feat(train)!: remove hybrid training mode, rework the training tutorial - #1036
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Dataset ownership. The dataset currently lives in a personal HF namespace. Happy to move it under RedHatAI/ or vllm-project/ if maintainers prefer; that changes only the URL in Step 1.
Yeah we should probably move this to RedHatAI/ HF account.
Epochs 5 -> 10 matches the measured runs. checkpoint_best still selects on validation loss, so for DFlash (which bottoms out around epoch 4 on this data) the extra epochs cost time, not quality.
I'd prefer we keep this at 5 (or even 3 epochs). At just 5k samples we're definitely overfitting and I think keeping the tutorial short/easy to run is more important than a slight improvement in final acc rates. We just need to make it clear this is just an example and real runs require more data.
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…measured results The training tutorial started from `./target_responses.jsonl`, a file the reader does not have, so no command on the page could be run as written and no number in "Expected Results" could be reproduced by following it. Point Step 1 at `windchimeran/speculator-tutorial`, 5K UltraChat conversations regenerated on-policy by Qwen3-8B, and report results measured by running the page's own commands end to end on four H100s: - Eagle-3 / DFlash / DSpark acceptance length and position-0 acceptance, evaluated with `evaluate.py throughput` over all nine subsets of `RedHatAI/speculator_benchmarks`, alongside per-algorithm training time. - Step 3 gains the measured generation time (~56 min for 5K on 4xH100) and notes that the hidden-state cache is keyed on the verifier, so one pass feeds every speculator algorithm. - Disk estimate now scales with actual token count rather than `--total-seq-len`; the old formula overestimated this dataset by ~2.7x. Also drop the hybrid mode. Offline gives generation the whole node and then training the whole node, while hybrid splits it and keeps vLLM resident, so it is dominated by offline for the workflow this page walks through. The `--on-generate cache` flag itself is unchanged and still documented in the train.py CLI reference. Two fixes found while running it: DFlash drafts a 16-token block and needs `--max-num-batched-tokens 32768` to serve, and `--data` accepts an `hf:<id>[:<subset>:<split>]` spec that was previously undocumented. Epochs go 5 -> 10 to match the measured runs; `checkpoint_best` still selects the best epoch, so this costs time rather than quality. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Di69UAVwpuJwDSNnEcVpD2 Signed-off-by: Ranran Haoran Zhang <ranranhaoranzhang@gmail.com>
Retrained and re-evaluated all three algorithms at 5 epochs. The LR schedule spans num_epochs*steps (trainer.py:139), so a 5-epoch run is a different model than epoch 4 of a 10-epoch run -- these numbers come from fresh runs, not from re-reading existing checkpoints. Halving the epochs costs almost nothing: acceptance length moves 2.03 -> 1.99 (DFlash) and 2.07 -> 2.02 (DSpark), while Eagle-3 is unchanged at 1.89. Training time halves, 28/36/32 min -> 15/19/17 min. Also sharpen the framing the reviewer asked for: say plainly that 5K samples is too small for a deployable drafter and that these models overfit within a few epochs, so the table reads as a smoke test rather than a target. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Di69UAVwpuJwDSNnEcVpD2 Signed-off-by: Ranran Haoran Zhang <ranranhaoranzhang@gmail.com>
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Trained and evaluated with the same recipe as the other three rows: Qwen3-8B, the tutorial_regen split (4993 rows), 5 epochs on four H100s, checkpoint_best, and evaluate.py throughput over all nine subsets of RedHatAI/speculator_benchmarks, aggregated draft-weighted. DFlash2 7 draft tokens/step 1.90 acceptance 52.1% pos-0 20 min It lands level with Eagle-3 and below the DFlash it extends, which is consistent with the note on its tab that the public training objective is not available. Two differences from the other rows are forced by the algorithm rather than chosen, and are called out under the table: DFlash2 requires the full verifier vocabulary (models/dflash2/core.py:38), so it trains a 151936-token output layer and needs a --data-path without the reduced-vocabulary t2d.npy/d2t.npy that Step 1 writes, since those override the CLI; and it was served on vLLM 0.28.1, the first release with DFlash2 support, where the other three were served on 0.27.1. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011MhFBHCGThK6qyzRjeHC8r Signed-off-by: Ranran Haoran Zhang <ranzhang@redhat.com>
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In `@docs/cli/train.md`:
- Line 76: Update the --hidden-states-path description to state that it refers
only to existing cached hidden-state files, removing the implication that online
generation stores results there for future reuse.
