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Report doom-loop repetition stops as length for nemo-skills evals - #2881
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vLLM ends a repetition_detection hit with finish_reason "repetition". The nemo-skills client (litellm) rejects it with a pydantic literal_error and retries the request, so a looping sample is resampled until it does not loop: the detector inflates the score instead of ending the loop. Remap the reason to "length" in the serving container through deployment.pre_cmd, so a hit scores as a truncated, unanswered sample. The probe now checks stop_reason, which reads "repetition_detected" with or without the remap. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Nudge: the fix looks right and the canary evidence is solid, but this is a skill edit with a few lines that could be tighter or clearer, and one merge hazard.
Needs action:
- ✂️ Compress the
pre_cmdpath lookup and the "(lengthbelow the cap)" aside. Inline comments on lines 45 and 50 give shorter wording. - Add a note that the remap must be appended to any existing
deployment.pre_cmd, such as the livecodebench recipe's, and must not replace it. - Update the earlier sentence that says "A hit ends the request with
finish_reason: "repetition"" so it points to thens_*exception. Right now the page states two different outcomes.
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- The probe now checks
stop_reason, which readsrepetition_detectedwhether or not the remap is applied. The PR's probe output confirms this, and thegrepguard fails loudly if thesedstops matching on a newer vLLM. - I couldn't independently verify vLLM's
stop_reasonvalue. I'm relying on the author's test. - The
NEMO_EVALUATOR_TRUST_PRE_CMD=1usage matches the existing evaluation-skill docs. - No tests or licensing changes, and the PR is well under the size budget.
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This line can be shorter and clearer: F=$(python3 -c 'import vllm.v1.engine as m; print(m.__file__)'). Also add a note (e.g. "append to any existing pre_cmd"). Some recipes, such as livecodebench, already set deployment.pre_cmd, and an agent copying this block could overwrite theirs.
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Done in 8e12648: line 45 is now F=$(python3 -c 'import vllm; print(vllm.__path__[0])')/v1/engine/__init__.py, which keeps the import vllm the canary verified instead of running the heavier vllm.v1.engine import inside the $(...) capture, and line 39 now says to append to any existing deployment.pre_cmd.
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The aside "(length below the cap)" is cryptic. Suggested wording: "A hit then scores like a max_new_tokens truncation. Confirm the canary's client logs show no literal_error." Also, the paragraph above still says a hit ends with finish_reason: "repetition". Tighten that sentence so it says "(length on ns_*, see below)" and the page doesn't give two outcomes.
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Done in 8e12648: line 50 now reads "A hit then scores like a max_new_tokens truncation. Confirm the canary's client logs show no literal_error.", and the earlier sentence (line 31) now says finish_reason: "repetition" (length on ns_*, see below).
Shorten the pre_cmd path lookup, say to append to an existing deployment.pre_cmd, and make the page state one outcome per task type. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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| other entries survive; check the dry-run's `config_ef.yaml` block. A hit ends the | ||
| request with `finish_reason: "repetition"`, keeping the text so far; a loop inside | ||
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set -euo pipefail
rg -n -C 3 'stop_reason|finish_reason|repetition_detected|repetition' \
plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluationRepository: NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer
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printf '%s\n' '--- run-validation.md ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- evaluation references and tests: stop_reason/artifact consumers ---'
rg -n -C 4 --glob '*.md' --glob '*.json' --glob '*.yaml' --glob '*.yml' \
-e 'stop_reason' -e 'response_stats' -e 'eval_factory_metrics' -e 'finish_reason' \
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Document the post-remap repetition classification.
For ns_*, finish_reason becomes "length", so validation cannot use that field alone to separate repetition stops from ordinary output-limit stops. The probe checks stop_reason, but the guidance does not state that nemo-skills artifacts retain stop_reason: "repetition_detected" or that validation counts it separately. Document the artifact field and classification rule, or update the validation guidance.
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A hit then scores like a `max_new_tokens` truncation. Confirm the canary's client logs
show no `literal_error`.
+For `ns_*` validation, count retained `stop_reason: "repetition_detected"` values
+separately from ordinary `finish_reason: "length"` stops. Document the nemo-skills
+artifact field used for this count; `finish_reason` alone cannot provide this split.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Update the `ns_*` validation guidance to identify the nemo-skills artifact field
that retains `stop_reason: "repetition_detected"` and state that validation
counts these repetition stops separately from ordinary `finish_reason: "length"`
stops, since `finish_reason` alone cannot distinguish them.
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: documentation (agent skill)
Follow-up to #2841. The evaluation skill's
doom_loops.mdturns on vLLM'srepetition_detectionand says a hit ends the request withfinish_reason: "repetition". On nemo-skills tasks (ns_*) the opposite happens:finish_reasonagainst the OpenAI set."repetition"fails with a pydanticliteral_error, which surfaces as anInternalServerError.This PR adds the fix to the page: remap the reason to
lengthin the serving container throughdeployment.pre_cmd. A hit then scores as a truncated, unanswered sample, the same as one that hitmax_new_tokens. The probe in Guards now checksstop_reason, which readsrepetition_detectedwhether or not the reason is remapped. The oldfinish_reasoncheck would readlengthafter the remap, which is also what the probe treats as "ignored".Usage
Submit with
NEMO_EVALUATOR_TRUST_PRE_CMD=1.Testing
All runs used GLM-5.3-Flash with IQ2_XXS experts (GPTQ), NEL 0.2.6,
nemo-skills:26.03, and vLLM0.1.dev20051withRepetitionDetectionParams, on oci-jhb. Detector settings were 256/32/3, with AA-LCR at 1024.repetition. The client log shows 64literal_errorvalidation errors and 16 litellmInternalServerErrors from nemo-skills' retry path. None of therepetitionresponses reached the outputs: the 55 AA-LCR records written all endedstop.pre_cmdabove: the server log confirms the remap. There were noliteral_errors in any task's client log, over 143 GPQA and 25 SciCode completions so far. AA-LCR was still starting.FINISH_REASON_STRINGSbecomes('stop', 'length', 'abort', 'error', 'length')andvllmstill imports.finish_reason length,stop_reason repetition_detected. The patched page checksstop_reasonfor exactly this reason.pre-commitpasses, including markdownlint and the skills symlink sync.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
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ns_*tasks to explain how repetition-related response statuses are handled.repetition_detectedindicates support, while anullstop reason indicates the behavior was ignored.