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Follow-up to #2835. Adds a controlled rerun to the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B data-format ablation and corrects its kernel caveat.

• Correction. docs(qwen3.6): add data-format ablations and move SciCode diagnosis to ABLATIONS.md #2835 said the packed chat-SFT runs had a noisy teacher. They had a wrong kernel. In FLA 0.4.2 (nemo:26.08), chunk_gated_delta_rule on packed (cu_seqlens) input disagrees with each document run alone. It affects both the teacher and the student:

  • 11% of tokens are off by more than 1% of the layer output's maximum, and the worst by ~20%.
  • FLA 0.5.2 is bit-exact and reproducible.
  • The pre-tokenized (unpacked) runs are exact on both versions.
  • FLA 0.4.2's KDA kernel is also exact on packed input.

• Controlled rerun at iteration 50. Three arms separate cross-document attention, the loss mask and the kernel. Mean delta vs BF16 over the six benchmarks:

  • A, pre-tokenized (the main run): −1.30
  • B, + per-document attention: −0.85
  • C, chat SFT with assistant-only loss on FLA 0.5.2: −1.02
  • Chat SFT on FLA 0.4.2 (from docs(qwen3.6): add data-format ablations and move SciCode diagnosis to ABLATIONS.md #2835): −0.34

• Reading.

  • All three setups are within noise of each other.
  • The correct kernel did not reproduce chat SFT's iteration-50 lead. C is 0.68 lower, mostly on SciCode, and not because of runaway generations (C has the lowest capped rate, 2.0%).
  • So the earlier −0.34 was a favourable draw, consistent with its lead fading by iteration 300.

• Recipe unchanged: pre-tokenized windows, no document boundaries. No code changes: neither per-document attention nor the FLA upgrade is needed for it.

• README: two pointer sentences updated; drops "provisionally".

• Knowledge recall and calibration (new README section + eval_configs/omniscience.yaml). AA-Omniscience, 600 questions x 10 repeats, pass@1[avg-of-10], Gemini 3 Flash judge:

  Model	Correct	Abstained	Index	Hallucination
  BF16	21.0	46.0	-11.3	40.9%
  W4A16 PTQ (published)	20.9	42.2	-15.4	45.8%
  W4A4 PTQ	20.2	39.8	-19.1	49.2%
  + QAD 500	21.0	29.8	-27.5	61.4%

  QAD keeps the correct rate but makes the model guess instead of abstaining. It is worst at iteration 50 (-31.4), partly recovers by 300 (-25.1), and chat SFT at 500 is -24.1. ABLATIONS.md gains these rows and a note on tracking abstention.

• Announcement (docs/source/announcements/qwen36-w4a4-qad.rst), unchanged since Add end-to-end W4A4 NVFP4 + QAD tutorial for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B #2411: its numbers still match the tutorial, but it predates the SciCode output-length finding (docs(qwen3.6): add the decode-time fix for SciCode non-termination #2606), the ablations (docs(qwen3.6): add data-format ablations and move SciCode diagnosis to ABLATIONS.md #2835) and this calibration result. Adds a dated update note, two highlights, a short "Output Length and Calibration" section, and an ablations link.

Testing

• Docs only; pre-commit (markdownlint) passes; new anchors resolve.
• Omniscience: 7 checkpoints evaluated on oci-hsg (BF16, W4A16, W4A4 PTQ, QAD 50/300/500, chat SFT 500), about 1.5-2 h each on 1 node; the blog RST parses cleanly with docutils.
• Numbers come from the evaluation pool:
  • accuracy pooled per NEL invocation (same repeat counts as docs(qwen3.6): add data-format ablations and move SciCode diagnosis to ABLATIONS.md #2835);
  • SciCode capped/median from per-response output.jsonl.
• Kernel numbers come from teacher-forcing a real packed pair, then random-input packed vs per-document checks on FLA 0.4.2 and 0.5.2.

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  • Added an Omniscience evaluation configuration with long-context generation, retries, caching, request logging, and external judging.

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  • Expanded evaluation guidance with recall, calibration, abstention, hallucination, output length, and SciCode findings.
  • Documented controlled comparisons across tokenization, kernel versions, document isolation, loss settings, and data approaches.
  • Added evaluation setup requirements, repeat semantics, judge configuration, throughput considerations, FLA correctness guidance, and links to ablation results.

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The tutorial adds an AA-Omniscience evaluation configuration. It documents controlled ablation results, packed-kernel findings, calibration, abstention, hallucination, and SciCode behavior in the tutorial and announcement.

Changes: Qwen3.6 evaluation and findings

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Omniscience evaluation configuration examples/megatron_bridge/tutorials/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B/eval_configs/omniscience.yaml, examples/megatron_bridge/tutorials/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B/README.md	Adds Slurm and vLLM evaluation settings, request parameters, ten repeats, external judge variables, and AA-Omniscience reporting guidance.
Controlled ablation findings examples/megatron_bridge/tutorials/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B/ABLATIONS.md, examples/megatron_bridge/tutorials/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B/README.md	Documents Omniscience results, the FLA 0.4.2 packed-kernel error, the controlled FLA 0.5.2 rerun, SciCode findings, and abstention tracking.
Announcement results and references docs/source/announcements/qwen36-w4a4-qad.rst	Adds output-length, calibration, abstention, hallucination, and SciCode findings, and links the ablation documentation.

