# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only # Copyright 2026-present the Unsloth AI Inc. team. All rights reserved. """ End-to-end MLX smoke test on real Apple Silicon -- multi-process driver. Two subcommands let the workflow drive cold-start reloads in fresh processes (the way real users hit the load path): python run_real_mlx_smoke.py train --workdir DIR python run_real_mlx_smoke.py reload --format {lora|merged|gguf} --dir D `train` loads gemma-3-270m-it, applies LoRA, probes pre/post loss+grad, overfits one repeated row, generates, saves in lora/merged_16bit/gguf (gguf best-effort), and writes train_metrics.json. `reload` reopens each saved format in a fresh process and writes _reload_metrics.json. GGUF export and LoRA reload fixes land in unslothai/unsloth-zoo#627. Determinism: seeds random/numpy/mlx.core.random and forwards SEED to from_pretrained / get_peft_model / MLXTrainingConfig. Metal has minor reduction-order nondeterminism, so loss assertions are bounds, not exact. Apple-Silicon only; invoked from .github/workflows/mlx-ci.yml. """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import json import math import os import random as _random import resource import subprocess import sys import time from pathlib import Path import numpy as np SEED = 3407 TRAIN_TEXT = "<> My name is Unsloth!" PROMPT = "<> My name is " EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT = "Unsloth" MODEL_NAME = "unsloth/gemma-3-270m-it" # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Determinism + telemetry helpers # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def _seed_everything() -> None: _random.seed(SEED) np.random.seed(SEED) import mlx.core as mx mx.random.seed(SEED) def _peak_gpu_gb() -> float: import mlx.core as mx if not mx.metal.is_available(): return 0.0 # Newer MLX moved get_peak_memory to top-level; fall back to mx.metal for old versions. getter = getattr(mx, "get_peak_memory", None) or getattr(mx.metal, "get_peak_memory", None) if getter is None: return 0.0 try: return float(getter()) / (1024**3) except Exception: return 0.0 def _peak_rss_gb() -> float: """Peak RSS for this process (macOS getrusage = bytes, Linux = KB).""" rss = resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss if sys.platform == "darwin": return float(rss) / (1024**3) return float(rss) / (1024**2) class Phase: """Wall-clock + memory tracker for a named phase; records into a metrics dict.""" def __init__(self, name: str, metrics: dict): self.name = name self.metrics = metrics def __enter__(self): self._t0 = time.perf_counter() print(f"\n=== phase:{self.name} START ===", flush = True) return self def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc, tb): elapsed = time.perf_counter() - self._t0 peak_gpu = _peak_gpu_gb() peak_rss = _peak_rss_gb() self.metrics.setdefault("phases", {})[self.name] = { "elapsed_seconds": round(elapsed, 3), "peak_gpu_gb": round(peak_gpu, 3), "peak_rss_gb": round(peak_rss, 3), "ok": exc_type is None, } status = "OK" if exc_type is None else f"FAIL ({exc_type.__name__})" print( f"=== phase:{self.name} {status} elapsed={elapsed:.2f}s " f"peak_gpu={peak_gpu:.2f}GB peak_rss={peak_rss:.2f}GB ===", flush = True, ) return False # don't swallow exceptions def _compute_loss_and_grad_norm(model, tokenizer, text: str) -> tuple[float, float]: """One fwd+bwd of next-token CE on `text`. Returns (loss, ||grad||_2).""" import mlx.core as mx import mlx.nn as nn from mlx.utils import tree_flatten ids = list(tokenizer.encode(text)) eos_id = getattr(tokenizer, "eos_token_id", None) if eos_id is not None: ids.append(int(eos_id)) if len(ids) < 2: raise RuntimeError(f"text too short to compute loss: {len(ids)} tokens") inputs = mx.array([ids[:-1]], dtype = mx.int32) targets = mx.array([ids[1:]], dtype = mx.int32) def loss_fn(m): logits = m(inputs) return nn.losses.cross_entropy(logits, targets, reduction = "mean") loss_and_grad = nn.value_and_grad(model, loss_fn) loss_val, grad = loss_and_grad(model) norm_sq = mx.array(0.0, dtype = mx.float32) for _name, value in tree_flatten(grad): v = value.astype(mx.float32) norm_sq = norm_sq + mx.sum(v * v) return float(loss_val.item()), float(mx.sqrt(norm_sq).item()) def _teacher_forced_completion_loss(model, tokenizer, prompt: str, completion: str) -> float: """Mean next-token CE on `completion` given `prompt`, teacher-forced. Decouples the memorisation check from greedy-decode geometry: a sweep found greedy `completion in output` lands at 46-77% across MLX configs while post_train_loss is < 0.1 whenever the run reaches the basin. This asserts *what* the model memorised, not just that loss is low. Returns mean cross-entropy over the completion's tokens. """ import mlx.core as mx import mlx.nn as nn prompt_ids = list(tokenizer.encode(prompt)) full_ids = list(tokenizer.encode(prompt + completion)) if len(full_ids) <= len(prompt_ids): raise RuntimeError( f"completion {completion!r} tokenises to zero new tokens after " f"{prompt!r}; check tokenizer / chat template." ) inputs = mx.array([full_ids[:-1]], dtype = mx.int32) targets = mx.array([full_ids[1:]], dtype = mx.int32) logits = model(inputs) # logits at position i predict targets[i]; completion tokens occupy # target positions [len(prompt_ids)-1 ... len(full_ids)-2]. start = len(prompt_ids) - 1 completion_logits = logits[:, start:, :] completion_targets = targets[:, start:] loss = nn.losses.cross_entropy(completion_logits, completion_targets, reduction = "mean") return float(loss.item()) def _write_metrics(path: Path, metrics: dict) -> None: path.write_text(json.dumps(metrics, indent = 2, default = str)) print(f"\n[metrics] wrote {path}", flush = True) print(json.dumps(metrics, indent = 2, default = str), flush = True) # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # `train` subcommand # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def cmd_train(args) -> int: _seed_everything() metrics: dict = { "subcommand": "train", "seed": SEED, "model": MODEL_NAME, "train_text": TRAIN_TEXT, "prompt": PROMPT, "phases": {}, } workdir = Path(args.workdir).resolve() workdir.mkdir(parents = True, exist_ok = True) import mlx.core as mx from unsloth_zoo.mlx.loader import FastMLXModel from unsloth_zoo.mlx.trainer import MLXTrainer, MLXTrainingConfig hf_token = os.environ.get("HF_TOKEN") or None with Phase("load_base", metrics): model, tokenizer = FastMLXModel.from_pretrained( MODEL_NAME, load_in_4bit = False, dtype = "float16", text_only = True, max_seq_length = 128, random_state = SEED, token = hf_token, trust_remote_code = False, ) metrics["base_src_path"] = str(getattr(model, "_src_path", "") or "") mx.random.seed(SEED) with Phase("apply_lora", metrics): # Standard unsloth LoRA target set (q/k/v/o + gate/up/down). q/k/v/o # alone collapsed in 7 steps (loss dropped but "Unsloth" wasn't # recovered); MLP projections add the capacity to memorize the row. model = FastMLXModel.get_peft_model( model, r = 8, lora_alpha = 16, lora_dropout = 0.0, target_modules = [ "q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj", "o_proj", "gate_proj", "up_proj", "down_proj", ], use_gradient_checkpointing = False, random_state = SEED, finetune_language_layers = True, finetune_attention_modules = True, finetune_mlp_modules = True, ) with Phase("pre_train_grad_probe", metrics): pre_loss, pre_norm = _compute_loss_and_grad_norm(model, tokenizer, TRAIN_TEXT) metrics["pre_train_loss"] = round(pre_loss, 4) metrics["pre_train_grad_norm"] = round(pre_norm, 4) assert math.isfinite(pre_loss) and math.isfinite(pre_norm) and pre_norm > 0 losses_per_step: list[float] = [] with Phase("train", metrics): config = MLXTrainingConfig( per_device_train_batch_size = 2, gradient_accumulation_steps = 3, # Sweep (PR #5498) found 7 steps is below the convergence horizon # at any clip; at 30 steps every seed hits post_train_loss=0, so # 30 is the seed-robust gate. max_steps = 30, learning_rate = 1e-3, warmup_steps = 0, lr_scheduler_type = "constant", optim = "adamw", weight_decay = 0.0, # Elementwise value clip is cheaper than norm clip on MLX (no # cross-tree reduction) and has a higher 13-seed pass rate at this # fixture (value=1.0 62%, norm=1.0 46%). Pin both: value wins when # both > 0, so disable norm. max_grad_norm = 0.0, max_grad_value = 1.0, logging_steps = 1, max_seq_length = 64, seed = SEED, use_cce = False, compile = False, gradient_checkpointing = False, output_dir = str(workdir / "trainer_outputs"), save_steps = 0, eval_steps = 0, dataset_text_field = "text", ) trainer = MLXTrainer( model = model, tokenizer = tokenizer, train_dataset = [{"text": TRAIN_TEXT}] * 64, args = config, ) def _on_step( step, total, loss, lr, tok_s, peak_gb, elapsed, num_tokens, grad_norm = None, ): losses_per_step.append(round(float(loss), 4)) grad_text = f" grad={grad_norm:.4f}" if grad_norm is not None else "" print( f" step {step}/{total} loss={loss:.4f} lr={lr:.2e} " f"tok/s={tok_s:.0f} peak={peak_gb:.2f}GB{grad_text}", flush = True, ) trainer.add_step_callback(_on_step) train_result = trainer.train() metrics["losses_per_step"] = losses_per_step metrics["train_summary"] = { k: train_result[k] for k in ( "train_loss", "train_runtime", "train_steps", "trained_tokens", "train_samples_per_second", "compile_enabled", "patch_mode", ) if k in train_result } # logging_steps=1 + max_steps=N -> N callbacks; track config so the # gate auto-follows if max_steps is bumped again. assert ( len(losses_per_step) == config.max_steps ), f"expected {config.max_steps} logged steps, got {losses_per_step}" for i, l in enumerate(losses_per_step): # Allow exact 0.0: fp16 per-step loss underflows to 0.0 after # the LoRA reaches loss=0 around step ~10 with this fixture + # max_steps=30. That's the memorization success signal, not a # bug. Lower bound is "finite and >= 0" not "strictly > 0". assert math.isfinite(l) and 0 <= l < 50, f"step {i+1} loss bad: {l}" assert ( losses_per_step[-1] < losses_per_step[0] * 1.1 ), f"loss diverged: {losses_per_step[0]} -> {losses_per_step[-1]}" with Phase("post_train_grad_probe", metrics): post_loss, post_norm = _compute_loss_and_grad_norm(model, tokenizer, TRAIN_TEXT) metrics["post_train_loss"] = round(post_loss, 4) metrics["post_train_grad_norm"] = round(post_norm, 4) assert post_loss < pre_loss, f"post {post_loss} >= pre {pre_loss}" # Memorisation gate: teacher-forced loss on the training row must # be very low after 30 steps of overfit-on-one-example. This is # the robust signal that the model learned the trained # continuation, regardless of MLX's autoregressive-generation # numerics. Empirical 47-round, 13-seed sweep: every (clip, bc, # seed) configuration that converges hits post_train_loss <= 0.05. # Tighten gate to 0.1. assert post_loss < 0.1, ( f"post_train_loss={post_loss:.4f} >= 0.1 -- training did not " "memorise the single training row in 30 steps. Trainer " "regression suspected." ) from mlx_lm import generate with Phase("inference_in_memory", metrics): model.eval() in_mem_out = generate( model, tokenizer, prompt = PROMPT, max_tokens = 48, verbose = False, ) metrics["in_memory_generation"] = in_mem_out # Soft greedy-decode visibility (metric only). Empirically this lands in # 46-77% of seeds depending on clip config (47-round, 13-seed sweep) -- # fp16 + MLX attention/generate path puts noticeable noise on the first # token even after near-zero teacher-forced loss. Surface the mismatch # for regression tracking, but the next assertion is the load-bearing # one. metrics["in_memory_generation_has_expected"] = EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT in in_mem_out if EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT not in in_mem_out: print( f" [INFO] greedy decode did not contain {EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT!r} " f"(post_train_loss={post_loss:.4f}, completion={in_mem_out!r}). " "Hard gate is the teacher-forced completion-loss check below.", flush = True, ) # Hard check: teacher-forced loss on the completion the model was trained # to emit. Bypasses greedy-decode fp16 fragility -- if the LoRA actually # memorised the row, the probability mass on `EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT` after # `PROMPT` is essentially 1.0 (and the loss essentially 0). 13/13 of the # MLX configs we measured reached post_train_loss < 1e-3, so this gate # is deterministic on every (seed, clip, bc) combination tested. completion_loss = _teacher_forced_completion_loss( model, tokenizer, PROMPT, EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT + "!" ) metrics["in_memory_completion_teacher_forced_loss"] = round(completion_loss, 6) assert completion_loss < 0.5, ( f"teacher-forced completion loss {completion_loss:.4f} >= 0.5: " f"the LoRA did not memorise {EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT + '!'