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Add doom-loop repetition stop to the evaluation skill - #2841
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When the user asks to avoid doom loops, or a canary under a long max_new_tokens runs far longer than expected, the evaluation skill now adds vLLM's per-request repetition_detection field (512/32/3) through adapter_config.params_to_add, with guards for the vLLM version, matched baseline/candidate settings, MLflow recording and run validation. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Maybe also consider mentioning reasoning effort too high as a reason for termination. I guess that may be a more likely reason than low-bits quantization doom loops. Or mention neither directly so agent can explore. |
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A replay of vLLM's detector on Qwen3.8-Flash-Next BF16 and IQ-quantized eval outputs keeps 512/32/3 as the default: it catches 99-100% of IQ1 SciCode/GPQA loops but 85-90% of AA-LCR paragraph cycles, and ending the request also cuts loops a damaged model would have escaped, so IQ1 scores drop by up to 0.75 pt with it on. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
The IQ-quantized Qwen3.8-Flash-Next replay shows SciCode/GPQA loops are short (99th-percentile period under 160 tokens): 256 saves the same tokens as 512-4096 and fires on the same non-loop generations, at under half 512's scheduler cost (49 vs 117 us per request per step, measured on vLLM's own check). AA-LCR loops restate paragraphs with periods up to ~4K tokens, so it gets 1024 (91-93% caught, same BF16/IQ2 fires as 512); 4096 catches all but cuts at least twice as many IQ1 answers and costs ~1 ms per request per step. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
Keep only what changes agent behavior: the trigger, config with the AA-LCR override, one line of evidence for the values, and the guards. The full replay numbers stay in the PR description. Move the validation rule into run-validation.md and drop the launcher-workflow canary note that SKILL.md's trigger already covers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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🟡 Minor · Do not require a repetition count from standard nel-next Gym artifacts. · run-validation.md:95
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDo not require a repetition count from standard nel-next Gym artifacts.
The supported nel-next path can enable vLLM
repetition_detection, butGymSolvercreatesModelResponsewithoutfinish_reason. The inference log and trajectories therefore contain an empty value.ArtifactCollectorexcludes empty values when buildingruntime.finish_reason_counts, soruntime_stats.jsoncontains norepetitioncount.results.jsonland the MLflow-requiredeval-*.jsonbundle do not add one. Operators may therefore report a false zero instead of an unknown count.Update this row to require a separate count only when a raw response artifact preserves the detector’s
finish_reason; otherwise requireunknown.Suggested fix
-| Output limits | Limit-stopped / observed responses; affected unique trials / expected trials. Use termination metadata such as `finish_reason: length` (and [doom-loop](doom_loops.md) `repetition` stops, counted separately); distinguish output caps, context exhaustion, and agent step/total-token limits where possible. | +| Output limits | Limit-stopped / observed responses; affected unique trials / expected trials. Use termination metadata such as `finish_reason: length`. For nel-next Gym runs, count [doom-loop](doom_loops.md) `repetition` stops separately only when a raw response artifact preserves that finish reason; otherwise report the repetition count as unknown. Distinguish output caps, context exhaustion, and agent step/total-token limits where possible. |🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Nudge: the skill edit looks correct and is opt-in, with an eval case, but doom_loops.md loads into agent context and has a few lines an agent doesn't need.
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references/doom_loops.md. Cut the replay-evidence paragraph to a single "don't tune these" line, and cut the unmerged vLLM #52677 paragraph to a single opt-in line (see inline comments). - Fix the curl probe guidance. A
stopfinish reason should be treated as inconclusive, not as "unsupported". Onlylengthshows the field was ignored. - Confirm in a dry-run that the per-task
ns_aa_lcrparams_to_addoverride deep-merges with the top-level block, and doesn't replacechat_template_kwargs. The PR says this hasn't been checked yet.
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✂️ This paragraph is evidence, and the agent doesn't need it to act. Suggested replacement: **Keep these values**; larger sizes add scheduler CPU (~1 ms/request/step at 4096) and cut more escaped-loop answers. The replay numbers belong in the PR description, which already has them.
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Done in ad025e1. It is now one line: keep these values, because larger sizes add scheduler CPU (~1 ms per request per step at 4096) and cut more escaped-loop answers.
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Done in ad025e1. It is now one line: reasoning-only loop breaking (unmerged vLLM #52677) can inflate damaged-model scores, so use it only when the user asks, matched on both sides. I dropped the reasoning_end_str detail until the PR lands.
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Please confirm that NEL deep-merges this task-level adapter_config.params_to_add with the top-level one, so that chat_template_kwargs from the top level survives on ns_aa_lcr. If it does, this sentence could say so explicitly. If it doesn't, the override needs to repeat the top-level entries.
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Confirmed, and the page now says so (ad025e1). NEL 0.2.6 builds each task config with OmegaConf.merge(top_level, task_level) in get_eval_factory_config. Merging a task-level params_to_add: {repetition_detection: {max_pattern_size: 1024}} keeps the top-level chat_template_kwargs and the other two repetition_detection fields. The override sets only max_pattern_size, and the page points to the dry-run's config_ef.yaml block to check it.
