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Deterministic true on-policy GRPO wit the inference-optimized megatron generation (EP8/TP1) - #3531

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Generation bitwise-identical to training/scoring (gen_kl == 0.0 x18 full-lr, prod bed, 1.02x throughput tax; cert job 2333154). Requires the companion Megatron-LM branch utkarsh530/Megatron-LM:det-inference-ep8tp1-certified. Tested model: Qwen30B-A3B

NeMo-RL side:

  • megatron_generation: fail fast when colocated generation would silently ignore model-side mcore_generation_config keys
  • grpo/utils: non-colocated (dedicated-node) megatron generation
  • setup: batch-invariant activation hook + det attention num_splits pin
  • train: fused logprob scoring path (float -> log_softmax -> gather) + per-EP-rank fp64 combine mirror env gates
  • megatron_worker: det wiring + refit param-gather sync barrier
  • router_replay: megatron-backend support (feature OFF in the recipe)
  • recipe YAML (certified config) + gen_kl_harness determinism gate + docs

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    This branch is in active development and will be pushed for further updates. I need to clip out some of the redundant paths and will try to get the relevant paths in the Megatron-LM we're merging to make it completely usable.

… engine (EP8/TP1)

Generation bitwise-identical to training/scoring (gen_kl == 0.0 x18 full-lr,
prod bed, 1.02x throughput tax; cert job 2333154). Requires the companion
Megatron-LM branch utkarsh530/Megatron-LM:det-inference-ep8tp1-certified.

NeMo-RL side:
- megatron_generation: fail fast when colocated generation would silently
  ignore model-side mcore_generation_config keys
- grpo/utils: non-colocated (dedicated-node) megatron generation
- setup: batch-invariant activation hook + det attention num_splits pin
- train: fused logprob scoring path (float -> log_softmax -> gather) +
  per-EP-rank fp64 combine mirror env gates
- megatron_worker: det wiring + refit param-gather sync barrier
- router_replay: megatron-backend support (feature OFF in the recipe)
- recipe YAML (certified config) + gen_kl_harness determinism gate + docs

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh <uutkarsh@nvidia.com>
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