In distributed training, accelerate can only synchronize the shuffle
permutation across ranks when the sampler exposes a generator attribute.
EpisodeAwareSampler shuffled via the global torch RNG, so disjoint batch
shards relied on every rank's global CPU RNG staying in lockstep forever;
any rank-asymmetric RNG consumption (e.g. eval rollouts on the main
process only) silently desynced the permutations and ranks trained on
overlapping/missing samples.
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