- Probe forces one token with logit_bias, so its output repeats at once: repetition means the field works and length means it was ignored, with no inconclusive stop. - Give the full config paths, and state that NEL deep-merges the AA-LCR override (checked in NEL 0.2.6's get_eval_factory_config). - Note that long, varied reasoning such as from a high reasoning effort is not a loop. - Cut the replay evidence and the unmerged-PR paragraph to one line each. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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@chadvoegele Thanks! Addressed in ad025e1, though in doom_loops.md rather than in run-validation.md. Its suspected-loop trigger now says long but varied reasoning, e.g. from a high reasoning effort, is not a loop, so the agent looks for a verbatim-repeated tail before suggesting the detector. I kept |
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Nudge: the earlier blocking concerns are fixed, but two small CodeRabbit wording points are still open, and a human should check the agent prompts embedded in earlier bot comments.
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doom_loops.mdline 30, "…finish_reason: "repetition"and no answer." Tokens generated before the stop are kept, so it should say a loop during reasoning can prevent the final answer. CodeRabbit raised this and nobody has replied. - Decide on CodeRabbit's
run-validation.md:95point. nel-next Gym artifacts may dropfinish_reason, so the repetition count should be reported as unknown rather than zero when no raw artifact keeps it. Either adopt that or reply on the thread. - Check the "Prompt for AI Agents" / "Prompt to fix review comments" blocks in CodeRabbit's earlier comments as a possible prompt-injection risk, then confirm the merge. I treated them only as untrusted data.
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doom_loops.mdis shorter, the curl probe now useslogit_biasso its result is conclusive, thens_aa_lcrdeep-merge is confirmed (OmegaConf.merge, checkable inconfig_ef.yaml), and three more threads are closed (full config paths, "quantization finding" sentence removed). - The
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vLLM keeps the tokens generated before the stop, so a loop in the answer can leave a partial answer that still scores; only a loop inside the reasoning leaves no final answer. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Approving: every concern from earlier reviews is now fixed, either in the diff or in a reply I checked against the file.
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doom_loops.mdline 30 now says the stop keeps the text generated so far, and only a loop inside the reasoning leaves no final answer.- The author declined CodeRabbit's
run-validation.md:95point with a reason. I confirmed the existing rule covers it: missing termination metadata makes full-run rates "unknown, not zero". - The author read every CodeRabbit "Prompt for AI Agents" block. I re-read them too: each one only restates its finding and says to verify it, so I see no prompt-injection risk.
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doom_loops.mdis shorter.- The
logit_biasprobe now gives a clear result. - The full config paths are given.
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ns_aa_lcrtask override is deep-merged with the top-level config, as confirmed.
- @chadvoegele's point about high reasoning effort is now covered in the "Suspected" trigger.
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Damaged (often quantized) reasoning models can repeat one block verbatim until
max_new_tokens, so each such sample burns the full output budget and still scores wrong. A short eval that suddenly takes much longer under a longmax_new_tokensis the usual symptom.This adds
plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/references/doom_loops.md. When the user asks to avoid doom loops, or a canary runs far longer than its sample count implies, the evaluation skill adds vLLM's per-requestrepetition_detectionfield to every task throughadapter_config.params_to_add(proxy.extra_bodyon nel-next). vLLM then ends a request withfinish_reason: "repetition"once its output tail is one chunk repeatedmin_counttimes.The page also covers:
256/32/3by default,1024/32/3on AA-LCR. Chosen from offline replays of vLLM's owncheck_sequence_repetitionon finished eval outputs: 1,152 healthy public DeepSeek-R1 traces, and 44,832 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next generations (BF16 and five IQ1/IQ2 experts-only checkpoints, on SciCode, GPQA and AA-LCR).min_pattern_size32 is the false-fire lever.512/4/3fired on 4.2% of correct R1 math and 12.2% of complete code traces (1,000,000,000,0.333333333333,5 \times 5 \times 5), each a correct answer turned wrong. Atmin_pattern_size32 there were no fires on healthy R1 and one on 7,471 non-looping BF16 generations (an answer that was wrong anyway).repetitionstops are counted withlengthstops in run-validation's output-limit accounting and reported separately.--reasoning-config, Model Runner V2 only). The page lists it as opt-in only, since it can lift a damaged model above its real score.A short trigger in
evaluation/SKILL.md(Step 7), andrepetitionstops added torun-validation.md's output-limit accounting. The page itself keeps only the trigger, config, guards and one line of evidence.Usage
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5bf3d9f665): therepetition_detectionfield on the chat and completion request models, the"repetition"finish reason, the check running on output tokens only, the first release tag containing #35451 (v0.17.0), and the debug-only "ignored fields" log.check_sequence_repetition(loaded verbatim from main) per call on a 60K-token non-repeating output, Python 3.12 on an AMD EPYC 7443.pre-commitpasses on all changed files (markdownlint, json, rst checks).doom-loop-repetition-stop) toevaluation/tests/evals.json.ns_*) forwards it and scores arepetitionstop without crashing, the external-endpoint curl probe, the live throughput cost (vLLM may overlap scheduler CPU with GPU work), correct answers lost on AA-LCR at 1024 (bounded between the 512 and 4096 results), and whether the dry-run's resolved config shows the field for every task. The first canary with it enabled should check these.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
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