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Pepijn 1050c2fb6c feat(streaming): episode-pool iteration with decode-on-exit, video prefetch, and exact resume
Replace the shard/Backtrackable/decoded-shuffle-buffer internals with an
episode pool: each (rank x worker) consumer keeps episode_pool_size whole
episodes' tabular rows in RAM and emits uniformly random frames across
them. delta_timestamps windows become exact in-RAM slices with correct
boundary padding (the Backtrackable machinery and its lookback/lookahead
ceilings are gone), and video is decoded only when a sample is emitted,
so pool memory stays tabular-sized instead of buffer_size decoded
samples.

- Prefetch-on-admit: when streaming from a remote source, each pooled
  episode's video files download to a local cache in the background
  (refcounted, since v3 packs several episodes per file; deleted on
  eviction), so decode-on-exit reads local bytes instead of paying
  network seek latency.
- Per-consumer RNG derived from (seed, epoch, rank, worker): consumers
  decorrelated, runs reproducible, epochs reshuffle automatically.
- Deterministic fast-forward resume: load_state_dict takes the trainer's
  {batches_consumed, batch_size}; each worker re-derives its own skip
  from the DataLoader's round-robin batch assignment and replays
  tabular-only (no decode). Exact within an epoch, works with
  num_workers > 0, and the same state file serves every rank. Replaces
  the per-shard HF state_dict approach, which lived in worker processes
  and could not be captured from the trainer.
- Shard-cap default removed (max_num_shards=None uses every parquet
  shard); runtime warnings for non-divisible world sizes (datasets
  degrades to read-everything splitting) and workers left without
  shards.
- episode_pool_size replaces buffer_size (deprecated, ignored with a
  warning); decoder cache sized to the pool working set, capped at 128.

Legacy order-replication tests asserted the old buffer algorithm
step-by-step and are rewritten as behavior contracts (exactly-once
coverage, per-seed determinism, epoch reshuffle). Value-level parity
tests against the map-style dataset pass unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-11 15:02:15 +02:00

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"""End-to-end distributed streaming smoke test under a real `accelerate launch`.
Mirrors tests/training/test_multi_gpu.py but runs on CPU and only checks the dataloading contract: with
two processes, `split_dataset_by_node` (auto-resolved from the Accelerate state) must give each rank a
disjoint set of frames that together cover the dataset. Skips if the environment can't actually spawn
>= 2 processes (e.g. local macOS multi-CPU), so it never silently passes as a single process.
"""
import json
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys
import pytest
pytest.importorskip("datasets", reason="datasets is required (install lerobot[dataset])")
pytest.importorskip("accelerate", reason="accelerate is required (install lerobot[training])")
from tests.fixtures.constants import DUMMY_REPO_ID
WORKER = """
import json, sys
from accelerate import PartialState
from lerobot.datasets.streaming_dataset import StreamingLeRobotDataset
root, repo_id, out_dir = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3]
state = PartialState()
ds = StreamingLeRobotDataset(
repo_id=repo_id, root=root, shuffle=False, episode_pool_size=8, max_num_shards=8
)
indices = [int(frame["index"]) for frame in ds]
payload = {"rank": state.process_index, "world": state.num_processes, "indices": indices}
with open(f"{out_dir}/rank_{state.process_index}.json", "w") as f:
json.dump(payload, f)
"""
@pytest.mark.skipif(shutil.which("accelerate") is None, reason="accelerate CLI not available")
def test_accelerate_launch_ranks_are_disjoint(tmp_path, lerobot_dataset_factory):
total_frames = 160
repo_id = f"{DUMMY_REPO_ID}-acc"
root = tmp_path / "ds"
lerobot_dataset_factory(
root=root,
repo_id=repo_id,
total_episodes=8,
total_frames=total_frames,
use_videos=False,
data_files_size_in_mb=0.001,
chunks_size=1,
)
worker = tmp_path / "worker.py"
worker.write_text(WORKER)
out_dir = tmp_path / "out"
out_dir.mkdir()
cmd = [
"accelerate",
"launch",
"--num_processes=2",
"--num_machines=1",
"--mixed_precision=no",
"--dynamo_backend=no",
"--cpu",
str(worker),
str(root),
repo_id,
str(out_dir),
]
result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=600)
assert result.returncode == 0, (
f"accelerate launch failed:\nSTDOUT:\n{result.stdout}\nSTDERR:\n{result.stderr}"
)
payloads = [json.loads(p.read_text()) for p in sorted(out_dir.glob("rank_*.json"))]
if len(payloads) < 2 or any(p["world"] < 2 for p in payloads):
pytest.skip("environment did not spawn >= 2 distributed processes (e.g. local macOS multi-CPU)")
rank_sets = [set(p["indices"]) for p in payloads]
assert rank_sets[0].isdisjoint(rank_sets[1]), "ranks streamed overlapping frames under accelerate launch"
assert set().union(*rank_sets) == set(range(total_frames)), "ranks did not jointly cover all frames"
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(pytest.main([__file__, "-v"]))