Source code for verl.trainer.ppo.reward

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import multiprocessing
import os
from functools import partial

import ray

from verl import DataProto
from verl.utils.reward_score import default_compute_score


def _call_with_kwargs(raw_fn, extra_kwargs, *args, **kwargs):
    """Calls `raw_fn` by merging `extra_kwargs` into call-time `kwargs`, with `extra_kwargs` taking precedence.

    This function is used to merge additional keyword arguments with the original function's arguments.
    """
    merged_kwargs = {**kwargs, **extra_kwargs}
    return raw_fn(*args, **merged_kwargs)


def get_custom_reward_fn(config):
    """Load and return a custom reward function from external file.

    Dynamically imports a reward function from a specified file path and wraps
    it with additional keyword arguments from the configuration.

    Args:
        config (dict): Configuration dictionary containing custom_reward_function
                      settings with 'path', 'name', and 'reward_kwargs' fields.

    Returns:
        callable or None: Wrapped reward function with merged kwargs, or None
                         if no custom reward function is configured.

    Raises:
        FileNotFoundError: If the specified reward function file doesn't exist.
        RuntimeError: If there's an error loading the module from file.
        AttributeError: If the specified function name isn't found in the module.
    """
    import importlib.util
    import sys

    reward_fn_config = config.get("custom_reward_function") or {}
    file_path = reward_fn_config.get("path")
    if not file_path:
        return None

    if not os.path.exists(file_path):
        raise FileNotFoundError(f"Reward function file '{file_path}' not found.")

    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("custom_module", file_path)
    module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
    try:
        sys.modules["custom_module"] = module
        spec.loader.exec_module(module)
    except Exception as e:
        raise RuntimeError(f"Error loading module from '{file_path}': {e}") from e

    function_name = reward_fn_config.get("name")
    if not hasattr(module, function_name):
        raise AttributeError(f"Reward function '{function_name}' not found in '{file_path}'.")

    print(f"using customized reward function '{function_name}' from '{file_path}'")
    raw_fn = getattr(module, function_name)

    reward_kwargs = dict(reward_fn_config.get("reward_kwargs", {}))

    return partial(_call_with_kwargs, raw_fn, reward_kwargs)


[docs] def load_reward_manager(config, tokenizer, num_examine, **reward_kwargs): """ Load and initialize a reward manager based on the configuration. Args: config: PPO trainer configuration object containing reward_model fields. tokenizer: Tokenizer object used for processing text. num_examine: Number of samples to examine. **reward_kwargs: Additional keyword arguments for the reward manager. Returns: An instance of the specified reward manager class. """ from verl.workers.reward_manager import get_reward_manager_cls # The list of pre-defined reward managers are defined in `verl/workers/reward_manager/`: # naive: NaiveRewardManager # prime: PrimeRewardManager # batch: BatchRewardManager # dapo: DAPORewardManager # Note(haibin.lin): For custom reward managers, please make sure they are imported and # registered via `verl.workers.reward_manager.register` # By default reward_manager is set to naive (NaiveRewardManager) reward_manager_name = config.reward_model.get("reward_manager", "naive") reward_manager_cls = get_reward_manager_cls(reward_manager_name) # Try to get a custom reward function based on the configuration compute_score = get_custom_reward_fn(config) final_compute_score = compute_score if compute_score is None: sandbox_config = config.reward_model.get("sandbox_fusion") sandbox_url = sandbox_config.get("url") if sandbox_config else None memory_limit_mb = sandbox_config.get("memory_limit_mb", 1024) if sandbox_url: sandbox_manager = multiprocessing.Manager() # Create a semaphore to control concurrent access to the sandbox _concurrent_semaphore = sandbox_manager.Semaphore(sandbox_config.get("max_concurrent", 64)) final_compute_score = partial( default_compute_score, sandbox_fusion_url=sandbox_url, concurrent_semaphore=_concurrent_semaphore, memory_limit_mb=memory_limit_mb, ) else: final_compute_score = default_compute_score # Instantiate and return the reward manager with the specified parameters return reward_manager_cls( tokenizer=tokenizer, num_examine=num_examine, compute_score=final_compute_score, reward_fn_key=config.data.reward_fn_key, **reward_kwargs, )
[docs] def compute_reward(data: DataProto, reward_fn): """ Compute reward for a batch of data. Args: data: DataProto object containing the input data. reward_fn: Reward function to compute the reward. Returns: Tuple of reward tensor and extra info dictionary. """ try: reward_result = reward_fn(data, return_dict=True) reward_tensor = reward_result["reward_tensor"] reward_extra_infos_dict = reward_result.get("reward_extra_info", {}) except Exception as e: print(f"Error in reward_fn: {e}") reward_tensor = reward_fn(data) reward_extra_infos_dict = {} return reward_tensor, reward_extra_infos_dict
@ray.remote(num_cpus=1) def compute_reward_async(data: DataProto, config=None, tokenizer=None, reward_fn=None): """ Load the reward manager and compute the reward for a batch of data. This is meant to be run in a separate Ray worker. """ if reward_fn is None: assert config is not None and tokenizer is not None, ( "config and tokenizer must not be None when reward_fn is None" ) import warnings warnings.warn("using config and tokenizer with compute_reward_async is deprecated", stacklevel=2) reward_fn = load_reward_manager( config, tokenizer, num_examine=0, **config.reward_model.get("reward_kwargs", {}) ) return compute_reward(data, reward_fn)