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| - `cache`: Store hidden states for reuse in future epochs (hybrid training) | ||
| - **`--on-generate`** (choice: `delete`, default: `"delete"`) Behavior after generating new hidden states (only applies if `--on-missing=generate`). Generated hidden states are always deleted after loading. Retained for backwards compatibility with existing command lines. | ||
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| - **`--hidden-states-path`** (str, default: `{data-path}/hidden_states`) Path where cached hidden states files are stored (or will be stored if generating). |
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Remove the online-generation caching implication.
After --on-missing=generate, the loader deletes the generated handle after loading. It no longer persists generated hidden states for reuse at --hidden-states-path. This description can mislead users into expecting online training to populate the cache.
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-- **`--hidden-states-path`** ... Path where cached hidden states files are stored (or will be stored if generating).
+- **`--hidden-states-path`** ... Path where pre-generated cached hidden-state files are stored.As per path instructions, documentation must remain accurate and complete.
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| - **`--hidden-states-path`** (str, default: `{data-path}/hidden_states`) Path where pre-generated cached hidden-state files are stored. |
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| # Train a Speculator | ||
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| This tutorial walks you through training a speculator model end to end, from raw data to a checkpoint served in vLLM. It covers **Eagle-3**, **P-EAGLE**, **DFlash**, **DFlash2**, **DSpark**, and **MTP** in all three training modes. | ||
| This tutorial walks you through training a speculator model end to end, from raw data to a checkpoint served in vLLM. It covers **Eagle-3**, **P-EAGLE**, **DFlash**, **DFlash2**, **DSpark**, and **MTP**, in both online and offline training modes. |
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Make the vLLM prerequisite cover DFlash2.
The tutorial permits vllm>=0.22.0, but it states that DFlash2 requires vLLM 0.28.1. Raise the minimum version or add a DFlash2-specific requirement so users do not serve DFlash2 with an unsupported vLLM version.
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| End to end on a four-GPU node: about 17 seconds to prepare the data, 56 minutes to generate hidden states, and 15-20 minutes to train each speculator. Because all four read the same hidden-state cache, the four checkpoints together take under two hours. |
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Correct the end-to-end timing estimate.
The stated values total about 127 minutes: 56 minutes for generation plus 15, 19, 20, and 17 minutes for the four training runs. This exceeds two hours on the stated four-GPU node unless the runs execute in parallel. Update the estimate or document the parallel execution model. Use End-to-end in the revised sentence.
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+End-to-end on a four-GPU node: about 17 seconds to prepare the data, 56 minutes to generate hidden states, and about 71 minutes to train the four speculators sequentially. The complete workflow takes about 2 hours 7 minutes.As per path instructions, documentation must remain accurate and complete.
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| End to end on a four-GPU node: about 17 seconds to prepare the data, 56 minutes to generate hidden states, and 15-20 minutes to train each speculator. Because all four read the same hidden-state cache, the four checkpoints together take under two hours. | |
| End-to-end on a four-GPU node: about 17 seconds to prepare the data, 56 minutes to generate hidden states, and about 71 minutes to train the four speculators sequentially. The complete workflow takes about 2 hours 7 minutes. |
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Summary
Two changes, one of them breaking.
Removes hybrid training mode (breaking)
--on-generate cachekept freshly generated hidden states so later epochs could reuse them. It was broken on the Mooncake backend:MooncakeTransfernever overrodecache(), so it inherited the no-op hook onHiddenStatesTransfer, and because the cache branch bypassed the delete path entirely, every generated sample leaked into the store while nothing was ever cached —MooncakeTransfer.get_cached()returnsNoneunconditionally, so each epoch regenerated everything from scratch.--on-generatenow accepts onlydelete, which has always been its default, so existing command lines are unaffected and--on-generate cachefails validation with a clear message. The flag is kept purely for backwards compatibility. The now-unusedcache()hook is dropped from theHiddenStatesTransferAPI and fromFileTransfer.Online and offline training are unchanged.
Makes the training tutorial runnable end to end
inference-optimization/speculators-ci-datasetstutorial_regensplit, 5K on-policy Qwen3-8B rows -- the same dataset the e2e acceptance tests already use;hf:<id>[:<subset>:<split>]inputs, and fixes the DFlash serving command;5k tutorial results
4 H100s,
tutorial_regen, 5 epochs,checkpoint_best, evaluated across all nineRedHatAI/speculator_benchmarkssubsets: