# Pretraining stage (section-14). Dataclass-backed: every key here must exist # in align/config.py (struct mode raises on unknown keys), so this stage rides # the EXISTING config surface -- reuses are documented inline as TODOs. # # CLI contract: # torchrun --nproc_per_node=4 scripts/pretrain.py configs/pretrain.toml --optimizer.lr=3e-5 # # HONEST TOY SCALE: continued pretraining of the base model on a ~50M-token # streamed slice of open-web-math (see align/data/pretrain_corpus.py -- the cap # is enforced there, never assumed here). This demonstrates the pretraining # pillar on 4x A10G; it is not an OLMo-scale budget and does not pretend to be. run_name = "pretrain-stage-14" [model] precision = "bf16" # null = auto-select, which resolves to sdpa on this box. # attn_implementation = null (TOML has no null: omitted, the dataclass default (None) applies) [optimizer] # adamw8bit, same reasoning as the SFT stage: offload_adamw projects ~105GB # host RSS and the shared box holds ~85GB MemAvailable -- the RSS preflight # refuses it, correctly. 8-bit moments live on-GPU. name = "adamw8bit" # Continued-pretraining LR: above the SFT 1e-5 (raw text, one pass, cosine # to near zero) but far below a from-scratch 3e-4 -- this starts from # converged v0.3 weights and a from-scratch LR would destroy them. lr = 3e-05 betas = [0.9, 0.95] weight_decay = 0.0 # Global-norm clip, ON (G0; OLMoE / OLMo 2 use 1.0). The recorded grad norm # is the PRE-clip value, which is what the grad_norm tripwire below needs. max_grad_norm = 1.0 grad_accum = 2 [train] full_ft = true world_size = 4 micro_batch_size = 3 # Matches the corpus builder's packed block length; every row is EXACTLY # this long (the tail is dropped, not padded), so batches carry no padding. seq_len = 1024 epochs = 1 # 2 x 3 x 4 = 24: assert_batch_arithmetic_consistent refuses a mismatch. global_batch_rows = 24 warmup_frac = 0.03 # Cadence in MICRO-steps; the host can seize at any moment (2026-08-12). save_every_micro_steps = 400 keep_checkpoints = 2 log_every_micro_steps = 10 pinned_staging_shards_per_rank = 2 # Each rank writes its own optimizer_rank{r}.pt instead of gathering every # rank's state to rank 0 (the 2026-08-12 OOM shape; the gather peak is what # preflight_rss refuses at ~85GB MemAvailable). Validated on 2 CPU/gloo ranks # over real FSDP2 shards, bit-exact resume, for adamw8bit and offload_adamw # (tests/test_trainer_dist.py). Resume must use the SAME world_size. per_rank_optimizer_state = true probe_steps = 20 seed = 0 [tripwires] # Armed (G0). grad_norm is the only tripwire an pretraining stage can feed (no # preference margin / pairs for logps_chosen / length_drift). It HALTS the run # on a gradient explosion or a non-finite norm instead of training past it. armed = ["grad_norm"] [data] # Pretrain corpus artifacts live beside (not inside) the SFT build so # neither manifest can shadow the other. shard_dir = "/apps/development/rlhf/nano-mistral-o1/data/pretrain/shards" manifest_path = "/apps/development/rlhf/nano-mistral-o1/data/pretrain/manifest.json" # REUSE, not a typo: DataConfig has no pretrain_split field and config.py # cannot be edited under the live run. sft_split is "the split this stage # trains on" everywhere it is read (stage_smoke.open_split). # TODO(post-run): add DataConfig.pretrain_split and rename. sft_split = "pretrain" num_workers = 2 # host cap; 16 across ranks SIGBUS'd a live run pad_token_id = 2 [gates] # NO golden anchor for a base-style checkpoint: the golden regression # certifies the SFT eval stack against known MATH-500/GSM8K scores, which do # not exist for raw-text continued pretraining. require_golden_receipt # false makes run_entry_gates log a loud warning instead of refusing. require_golden_receipt = false # Pretrain manifests version independently of the SFT corpus (the # doubled-answer-marker history is meaningless for raw web text); # pretrain_corpus.PRETRAIN_BUILD_VERSION starts at 1. min_build_version = 1 rss_headroom_gb = 45.0 # ~50M tokens / (24 rows x 1024 tokens) ~ 2K optimizer steps; budget ~6 # GPU-hours wall-clock with the same 1.25x probe-projection slack as SFT. epoch_budget_s = 21600.0 schedule_budget_factor = 1.25