torch.Tensor]

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Thanks a lot, all fixed~

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k_lst = []
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will q_lst, k_lst, v_lst = [], [], [] be better?

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Thanks a lot, all fixed~

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q = torch.cat(q_lst, dim=0)
k = torch.cat(k_lst, dim=0)
v = torch.cat(v_lst, dim=0)
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    return [torch.cat(q_lst, dim=0), torch.cat(k_lst, dim=0), torch.cat(v_lst, dim=0)]

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Thanks a lot, all fixed~

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@dataproblems could u help review as well, thanks

self.config = config
self.hf_model_config_path = config.hf_model_config_path

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I see that we are overriding the self.hf_model_config_path if the user has provided the deprecated hf_model_path, should we add a note to say that we're overriding that value with what's provided under hf_model_path ?

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Because in many other scripts we use hf_model_path as the huggingface model directory, I think we shall deprecate the local_dir and only use hf_model_path here for the continuity? I refactor the default-saved tokenizer and hf_config path to exactly huggingface model path, so the usage of hf_model_path is OK.

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cc please @0x404

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Hi @ETOgaosion, I remember the reason we keep hf_model_path before was because during model merge we needed to read the original huggingface config and tokenizer, but currently the checkpoints saved by verl already include hf config and other information, so there is no need for users to provide an extra hf_model_path. We keep this argument for backward compatibility since some old checkpoints may not contain hf config.

should we add a note to say that we're overriding that value with what's provided under hf_model_path

in the model_merger.py we will give a deprecation warning if users provide this arg and we will override hf_model_config_path:

if config.hf_model_path:
print("Warning: --hf_model_path is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Currently verl will save huggingface model configuration files into checkpoint directories. Therefore, there is no need to provide --hf_model_path. ")
self.hf_model_config_path = config.hf_model_path

I think we can still keep this arg and give a notice to the users, or we can remove this arg in this PR and thus deprecate this arg completely?

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I get what you mean, can you help review the logic I changed in

https://github.com/ETOgaosion/verl/blob/ef15cde94289e948b7863027985bc376678bd618/verl/utils/checkpoint/fsdp_checkpoint_manager.py#L227-L300

Now no matter whether should_save_hf_model, we save huggingface config and tokenizer in the huggingface path, and when saving huggingface model, we also place it in huggingface path and only save the model to avoid repeated works.

And we now can deprecate hf_model_path in the saving process as Megatron now can directly use the `${local_dir}/huggingface" to store the hf config and tokenizers.

Maybe we shall clarify that in the doc.

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The previously trained model config and tokenizer are stored under actor, not huggingface path. The latest code forces hf_model_config_path=/path/huggingface, and I cannot modify it through parameters hf_model_path.
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@qinwang2333 Yes, this PR breaks the backward compatibility. I think a workaround is to create a huggingface directory under this actor dir, and move all files except *.pt to the huggingface directory.

mkdir huggingface
mv $(ls | grep -v "\.pt$\|huggingface") huggingface/

But the current model merger will require a fsdp_config.json under the actor dir, which includes two fields FSDP_version and world_size, so you can create a simple file in this dir. For example:

{
    "FSDP_version": 1,
    "world_size": 2
}

Then, you can merge this checkpoint:

python -m verl.model_merger merge --backend fsdp --local_dir your/path/actor --target_dir your/path/actor/huggingface

Hi @ETOgaosion, do you think we should add backward compatibility into current merger to avoid users getting errors when merging old checkpoints? (for example, #2252) For example, if fsdp_config.json cannot be found, then use the previous method of getting word size based on file names.

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@0x404 Can you help still keep the model_merger in the scripts folder in your PR #2251 ? But with legacy_model_merger and explain this in the doc please? This may work as a backward compatibility?

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Can you help still keep the model_merger in the scripts folder in your PR #2251 ? But with legacy_model_merger and explain this in the doc please? This may work as a backward compatibility?

@qinwang2333 Is it acceptable to you?

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Sounds good! Thank you!

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is it possible to also ask the users to include the world size in the config.json? We can check the file name pattern for sure but it would also be easier if the user can provide an explicit value. What do you think?

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Yeah, nice idea. Since we directly save a TransformerConfig in megatron side, maybe we shall save a FSDP config as a runtime reference?

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Currently I only save the FSDP version and distributed info, maybe we leave other configurations in the next PR?
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Nice idea! I can draft a PR recently if this is not too urgent. With this config, we may also support resume from a checkpoint with different machine configuration. For example, a checkpoint is saved using one node and 8 GPUs, and now we are going to resume this checkpoint on 2 nodes and 16 total GPUs.

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Sounds good! Thank you! Could you cc me on that PR when you open it?

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raise ValueError(f"Unknown operation: {self.config.operation}")

def _test_state_dict(self, state_dict: dict[str, torch.Tensor]):

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nit: Let's call it validate_state_dict or something equivalent instead of test_state_dict to avoid the commonly used test_method_name for unit tests? But optional - not a blocker for release.

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Get! Have changed.

if not key.startswith("decoder"):
raise ValueError(f"Invalid key {key} in Megatron state_dict. Expected keys to start with 'decoder' in TransformerLayer.")

def _split_tensors(self, key: str, tensor: torch.Tensor, config: PretrainedConfig, is_value_model: bool = False) -> list[torch.Tensor]:

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This is a great start, what do you think about offering MergeSplitStrategy for Megatron layers - something that users can provide for additional layers as well? I'm not sure if the layers we have right now in the params mapping are an exhaustive list of the layers, but at the same time we can offer the users to provide their implementations for the ones we have not covered in this implementation.

Something where you'd have default_splitting_strategies: List[MergeSplitStrategy] = [# The current layer implementations here]

And then you let users provide additional implementations should their models contain some other type of layer? What do you think?

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I get what you mean. This is super extendable, I also think that it is useful as there can be all kinds of operators other than qkv or gate_up needed to be fixing from megatron to huggingface. Here we leave a TODO for designing such pattern for extendable usage.

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I see. Yeah, I think extending it would be quite important as many users would have the need for it and we should minimize the amount of custom code / changes required to make that happen! Thanks for leaving a TODO.

# Save Model
if self.should_save_model and mpu.get_data_parallel_rank() == 0:
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In the future, we can make the checkpoint manager file system agnostic by offering an interface and letting the users provide the output path.

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Actually I'm not quite clear about the agnostic and output path here. Do you mean that users shall offer paths to save all components?

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I was suggesting that we separate the storage logic from the checkpoint manager in to some PersistenceManager implementation, that way, if the user specifies a local path, we store it locally, an hdfs path, we use HDFSPersistenceManager, an s3 path, we use an S3PersistenceManager... etc. Does that help clarify things?

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Ah, I see. Nice idea. It's more extendable to hold a PersistenceManager backend.

ETOgaosion and others added 10 commits June 24, 2025 11:29
- Move scripts/model_merger to verl/model_merger
- Update all import references from scripts.model_merger to verl.model_merger
- Update workflow files, documentation, and test scripts
- Add comprehensive documentation to BaseModelMerger, FSDPModelMerger, MegatronModelMerger, and MegatronCheckpointManager classes
- Fix regex escape sequence warning in fsdp_model_merger.py

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…nc docs (#2251)

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