""" Train the reward model on preference pairs with the Bradley-Terry loss. Initializes the reward backbone from the SFT checkpoint, adds a scalar reward head, and trains so chosen responses score above rejected ones. Reports held-out preference accuracy. Single GPU: PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/train_reward.py Both GPUs: PYTHONPATH=. torchrun --standalone --nproc_per_node=2 scripts/train_reward.py """ from __future__ import annotations import time import torch from config.post_training_config import RewardConfig from data_loader.preference_dataset import get_preference_iterator from src.post_training.cli import parse_config_with_json from src.post_training.distributed import ddp_setup, ddp_wrap, cleanup, reduce_scalar from src.post_training.logging_utils import MetricsLogger from src.post_training.optim import configure_optimizer, cosine_lr from src.post_training.reward_model import RewardModel from src.post_training.reward_train import bradley_terry_loss, preference_accuracy, reward_margin from src.post_training.utils import amp_autocast, load_backbone_from_ckpt, save_stage_ckpt, set_seed, unwrap TEST_PATH = "/ephemeral/data/preferences_test.jsonl" def _pair_rewards(rm, batch, cfg, ctx): """Forward chosen+rejected in one pass; return (chosen_rewards, rejected_rewards).""" B = batch["chosen_ids"].size(0) ids = torch.cat([batch["chosen_ids"], batch["rejected_ids"]], dim=0) lens = torch.cat([batch["chosen_len"], batch["rejected_len"]], dim=0) with amp_autocast(cfg.amp_dtype, ctx.device): rewards = rm(ids, seq_lengths=lens).float() return rewards[:B], rewards[B:] @torch.no_grad() def eval_accuracy(rm, cfg, ctx, max_batches: int = 100) -> tuple[float, float]: rm.eval() it = get_preference_iterator(TEST_PATH, cfg.batch_size, cfg.max_len, device=ctx.device, rank=ctx.rank, world_size=ctx.world_size, shuffle=False, infinite=False) acc, marg, n = 0.0, 0.0, 0 for batch in it: cr, rr = _pair_rewards(rm, batch, cfg, ctx) acc += preference_accuracy(cr, rr).item() marg += reward_margin(cr, rr).item() n += 1 if n >= max_batches: break rm.train() return acc / max(1, n), marg / max(1, n) def main(): cfg, _ = parse_config_with_json(RewardConfig, "configs/reward.json") ctx = ddp_setup(cfg.device) set_seed(cfg.seed + ctx.rank) backbone = load_backbone_from_ckpt(cfg, cfg.sft_ckpt, ctx.device) rm = RewardModel(backbone).to(ctx.device) # find_unused_parameters=True: the reward model uses the backbone's forward_hidden + a # reward head and never its lm_head, so lm_head params get no gradient. Without this flag # DDP errors on the first backward. rm = ddp_wrap(rm, ctx, find_unused_parameters=True) optimizer = configure_optimizer(unwrap(rm), cfg.lr, cfg.weight_decay) import json with open(cfg.pref_path) as f: n_rows = sum(1 for line in f if line.strip()) total_steps = max(1, (n_rows // (cfg.batch_size * ctx.world_size)) * cfg.epochs) logger = None if ctx.is_main: print(f"Reward model from {cfg.sft_ckpt} | {n_rows} pairs | total_steps={total_steps}") logger = MetricsLogger("reward", cfg.log_dir, use_wandb=cfg.use_wandb, wandb_project=cfg.wandb_project) train_it = get_preference_iterator(cfg.pref_path, cfg.batch_size, cfg.max_len, device=ctx.device, rank=ctx.rank, world_size=ctx.world_size, shuffle=True, infinite=True) rm.train() t0 = time.perf_counter() for step in range(total_steps): lr = cosine_lr(step, warmup_steps=cfg.warmup_steps, max_steps=total_steps, lr=cfg.lr, min_lr=cfg.lr * 0.1) for g in optimizer.param_groups: g["lr"] = lr batch = next(train_it) cr, rr = _pair_rewards(rm, batch, cfg, ctx) loss = bradley_terry_loss(cr, rr) optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=True) loss.backward() torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(rm.parameters(), cfg.grad_clip) optimizer.step() if ctx.is_main and step % 20 == 0: acc = preference_accuracy(cr, rr).item() dt = time.perf_counter() - t0; t0 = time.perf_counter() print(f"step {step}/{total_steps} | loss {loss.item():.4f} | train_acc {acc:.3f} | lr {lr:.2e} | {dt:.1f}s/20") if logger: logger.log(step, {"train_loss": loss.item(), "train_acc": acc, "lr": lr}) if step > 0 and step % cfg.eval_steps == 0: acc, marg = eval_accuracy(rm, cfg, ctx) acc, marg = reduce_scalar(acc, ctx), reduce_scalar(marg, ctx) if ctx.is_main: print(f" [eval] step {step} | test_acc {acc:.3f} | margin {marg:.3f}") if logger: logger.log(step, {"test_acc": acc, "test_margin": marg}) if ctx.is_main and step > 0 and step % cfg.save_every == 0: save_stage_ckpt(cfg.out_ckpt, rm, optimizer, stage="reward", cfg=cfg, step=step, metrics={"train_loss": loss.item()}) if ctx.is_main: # Unwrap for the final eval: other ranks are already at cleanup(), so a collective on # the DDP-wrapped model here would hang (NCCL timeout). The periodic eval runs on all ranks. acc, marg = eval_accuracy(unwrap(rm), cfg, ctx) save_stage_ckpt(cfg.out_ckpt, rm, optimizer, stage="reward", cfg=cfg, step=total_steps, metrics={"test_acc": acc, "test_margin": marg}) print(f"Done RM. test_acc {acc:.3f} margin {marg:.3f} -> {cfg.out_ckpt}") if logger: logger.close() cleanup(ctx) if __name__ == "__main__": main()