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[Feat]: add check_data_production_status and check_consumption_status and support Polling get metadata#157

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  • New Features
    • Added ability to check data production status for specific fields within partitions.
    • Added ability to check data consumption status for tasks within partitions.
    • Added capability to retrieve a list of available partitions.
    • Introduced polling mode support for improved performance with early returns in metadata and status queries.

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The changes implement status-checking capabilities for data production and consumption in a transfer queue system. New async and sync client methods enable checking production/consumption status and listing partitions. The controller is extended with production status verification, polling-aware initialization, and request handlers for new operations. Supporting ZMQ enum types are added, and tests are updated to validate status through dedicated controller methods.

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Protocol & Message Types
transfer_queue/utils/zmq_utils.py
Added four new enum members to ZMQRequestType: CHECK_PRODUCTION, PRODUCTION_RESPONSE, GET_LIST_PARTITIONS, LIST_PARTITIONS_RESPONSE for messaging protocol expansion.
Client API
transfer_queue/client.py
Implemented three async methods on AsyncTransferQueueClient: check_data_consumption_status(), check_data_production_status(), get_partition_list() with optional socket parameter. Added synchronous wrappers on TransferQueueClient: check_consumption_status(), check_production_status().
Controller Logic
transfer_queue/controller.py
Added use_polling parameter to __init__. Introduced get_production_status() method and get_production_status_for_fields() on DataPartitionStatus. Extended _process_request() to handle CHECK_PRODUCTION and GET_LIST_PARTITIONS requests. Modified clear() to pop partition from tracking map. Updated metadata retrieval paths for polling-aware early returns.
Test Updates
tests/test_controller.py
Replaced zero-tensor assertions with dedicated status-checking method calls. Updated post-clear expectations to verify partition becomes None and index range is empty rather than asserting on zeroed status tensors.

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sequenceDiagram
    participant Client as TransferQueueClient
    participant Ctrl as TransferQueueController
    participant ZMQ as ZMQ Protocol
    
    rect rgb(220, 240, 250)
        note over Client, Ctrl: Production Status Check Flow
        Client->>+Ctrl: check_data_production_status(data_fields, partition_id)
        
        Ctrl->>Ctrl: get_production_status(partition_id, data_fields)
        activate Ctrl
        Ctrl->>Ctrl: Verify all fields produced<br/>for all allocated samples
        deactivate Ctrl
        
        Ctrl-->>-Client: PRODUCTION_RESPONSE (bool)
        Client->>Client: Return production status
    end
    
    rect rgb(220, 250, 230)
        note over Client, Ctrl: Consumption Status Check Flow
        Client->>+Ctrl: check_data_consumption_status(task_name, partition_id)
        Ctrl->>Ctrl: Query partition metadata<br/>for consumption state
        Ctrl-->>-Client: CONSUMPTION_RESPONSE (bool)
        Client->>Client: Return consumption status
    end
    
    rect rgb(250, 240, 220)
        note over Client, Ctrl: Partition List Retrieval
        Client->>+Ctrl: get_partition_list()
        Ctrl->>Ctrl: Collect active partition_ids<br/>from internal registry
        Ctrl-->>-Client: LIST_PARTITIONS_RESPONSE (list[str])
        Client->>Client: Return partition list
    end
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@0oshowero0 0oshowero0 changed the title [feat]: add check_data_production_status and check_consumption_status and support Polling get metadata [Feat]: add check_data_production_status and check_consumption_status and support Polling get metadata Dec 23, 2025
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Pull request overview

This PR adds support for checking data production and consumption status, implements a new partition list query endpoint, and introduces a polling mode for metadata retrieval that returns immediately if data is not available instead of blocking.

Key changes:

  • Added check_data_production_status and check_data_consumption_status client methods to query the readiness of data partitions
  • Implemented polling support via a new use_polling parameter that allows get_metadata to return None immediately when data is unavailable instead of blocking
  • Added get_partition_list client method to retrieve all partition IDs from the controller

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File Description
transfer_queue/utils/zmq_utils.py Added new ZMQ request types for production status checks and partition list queries
transfer_queue/controller.py Implemented production status checking, polling mode support in metadata retrieval, new request handlers, and modified partition cleanup logic
transfer_queue/client.py Added async and sync client methods for checking consumption/production status and fetching partition lists
tests/test_controller.py Added tests for production/consumption status retrieval and updated assertions for partition cleanup behavior
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transfer_queue/controller.py:850

  • The return type annotation for get_metadata is BatchMeta, but when use_polling is True, the method can return None on line 897. The return type should be updated to Optional[BatchMeta] or BatchMeta | None to accurately reflect this possibility.
    def get_metadata(
        self,
        data_fields: list[str],
        partition_id: str,
        mode: str = "fetch",
        task_name: str | None = None,
        batch_size: int | None = None,
        sampling_config: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None,
        *args,
        **kwargs,
    ) -> BatchMeta:

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async def check_data_consumption_status(
self,
task_name: str,
partition_id: str,
socket: Optional[zmq.asyncio.Socket] = None,
) -> bool:
"""Check if all samples for current partition have been consumed by a specific task.

