Preference pairs × Calibrated Forecasting × Qwen3.5-9B. Loss forward_backward_custom / DPO. The compiled file is in the page source.
Train Qwen3.5-9B on forecast prefs with Tinker
forecasting-qwen3-5-9b-dpo.pysample · forward_backward · optim_step · save_state
"""Reinforcement.tech compiled Tinker loop
H1: Reinforcement: Build Your Own Reward Model
INPUT
Signal : Preference pairs (Pairwise preference)
In : Preferred / rejected pairs from real traces.
Task : Calibrated Forecasting — Scored predictions over time
Model : Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B (DENSE, 9B dense + vision)
OUTPUT
Loop : Runnable preference loop.
Loss : pairwise preference (no reference policy)
LoRA rank : 32
Steps : 50
Tinker primitives used in this file:
sample preview the adapter
forward_backward_custom pairwise preference loss
optim_step Adam update on the adapter
save_state checkpoint weights + optimizer
Requires:
uv pip install tinker torch
export TINKER_API_KEY=...
Docs: https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/quickstart/
Dataset JSONL (one record per line). Pass --data PATH.
environment : {"prompt": str, "metadata": {...}}
dpo : {"prompt": str, "chosen": str, "rejected": str}
sdft : {"prompt": str, "completion": str}
metadata is passed through to the verifier (expected answer, test file, Lean goal).
--eval-data uses the same schema on a held-out set (never optim_step).
Without --data this file runs one built-in example (a smoke test, not training).
CLI (overrides the module constants; --seed is only an args field):
--data --eval-data --eval-every --log --steps --rank --lr --out --seed
--resume --group-size --prompts-per-step --max-tokens --temperature
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import asyncio
import json
import os
import random
from pathlib import Path
try:
import tinker
from tinker import types
except ImportError: # --help and load_dataset work without Tinker installed
tinker = None
types = None
BASE_MODEL = "Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B"
LORA_RANK = 32
LEARNING_RATE = 1e-5
STEPS = 50
MAX_TOKENS = 256
TEMPERATURE = 0.4
GROUP_SIZE = 8
PROMPTS_PER_STEP = 1
EVAL_EVERY = 10
SAVE_EVERY = 10
RUN_NAME = Path(__file__).stem
DATASET_KEYS = ("prompt", "chosen", "rejected",)
LARGE_MODEL_NOTE = ""
def parse_args():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Reinforcement.tech compiled Tinker loop")
parser.add_argument("--data", help="JSONL dataset path")
parser.add_argument("--eval-data", help="Held-out JSONL. Same schema as --data. Never used for optim_step.")
parser.add_argument("--eval-every", type=int, default=EVAL_EVERY)
parser.add_argument("--log", help="Append per-step JSONL: {step, mean_reward, n_datums, loss}")
parser.add_argument("--steps", type=int, default=STEPS)
parser.add_argument("--rank", type=int, default=LORA_RANK)
parser.add_argument("--lr", type=float, default=float(LEARNING_RATE))
parser.add_argument("--out", default=RUN_NAME, help="Run name / checkpoint prefix")
parser.add_argument(
"--seed",
type=int,
default=0,
help="Shuffle seed for --data / --eval-data. Not copied in apply_args; rows_for_run reads args.seed.",
)
parser.add_argument("--resume", help="tinker:// path printed by save_state (weights + optimizer)")
parser.add_argument("--group-size", type=int, default=GROUP_SIZE)
parser.add_argument("--prompts-per-step", type=int, default=PROMPTS_PER_STEP)
parser.add_argument("--max-tokens", type=int, default=MAX_TOKENS)
parser.add_argument("--temperature", type=float, default=TEMPERATURE)
return parser.parse_args()
def apply_args(args) -> None:
global LORA_RANK, STEPS, LEARNING_RATE, RUN_NAME
global GROUP_SIZE, PROMPTS_PER_STEP, MAX_TOKENS, TEMPERATURE, EVAL_EVERY
# --seed is intentionally not a module constant. rows_for_run(args) and the
# eval shuffle read args.seed so two shuffles stay independent of apply_args.
LORA_RANK = args.rank
STEPS = args.steps
LEARNING_RATE = args.lr
RUN_NAME = args.out
GROUP_SIZE = args.group_size
PROMPTS_PER_STEP = args.prompts_per_step
MAX_TOKENS = args.max_tokens
TEMPERATURE = args.temperature
EVAL_EVERY = args.eval_every
def require_key() -> None:
if not os.environ.get("TINKER_API_KEY"):
raise SystemExit("Set TINKER_API_KEY before running this loop.")
