//! GRPO training on the verifiable arithmetic task (M4 / Stage P3) — online, //! critic-free RL. The centerpiece: generation INSIDE the training loop. //! //! Each step: sample B prompts (fresh problems), roll out G completions per prompt //! (temperature sampling via the naive sampler — batched/cached rollout is the M2b/ //! M4-perf follow-up), score each with the rule-based checker (reward ∈ {0,1}), //! compute the **group-relative advantage** `A_i = (r_i − mean) / (std + ε)` (no //! critic), then K inner clipped-PG epochs minimising [`clipped_pg_loss`] with a KL //! leash to the frozen reference (πref = the SFT checkpoint). Reward = pure 0/1 //! correctness; the KL term (β) is what keeps format/coherence (the M3 collapse //! lesson — here it is an explicit leash, not just a hope). //! //! Health signal (the falsifiable "it learns"): **mean rollout reward must rise** //! (the RL analogue of T5's overfit-27/27). Held-out correctness is measured by //! eval_arith on the saved checkpoint. //! //! train_grpo --init-ckpt \ //! --steps 200 --group 6 --prompts 8 --temp 1.0 --beta 0.04 --eps 0.2 \ //! --lr 1e-6 --max-add 20 --max-mul 9 --ckpt #[cfg(no_cuda)] fn main() { eprintln!("train_grpo: built without CUDA (no_cuda); run on a GPU host."); } #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] use xtrain_autodiff::ops; #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] use xtrain_cuda::device; #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] use xtrain_model::{Config, TinyTransformer, generate_cached, ids_tensor}; #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] use xtrain_tensor::{DType, Device}; #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] use xtrain_train::task::{check_answer, gen_problem, GenConfig, Op}; #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] fn fill(n: usize, seed: u64, scale: f32) -> Vec { let mut state = seed .wrapping_mul(2862933555777941757) .wrapping_add(3037000493); (0..n) .map(|_| { state = state .wrapping_mul(6364136223846793005) .wrapping_add(1442695040888963407); (((state >> 33) as f32 / (1u64 << 31) as f32) - 0.5) * 2.0 * scale }) .collect() } #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] fn flag(args: &[String], name: &str, default: T) -> T { args.iter() .position(|a| a == name) .and_then(|i| args.get(i + 1)) .and_then(|s| s.parse().ok()) .unwrap_or(default) } #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] fn flag_value(args: &[String], name: &str) -> Option { args.iter() .position(|a| a == name) .and_then(|i| args.get(i + 1)) .cloned() } #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] fn first_answer_segment(c: &str) -> &str { let s = c.split("<|endoftext|>").next().unwrap_or(c); s.split('\n').next().unwrap_or(s) } /// Build a model from the SFT checkpoint (bf16 compute to fit two 1B models). The /// policy enables activation recompute (T13) so its backward fits alongside the /// frozen reference + the Adam state; the reference only forwards (no backward). #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] fn load_model(cfg: Config, device: Device, ckpt: &str, recompute: bool) -> TinyTransformer { let mut seed = 1u64; let m = TinyTransformer::new(cfg, device, |shape| { seed = seed.wrapping_add(1); let n: usize = shape.iter().product(); if shape.len() == 1 { fill(n, seed, 0.02).iter().map(|v| v + 1.0).collect() } else { fill(n, seed, 0.04) } }) .with_compute_dtype(DType::BF16) .with_recompute(recompute) .with_flash(true); xtrain_train::checkpoint::load_into(std::path::Path::new(ckpt), &m.params()).expect("load ckpt"); m.eval(); m } /// Frame (question, completion) like the SFT loader and return the next-token /// (input, target) pair (prompt masked to -100). Same as train_dpo. #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] fn frame(tok: &xserv_tokenizer::Tokenizer, question: &str, completion: &str) -> (Vec, Vec) { let p_ids: Vec = tok .encode(&format!("User: {question}\nAssistant:")) .into_iter() .map(|t| t as i32) .collect(); let a_ids: Vec = tok .encode(&format!(" {completion}\n<|endoftext|>")) .into_iter() .map(|t| t as i32) .collect(); let mut tokens = p_ids.clone(); tokens.extend_from_slice(&a_ids); let mut labels = vec![-100i32; p_ids.len()]; labels.extend_from_slice(&a_ids); let l = tokens.len(); (tokens[..l - 1].to_vec(), labels[1..l].to_vec()) } /// Per-position logprob `logπ(target_t)` of a framed (input, target) pair (= −per_row /// of cross_entropy; masked positions are 0 and unused). No grad kept. #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] fn per_token_logp(model: &TinyTransformer, device: Device, input: &[i32], target: &[i32]) -> Vec { let logits = model.forward(&ids_tensor(input, device)).value(); let (_, per_row) = logits.cross_entropy(&ids_tensor(target, device)); per_row .to_device(Device::Cpu) .as_slice::() .iter() .map(|p| -p) .collect() } #[cfg(not(no_cuda))] fn main() { use xserv_tokenizer::Tokenizer; use xtrain_optim::GpuAdamW; let args: Vec = std::env::args().collect(); let positionals: Vec<&String> = args[1..].iter().filter(|a| !a.starts_with("--")).collect(); let tok_path = positionals.first().expect("usage: train_grpo [flags]"); let n_heads = flag(&args, "--heads", 52usize); let head_dim = flag(&args, "--head-dim", 32usize); let n_layers = flag(&args, "--layers", 22usize); let ffn = flag(&args, "--ffn", 6656usize); let kv_heads = flag(&args, "--kv-heads", n_heads); let steps: usize = flag(&args, "--steps", 200); let group: usize = flag(&args, "--group", 6); let n_prompts: usize = flag(&args, "--prompts", 8); let inner: usize = flag(&args, "--inner", 1); let temp: f32 = flag(&args, "--temp", 1.0); let beta: f32 = flag(&args, "--beta", 0.04); let eps: f32 = flag(&args, "--eps", 0.2); let lr: f32 = flag(&args, "--lr", 1e-6); let clip: f32 = flag(&args, "--clip", 1.0); let max_new: usize = flag(&args, "--max-tokens", 24); let max_add: i64 = flag(&args, "--max-add", 20); let max_mul: i64 = flag(&args, "--max-mul", 9); let seed: u64 = flag(&args, "--seed", 20260630); let log_every: usize = flag(&args, "--log-every", 20); let init_ckpt = flag_value(&args, "--init-ckpt").expect("--init-ckpt is required"); let out_ckpt = flag_value(&args, "--ckpt").expect("--ckpt is required"); assert!(device::device_count().unwrap() > 0, "no CUDA device"); device::set_device(0).unwrap(); let device = Device::Cuda(0); let tok = Tokenizer::from_file(std::path::Path::new(tok_path.as_str())); let cfg = Config::from_arch(tok.vocab_size(), n_heads, head_dim, n_layers, ffn).with_kv_heads(kv_heads); let policy = load_model(cfg, device, &init_ckpt, false); // flash keeps attn memory bounded // Frozen πref for the KL leash — only resident when β>0 (a second 1B model is the // memory long-pole; β=0 is pure PG and skips it, the gated degenerate). let reference = if beta > 0.0 { Some(load_model(cfg, device, &init_ckpt, false)) } else { None }; let gcfg = GenConfig { max_add, max_mul, ops: vec![Op::Add, Op::Sub, Op::Mul], }; let params = policy.params(); let mut opt = GpuAdamW::new(0.0); let mut rng = seed.max(1); let start = std::time::Instant::now(); let (mut win_reward, mut win_solved, mut win_n) = (0f32, 0usize, 0usize); for step in 0..steps { // ---- Rollout: B prompts × G completions, scored, group-advantage ---- struct Sample { input: Vec, target: Vec, adv: f32, logp_old: Vec, logp_ref: Vec, } let mut batch: Vec = Vec::new(); for _ in 0..n_prompts { let p = gen_problem(&mut rng, &gcfg); let prompt_ids: Vec = tok .encode(&format!("User: {}\nAssistant:", p.question())) .into_iter() .map(|t| t as i32) .collect(); let mut comps: Vec<(String, f32)> = Vec::with_capacity(group); for _ in 0..group { // KV-cache temperature rollout (M2 engine): single-row logits per // step → far lighter on the allocator than the naive sampler, which // fragments it over a long rollout (the M4 rollout long-pole). let out = generate_cached(&policy, device, &prompt_ids, max_new, temp, &mut rng); let cont = tok.decode(&out[prompt_ids.len()..].iter().map(|&t| t as u32).collect::>()); let seg = first_answer_segment(&cont).trim().to_string(); let r = if check_answer(&seg, p.answer()) { 1.0 } else { 0.0 }; comps.push((seg, r)); } let mean = comps.iter().map(|c| c.1).sum::() / group as f32; let var = comps.iter().map(|c| (c.1 - mean).powi(2)).sum::() / group as f32; let std = var.sqrt(); win_reward += mean * group as f32; win_solved += comps.iter().filter(|c| c.1 > 0.5).count(); win_n += group; // A whole group with no reward variance gives zero advantage → skip // (no learning signal, and avoids dividing by ~0). if std < 1e-6 { continue; } for (seg, r) in &comps { let adv = (r - mean) / (std + 1e-4); let (input, target) = frame(&tok, &p.question(), seg); let logp_old = per_token_logp(&policy, device, &input, &target); // β=0 ⇒ KL term drops ⇒ logp_ref unused; pass zeros (no reference model). let logp_ref = match &reference { Some(r) => per_token_logp(r, device, &input, &target), None => vec![0.0; logp_old.len()], }; batch.push(Sample { input, target, adv, logp_old, logp_ref }); } } // ---- K inner clipped-PG epochs over the captured batch ---- if !batch.is_empty() { let scale = 1.0 / batch.len() as f32; for _ in 0..inner { for s in &batch { let logits = policy.forward(&ids_tensor(&s.input, device)); let loss = ops::clipped_pg_loss( &logits, &ids_tensor(&s.target, device), &s.logp_old, &s.logp_ref, s.adv, eps, beta, ); ops::scale(&loss, scale).backward(); } let _ = xtrain_train::clip::clip_grad_norm_gpu(¶ms, clip, 1.0); opt.step(lr, ¶ms); for p in ¶ms { p.zero_grad(); } } } if (step + 1) % log_every == 0 || step == steps - 1 { println!( "step {:5}/{steps}: mean-reward {:.3} | solved {}/{} | {:.0}s", step + 1, win_reward / win_n.max(1) as f32, win_solved, win_n, start.elapsed().as_secs_f32(), ); win_reward = 0.0; win_solved = 0; win_n = 0; // Periodic save so a later OOM (naive rollout fragments the allocator — // the long-pole the design doc flagged) still leaves an evaluatable ckpt. xtrain_train::checkpoint::save(std::path::Path::new(&out_ckpt), ¶ms).expect("save"); } } xtrain_train::checkpoint::save(std::path::Path::new(&out_ckpt), ¶ms).expect("save ckpt"); println!("GRPO done: {steps} steps, G={group}, B={n_prompts}, beta {beta}, lr {lr:.1e} → {out_ckpt}"); }