Args:
task_name: Name of the task to check consumption for
partition_id: Partition id to check consumption status for
socket: ZMQ async socket for message transmission (injected by decorator)

Returns:
bool: True if all samples have been consumed by the task, False otherwise

Raises:
RuntimeError: If communication fails or controller returns error response

Example:
>>> # Check if all samples have been consumed
>>> is_consumed = asyncio.run(client.check_data_consumption_status(
... task_name="generate_sequences",
... partition_id="train_0"
... ))
>>> print(f"All samples consumed: {is_consumed}")
"""
# TODO: Implement this method to check if all samples for the current step has been consumed
pass
assert socket is not None
request_msg = ZMQMessage.create(
request_type=ZMQRequestType.CHECK_CONSUMPTION,
sender_id=self.client_id,
receiver_id=self._controller.id,
body={
"partition_id": partition_id,
"task_name": task_name,
},
)

try:
await socket.send_multipart(request_msg.serialize())
response_serialized = await socket.recv_multipart()
response_msg = ZMQMessage.deserialize(response_serialized)
logger.debug(
f"[{self.client_id}]: Client check consumption response: {response_msg} "
f"from controller {self._controller.id}"
)

if response_msg.request_type == ZMQRequestType.CONSUMPTION_RESPONSE:
consumed = response_msg.body.get("consumed", False)
return consumed
else:
raise RuntimeError(
f"[{self.client_id}]: Failed to check consumption status from controller {self._controller.id}: "
f"{response_msg.body.get('message', 'Unknown error')}"
)
except Exception as e:
raise RuntimeError(f"[{self.client_id}]: Error in check_data_consumption_status: {str(e)}") from e

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The new client method check_data_consumption_status lacks test coverage. Since the test file has comprehensive coverage for other client methods like put, get_meta, and clear, this new method should have corresponding tests to verify its behavior, error handling, and integration with the controller.

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async def check_data_production_status(
self,
data_fields: list[str],
partition_id: str,
socket: Optional[zmq.asyncio.Socket] = None,
) -> bool:
"""Check if all samples for current partition are ready (produced) for consumption.

Args:
data_fields: Data fields to check production status for
partition_id: Partition id to check production status for
socket: ZMQ async socket for message transmission (injected by decorator)

Returns:
bool: True if all samples have been produced and ready, False otherwise

Raises:
RuntimeError: If communication fails or controller returns error response

Example:
>>> # Check if all samples are ready for consumption
>>> is_ready = asyncio.run(client.check_data_production_status(
... data_fields=["input_ids", "attention_mask"],
... partition_id="train_0"
... ))
>>> print(f"All samples ready: {is_ready}")
"""
# TODO: Implement this method to check if all samples for the current step is ready for consumption
pass
assert socket is not None
request_msg = ZMQMessage.create(
request_type=ZMQRequestType.CHECK_PRODUCTION,
sender_id=self.client_id,
receiver_id=self._controller.id,
body={
"partition_id": partition_id,
"data_fields": data_fields,
},
)

try:
await socket.send_multipart(request_msg.serialize())
response_serialized = await socket.recv_multipart()
response_msg = ZMQMessage.deserialize(response_serialized)
logger.debug(
f"[{self.client_id}]: Client check production response: {response_msg} "
f"from controller {self._controller.id}"
)

if response_msg.request_type == ZMQRequestType.PRODUCTION_RESPONSE:
produced = response_msg.body.get("produced", False)
return produced
else:
raise RuntimeError(
f"[{self.client_id}]: Failed to check production status from controller {self._controller.id}: "
f"{response_msg.body.get('message', 'Unknown error')}"
)
except Exception as e:
raise RuntimeError(f"[{self.client_id}]: Error in check_data_production_status: {str(e)}") from e

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The new client method check_data_production_status lacks test coverage. Since the test file has comprehensive coverage for other client methods like put, get_meta, and clear, this new method should have corresponding tests to verify its behavior, error handling, and integration with the controller.

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async def get_partition_list(
self,
socket: Optional[zmq.asyncio.Socket] = None,
) -> list[str]:
"""Asynchronously fetch the list of partition ids from the controller.