def load_dataset(path: str) -> list[dict]:
"""Read JSONL. One record per line. Schema: see the module docstring."""
rows: list[dict] = []
with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as handle:
for line_no, line in enumerate(handle, 1):
line = line.strip()
if not line:
continue
row = json.loads(line)
missing = [key for key in DATASET_KEYS if key not in row]
if missing:
raise SystemExit(f"{path}:{line_no} missing {missing}")
rows.append(row)
if not rows:
raise SystemExit(f"{path} had no JSONL rows.")
return rows
def rows_for_run(args) -> list[dict]:
if args.data:
rows = load_dataset(args.data)
else:
print("No --data given; running on 1 built-in example. This is a smoke test, not training.")
rows = list(EXAMPLE_ROWS)
rng = random.Random(args.seed)
rng.shuffle(rows)
needed = max(args.steps, 1) * max(args.prompts_per_step, 1)
if needed > len(rows):
print(f"warning: --steps/--prompts-per-step need {needed} rows; dataset has {len(rows)}; cycling.")
return rows
def eval_rows_for_run(args) -> list[dict]:
if not args.eval_data:
return []
rows = load_dataset(args.eval_data)
rng = random.Random(args.seed)
rng.shuffle(rows)
return rows
def print_config(args, rows: list[dict], eval_rows: list[dict]) -> None:
print("=== run config ===")
print(f"model={BASE_MODEL}")
print(f"rank={LORA_RANK} steps={STEPS} lr={LEARNING_RATE} seed={args.seed}")
print(f"group_size={GROUP_SIZE} prompts_per_step={PROMPTS_PER_STEP}")
print(f"max_tokens={MAX_TOKENS} temperature={TEMPERATURE}")
print(f"data={args.data or '(EXAMPLE_ROWS)'} n_train={len(rows)}")
print(f"eval_data={args.eval_data or '(none)'} n_eval={len(eval_rows)} eval_every={EVAL_EVERY}")
print(f"log={args.log or '(none)'} resume={args.resume or '(none)'} out={RUN_NAME}")
print("==================")
if LARGE_MODEL_NOTE:
print(LARGE_MODEL_NOTE)
def append_metrics(path: str | None, record: dict) -> None:
if not path:
return
out = Path(path)
out.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
with out.open("a", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
handle.write(json.dumps(record) + "\n")
def metric_loss(result) -> float | None:
metrics = getattr(result, "metrics", None) or {}
if hasattr(metrics, "get"):
for key in ("loss", "dpo_loss"):
if metrics.get(key) is not None:
return metrics[key]
loss = getattr(result, "loss", None)
return float(loss) if loss is not None else None
async def connect(args):
if tinker is None or types is None:
raise SystemExit("uv pip install tinker — then rerun.")
service = tinker.ServiceClient()
if args.resume:
training = await service.create_training_client_from_state_with_optimizer_async(args.resume)
print(f"resumed weights+optimizer from {args.resume}")
else:
training = await service.create_lora_training_client_async(
base_model=BASE_MODEL,
rank=LORA_RANK,
user_metadata={"product": "reinforcement.tech", "run": RUN_NAME},
)
tokenizer = training.get_tokenizer()
return service, training, tokenizer
async def sampling_client(training):
"""Ephemeral on-policy sampler. Do not pass name= — it is deprecated and ignored."""
return await training.save_weights_and_get_sampling_client_async()
async def checkpoint(training, step: int) -> None:
if STEPS == 0:
return
if step % SAVE_EVERY != 0 and step != STEPS - 1:
return
saved = await training.save_state_async(name=f"{RUN_NAME}-step-{step}")
result = await saved.result_async()
path = getattr(result, "path", None)
print(f"checkpoint name={RUN_NAME}-step-{step} path={path}")
print("resume later with --resume PATH")
BETA = 0.1
LENGTH_NORMALIZE = True # set False to compare raw summed logprobs (length-biased)
# Built-in smoke-test pair. Used only when --data is absent.
PREFERRED = "0.31 — base rate plus one independent signal; do not round to 50%."
REJECTED = "0.50 — no new signal, so I rounded to even odds and stopped."
PROMPT = "Complete the task. Prefer the trace a senior builder would keep."
