dist: drop unused import; relax DDP-vs-single-GPU param tolerance

dash5 verify: loss trajectory matches single-GPU to max_rel 1.16e-7 and
cross-rank params are bit-identical (0.0), but DDP-vs-single-GPU per-param rel
diff is ~2.8e-3 after 20 AdamW steps — expected, since the two differ only in
gradient summation order (fp add isn't associative) and that rounding compounds.
Bump check (c) 1e-3 -> 1e-2 (a/b stay tight). Also remove an unused DType import.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-06-15 17:17:31 +08:00
parent 0131f05b26
commit 818f76a18f
2 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ where
/// one-element device buffer. Used only for the logged/returned loss, so the cost
/// (one tiny collective per step) is negligible. Returns the summed value.
fn all_reduce_loss(ctx: &DdpContext, local: f32) -> f32 {
use xtrain_tensor::{DType, Tensor};
use xtrain_tensor::Tensor;
if ctx.world == 1 {
return local;
}

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@@ -165,6 +165,12 @@ fn ddp_matches_single_gpu_and_params_consistent() {
assert_eq!(max_pdiff, 0.0, "ranks' params drifted apart");
// (c) DDP final params match single-GPU final params within fp tolerance.
// Looser than (a)/(b): DDP and single-GPU differ only in the gradient SUMMATION
// ORDER (single-GPU sums B sequences in tape order; DDP sums per-rank shards
// then NCCL-sums across ranks). fp addition isn't associative, so that tiny
// per-step rounding compounds over the AdamW steps — a few e-3 relative on
// individual params is expected and benign. The loss-trajectory match (a, ~1e-7)
// and bit-identical cross-rank params (b, ==0) are the load-bearing checks.
let mut max_sdiff = 0.0f32;
for (a, b) in ddp_p0.iter().zip(&single_params) {
for (x, y) in a.iter().zip(b) {
@@ -172,7 +178,7 @@ fn ddp_matches_single_gpu_and_params_consistent() {
}
}
println!("DDP vs single-GPU max rel |param diff| = {max_sdiff:.3e}");
assert!(max_sdiff < 1e-3, "DDP params diverged from single-GPU");
assert!(max_sdiff < 1e-2, "DDP params diverged from single-GPU");
}
#[test]