Returns:
list[str]: List of partition ids managed by the controller
"""
request_msg = ZMQMessage.create(
request_type=ZMQRequestType.GET_LIST_PARTITIONS,
sender_id=self.client_id,
receiver_id=self._controller.id,
body={},
)

try:
await socket.send_multipart(request_msg.serialize())
response_serialized = await socket.recv_multipart()
response_msg = ZMQMessage.deserialize(response_serialized)
logger.debug(
f"[{self.client_id}]: Client get partition list response: {response_msg} "
f"from controller {self._controller.id}"
)

if response_msg.request_type == ZMQRequestType.LIST_PARTITIONS_RESPONSE:
partition_ids = response_msg.body.get("partition_ids", [])
return partition_ids
else:
raise RuntimeError(
f"[{self.client_id}]: Failed to get partition list from controller {self._controller.id}: "
f"{response_msg.body.get('message', 'Unknown error')}"
)
except Exception as e:
raise RuntimeError(f"[{self.client_id}]: Error in get_partition_list: {str(e)}") from e

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The new client method get_partition_list lacks test coverage. Since the test file has comprehensive coverage for other client methods like put, get_meta, and clear, this new method should have corresponding tests to verify its behavior, error handling, and integration with the controller.

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"""

def __init__(self, sampler: BaseSampler | type[BaseSampler] = SequentialSampler) -> None:
def __init__(self, sampler: BaseSampler | type[BaseSampler] = SequentialSampler, use_polling=None) -> None:

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The docstring parameter name 'sampler' is missing from the Args section after the new 'use_polling' parameter was added. Consider documenting the 'use_polling' parameter with a description of its purpose and expected values.

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field_names: List of field names to check production status for

Returns:
bool: True if all samples have been produced for all specified fields, False otherwise

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I'm wondering is that necessary to directly return self.production_status[:, col_mask], so that users can know what is happening inside the controller?

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I don’t need it right now; I can add it later.

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if len(ready_for_consume_indexes) < batch_size:
if self.use_polling:
return None

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Need logging for this situation

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"""

def __init__(self, sampler: BaseSampler | type[BaseSampler] = SequentialSampler) -> None:
def __init__(self, sampler: BaseSampler | type[BaseSampler] = SequentialSampler, use_polling=None) -> None:

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maybe non_blocking is a more direct var name? When non_blocking=False, we raise an error; when non_blocking=True, we return empty.

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I think this isn’t really about “blocking” vs. “non_blocking”; it’s just that the sampling methods differ.

if len(ready_for_consume_indexes) < batch_size:
if self.use_polling:
return None
if time.time() - start_time > TQ_CONTROLLER_GET_METADATA_TIMEOUT:

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Do we need to apply the timeout mechanism when use_polling?

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                if len(ready_for_consume_indexes) < batch_size:
                    if time.time() - start_time > TQ_CONTROLLER_GET_METADATA_TIMEOUT:
                        if self.use_polling:
                            return BatchMeta().empty()
                        else:
                            raise TimeoutError(
                                f"Timeout while waiting for sufficient data. "
                                f"Required: {batch_size}, Available: {len(ready_for_consume_indexes)}"
                            )
                    logger.warning(
                        f"Insufficient complete groups available. Required: {batch_size}, "
                        f"Available: {len(ready_for_consume_indexes)}. Retrying in "
                        f"{TQ_CONTROLLER_GET_METADATA_CHECK_INTERVAL}s..."
                    )
                    time.sleep(TQ_CONTROLLER_GET_METADATA_CHECK_INTERVAL)
                    continue

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Not really needed—it should return immediately.

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For some reference: #158 refactor some confusing logics; https://github.com/TransferQueue/TransferQueue/tree/han/polling_get_metadata some func name & docstring optimization

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Comment thread transfer_queue/client.py
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def check_consumption_status(self, task_name: str, partition_id: str) -> bool:
"""Synchronously check if all samples for a partition have been consumed by a specific task.

Args:
task_name: Name of the task to check consumption for
partition_id: Partition id to check consumption status for

Returns:
bool: True if all samples have been consumed by the task, False otherwise
"""
return asyncio.run(self.async_check_consumption_status(task_name, partition_id))

def check_production_status(self, data_fields: list[str], partition_id: str) -> bool:
"""Synchronously check if all samples for a partition are ready (produced) for consumption.

Args:
data_fields: Data fields to check production status for
partition_id: Partition id to check production status for

Returns:
bool: True if all samples have been produced and ready, False otherwise
"""
return asyncio.run(self.async_check_production_status(data_fields, partition_id))

def get_partition_list(
self,
):
"""Synchronously fetch the list of partition ids from the controller.

Returns:
list[str]: List of partition ids managed by the controller
"""
return asyncio.run(self.async_get_partition_list())

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The new client methods check_consumption_status, check_production_status, and get_partition_list lack test coverage. Similar methods in the codebase have unit tests in test_client.py. Consider adding test coverage for these new methods to ensure they work correctly with the ZMQ communication layer.

