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Type of change: Bug fix

Restarting a Puzzletron run (e.g. after a node dies during step 6) fails at step 5 with:

ValueError: Subblock stats file <puzzle_dir>/subblock_stats.json already exists and `merge_with_existing_stats` was set to False.

Other steps already resume: activation scoring skips when complete, and one-block scoring skips existing solutions (skip_existing_solutions: true in all example configs). Subblock stats was the only step that raised instead. The only workaround was deleting subblock_stats.json and recomputing it.

With this fix, calculate_subblock_stats_for_puzzle_dir reuses an existing stats file when merge_with_existing_stats is false, and the check now runs before the teacher config and subblock configs are loaded. To make reuse safe, the stats file is now written to a temporary file and atomically renamed into place once every combination finishes, so an existing subblock_stats.json always comes from a completed computation. merge_with_existing_stats: true behaves as before.

Addresses the first failure reported in #1668. The issue's other points (step 2 conversion rerunning, and step 6 results appearing lost after the stats file was deleted by hand) are left for follow-up.

Usage

# Rerun the same command after an interruption; step 5 now reuses subblock_stats.json.
torchrun --nproc_per_node 2 examples/puzzletron/main.py --config <config.yaml>

Testing

  • Added tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_calc_subblock_stats.py. It passes with the fix and fails on main with the ValueError above. I ran it on Linux (WSL, Python 3.12, CPU torch 2.14) because tests/unit/torch/puzzletron is skipped on Windows.
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  • Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ (a rerun that used to raise now resumes; merge_with_existing_stats: true is unchanged)
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  • Did you update Changelog?: N/A (small UX fix)
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Related: #1668

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Existing statistics files are now left unchanged when merging is disabled, instead of triggering an error.
    • Completed statistics are saved through a temporary file before replacing the destination, helping prevent incomplete files if saving is interrupted.

Restarting a Puzzletron run failed at step 5 because
calculate_subblock_stats_for_puzzle_dir raised when subblock_stats.json
already existed. The file is written only after all stats are computed,
so reuse it instead, matching how activation scoring and one-block
scoring already resume. The check now runs before loading the teacher.

Fixes the restart failure reported in NVIDIA#1668.

Signed-off-by: aasim syed <syedaasim133@gmail.com>
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When the statistics file exists and merging is disabled, the function logs a skip and returns. Completed statistics are written to a temporary file and replace the destination. A unit test checks that an existing file remains unchanged.

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Existing Subblock Statistics

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Skip and publish statistics
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/subblock_stats/calc_subblock_stats.py, tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_calc_subblock_stats.py
The function returns when statistics already exist and merging is disabled. It writes completed statistics to a sibling .tmp file before replacing the destination. The test checks that the existing file remains unchanged when the teacher directory is absent.

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Existing statistics can be reused on resume, and interrupted writes no longer replace the completed file. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Write subblock_stats.json to a temporary file and rename it into place,
so an interrupted write cannot leave a partial file that a resumed run
would then reuse.

Signed-off-by: aasim syed <syedaasim133@gmail.com>
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Hi @grzegorz-k-karch @j-rausch , gentle ping on this PR when you get a chance. It's rebased, has no conflicts, and the unit tests in tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_calc_subblock_stats.py cover the resume path. Happy to make any changes you'd like. Could someone also trigger the full CI? Thanks!

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