!r} after " f"{PROMPT!r} (post_train_loss={post_loss:.4f}). Trainer regression " "suspected -- check unsloth_zoo MLX trainer gradient clipping / " "optimizer defaults vs torch.optim.AdamW." ) # Save LoRA. unsloth-zoo#627 fixed FastMLXModel.from_pretrained(lora_dir) # so the cold-start reload below works on the saved adapter dir directly. lora_dir = workdir / "lora" with Phase("save_lora", metrics): model.save_pretrained_merged( str(lora_dir), tokenizer = tokenizer, save_method = "lora", ) metrics["lora_dir"] = str(lora_dir) assert (lora_dir / "adapters.safetensors").exists() assert (lora_dir / "adapter_config.json").exists() # Save merged_16bit (full HF directory) merged_dir = workdir / "merged_16bit" with Phase("save_merged_16bit", metrics): model.save_pretrained_merged( str(merged_dir), tokenizer = tokenizer, save_method = "merged_16bit", ) metrics["merged_dir"] = str(merged_dir) assert any(merged_dir.glob("*.safetensors")) # Save GGUF (best-effort). save_pretrained_gguf clones llama.cpp, # builds it with cmake (Metal=ON), then runs convert_hf_to_gguf. # For some models -- including unsloth/gemma-3-270m-it as of # 2026-05-07 -- llama.cpp's converter asserts on the tokenizer vocab # (`assert max(tokenizer.vocab.values()) < vocab_size`) because the # tokenizer carries reserved IDs beyond the embedding matrix size. # That's an llama.cpp / convert_hf_to_gguf limitation, not an # unsloth_zoo bug. Soft-skip with a recorded reason so the LoRA + # merged_16bit assertions still gate the PR. gguf_dir = workdir / "gguf" metrics["gguf_supported"] = False metrics["gguf_skip_reason"] = None metrics["gguf_dir"] = str(gguf_dir) with Phase("save_gguf", metrics): try: model.save_pretrained_gguf( str(gguf_dir), tokenizer = tokenizer, quantization_method = "not_quantized", ) gguf_files = sorted(gguf_dir.glob("*.gguf")) if not gguf_files: raise RuntimeError(f"no .gguf produced in {gguf_dir}") metrics["gguf_supported"] = True metrics["gguf_files"] = [p.name for p in gguf_files] except Exception as e: err_text = f"{type(e).__name__}: {e}" if "AssertionError" in err_text or "tokenizer.vocab" in err_text: metrics["gguf_skip_reason"] = ( f"llama.cpp convert_hf_to_gguf asserted on tokenizer " f"vocab for {MODEL_NAME} (max(vocab IDs) >= " f"vocab_size). Downstream llama.cpp limitation, not " f"unsloth_zoo. Underlying error: {err_text}" ) else: metrics["gguf_skip_reason"] = err_text print(f" GGUF SKIPPED: {metrics['gguf_skip_reason']}", flush = True) metrics["final_peak_gpu_gb"] = round(_peak_gpu_gb(), 3) metrics["final_peak_rss_gb"] = round(_peak_rss_gb(), 3) _write_metrics(workdir / "train_metrics.json", metrics) return 0 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # `reload` subcommand (fresh process per format) # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def cmd_reload(args) -> int: _seed_everything() save_dir = Path(args.dir).resolve() if not save_dir.exists(): raise SystemExit(f"reload dir not found: {save_dir}") metrics: dict = { "subcommand": "reload", "format": args.format, "dir": str(save_dir), "phases": {}, } if args.format == "gguf": return _reload_gguf(save_dir, metrics) import mlx.core as mx from unsloth_zoo.mlx.loader import FastMLXModel from mlx_lm import generate hf_token = os.environ.get("HF_TOKEN") or None with Phase(f"reload_{args.format}", metrics): mx.random.seed(SEED) m, t = FastMLXModel.from_pretrained( str(save_dir), load_in_4bit = False, dtype = "float16", text_only = True, max_seq_length = 128, random_state = SEED, token = hf_token, ) m.eval() with Phase(f"generate_{args.format}", metrics): out = generate(m, t, prompt = PROMPT, max_tokens = 48, verbose = False) metrics["generation"] = out print(f" [reload:{args.format}] output: {out!r}", flush = True) # Verify save/reload preserved the trained weights via teacher- # forced loss on the training row: the reloaded model should have # approximately the same loss on TRAIN_TEXT as the in-memory model # had at post_train_loss. This is the real save/reload invariant # and is robust to MLX's known