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### What does this PR do?

- Update TQ to formal release version.
- Fix the shallow copy bug for chunking `BatchMeta`
https://gitcode.com/Ascend/TransferQueue/pull/2
- Fix race condition for modifying torch num_threads
https://gitcode.com/Ascend/TransferQueue/pull/5
- More robust port binding
https://gitcode.com/Ascend/TransferQueue/pull/3
- Optimize memory usage for zero-copy transfer
TransferQueue/TransferQueue#163
- add check_data_production_status and check_consumption_status and
support polling get metadata
TransferQueue/TransferQueue#157 @NINGBENZHE
- (alpha) Support Mooncake Store backend
TransferQueue/TransferQueue#162 @zhaohaidao
- (alpha) Support Ray RDT backend
TransferQueue/TransferQueue#167

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### What does this PR do?

- Update TQ to formal release version.
- Fix the shallow copy bug for chunking `BatchMeta`
https://gitcode.com/Ascend/TransferQueue/pull/2
- Fix race condition for modifying torch num_threads
https://gitcode.com/Ascend/TransferQueue/pull/5
- More robust port binding
https://gitcode.com/Ascend/TransferQueue/pull/3
- Optimize memory usage for zero-copy transfer
TransferQueue/TransferQueue#163
- add check_data_production_status and check_consumption_status and
support polling get metadata
TransferQueue/TransferQueue#157 @NINGBENZHE
- (alpha) Support Mooncake Store backend
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TransferQueue/TransferQueue#167

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* [recipe] feat: migrate `recipe` to the dedicated repo `verl-recipe` as a submodule (#4795)

### What does this PR do?

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1. migrates most recipes from the `recipe` directory to the dedicated
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[`fully_async_policy`](verl/experimental/fully_async_policy),
[`one_step_off_policy`](verl/experimental/one_step_off_policy) and
[`vla`](verl/experimental/vla) to
[`verl/experimental`](verl/experimental) since they are planned to be
merged into the main library,
5. updates related CI and paths accordingly,
6. updates the README news and awesome projects about this migration,
7. forces into a single commit and tries its best to recognize `rename`
to keep the commit history trackable.

See the "conjugate" PR at
https://github.com/verl-project/verl-recipe/pull/7.

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* [model] fix: fix temp dtype (#4813)

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* [vllm, sglang, rollout] fix: Fix a mistake when running run_qwen3_vl-30b-megatron.sh with latest verl and vllm0.12 (#4810)

* [ckpt] feat: add checkpoint-engine abstraction (#4775)

### What does this PR do?

Add Checkpoint Engine abstraction.

#### Overview
Checkpoint Engine is an unified abstract layer to synchronize weights
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- send_weights: get named tensors from generator and send them in
streaming manner.
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streaming manner.
- get_weights: return a tensor generator that yield named tensors in
streaming manner, used for each inference instance update weight
independently from local cache (e.g share memory, disk).

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#### verl core
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* [doc] chore: fix checkpoint engine image link (#4821)

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* [hardware] fix: automatically set device for SFT case (#4828)

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* [data] feat: TransferQueue - Update TransferQueue version and docs (#4829)

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- add check_data_production_status and check_consumption_status and
support polling get metadata
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* [doc] Update docs about fully_async_policy (#4826)

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Update documentation about fully_async_policy and adjust the formatting
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* [ckpt] fix: FSDP save ckpt after validation (#4799)

### What does this PR do?

This PR fixes a bug in the `save_checkpoint` function for FSDPEngine.

In the original logic, if the model engine is used
(`use_legacy_worker_impl=disable`), the `wake_up` function in
`verl/workers/engine_workers.py` will be invoked during the rollout
phase of each step, which will offload the model to CPU.

Under normal circumstances, the `compute_log_prob` function called
during the training phase can load the model back to GPU. However, the
training process is not executed during the validation phase, leaving
the model on the CPU. If a checkpoint is saved immediately after
validation, it will trigger the following error: `AssertionError:
Expects tensor to be on the compute device cuda:0, was on cpu.`

