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(GRPO) Fix PEFT replacement for TRL >= 1.7.0, add missing compute_aux_loss for TRL >= 1.7.0 (#6904)
* Fix PEFT replacement for TRL >= 1.7.0, add missing compute_aux_loss for TRL 1.7.0

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* Fix GRPO for TRL >= 1.7.0: PEFT ref-adapter removal and return arity

rl.py: for trl >= 1.7.0, scope the PEFT removal regex to the ref-adapter
block only by anchoring the end on ref_param.data.copy_(param.data), so it
no longer also deletes the following gradient-checkpointing
enable_input_require_grads() block. Neutralize TRL 1.7.0's
`if _is_quantized_model:` bf16 cast the same way the existing
is_loaded_in_4bit cast is handled.

rl_replacements.py: initialize _extra_moe_kwargs before use (it was
referenced before assignment whenever compute_aux_loss was passed) and only
request output_router_logits when the aux loss is actually wanted.

rl_replacements.py: _get_per_token_logps_and_entropies now returns a 3-tuple
(logps, entropies, aux_loss) for trl >= 1.7.0 and a 2-tuple for older TRL,
matching how every TRL call site unpacks the result. Without this, TRL 1.7.x
_generate_and_score_completions unpacks 3 values from a 2-tuple and raises
"not enough values to unpack (expected 3, got 2)".

* Return zero aux_loss placeholder and drop inference-mode aux collection

* GRPO TRL >= 1.7.0: reject router aux-loss opt-in at init; drop zero aux placeholder

Unsloth's optimized GRPO forward cannot compute the MoE router auxiliary loss.
Previously an explicit opt-in (router_aux_loss_coef > 0) returned a fabricated
zero, silently training without the requested load-balancing penalty. Now reject
it at trainer init with a clear NotImplementedError, and return None (not zero)
for the aux slot of TRL's 3-tuple. Default stays off (coef 0), so the common
path is unaffected.

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* GRPO hidden-states fallback: free ModelOutput before chunked log-softmax

The old/ref logprob fallback binds the full ModelOutput (which holds every
layer's hidden_states when output_hidden_states=True) and kept it alive across
chunked_hidden_states_selective_log_softmax, an avoidable OOM on large models.
Extract logits then del outputs in both the text and VLM branches.

* Version-compat CI: proactively catch TRL GRPO breakage

The existing TRL canary is a static symbol/source grep: it verifies symbols
exist but is blind to structural changes (TRL 1.7.0's 2->3-tuple per-token-logps
return arity and restructured PEFT ref-adapter block, which the fix in this PR
addresses, both slipped past it because the methods still existed).

Two additions:
- test_trl_grpo_pinned_symbols.py: extend TRL_TAGS to 1.5/1.6/1.7 and pin the
  exact source-string contracts the rl.py / rl_replacements.py transforms depend
  on for TRL >= 1.7.0 (PEFT elif ref-adapter block + enable_input_require_grads
  survival, if _is_quantized_model, aux_loss_enabled anchor, compute_aux_loss
  arity). A future TRL change fails on main a few days before the PyPI release.
- test_trl_grpo_fake_run.py + a version-compat-ci job: fake-CUDA run that drives
  the real GRPO/SFT/DPO source-transform patchers against latest + main TRL on a
  CPU-only runner (no training) and asserts the generated Unsloth trainer still
  satisfies the transform contracts. Catches behavioral regressions the grep
  cannot see.

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* fake-run test: use a normal Version import for the aux gate

* version-compat CI: fix fake-run job gate + torch-absent collection

- Drop the invalid job-level matrix if (matrix is not available in
  jobs.<id>.if -> 'Unrecognized named-value: matrix' fails the whole
  workflow). Use a single job that runs vs TRL latest always and re-runs
  vs TRL main only on schedule/dispatch via a step-level github.event_name
  guard. Validated with actionlint.
- Module-level skip the fake-run test when torch is absent so
  daily-fresh-fetch (pytest-only, collects tests/version_compat/) does not
  crash on the top-level spoof import.

* fake-run test: do not skip on import failure

unsloth/trl are installed in the grpo-fake-run job, so a failing import is the
import-time drift this canary must catch. Keep only the not-installed find_spec
skips; let a real import error fail the test.