near-zero-loss adamw greedy-decode # perturbation (step-7 grad spike at seed=3407, see # scripts/cuda_mlx_step7_*) which can flip the first generated # token while leaving teacher-forced loss essentially identical. train_metrics_path = save_dir.parent / "train_metrics.json" in_mem_loss = None in_mem_out = None if train_metrics_path.exists(): try: tm = json.loads(train_metrics_path.read_text()) in_mem_loss = tm.get("post_train_loss") in_mem_out = tm.get("in_memory_generation") except Exception: in_mem_loss = None metrics["in_memory_generation_ref"] = in_mem_out metrics["in_memory_post_train_loss"] = in_mem_loss metrics["reload_completion_matches_in_memory"] = in_mem_out is not None and out == in_mem_out if isinstance(in_mem_loss, (int, float)) and math.isfinite(in_mem_loss): reload_loss, _ = _compute_loss_and_grad_norm(m, t, TRAIN_TEXT) metrics["reload_post_train_loss"] = round(reload_loss, 4) # float16 round-trip should be near-exact for LoRA + merged; # 0.2 tolerates the dequant noise we have seen empirically. assert abs(reload_loss - float(in_mem_loss)) < 0.2, ( f"reload {args.format!r} loss diverged from in-memory: " f"reload={reload_loss:.4f}, in-memory={in_mem_loss:.4f}" ) else: # Fallback when train_metrics.json wasn't found (older # workdir layouts): keep a non-empty-completion gate. body = out.replace(PROMPT, "", 1).strip() assert len(body) >= 4, ( f"reload {args.format!r} produced no usable output for " f"{PROMPT!r}: {out!r}" ) metrics["final_peak_gpu_gb"] = round(_peak_gpu_gb(), 3) metrics["final_peak_rss_gb"] = round(_peak_rss_gb(), 3) _write_metrics(save_dir.parent / f"{args.format}_reload_metrics.json", metrics) return 0 def _reload_gguf(save_dir: Path, metrics: dict) -> int: candidates = [ Path("llama.cpp/llama-cli"), Path("llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-cli"), ] llama_cli = next((c for c in candidates if c.exists()), None) if llama_cli is None: raise SystemExit(f"llama-cli not found; checked {candidates}") gguf_files = sorted(save_dir.glob("*.gguf")) if not gguf_files: raise SystemExit(f"no .gguf files in {save_dir}") gguf_path = gguf_files[0] with Phase("reload_gguf", metrics): proc = subprocess.run( [ str(llama_cli), "-m", str(gguf_path), "-p", PROMPT, "-n", "24", "--temp", "0", "--seed", str(SEED), "-no-cnv", "--no-warmup", ], capture_output = True, text = True, timeout = 300, ) metrics["llama_cli_returncode"] = proc.returncode metrics["generation"] = (proc.stdout or "")[:1500] metrics["stderr_head"] = (proc.stderr or "")[:600] print(f" [reload:gguf] stdout (head):\n{proc.stdout[:800]}", flush = True) if proc.returncode != 0: raise SystemExit(f"llama-cli exit {proc.returncode}; stderr head: {proc.stderr[:400]}") # llama.cpp uses different tokenisation + sampling internals than # mlx_lm, so the GGUF reload completion does not have to match the # in-memory completion exactly. Require non-empty, non-prompt-only # output to catch real save/reload corruption (zero-weight model, # tokenizer mismatch). Surface whether EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT appears in # the metrics for visibility without gating on it. body = (proc.stdout or "").replace(PROMPT, "", 1).strip() metrics["gguf_has_expected"] = EXPECT_IN_OUTPUT in (proc.stdout or "") assert len(body) >= 4, ( f"GGUF reload produced no usable output for {PROMPT!r}: " f"{proc.stdout[:400]!r}" ) metrics["final_peak_rss_gb"] = round(_peak_rss_gb(), 3) _write_metrics(save_dir.parent / "gguf_reload_metrics.json", metrics) return 0 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # CLI # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- def main() -> int: parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() sub = parser.add_subparsers(dest = "cmd", required = True) p_train = sub.add_parser("train") p_train.add_argument("--workdir", required = True) p_reload = sub.add_parser("reload") p_reload.add_argument( "--format", required = True, choices = ["lora", "merged", "gguf"], ) p_reload.add_argument("--dir", required = True) args = parser.parse_args() if args.cmd == "train": return cmd_train(args) if args.cmd == "reload": return cmd_reload(args) return 1 if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main())