<details>
<summary>Details</summary>

Script:
```
set -x
python examples/data_preprocess/geo3k.py --local_dir ~/data/geo3k
python -m verl.trainer.main_ppo \
  algorithm.adv_estimator=grpo \
  data.train_files=$HOME/data/geo3k/train.parquet \
  data.val_files=$HOME/data/geo3k/test.parquet \
  data.train_batch_size=512 \
  data.max_prompt_length=1024 \
  data.max_response_length=2048 \
  data.filter_overlong_prompts=True \
  data.truncation='error' \
  data.image_key=images \
  actor_rollout_ref.model.path=Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct \
  actor_rollout_ref.actor.optim.lr=1e-6 \
  actor_rollout_ref.model.use_remove_padding=True \
  actor_rollout_ref.actor.ppo_mini_batch_size=128 \
  actor_rollout_ref.actor.ppo_micro_batch_size_per_gpu=4 \
  actor_rollout_ref.actor.use_kl_loss=True \
  actor_rollout_ref.actor.kl_loss_coef=0.01 \
  actor_rollout_ref.actor.kl_loss_type=low_var_kl \
  actor_rollout_ref.actor.entropy_coeff=0 \
  actor_rollout_ref.model.enable_gradient_checkpointing=True \
  actor_rollout_ref.actor.fsdp_config.param_offload=False \
  actor_rollout_ref.actor.fsdp_config.optimizer_offload=False \
  actor_rollout_ref.rollout.log_prob_micro_batch_size_per_gpu=16 \
  actor_rollout_ref.rollout.tensor_model_parallel_size=2 \
  actor_rollout_ref.rollout.name=vllm \
  actor_rollout_ref.rollout.gpu_memory_utilization=0.6 \
  actor_rollout_ref.rollout.enable_chunked_prefill=False \
  actor_rollout_ref.rollout.enforce_eager=False \
  actor_rollout_ref.rollout.free_cache_engine=False \
  actor_rollout_ref.rollout.n=5 \
  actor_rollout_ref.ref.log_prob_micro_batch_size_per_gpu=16 \
  actor_rollout_ref.ref.fsdp_config.param_offload=False \
  algorithm.use_kl_in_reward=False \
  trainer.use_legacy_worker_impl=disable \
  trainer.critic_warmup=0 \
  trainer.logger=['console','wandb'] \
  trainer.project_name='verl_ci_grpo_example_geo3k' \
  trainer.experiment_name='qwen2_5_vl_3b_function_rm' \
  trainer.n_gpus_per_node=8 \
  trainer.nnodes=1 \
  trainer.log_val_generations=20 \
  trainer.save_freq=5 \
  trainer.test_freq=5 \
  trainer.total_epochs=15
```

Error:

  ```
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) ERROR:2026-01-05
07:35:49,128:Got error when executing task.
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) Traceback (most
recent call last):
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"python/ray/_raylet.pyx", line 1890, in ray._raylet.execute_task
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"python/ray/_raylet.pyx", line 1998, in ray._raylet.execute_task
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"python/ray/_raylet.pyx", line 1897, in ray._raylet.execute_task
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"python/ray/_raylet.pyx", line 1825, in
ray._raylet.execute_task.function_executor
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"python/ray/_raylet.pyx", line 4651, in
ray._raylet.CoreWorker.run_async_func_or_coro_in_event_loop
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/lib/python3.12/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 449, in result
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) return
self.__get_result()
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/lib/python3.12/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 401, in
__get_result
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) raise
self._exception
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"python/ray/_raylet.pyx", line 4638, in async_func
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/ray/_private/async_compat.py",
line 50, in wrapper
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) return func(*args,
**kwargs)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/ray/_private/function_manager.py",
line 691, in actor_method_executor
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) return
method(__ray_actor, *args, **kwargs)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/ray/util/tracing/tracing_helper.py",
line 463, in _resume_span
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) return
method(self, *_args, **_kwargs)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/opt/tiger/open_verl/verl/single_controller/ray/base.py", line 841, in
func
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) return
getattr(self.worker_dict[key], name)(*args, **kwargs)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/opt/tiger/open_verl/verl/single_controller/base/decorator.py", line
456, in inner
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) return func(*args,
**kwargs)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/opt/tiger/open_verl/verl/utils/transferqueue_utils.py", line 314, in
dummy_inner
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) output =
func(*args, **kwargs)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/opt/tiger/open_verl/verl/workers/engine_workers.py", line 541, in
save_checkpoint
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
self.actor.save_checkpoint(local_path, hdfs_path, global_step,
max_ckpt_to_keep)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/opt/tiger/open_verl/verl/single_controller/base/decorator.py", line
456, in inner
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) return func(*args,
**kwargs)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/opt/tiger/open_verl/verl/utils/transferqueue_utils.py", line 314, in
dummy_inner
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) output =
func(*args, **kwargs)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/opt/tiger/open_verl/verl/workers/engine_workers.py", line 343, in
save_checkpoint
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) return
self.engine.save_checkpoint(local_path, hdfs_path, global_step,
max_ckpt_to_keep)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/opt/tiger/open_verl/verl/workers/engine/fsdp/transformer_impl.py",
line 607, in save_checkpoint
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
self.checkpoint_manager.save_checkpoint(
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/opt/tiger/open_verl/verl/utils/checkpoint/fsdp_checkpoint_manager.py",
line 238, in save_checkpoint
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) model_state_dict =
self.model.state_dict()
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py",
line 2256, in state_dict
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) hook(self, prefix,
keep_vars)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/utils/_contextlib.py",
line 120, in decorate_context
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) return func(*args,
**kwargs)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/distributed/fsdp/_state_dict_utils.py",
line 777, in _pre_state_dict_hook
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
_pre_state_dict_hook_fn[fsdp_state._state_dict_type](
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/distributed/fsdp/_state_dict_utils.py",
line 517, in _sharded_pre_state_dict_hook
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
_common_unshard_pre_state_dict_hook(
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/distributed/fsdp/_state_dict_utils.py",
line 161, in _common_unshard_pre_state_dict_hook
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
_enter_unshard_params_ctx(
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/distributed/fsdp/_state_dict_utils.py",
line 125, in _enter_unshard_params_ctx
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
fsdp_state._unshard_params_ctx[module].__enter__()
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/lib/python3.12/contextlib.py", line 137, in __enter__
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) return
next(self.gen)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/distributed/fsdp/_unshard_param_utils.py",
line 199, in _unshard_fsdp_state_params
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) _unshard(state,
handle, computation_stream, computation_stream)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/distributed/fsdp/_runtime_utils.py",
line 290, in _unshard
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) ran_pre_unshard =
handle.pre_unshard()
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/distributed/fsdp/_flat_param.py",
line 1303, in pre_unshard
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])
self._check_on_compute_device(self.flat_param)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/distributed/fsdp/_flat_param.py",
line 2582, in _check_on_compute_device
  (WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f])     _p_assert(
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.12/dist-packages/torch/distributed/utils.py",
line 159, in _p_assert
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) raise
AssertionError(s)
(WorkerDict pid=42417, ip=[fdbd:dccd:cdd2:2207::30f]) AssertionError:
Expects tensor to be on the compute device cuda:0, was on cpu
  ```
</details>

