Track a monotonic policy version across optimizer steps, scheduler updates, and rollout results. Serialize synchronous generation with weight acknowledgements and invalidate reusable prefix KV entries so cached samples remain attributable to the behavior policy that generated them.
- avoid constructing model_fn more than once when reading config
- keep inference package exports focused on public entry points
- rename extra strategy arguments to strategy_kwargs
- Converts detached strategy metrics before returning loss output
- Removes redundant item conversion from the trainer loop
- Updates the documented contract and regression tests
- Propagates MoE load-balancing loss through model outputs
- Logs task, auxiliary, and weighted losses across strategies
- Computes only explicitly requested callback metrics
- Preserves tensor compute_loss API and adds regression tests
- Add broadcast_state_dict to sync state_dict from rank-0 to all ranks
- Fix create_ref_model returning None on non-rank-0 under FSDP
- Fix sync_old_model only updating old_model on rank-0 under FSDP
- Split skip_no_cuda/skip_no_kernel markers and hoist to top-level conftest
- Add distributed tests for broadcast_state_dict and create_ref_model
- Extract _resolve_base_type and _validate_component as module-level helpers
- Replace ForwardRef._evaluate private API with eval in module namespace
- Remove broad except Exception in __init_subclass__, _component_base always set
- Replace direct _entries mutation in strategy.py with register() call form
- Remove dead TOKENIZER_CLASSES registry from AutoTokenizer
- Extract ModelFactory(BaseFactory[nn.Module]) as pure factory
- AutoModel now inherits only nn.Module, no factory state
- Move @AutoModel.register to @ModelFactory.register in transformer.py and encoder.py
- Move create_ref_model from astrai/parallel/utils.py into executor.py
- Remove unused ColumnParallelLinear/RowParallelLinear (module.py)
- Update imports in strategy.py and train_context.py
- Drop unused astrai.parallel.utils and astrai.parallel.module
- unshard() and full_tensor() are collective ops, all ranks must participate
- Old code returned None on non-rank-0 before calling unshard, causing deadlock
- Fix: all ranks unshard/full_tensor, only rank-0 keeps the result
- Move create_ref_model to parallel/utils.py, accept executor+model directly
- Guard create_ref_model and sync_old_model against None on non-rank-0
- Fix pre-existing ruff lint warnings (F401, F541, F841, E741)
- Exclude .md/.json/.yml from ruff format check
- Unblock SIGTERM/SIGINT via pthread_sigmask in early signal handler
- Do not restore SIG_DFL on unregister to prevent pending signal kills
- add loss_mask parameter to get_logprobs to decouple attention from loss masking
- DPO/GRPO strategies compose key-padding + causal mask before model forward
- prevents prompt tokens from being masked out of attention and missing causal masking
- RolloutGenerator now delegates prefill/decode to InferenceScheduler.run_batch (sync API, no background thread), sharing one KV-cache code path with the inference server and eliminating O(n^2) recompute in rollout
- Add sample(return_logprobs=) and Executor.execute_decode(return_logprobs=) to expose behaviour-policy log-probs through the engine; Task gains output_logprobs
- RolloutResult now subclasses RawRollout (adds rewards only), removing duplicated fields
- RolloutRunner.__call__ returns (result, is_fresh) instead of relying on object identity, removing the fragile refresh-detection contract
- Remove O(n^2) generate_responses helper and dead code (_tokenize_prompts, unused old_model arg)
- train_context.py wires InferenceScheduler directly instead of hand-rolling SamplingPipeline
- Tests: +11 covering return_logprobs, run_batch, and KV-cache-backed rollout semantics; 404 pass
- Drop BaseStrategy.model_fn (stored but never read)
- Drop model_fn= passed to StrategyFactory.create in train_context
- Simplify FSDPExecutor.clip_grad_norm None branch to delegate to super()
- Remove DDPExecutor._gather_state_dict override (identical to base)
- DPO requires sequence-level sum of token logprobs, not per-token mean
- mean reduction made beta*ratio_diff ~0.03 (near-zero gradient)
- loss stalled at 0.6931 because logsigmoid(0.03) has vanishing grad
- sum gives beta*ratio_diff ~10 with meaningful gradients
- Mask prompt tokens to 0 so their logprobs excluded from ratio/KL
- Switch to token-level ratio + PPO clipping via reduction='none'
- Slice response token logprobs from full sequence output
- Replace k3 KL estimator with non-negative k1 estimator
- Fix epsilon from finifo.eps (~1e-38) to 1e-8
- Remove unused 'reduction' param from GRPOStrategy.__init__
- Clarify offline batch semantics in docstring
- Add 11 unit tests for masking, advantage, KL, sync, clipping
- Sync training.md and architecture.md docs