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Slime ReTool recipe for a single 24GB GPU
#!/bin/bash
# for rerun the task
pkill -9 sglang
sleep 3
ray stop --force
pkill -9 ray
pkill -9 python
sleep 3
pkill -9 ray
pkill -9 python
set -ex
# will prevent ray from buffering stdout/stderr
export PYTHONBUFFERED=16
# Model configuration for Qwen3-0.6B
MODEL_NAME="Qwen3-0.6B"
MODEL_TYPE="qwen3-0.6B"
# Download model and dataset
hf download --repo-type dataset zhuzilin/dapo-math-17k --local-dir /root/datasets/dapo-math-17k
hf download --repo-type dataset zhuzilin/aime-2024 --local-dir /root/datasets/aime-2024
NVLINK_COUNT=$(nvidia-smi topo -m 2>/dev/null | grep -o 'NV[0-9][0-9]*' | wc -l)
if [ "$NVLINK_COUNT" -gt 0 ]; then
HAS_NVLINK=1
else
HAS_NVLINK=0
fi
echo "HAS_NVLINK: $HAS_NVLINK (detected $NVLINK_COUNT NVLink references)"
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &>/dev/null && pwd)"
source "/root/slime/scripts/models/qwen3-0.6B.sh"
CKPT_ARGS=(
--hf-checkpoint /root/models/${MODEL_NAME}/
--ref-load /root/models/${MODEL_NAME}_slime/
# --load /root/models/${MODEL_NAME}_slime_rl/
--load /root/slime/recipes/retool/${MODEL_NAME}_slime_rl/
--save /root/slime/recipes/retool/${MODEL_NAME}_slime_rl/
--save-interval 20
)
ROLLOUT_ARGS=(
--prompt-data /root/datasets/dapo-math-17k/dapo-math-17k.jsonl
--input-key prompt
--label-key label
--apply-chat-template
--rollout-shuffle
--reward-key score
--num-rollout 3000
--rollout-batch-size 2
--n-samples-per-prompt 4
--rollout-max-response-len 2048
--rollout-max-context-len 3000
--rollout-temperature 1
--global-batch-size 8
--balance-data
)
EVAL_ARGS=(
--eval-interval 20
--eval-prompt-data aime /root/datasets/aime-2024/aime-2024.jsonl
--n-samples-per-eval-prompt 1
--eval-max-response-len 2048
--eval-top-p 1
)
PERF_ARGS=(
--tensor-model-parallel-size 1
--sequence-parallel
--pipeline-model-parallel-size 1
--context-parallel-size 1
--expert-model-parallel-size 1
--expert-tensor-parallel-size 1
--recompute-granularity full
--recompute-method uniform
--recompute-num-layers 1
# --micro-batch-size 1
--use-dynamic-batch-size
--max-tokens-per-gpu 4096
--train-memory-margin-bytes 68435456
)
GRPO_ARGS=(
--advantage-estimator grpo
--use-kl-loss
--kl-loss-coef 0.00
--kl-loss-type low_var_kl
--entropy-coef 0.00
--eps-clip 0.2
--eps-clip-high 0.28
)
OPTIMIZER_ARGS=(
--optimizer adam
--lr 1e-6
--lr-decay-style constant
--weight-decay 0.1
--adam-beta1 0.9
--adam-beta2 0.98
)
WANDB_ARGS=(
--use-wandb
--wandb-project slime-dapo
--wandb-group qwen3-0.6B-test-multi-turn
--wandb-key ${WANDB_KEY}
)
SGLANG_ARGS=(
--rollout-num-gpus-per-engine 1
--sglang-mem-fraction-static 0.6
--sglang-enable-metrics
--sglang-cuda-graph-max-bs 8
)
MISC_ARGS=(
# default dropout in megatron is 0.1
--attention-dropout 0.0
--hidden-dropout 0.0
# should be good for model performance
--accumulate-allreduce-grads-in-fp32
--attention-softmax-in-fp32
# need to comment this when using model with MLA
--attention-backend flash
)
CUSTOM_ARGS=(
--custom-generate-function-path generate_with_retool.generate
--custom-rm-path generate_with_retool.reward_func
)
# launch the master node of ray in container
export MASTER_ADDR=${MASTER_ADDR:-"127.0.0.1"}
ray start --head --node-ip-address ${MASTER_ADDR} --num-gpus 1 --disable-usage-stats --dashboard-host=0.0.0.0 --dashboard-port=8265
# Build the runtime environment JSON with proper variable substitution
RUNTIME_ENV_JSON="{
\"env_vars\": {
\"PYTHONPATH\": \"/root/Megatron-LM/:${SCRIPT_DIR}:/root/slime\",
\"CUDA_DEVICE_MAX_CONNECTIONS\": \"1\",
\"NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE\": \"${HAS_NVLINK}\",
\"PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF\": \"max_split_size_mb:1024\"
}
}"
ray job submit --address="http://127.0.0.1:8265" \
--runtime-env-json="${RUNTIME_ENV_JSON}" \
-- python3 train.py \
--actor-num-nodes 1 \
--actor-num-gpus-per-node 1 \
--colocate \
${MODEL_ARGS[@]} \
${CKPT_ARGS[@]} \
${ROLLOUT_ARGS[@]} \