To fix this bug, this PR checks whether the model is located on the CPU
before saving the checkpoint and loads it onto the GPU if that is the
case. The same bug also exists in Megatron, which requires further
fixes.

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* [perf] feat: Add MFU for Qwen3-VL dense (#4753)

### What does this PR do?
Add the _estimate_qwen3_vit_flop and _estimate_qwen3_vl_flops function
to calculate the FLOPs of Qwen3-VL dense models. Update the test cases
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* [tool] fix: avoid nested ToolResponse in SandboxFusionTool (#4833)

### What does this PR do?

Fix an incorrect double-wrapping of `ToolResponse` in
`SandboxFusionTool.execute()`.

- `execute_code()` already returns a `ToolResponse`, but `execute()`
previously wrapped it again as `ToolResponse(text=result)`.
- Since `ToolResponse.text` expects `str | None`, the old behavior could
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* [vllm] fix: fix error in vllm patch for diff vllm version and add ci for moe with fp8 rollout (#4824)

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fix error in vllm patch for diff vllm version and add ci for moe with
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* [algo] feat: add optimal token baseline and variance proxy (#4678)

# Optimal Token Baseline

## Main feature
- Register `AdvantageEstimator.OPTIMAL_TOKEN_BASELINE`.
- Extend the DP actor to emit `sum_pi_squared`, expose
`calculate_sum_pi_squared` and checkpointing toggles across configs, and
add a reusable `calculate_sum_pi_squared_from_logits` function.
- Introduce `compute_variance_proxy_metrics` to surface signal/total
power/noise diagnostics during training.
- Document the method in `docs/algo/otb.md` and ship an executable
example at `examples/otb_trainer/run_qwen2_5-7b.sh`.

## Usage
- Enable OTB by overriding config keys (OmegaConf overlay):
  ```yaml
  algorithm.adv_estimator: optimal_token_baseline
  actor_rollout_ref:
    actor:
      calculate_sum_pi_squared: true
      sum_pi_squared_checkpointing: false  # optional for long contexts
    rollout:
      n: 8
  ```
- Run the example script (adjust dataset paths & WandB project as
needed):
  ```bash
  bash examples/otb_trainer/run_qwen2_5-7b.sh 
  ```
- Monitor the new variance proxies in trainer logs:
`variance_proxy/proxy1_signal_strength`, `proxy2_total_power`,
`proxy3_pure_noise`.

## keyNote
- `actor.calculate_sum_pi_squared` requires
`actor_rollout_ref.model.use_fused_kernels=False`; fused kernels must
surface logits before OTB can run there.
- Group sampling is mandatory (`rollout.n > 1`); with single-rollout
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* [megatron] fix: Fix error in megatron workers (#4832)

### What does this PR do?
There is a bug in megatron_workers.py, 745 line is redundant and
introduces a bug. It overwrites the estimated_flops and promised_flops
calculated on lines 742-744.
Also, the condition "vl" in func.__name__ is brittle as it relies on a
naming convention. This could lead to silent miscalculations of MFU if a
new vision-language model's estimation function is named differently. A
more robust approach is to attempt calling the function with the extra
arguments and handle the TypeError if it doesn't support them.

