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fix(chat_templates): check find() return value before slicing on placeholders (#5763)
* fix(chat_templates): check find() return value before slicing on placeholders

Two places in `construct_chat_template()` use `str.find()` for sentinel
placeholders (`{INPUT}` / `{OUTPUT}`) without checking the -1 return:

1. The `except:` fallback (around line 2464) computes
   `chat_template[chat_template.find("{OUTPUT}") + len("{OUTPUT}"):]`.
   If the template has no `{OUTPUT}` marker, `find()` returns -1 and the
   slice starts at offset 7 (`-1 + len("{OUTPUT}")`), producing garbage
   that's then `re.escape`-d and fed back into the template-recovery
   regex. The user sees a confusing `IndexError` on
   `response_part = response_part[0]` instead of the real problem.

2. The final trim before returning (`input_part[:input_part.find("{INPUT}")]`
   and the matching `{OUTPUT}` line) silently drops the last character
   when the placeholder is missing — `find()` returns -1, and `[:-1]`
   slices everything except the last character, returning a corrupted
   template prefix to the caller.

Replace both with an explicit `-1` check that raises a clear
`RuntimeError` naming the missing placeholder, matching the existing
guard pattern from #4923 (`try_fix_tokenizer`).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(chat_templates): also guard {INPUT} and fallback regex/separator paths

Builds on the {OUTPUT} / final-trim guards in this branch by closing
the three remaining ways the except-block fallback in
construct_chat_template() can still raise a confusing IndexError or
AttributeError on malformed templates:

1. Validate both {INPUT} and {OUTPUT} before deriving `ending`. The
   regex two lines later (`{INPUT} + ending + ...`) still produced an
   empty list and crashed on `response_part[0]` if {INPUT} was missing.
2. Guard the regex no-match case. Some templates contain both
   placeholders but not in a recoverable two-example shape, in which
   case `re.findall` returns an empty list and `[0]` raises.
3. Initialize `found = None` before the separator-search loop and
   raise if the loop never sets it. Previously, if the first
   iteration's `re.finditer` was empty the loop broke without binding
   `found`, and `found.group(1)` raised AttributeError on the stale
   int left over from the outer rfind loop.

Rephrase the final-trim error messages from internal variable names
("input_part") to user-facing wording ("instruction section") and
include a bounded (200-char) excerpt of the offending content so the
error is debuggable without being unbounded.

Add tests/python/test_construct_chat_template_validation.py covering
each failure mode with a fake tokenizer (no HF_TOKEN, no model
download, CPU-only).

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Han <danielhanchen@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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dataprep fix(loader): honour HF_HUB_OFFLINE / TRANSFORMERS_OFFLINE in from_pretrained (#5598) 2026-05-19 01:05:13 -07:00
kernels Fix loss function not patched for Qwen3.5 models (#5442) 2026-05-19 03:57:50 -07:00
models Fixes 2026-05-24 07:11:21 -07:00
optimizers feat: Implement Q-GaLore optimizer and custom embedding learning rate… (#4511) 2026-03-25 01:03:10 -07:00
registry Revert "[pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks" 2025-12-01 07:24:58 -08:00
utils Add check to disable xformers on newer GPUs (#4342) 2026-03-16 22:42:38 -07:00
__init__.py MLX training support for Studio on Apple Silicon (#5340) 2026-05-14 05:24:20 -07:00
_auto_install.py Add PyTorch 2.10 and xformers 0.0.34 support (#3985) 2026-02-05 05:56:26 -08:00
_gpu_init.py Versioning 2026-05-18 05:29:52 -07:00
chat_templates.py fix(chat_templates): check find() return value before slicing on placeholders (#5763) 2026-05-25 06:19:01 -07:00
device_type.py revert: stop touching DEVICE_TYPE == "cuda" branches for CPU CI (#5473) 2026-05-15 19:41:09 -07:00
import_fixes.py disable_torchcodec_if_broken: also patch datasets and clean sys.modules (#5483) 2026-05-16 16:24:48 -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: preserve tokenizer eos token on merged saves (#5451) 2026-05-17 06:44:23 -07:00
tokenizer_utils.py fix: 3 patch_* helpers — fast_lora import, sft_trainer Union, openenv OSError (#5319) 2026-05-07 00:12:09 -07:00
trainer.py Trim trainer.py import-fix comment to one line 2026-05-06 07:22:56 +00:00