${OPTIMIZER_ARGS[@]} \
${GRPO_ARGS[@]} \
${WANDB_ARGS[@]} \
${PERF_ARGS[@]} \
${EVAL_ARGS[@]} \
${SGLANG_ARGS[@]} \
${MISC_ARGS[@]} \
${CUSTOM_ARGS[@]}
#!/bin/bash
# for rerun the task
pkill -9 sglang
sleep 3
ray stop --force
pkill -9 ray
pkill -9 python
sleep 3
pkill -9 ray
pkill -9 python
set -ex
# Prevent Ray from buffering stdout/stderr
export PYTHONBUFFERED=16
# Model configuration for Qwen3-0.6B
MODEL_NAME="Qwen3-0.6B"
MODEL_TYPE="qwen3-0.6B"
# Create directories
mkdir -p /root/models /root/datasets
# Download model and dataset
hf download Qwen/${MODEL_NAME} --local-dir /root/models/${MODEL_NAME}
hf download --repo-type dataset JoeYing/ReTool-SFT --local-dir /root/datasets/ReTool-SFT
# Convert Data
python recipes/retool/sft_data_processing.py
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &>/dev/null && pwd)"
source scripts/models/qwen3-0.6B.sh
PYTHONPATH=/root/Megatron-LM/ python tools/convert_hf_to_torch_dist.py \
${MODEL_ARGS[@]} \
--hf-checkpoint /root/models/${MODEL_NAME} \
--save /root/models/${MODEL_NAME}_torch_dist
# Checkpoint arguments
CKPT_ARGS=(
--hf-checkpoint /root/models/${MODEL_NAME}/
--ref-load /root/models/${MODEL_NAME}_torch_dist
# --load /root/models/${MODEL_NAME}_slime/
--save /root/models/${MODEL_NAME}_slime/
--save-interval 100
)
# SFT-specific arguments
SFT_ARGS=(
--rollout-function-path slime.rollout.sft_rollout.generate_rollout
--prompt-data /root/datasets/ReTool-SFT/ReTool-SFT-converted.parquet
--input-key messages
--rollout-shuffle
--num-epoch 3
--rollout-batch-size 16
--global-batch-size 16
--loss-type sft_loss
--calculate-per-token-loss
--disable-compute-advantages-and-returns
--debug-train-only
)
# Performance arguments for single GPU
PERF_ARGS=(
--tensor-model-parallel-size 1
--sequence-parallel
--pipeline-model-parallel-size 1
--context-parallel-size 1
--recompute-granularity full
--recompute-method uniform
--recompute-num-layers 1
--use-dynamic-batch-size
--max-tokens-per-gpu 4098
# --micro-batch-size 1
)
# Optimizer arguments
OPTIMIZER_ARGS=(
--optimizer adam
--lr 1e-5
--lr-decay-style cosine
--min-lr 1e-6
--lr-warmup-fraction 0.1
--weight-decay 0.1
--adam-beta1 0.9
--adam-beta2 0.95
)
WANDB_ARGS=(
--use-wandb
--wandb-project slime-dev
--wandb-group qwen3-0.6B-sft
--wandb-key ${WANDB_KEY}
)
# Miscellaneous arguments
MISC_ARGS=(
--attention-dropout 0.0
--hidden-dropout 0.0
--accumulate-allreduce-grads-in-fp32
--attention-softmax-in-fp32
--attention-backend flash
)
# launch the master node of ray in container
export MASTER_ADDR=${MASTER_ADDR:-"127.0.0.1"}
export no_proxy="127.0.0.1,${MASTER_ADDR}"
ray start --head --node-ip-address ${MASTER_ADDR} --num-gpus 1 --disable-usage-stats
# Build the runtime environment JSON with proper variable substitution
RUNTIME_ENV_JSON="{
\"env_vars\": {
\"PYTHONPATH\": \"/root/Megatron-LM/\",
\"CUDA_DEVICE_MAX_CONNECTIONS\": \"1\",
\"NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE\": \"${HAS_NVLINK}\",
\"PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF\": \"expandable_segments:True\"
}
}"
ray job submit --address="http://127.0.0.1:8265" \
--runtime-env-json="${RUNTIME_ENV_JSON}" \
-- python3 train_async.py \
--actor-num-nodes 1 \
--actor-num-gpus-per-node 1 \
${MODEL_ARGS[@]} \
${CKPT_ARGS[@]} \
${SFT_ARGS[@]} \
${OPTIMIZER_ARGS[@]} \
${WANDB_ARGS[@]} \
${PERF_ARGS[@]} \
${EVAL_ARGS[@]} \
${MISC_ARGS[@]}
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("JoeYing/ReTool-SFT")["train"]
def convert(sample):
conversations = sample["messages"]
def convert_role(role):
if role == "user":
return "user"
elif role == "assistant":
return "assistant"
elif role == "system":
return "system"
else:
raise ValueError(f"Unknown role: {role}")
messages = [
{
"role": convert_role(turn["role"]),
"content": turn["content"],
}
for turn in conversations
]
return {"messages": messages}
ds = ds.map(convert)
ds.to_parquet("./data/retool/ReTool-SFT.parquet")
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