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* [training_utils] fix: json encode error in filelogger (#4811)

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* [ckpt] chore: skip saving hf_checkpoint during megatron+lora training & add a separate lora merge script (#4839)

### What does this PR do?

When using LoRA, MegatronCheckpointManager.save_checkpoint not only
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* [rollout, vllm] fix: accuracy issue in verl serve mode + vllm-ascend + dp + ep + tp scenarios (#4783)

### What does this PR do?
Fix the accuracy issue in verl + vllm-ascend dp+ep+tp+server scenarios,
issue:https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/5544

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### Design & Code Changes
Root cause analysis: currently, the version of Verl + Ascend NPU +
vllm-ascend is
[v0.11.0](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ascend_tutorial/ascend_quick_start.html).
In the vllm-ascend v0.11.0 code, the all2all backend
(flashinfer_all2allv) is selected and updated to the vllm worker
environment. However, verl's ExternalZeroMQDistributedExecutor does not
pass this environment to the vllm worker processes like vllm's
[RayDistributedExecutor](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/0d4044edd85de30d7d4558aeea4d1e95c7c556d6/vllm/v1/executor/ray_executor.py#L337)
backend does. Therefore, due to the all2all backend for vllm-ascend is
wrong, and then there is a precision issue on vllm-ascend.

Implementation:
1. In vLLMAsyncRollout, when initiating vllm work, if it's an NPU
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2. Add vllm engine environment variables setting in rollout.yaml,
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* [fsdp] feat: add validate process on trainer node when use_trainer_do_validate=True (#4683)

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User Trainer node to do validate process when run mode on fully-async,
It can save time for validate computing and reduce perf/time_of_step
peak
- add new use_trainer_do_validate on fully_async async_training config
to decide whether using trainer node to do validate process
- use_trainer_do_validate: default is false
- It can improve performance of validate, such as in
`dapo_7b_math_fsdp2_8_8.sh`, it can improve about 1X speed

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- optimized the `process_validation_metrics()` on `_validate()` process,
when input datasets len=1444, it latency reduce from 150+s to 40+s

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- the optimized scripts is `dapo_7b_math_fsdp2_8_8.sh`
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* [misc] fix: recipe submodule accidentally been removed (#4843)

### What does this PR do?

As title.

* [worker, training_utils] fix: Engine Metric Aggregation (#4778)

### What does this PR do?

Because some metrics are scaled by global_bsz/global_tokens in
`workers.utils.losses.ppo_loss`, the mean in `reduce_metrics` adds an
extra scaling of the metric by the number of gradient accumulation steps
(see examples in Test sec):

https://github.com/volcengine/verl/blob/c191c5eb5c9499dca6666a52bc5f360bfd4bbf4f/verl/utils/metric/utils.py#L53

Aggregation of the `loss` metric handles this by taking sum:
https://github.com/volcengine/verl/blob/c191c5eb5c9499dca6666a52bc5f360bfd4bbf4f/verl/workers/engine_workers.py#L143-L144
Depending on how metrics are handled in `workers.utils.losses.ppo_loss`,
it may not be correct to aggregate all of them using sum (as in #4785).
For example, `actor/pg_loss` and `actor/kl_loss` are scaled by global
batch sizes/ token counts, and should be aggregated using sum, while the
`pg_metrics` `pg_clipfrac`, `ppo_kl`, and `pg_clipfrac_lower` are scaled
by local token counts and should be aggregated using mean.

This PR introduces a metric management class to allow flexibility in
deciding the aggregation type on a per-metric basis.

### Test

This test demonstrates the scaling of metrics with the number of
gradient accumulation steps, as well as how this is resolved on this
branch. The command for running is below.

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```bash
gsm8k_train_path=$DATA_DIR/gsm8k/train.parquet
gsm8k_test_path=$DATA_DIR/gsm8k/test.parquet

train_files="['$gsm8k_train_path']"
test_files="['$gsm8k_test_path']"

