# Copyright 2020-2026 The HuggingFace Team. All rights reserved. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. # /// script # dependencies = [ # "trl", # "peft", # "trackio", # "kernels", # ] # /// """ Small-scale SDFT training with Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B. Expected dataset formats: 1. Native TRL self-distillation format: - `prompt` - `privileged_context` containing only the extra teacher-only information 2. Demonstration-based format: - `prompt` - `golden_response` Example: ```bash python examples/scripts/sdft.py \ --model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B \ --dataset_name your-org/your-dataset \ --output_dir outputs/sdft-qwen3.5-0.8b \ --per_device_train_batch_size 1 \ --gradient_accumulation_steps 16 \ --learning_rate 2e-5 \ --max_prompt_length 1024 \ --max_completion_length 512 \ --teacher_model_kind ema \ --teacher_sync_steps 1 \ --teacher_update_rate 0.01 \ --eval_strategy steps \ --eval_steps 50 \ --report_to wandb ``` """ import json import os import re from dataclasses import dataclass, field from string import Template from typing import Any import torch from datasets import DatasetDict, load_dataset, load_from_disk from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, GenerationConfig from trl import ( LogCompletionsCallback, ModelConfig, ScriptArguments, TrlParser, get_kbit_device_map, get_peft_config, get_quantization_config, ) from trl.data_utils import maybe_apply_chat_template from trl.experimental.sdft import SDFTConfig, SDFTTrainer from trl.models import unwrap_model_for_generation DEFAULT_DEMONSTRATION_TEMPLATE = Template("""Example response: $output_text""") @dataclass class SDFTScriptArguments(ScriptArguments): dataset_path: str | None = field( default=None, metadata={"help": "Optional local dataset path to load with `load_from_disk`. Overrides `dataset_name`."}, ) privileged_context_column: str = field( default="privileged_context", metadata={"help": "Column containing precomputed privileged context for SDFT."}, ) golden_response_column: str = field( default="golden_response", metadata={"help": "Column containing demonstration responses used to build privileged context."}, ) eval_num_prompts: int | None = field( default=8, metadata={"help": "Number of prompts to log during evaluation. Set to 0 to disable completion logging."}, ) demonstration_template: str = field( default=DEFAULT_DEMONSTRATION_TEMPLATE.template, metadata={"help": "Template used to build privileged context from demonstration content."}, ) tool_eval_num_examples: int | None = field( default=None, metadata={ "help": "Optional number of eval examples to score for tool-use metrics. Defaults to the full eval split." }, ) tool_eval_max_new_tokens: int = field( default=256, metadata={"help": "Maximum completion length for task evaluation generation."}, ) def _extract_prompt_text(prompt: Any) -> str: if isinstance(prompt, str): return prompt if isinstance(prompt, list) and prompt and isinstance(prompt[0], dict): for message in reversed(prompt): if message.get("role") == "user": content = message.get("content", "") if isinstance(content, list): return " ".join(part.get("text", "") for part in content if part.get("type") == "text") return content return str(prompt) def _stringify_golden_response(response: Any) -> str: if isinstance(response, str): return response if isinstance(response, list): return "\n".join(_stringify_golden_response(item) for item in response) return str(response) def _build_privileged_context( example: dict[str, Any], privileged_context_column: str, golden_response_column: str, template: Template ): if privileged_context_column in example and example[privileged_context_column] is not None: privileged_context = example[privileged_context_column] elif golden_response_column in example: privileged_context = template.safe_substitute( orig_content=_extract_prompt_text(example["prompt"]), output_text=_stringify_golden_response(example[golden_response_column]), ) elif "teacher_prompt" in example: raise ValueError( "Datasets for `trl.experimental.sdft` should provide `privileged_context` or `golden_response`, not " "`teacher_prompt`." ) else: raise ValueError("Dataset must contain either `privileged_context` or `golden_response` alongside `prompt`.") return { "prompt": example["prompt"], "privileged_context": privileged_context, } def _prepare_split(dataset, script_args: SDFTScriptArguments): template = Template(script_args.demonstration_template) return dataset.map( lambda example: _build_privileged_context( example, privileged_context_column=script_args.privileged_context_column, golden_response_column=script_args.golden_response_column, template=template, ), remove_columns=dataset.column_names, ) def _can_prepare_privileged_context(dataset) -> bool: columns = set(dataset.column_names) return "prompt" in columns and ("privileged_context" in columns or "golden_response" in columns) def _extract_action_and_input(text: str) -> tuple[str | None, str | None]: action_match = re.search(r"Action:\s*([^\n]+)", text) action_input_match = re.search(r"Action Input:\s*(.*)", text, flags=re.DOTALL) action = action_match.group(1).strip() if action_match else None action_input = action_input_match.group(1).strip() if action_input_match else None return action, action_input def _parse_json_object(text: str | None) -> tuple[bool, Any]: if text is None: return False, None text = text.strip() if text.startswith("```"): text = re.sub(r"^```(?:json)?\s*", "", text) text = re.sub(r"\s*```$", "", text) try: return True, json.loads(text) except Exception: return False, None def _normalize_gold_answer(example: dict[str, Any]) -> tuple[str | None, Any]: answers = example.get("golden_answer") or [] if not answers: return None, None answer = answers[0] action = answer.get("Action") valid_json, action_input = _parse_json_object(answer.get("Action_Input")) return action, action_input if valid_json else answer.get("Action_Input") def _apply_prompt_template(tokenizer, prompt: Any) -> str: return maybe_apply_chat_template({"prompt": prompt}, tokenizer)["prompt"] def _run_tooluse_eval( trainer: SDFTTrainer, eval_dataset, max_new_tokens: int, num_examples: int | None = None, metric_prefix: str = "tool_eval", ) -> dict[str, float]: if num_examples is not None: eval_dataset = eval_dataset.select(range(min(num_examples, len(eval_dataset)))) prompts = eval_dataset["prompt"] prompt_texts = [_apply_prompt_template(trainer.processing_class, prompt) for prompt in prompts] tokenized = trainer.processing_class( text=prompt_texts, return_tensors="pt", padding=True, padding_side="left", truncation=True, max_length=trainer.max_prompt_length, add_special_tokens=False, ) tokenized = {key: value.to(trainer.accelerator.device) for key, value in tokenized.items()} with ( unwrap_model_for_generation( trainer.model_wrapped, trainer.accelerator, gather_deepspeed3_params=trainer.args.ds3_gather_for_generation, ) as unwrapped_model, torch.no_grad(), ): generated = unwrapped_model.generate( **tokenized, max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens, do_sample=False, pad_token_id=trainer.processing_class.pad_token_id, eos_token_id=trainer.processing_class.eos_token_id, ) prompt_length = tokenized["input_ids"].shape[1] completions = trainer.processing_class.batch_decode(generated[:, prompt_length:], skip_special_tokens=True) action_correct = 0 json_valid = 0 full_match = 0 parsed_action_present = 0 records = [] for example, completion in zip(eval_dataset, completions, strict=True): pred_action, pred_action_input_text = _extract_action_and_input(completion) if pred_action is not None: parsed_action_present += 1 pred_json_valid, pred_action_input = _parse_json_object(pred_action_input_text) if pred_json_valid: json_valid += 1 gold_action, gold_action_input = _normalize_gold_answer(example) is_action_correct = pred_action == gold_action and gold_action is not None if is_action_correct: action_correct += 1 is_full_match = is_action_correct and pred_json_valid and pred_action_input == gold_action_input if is_full_match: full_match += 1 records.append( { "prompt": _extract_prompt_text(example["prompt"]), "completion": completion, "pred_action": pred_action, "pred_action_input_text": pred_action_input_text, "gold_action": gold_action, "gold_action_input": gold_action_input, "action_correct": is_action_correct, "json_valid": pred_json_valid, "full_match": is_full_match, } ) total = max(len(eval_dataset), 1) metrics = { f"{metric_prefix}/action_present_rate": parsed_action_present / total, f"{metric_prefix}/valid_json_rate": json_valid / total, f"{metric_prefix}/action_accuracy": action_correct / total, f"{metric_prefix}/tool_call_accuracy": full_match / total, } sample_path = os.path.join(trainer.args.output_dir, f"{metric_prefix}_samples.json") os.makedirs(trainer.args.output_dir, exist_ok=True) with open(sample_path, "w") as f: json.dump(records[: min(20, len(records))], f, indent=2) return metrics if __name__ == "__main__": parser = TrlParser((SDFTScriptArguments, SDFTConfig, ModelConfig)) script_args, training_args, model_args = parser.parse_args_and_config() if model_args.model_name_or_path is None: raise ValueError("`model_name_or_path` is required.") if model_args.dtype in ["auto", None]: if training_args.bf16: dtype = torch.bfloat16 elif training_args.fp16: dtype = torch.float16 else: dtype = "auto" else: dtype = getattr(torch, model_args.dtype) model_kwargs = dict( revision=model_args.model_revision, attn_implementation=model_args.attn_implementation, dtype=dtype, ) quantization_config = get_quantization_config(model_args) if quantization_config is not None: model_kwargs["device_map"] = get_kbit_device_map() model_kwargs["quantization_config"] = quantization_config training_args.model_init_kwargs = model_kwargs tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained( model_args.model_name_or_path, revision=model_args.model_revision, padding_side="left" ) if tokenizer.pad_token is None: tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token if script_args.dataset_path is not None: dataset = load_from_disk(script_args.dataset_path) else: dataset = load_dataset( script_args.dataset_name, name=script_args.dataset_config, streaming=script_args.dataset_streaming, ) if not isinstance(dataset, DatasetDict): raise ValueError("SDFT example expects a dataset with named splits.") train_dataset = _prepare_split(dataset[script_args.dataset_train_split], script_args) raw_eval_dataset = dataset[script_args.dataset_test_split] if script_args.dataset_test_split in dataset else None eval_dataset = None if ( training_args.eval_strategy != "no" and raw_eval_dataset is not None and _can_prepare_privileged_context(raw_eval_dataset) ): eval_dataset = _prepare_split(raw_eval_dataset, script_args) model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_args.model_name_or_path, **model_kwargs) model.config.use_cache = False if training_args.gradient_checkpointing else True trainer = SDFTTrainer( model=model, args=training_args, train_dataset=train_dataset, eval_dataset=eval_dataset, processing_class=tokenizer, peft_config=get_peft_config(model_args), ) if eval_dataset is not None and script_args.eval_num_prompts: generation_config = GenerationConfig( max_new_tokens=training_args.max_completion_length, do_sample=True, temperature=training_args.temperature, ) trainer.add_callback( LogCompletionsCallback(trainer, generation_config, num_prompts=script_args.eval_num_prompts) ) pretrain_metrics = None if raw_eval_dataset is not None and "golden_answer" in raw_eval_dataset.column_names: pretrain_metrics = _run_tooluse_eval( trainer, raw_eval_dataset, max_new_tokens=script_args.tool_eval_max_new_tokens, num_examples=script_args.tool_eval_num_examples, metric_prefix="tool_eval_before", ) trainer.log(pretrain_metrics) trainer.log_metrics("eval", pretrain_metrics) trainer.save_metrics("eval", pretrain_metrics) trainer.train() trainer.save_model(training_args.output_dir) if eval_dataset is not None: metrics = trainer.evaluate() trainer.log_metrics("eval", metrics) trainer.save_metrics("eval", metrics) if raw_eval_dataset is not None and "golden_answer" in raw_eval_dataset.column_names: post_metrics = _run_tooluse_eval( trainer, raw_eval_dataset, max_new_tokens=script_args.tool_eval_max_new_tokens, num_examples=script_args.tool_eval_num_examples, metric_prefix="tool_eval_after", ) if pretrain_metrics is not None: for key, value in pretrain_metrics.items(): after_key = key.replace("tool_eval_before/", "tool_eval_after/") if after_key in post_metrics: delta_name = after_key.replace("tool_eval_after/", "tool_eval_delta/") post_metrics[delta_name] = post_metrics[after_key] - value trainer.log(post_metrics) trainer.log_metrics("eval", post_metrics) trainer.save_metrics("eval", post_metrics) if training_args.push_to_hub: trainer.push_to_hub(dataset_name=script_args.dataset_name or script_args.dataset_path)