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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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- Line 50: Update the external-endpoint guidance in the doom-loop evaluation
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| - **Backend.** vLLM < 0.17.0 silently ignores the field (debug log only), so the | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not treat length as proof that the field was ignored.
The curl request repeats ha only in the prompt. The detector at the referenced vLLM revision checks generated output tokens, so a non-repeating completion can end with length even when the setting is active. (github.com) Treat this result as inconclusive, or use a probe that generates a known repeated completion. Otherwise, users can mistake an active endpoint for one that ignores the field.
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Update the external-endpoint guidance in the doom-loop evaluation reference so a
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| `repetition` stops with `length` stops but report them separately. A candidate | ||
| rate well above the baseline's is a quantization finding. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not label a high repetition rate as a quantization finding by itself.
The validation guidance states that speed, queueing, concurrency, verbosity, and unresolved timeout effects can affect limit-hit rates. A higher candidate rate therefore requires further investigation before attribution to quantization.
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- `repetition` stops with `length` stops but report them separately. A candidate
- rate well above the baseline's is a quantization finding.
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| `repetition` stops with `length` stops but report them separately. A candidate | |
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Update the validation guidance in the run-validation Output limits row and
Response gate so a higher candidate repetition-stop rate is treated as a signal
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| Catches judge auth/rate-limits, container failures, sandbox issues, OOM, bad request formatting, low evaluated counts. A canary that runs far longer than its sample count implies may be doom-looping — see `references/doom_loops.md`. Always inspect logs: |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Fix the relative link to doom_loops.md.
This file is already in references/, so references/doom_loops.md points to a nonexistent nested path. Link to doom_loops.md so readers can open the guide from the canary instructions.
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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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printf '%s\n' '--- guide ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- standard template scope ---'
nl -ba plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/example_eval.yaml | sed -n '108,170p'
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nl -ba plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/example_eval_next.yaml | sed -n '1,85p'
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git diff --no-ext-diff --unified=20 0c7f4ea578a04088bbe8f7131610d2fde83fb5fd 38f934dbece38139e513f39ed84ff24669060b8d -- plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/references/doom_loops.md plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/example_eval.yaml plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/example_eval_next.yamlRepository: NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer
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Document the complete configuration paths.
The guide calls these paths “top-level,” but the standard template places them under evaluation.nemo_evaluator_config, and the nel-next template places proxy.extra_body under the selected service (services.model in the example). A reader can therefore place repetition_detection outside the active configuration scope, so the harness can ignore it instead of forwarding it.
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--- "a/plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/references/doom_loops.md"
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## Config
-Add beside the existing entries in the top-level
-`target.api_endpoint.adapter_config.params_to_add` (nel-next: `proxy.extra_body`):
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+`evaluation.nemo_evaluator_config.target.api_endpoint.adapter_config.params_to_add`
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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).max_pattern_sizesets the CPU cost and the longest loop caught. SciCode and GPQA loops are short (99th-percentile period under 160 tokens). There, 256 saves the same tokens as 512–4096 (within 0.2 pt) and fires on the same non-loop generations. AA-LCR loops restate whole paragraphs, up to ~4K tokens per cycle.max_pattern_size1024 on AA-LCR fires on exactly the same BF16/IQ2 generations as 512, and adds 4–8 ms per step at AA-LCR's 16–32 concurrent requests. 4096 catches every loop, but cuts at least twice as many correct IQ1 answers and costs ~1 ms per request per step.
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; the numbers above are the full 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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vLLM #35451 (merged), vLLM #52677 (open, reasoning-only loop breaking).
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