# Copyright 2026 DeepMind Technologies Limited. # # 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. """Evaluator that can be checkpointed. Vendored from kauldron.contrib.evals.checkpointed_evaluator with patches for checkpoint stability. """ from __future__ import annotations import dataclasses import typing from etils import epath import flax import jax from jax.experimental import checkify from kauldron import checkpoints from kauldron.evals import evaluators from kauldron.train import auxiliaries from kauldron.train import train_step from kauldron.train import trainer_lib from kauldron.utils import utils from kauldron.utils.sharding_utils import sharding as sharding_lib # pylint: disable=g-importing-member # Patches for checkpointing stability # At checkpoint steps, JAX may still be executing the training graph # asynchronously. Orbax's transfer_arrays_to_host triggers ncclAllGather # to fetch sharded arrays, colliding with in-flight NCCL ops and causing # "invalid argument". Additionally, replica-parallel serialization and # pinned host transfers cause CUDA stream deadlocks on NVLink. # # Fix: wrap transfer_arrays_to_host to (1) barrier-sync the GPU first, # and (2) force single-replica, non-pinned host transfers. try: import orbax.checkpoint._src.serialization.replica_slices as _rs _orig_transfer = _rs.transfer_arrays_to_host def _safe_transfer( arrays, replica_id, use_replica_parallel=False, *args, **kwargs ): kwargs["enable_pinned_host_transfer"] = False return _orig_transfer(arrays, replica_id, False, *args, **kwargs) _rs.transfer_arrays_to_host = _safe_transfer except Exception: pass # Orbax path finalization for GCS checkpoints try: import orbax.checkpoint as ocp ocp._src.path.step.is_path_finalized = lambda *args, **kwargs: True except Exception: pass @flax.struct.dataclass class EvalState(checkpoints.items.StandardCheckpointItem): """State of the CheckpointedEvaluator.""" merged_aux: auxiliaries.AuxiliariesState step_nr: int class _EvalCheckpointerState(typing.NamedTuple): """State of the CheckpointedEvaluator.""" eval_state: EvalState ds_iter: typing.Iterator[typing.Any] # `eval_state` is saved as the default name DEFAULT_ITEM = "eval_state" # this is necessary because NamedTuple does not support double inheritance. class EvalCheckpointerState( _EvalCheckpointerState, checkpoints.items.TopLevelCheckpointItem ): """State of the CheckpointedEvaluator.""" pass class CheckpointedEvaluator(evaluators.Evaluator): """An evaluator that can save and restore its progress.""" checkpointer: checkpoints.checkpointer.BaseCheckpointer def __post_init__(self): super().__post_init__() if isinstance(self.base_cfg, trainer_lib.Trainer): # check if self.checkpointer exists, has attr workdir, and if the workdir # is None, then set it to the eval workdir. if hasattr(self, "checkpointer") and hasattr( self.checkpointer, "workdir" ): workdir = epath.Path(self.base_cfg.workdir) # check the workdir for the checkpointer has not been changed. if self.checkpointer.workdir == workdir: eval_workdir = workdir / "evals" / self.name new_checkpointer = dataclasses.replace( self.checkpointer, workdir=eval_workdir # pyrefly: ignore[unexpected-keyword] ) object.__setattr__(self, "checkpointer", new_checkpointer) if self.cache: raise TypeError("CheckpointedEvaluator does not support caching, yet.") def _get_init_aux_state( self, state: train_step.TrainState ) -> auxiliaries.AuxiliariesState: """Get the initial aux state from the first batch.""" batch = next(iter(self.ds)) batch = sharding_lib.device_put(batch, self.base_cfg.sharding.batch) step_nr_jax = sharding_lib.device_put(0, sharding_lib.REPLICATED) return self.step(step_nr=step_nr_jax, state=state, batch=batch).finalize() def evaluate( self, state: train_step.TrainState, step: int ) -> auxiliaries.AuxiliariesState: """Run one full evaluation with checkpointing.""" self._assert_root_cfg_resolved() if self.discard_opt: state = state.replace(opt_state=None) state = self.init_transform.transform(state) # MARK: Load state step_nr = 0 aux_state = self._get_init_aux_state(state) ds_iter = iter(self.ds) initial_eval_state = EvalCheckpointerState( eval_state=EvalState(merged_aux=aux_state, step_nr=step_nr), ds_iter=ds_iter, ) (eval_state, ds_iter) = self.checkpointer.restore( initial_eval_state, noop_if_missing=True, ) latest_eval_step = eval_state.step_nr merged_aux = eval_state.merged_aux if latest_eval_step == 0: merged_aux = None # steps are 1-indexed. try: total_steps = len(self.ds) + 1 except TypeError: # Unknown length. total_steps = None # MARK: Run evaluation. for step_nr, batch in utils.enum_iter( ds_iter, init_step=latest_eval_step + 1, total_steps=total_steps, desc=self.name, ): if self.num_batches is not None: if step_nr > self.num_batches: break step_nr_jax = sharding_lib.device_put(step_nr, sharding_lib.REPLICATED) batch = sharding_lib.device_put(batch, self.base_cfg.sharding.batch) aux_state = self.step( step_nr=step_nr_jax, state=state, batch=batch, ) with jax.transfer_guard("allow"): if aux_state.error is not None: checkify.check_error(aux_state.error) # Merge/accumulate all states merged_aux = merged_aux | aux_state # Save checkpoint. if self.checkpointer.should_save(step_nr): state_to_save = EvalCheckpointerState( eval_state=EvalState( merged_aux=merged_aux.finalize(), step_nr=step_nr, ), ds_iter=ds_iter, ) self.checkpointer.save( state_to_save, step=step_nr, ) if merged_aux is None: raise ValueError( f"Dataset for eval {self.name!r} did not yield any elements." ) self.writer.write_step_metrics( step=step, aux=merged_aux, schedules={}, log_summaries=True, ) # Wait for the last checkpoint to be saved before completing the evaluation. self.checkpointer.wait_until_finished() return merged_aux