feat(streaming): random-episode admission via reshard() + multi-input-shard shuffle

Reshard parquet per row group (1 shard == 1 row group == 1 episode) and feed the
episode-pool shuffle with max_buffer_input_shards so the pool is a uniform random
sample of the corpus, independent of episodes-per-file. Add validate_row_groups
guardrails (collapsed-row-group + distributed divisibility), require datasets>=5.0.0,
make the test fixture write one row group per episode, and plumb max_buffer_input_shards
through the dataloading benchmark.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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pepijn
2026-06-15 13:33:27 +00:00
parent 3ec60da82b
commit 4940281120
5 changed files with 291 additions and 16 deletions
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@@ -222,8 +222,12 @@ def build_dataset(scenario: str, args: argparse.Namespace):
revision=MOLMO_REVISION,
data_files_root=data_files_root,
episode_pool_size=args.episode_pool_size,
max_buffer_input_shards=args.max_buffer_input_shards,
video_decoder_cache_size=args.video_decoder_cache_size,
tolerance_s=1e-3,
# Throughput benchmark: don't gate on the one-row-group-per-episode invariant (a public
# dataset may be collapsed); reshard() still yields per-episode shards where it holds.
validate_row_groups=False,
)
return dataset, meta, False, {"num_shards": dataset.num_shards, "data_files_root": data_files_root}
@@ -362,6 +366,9 @@ def run_scenario(scenario: str, args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
"batch_size": args.batch_size,
"num_workers": args.num_workers,
"episode_pool_size": None if is_map_style else args.episode_pool_size,
"max_buffer_input_shards": None
if is_map_style
else (args.max_buffer_input_shards or args.episode_pool_size),
**info,
"num_cameras": num_cameras,
"image_shape": image_shape,
@@ -419,6 +426,8 @@ def submit_chain(args: argparse.Namespace) -> None:
f"--video_decoder_cache_size {args.video_decoder_cache_size} --duration_s {args.duration_s} "
f"--num_batches {args.num_batches} --out_dir {args.out_dir}"
)
if args.max_buffer_input_shards is not None:
common += f" --max_buffer_input_shards {args.max_buffer_input_shards}"
if args.local_root:
common += f" --local_root {args.local_root}"
env_prefix = "export TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM=false"
@@ -491,6 +500,13 @@ def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
p.add_argument(
"--episode_pool_size", type=int, default=1024, help="Streaming shuffle pool (randomness knob)."
)
p.add_argument(
"--max_buffer_input_shards",
type=int,
default=None,
help="Concurrently-live random episodes feeding the pool after reshard() "
"(default: episode_pool_size). The frac knob; set >= batch_size for frac->1.",
)
p.add_argument(
"--video_decoder_cache_size", type=int, default=32, help="Max open video decoders (bounds RAM)."
)