EXAMPLE_ROWS = [{"prompt": PROMPT, "chosen": PREFERRED, "rejected": REJECTED}]
def as_sft_datum(tokenizer, prompt: str, completion: str) -> types.Datum:
prompt_tokens = tokenizer.encode(prompt)
completion_tokens = tokenizer.encode(completion)
full = prompt_tokens + completion_tokens
n_prefix = max(len(prompt_tokens) - 1, 0)
return types.Datum(
model_input=types.ModelInput.from_ints(tokens=full[:-1]),
loss_fn_inputs=dict(
target_tokens=full[1:],
weights=[0.0] * n_prefix + [1.0] * len(completion_tokens),
),
)
def dpo_loss(data, logprobs_list):
"""Pairwise logistic preference. No frozen reference policy (closer to SLiC than textbook DPO).
LENGTH_NORMALIZE divides each sum by completion-token count so the loss does not
prefer shorter strings. Turn it off only if you want the raw-sum (length-biased) objective.
Batches are (chosen, rejected) pairs; loss is the mean over pairs.
"""
import torch
import torch.nn.functional as F
def scored_tokens(datum, logprobs):
weights = datum.loss_fn_inputs.get("weights")
if weights is None:
return max(len(logprobs), 1)
try:
return max(int((weights > 0).sum()), 1)
except TypeError:
return max(sum(1 for weight in weights if weight), 1)
pair_losses = []
for index in range(0, len(logprobs_list), 2):
preferred_lp = logprobs_list[index].sum()
rejected_lp = logprobs_list[index + 1].sum()
if LENGTH_NORMALIZE:
preferred_lp = preferred_lp / scored_tokens(data[index], logprobs_list[index])
rejected_lp = rejected_lp / scored_tokens(data[index + 1], logprobs_list[index + 1])
pair_losses.append(-F.logsigmoid(BETA * (preferred_lp - rejected_lp)))
loss = torch.stack(pair_losses).mean()
return loss, {"dpo_loss": float(loss.detach())}
async def forward_ce(training, datums) -> float:
future = await training.forward_async(datums, loss_fn="cross_entropy")
result = await future.result_async()
loss = metric_loss(result)
return float(loss) if loss is not None else 0.0
async def evaluate(eval_rows, training, tokenizer) -> float:
margins: list[float] = []
for row in eval_rows:
chosen = as_sft_datum(tokenizer, str(row["prompt"]), str(row["chosen"]))
rejected = as_sft_datum(tokenizer, str(row["prompt"]), str(row["rejected"]))
chosen_ce = await forward_ce(training, [chosen])
rejected_ce = await forward_ce(training, [rejected])
margins.append(rejected_ce - chosen_ce)
return sum(margins) / max(len(margins), 1)
async def train(args) -> None:
require_key()
rows = rows_for_run(args)
eval_rows = eval_rows_for_run(args)
print_config(args, rows, eval_rows)
_service, training, tokenizer = await connect(args)
preview_prompt_text = str(rows[0]["prompt"]) if rows else PROMPT
for step in range(STEPS):
datums = []
for offset in range(PROMPTS_PER_STEP):
row = rows[(step * PROMPTS_PER_STEP + offset) % len(rows)]
datums.append(as_sft_datum(tokenizer, str(row["prompt"]), str(row["chosen"])))
datums.append(as_sft_datum(tokenizer, str(row["prompt"]), str(row["rejected"])))
fwdbwd = await training.forward_backward_custom_async(datums, dpo_loss)
optim = await training.optim_step_async(types.AdamParams(learning_rate=LEARNING_RATE))
result = await fwdbwd.result_async()
await optim.result_async()
await checkpoint(training, step)
loss = metric_loss(result)
append_metrics(args.log, {"step": step, "mean_reward": None, "n_datums": len(datums), "loss": loss})
print(f"step {step:03d} {result.metrics}")
if eval_rows and step % EVAL_EVERY == 0:
eval_margin = await evaluate(eval_rows, training, tokenizer)
append_metrics(
args.log,
{"step": step, "mean_reward": eval_margin, "n_datums": len(eval_rows), "loss": None, "split": "eval"},
)
print(f"step {step:03d} eval_margin={eval_margin:.3f} n={len(eval_rows)}")
sampling = await sampling_client(training)
preview_prompt = types.ModelInput.from_ints(tokenizer.encode(preview_prompt_text))
preview = await sampling.sample_async(
prompt=preview_prompt,
num_samples=1,
sampling_params=types.SamplingParams(max_tokens=MAX_TOKENS, temperature=TEMPERATURE),
)
print("sample:", tokenizer.decode(preview.sequences[0].tokens))
if __name__ == "__main__":
args = parse_args()
apply_args(args)
asyncio.run(train(args))
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