ppo_micro_batch_size_per_gpu=2
ppo_micro_batch_size_per_gpu=8

branch=main
branch=fixEngineMetrics

python3 -m verl.trainer.main_ppo \
    algorithm.adv_estimator=grpo \
    data.dataloader_num_workers=0 \
    data.return_full_prompt=True \
    data.train_files="$train_files" \
    data.val_files="$test_files" \
    data.train_batch_size=8 \
    data.max_prompt_length=512 \
    data.max_response_length=1024 \
    data.filter_overlong_prompts=True \
    data.truncation='error' \
    actor_rollout_ref.model.path=Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B \
    actor_rollout_ref.actor.optim.lr=1e-6 \
    actor_rollout_ref.model.use_remove_padding=True \
    actor_rollout_ref.actor.ppo_mini_batch_size=8 \
    actor_rollout_ref.actor.ppo_micro_batch_size_per_gpu=$ppo_micro_batch_size_per_gpu \
    actor_rollout_ref.actor.use_kl_loss=True \
    actor_rollout_ref.actor.fsdp_config.param_offload=True \
    actor_rollout_ref.actor.fsdp_config.optimizer_offload=True \
    actor_rollout_ref.rollout.tensor_model_parallel_size=1 \
    actor_rollout_ref.rollout.log_prob_micro_batch_size_per_gpu=8 \
    actor_rollout_ref.ref.log_prob_micro_batch_size_per_gpu=8 \
    actor_rollout_ref.rollout.name=vllm \
    actor_rollout_ref.rollout.gpu_memory_utilization=0.6 \
    actor_rollout_ref.rollout.n=5 \
    trainer.logger='["console","wandb"]' \
    trainer.project_name='fixEngineMetrics' \
    trainer.experiment_name="$branch/ppo_micro_batch_size_per_gpu$ppo_micro_batch_size_per_gpu" \
    trainer.n_gpus_per_node=2 \
    trainer.nnodes=1 \
    trainer.save_freq=400 \
    trainer.test_freq=40 \
    trainer.use_legacy_worker_impl=disable \
    trainer.total_epochs=2 \
    trainer.total_training_steps=10 \
    trainer.resume_mode=disable \
    actor_rollout_ref.actor.use_torch_compile=False \
    actor_rollout_ref.actor.fsdp_config.use_torch_compile=False \
    trainer.val_before_train=False \
    actor_rollout_ref.rollout.enforce_eager=True \
    actor_rollout_ref.ref.fsdp_config.use_torch_compile=False
```

### Design & Code Changes

Adds a `Metric` class which tracks metric values and aggregation type.

* [rollout] fix: configurable agent loop + multimodal data for fully-async (#4842)

## Description

* **`verl/experimental/fully_async_policy/agent_loop/agent_loop.py`**

* Use `config.agent.default_agent_loop` as the default `agent_name` when
`agent_name` is not present in `batch.non_tensor_batch`.
* Pass `dataset_cls=self.dataset_cls` and
`dataset_config=self.config.data` into `hydra.utils.instantiate(...)`
when creating an agent loop instance.

*
**`verl/experimental/fully_async_policy/agent_loop/partial_tool_agent_loop.py`**

* Extract `video_data` from `multi_modal_data` and include `video_data`
in the created `AgentData` instance (in addition to existing
`image_data`).

* **`verl/experimental/fully_async_policy/detach_utils.py`**

* Stop popping original batch fields in
`prepare_single_generation_data`.
* Set `agent_name` to `async_partial_tool_agent` or
`partial_single_turn_agent` depending on
`config.actor_rollout_ref.rollout.multi_turn.enable`.

## Testing

* Verified the fully async training entry can run successfully on 4 GPU
server setup (multi-turn enabled, partial rollout enabled, vLLM async
mode).


## Related

* Fixes and extends the scope of:
[4834](https://github.com/volcengine/verl/issues/4834)

* [ci] test: switch the vlm rl test case in the npu environment to use the model engine (#4844)

* [ckpt] fix: Megatron save ckpt after validation (#4841)

### What does this PR do?

This PR fixes a bug in the `save_checkpoint` function for
MegatronEngine. https://github.com/volcengine/verl/pull/4799 is a
similar PR, which modifies FSDPEngine.

In the original logic, if the model engine is used
(`use_legacy_worker_impl=disable`), the `wake_up` function in
`verl/workers/engine_workers.py` will be invoked during the rollout
phase of each step, which will offload the model to CPU.

Under normal circumstances, the `compute_log_prob` function called
during the training phase can load the model back to GPU. However, the
training process is not executed during the validation phase, leaving
the model on the CPU. If a checkpoint is saved immediately after
validation, it will trigger the following error: `AssertionError:
Expects tensor to be on the compute device cuda:0, was on cpu.`

To fix this bug, this PR checks whether the model is located on the CPU
before saving the checkpoint and loads it onto the GPU if that is the
case.

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Co-authored-by: weidongliang.339 <[email protected]>

* [megatron] feat: Share actor and ref in LoRA (#4673)

For `compute_ref_log_prob`, we can do that by disabling lora layers
temporarily for the forward pass, as base weight are frozen and only
lora layers are trained.

This has already been supported in FSDP LoRA.

### What does this PR do?

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