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* GRPO arity gate: regex downgrade + fail loud + CI coverage

The TRL < 1.7.0 per-token-logps return downgrade was an exact-string replace
anchored on the full return line incl. its comment, so a reformat (e.g.
pre-commit) could silently no-op it and ship a 3-tuple to older TRL. Switch to
a regex tolerant of comment/whitespace drift, and raise if the anchor stops
matching (re.subn count != 1) instead of failing silently. Add a monkeypatched
trl_version unit test asserting both arities, since CI only installs TRL >= 1.7.0
and never exercised the downgrade otherwise.

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* fake-run: give SFT/DPO a real contract, not just ast-parse

The SFT/DPO fake patch runs only checked the generated trainer parses. Also
assert the shared QLoRA _is_quantized_model bf16 cast is neutralized (TRL 1.7's
spelling, present in both sft_trainer and dpo_trainer), so a structural TRL
change to that block is caught for SFT/DPO too, not just GRPO.

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* GRPO PEFT ref-adapter removal: lower gate to the TRL 1.4.0 floor

The elif is_peft_model(model) and args.beta != 0.0: ref-adapter block was
introduced in TRL 1.4.0 and is unchanged through 1.7.x, but the removal was
gated at >= 1.7.0, so for 1.4 <= TRL < 1.7 the transform fell through to the
0.27 branch (which matches the older if is_peft_available()... form) and
silently no-oped: a PEFT + beta != 0 GRPO run then computed the KL reference
from the copied ref adapter instead of the base model. Lower the gate to
1.4.0 and keep the 1.7.0-only router aux-loss fail-fast nested. Widen the
pinned-symbol contract test to run from 1.4.0 so the covered versions are
actually exercised.

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Co-authored-by: Daniel Han <danielhanchen@gmail.com>
2026-07-08 04:05:03 -07:00
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dataprep fix: correct class name in SyntheticDataKit.chunk_data guard message (#6901) 2026-07-06 07:11:57 -07:00
kernels fix(fp8): use int64 offsets in weight_dequant_kernel (#6884) 2026-07-06 07:11:41 -07:00
models (GRPO) Fix PEFT replacement for TRL >= 1.7.0, add missing compute_aux_loss for TRL >= 1.7.0 (#6904) 2026-07-08 04:05:03 -07:00
optimizers Reduce and tighten code comments and docstrings repo-wide (#6095) 2026-06-08 23:09:51 -07:00
registry Reduce and tighten code comments and docstrings repo-wide (#6095) 2026-06-08 23:09:51 -07:00
utils Add PrefixGrouper for GRPO: dedup the shared prompt across a group's completions (#6871) 2026-07-06 05:26:24 -07:00
__init__.py feat(mlx): route trainer callbacks (#6929) 2026-07-08 03:25:50 -07:00
_auto_install.py Upgrade setuptools and wheel in the auto-install command (#6282) 2026-06-13 03:59:15 -07:00
_compressed_quantize.py Fix export-time trust_remote_code bypass in FP8/INT8/GGUF-LoRA export (#6869) 2026-07-05 05:16:39 -07:00
_gpu_init.py fix: keep LoRA reloads working with PEFT 0.19 (#6748) 2026-06-30 20:26:57 +01:00
chat_templates.py Add MLX-aware public Unsloth trainer API (#6462) 2026-07-02 23:02:26 +01:00
device_type.py Reduce and tighten code comments and docstrings repo-wide (#6095) 2026-06-08 23:09:51 -07:00
import_fixes.py Reduce comments across recent fixes (#6776) 2026-06-30 23:13:36 -07:00
ollama_template_mappers.py Re-apply #4939: updated models template mappers (#4950) 2026-04-15 07:52:12 -07:00
save.py Fix repeated base model downloads across checkpoint exports (#6896) 2026-07-06 23:38:29 -07:00
tokenizer_utils.py Auto Xet to HTTP download fallback in from_pretrained; share Studio's fallback via unsloth_zoo (#6638) 2026-07-06 05:13:25 -07:00
trainer.py Reset torch.compile cache poisoned by a stray forward before trainer.train() (#6511) 2026-06-22 05:39:48 -07:00