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- Line 120: Update the statement near “Diamond” to specify the measured
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Scope: the trigger comment was a bare /claude review, so this is a full pass. All 4 changed files reviewed (223 additions): README.md, ABLATIONS.md, qwen36-w4a4-qad.rst, and the new eval_configs/omniscience.yaml. No modelopt/ source is touched, so there is nothing to assess for mode/state composition, export compatibility, or GPU performance. I verified the new YAML against its six sibling eval configs and recomputed the published Omniscience table arithmetic.

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CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 2 · SUGGESTION: 3

IMPORTANT

1. Hallucination-rate denominator contradicts the table it annotates (README.md:73). The note defines it as incorrect / (incorrect + abstained), but that formula reproduces none of the four rows. incorrect / (100 − correct) matches all four to the last digit — which is also what omniscience.yaml:10 documents as the actual metric (judge_omni_hallucination = incorrect / not correct). The two differ because the three response columns sum to 99.3, not 100: ~0.7% of responses are graded neither correct, incorrect, nor abstained. This is the arithmetic behind the PR's headline calibration claim (41% → 61%), and a reader recomputing from the table gets numbers that disagree with the table.

2. num_repeats: 10 falsifies a README callout (omniscience.yaml:102 vs README.md:272). That callout — the doc's authority on how every reported spread was obtained — states "Every task sets num_repeats: 1 … GPQA is the deliberate exception" and that num_repeats: N yields "a single pass@1[avg-of-N] with no spread." There are now two exceptions, and the new table nonetheless reports a ± across those 10 in-run repeats. A reader following the README's stated rule would launch 10 single-repeat jobs (~15-20 h of node time per checkpoint rather than ~1.5-2 h) and still compute a different statistic than the published one. ABLATIONS.md:32 already explains why the in-run spread is non-zero; the README is the stale side.

SUGGESTION

3. eval_configs/ now holds a seventh config with no row in the section-5 index table, and the "Two benchmarks need a second model endpoint" callout (README.md:256) is now three — that callout is also where the https://-only judge-URL guidance lives, which applies verbatim to Omniscience's use of NS_JUDGE_URL.
4. The new [correction](#results) link (ABLATIONS.md:147) lands on the results table, not the correction paragraph; since ABLATIONS.md has no other Results heading it will never trip a dead-anchor check. Line 44's [SciCode non-termination](#for-the-next-qad-run) has label and target naming different sections.
5. omniscience.yaml omits judge_support: true that its only sibling judge task (aa_lcr.yaml:106) sets, and introduces args: "++parse_reasoning=False" alongside use_reasoning: true — both plausibly deliberate, but a future reader can't distinguish deliberate from accidental.

Assessment

Risk: low. Documentation and one additive eval config; no library code, no API surface, no checkpoint or state-dict implications, and nothing that can regress CI or an existing user workflow. The new config follows its siblings closely in deployment, sampling, and adapter settings.

The scientific content is the strong part of this PR and I want to say so plainly: the kernel correction is honest and specific (it replaces a "noisy teacher" claim with a measured "wrong kernel" one, quantifies it, and correctly re-scopes which arms are affected), and the three-arm controlled rerun isolates exactly the three confounded variables. Reporting that the correct kernel failed to reproduce the earlier favourable result, and labelling the original −0.34 a draw, is the right call.

Both IMPORTANT findings are internal-consistency defects rather than wrong measurements — the underlying numbers appear sound, and finding 1 is most likely a slip in the annotation rather than in the computation. They matter because this tutorial is the reproduction reference and the announcement is externally facing. Neither needs new experiments; both are a one-line edit.

I did not duplicate CodeRabbit's three findings (throughput phrasing at qwen36-w4a4-qad.rst:120, absolute-vs-delta Omniscience rows at ABLATIONS.md:31-32, capped-rate scope at line 70) — those remain worth addressing.

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🟡 Minor · Materialize judge values before launch. · omniscience.yaml:103-110

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Materialize judge values before launch.

The launcher contract requires external judge url and model_id values to be literal configuration values. It explicitly forbids ${oc.env:...} for these fields. The README exports these variables, so its exact shell sequence can resolve them, but the standard .env workflow does not export judge URLs or define OMNI_JUDGE_MODEL_ID. That path can submit unresolved judge settings and omit Omniscience metrics.

Use the launcher-generated literal judge URL and the canonical recipe's literal model ID instead of runtime interpolation. The concrete URL is deployment-specific and cannot be safely filled in here.

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Replace the runtime-interpolated values under the external judge configuration
with the launcher-generated literal judge URL and the canonical recipe’s literal
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🟡 Minor · Replace “no accuracy change” with the measured SciCode result. · qwen36-w4a4-qad.rst:118-120

docs/source/announcements/qwen36-w4a4-qad.rst:118-120
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Replace “no accuracy change” with the measured SciCode result.

The announcement says the penalty removes runaways “with no accuracy change,” but the ablation reports SciCode accuracy changing from 40.2 to 39.6. The README describes this as within noise, so state the measured 0.6-point change instead.

Suggested fix

-time (96 to 2 of 2,704) with no accuracy change, but apply it only where outputs run away: on GPQA
-Diamond it cuts generation throughput 4.8x (5,109 to 1,067 tokens/s) for no accuracy change.
+time (96 to 2 of 2,704). SciCode accuracy moves from 40.2 to 39.6 with the penalty. Apply it only
+where outputs run away: on GPQA Diamond it cuts generation throughput 4.8x (5,109 to 1,067 tokens/s).

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Update the announcement text around the Qwen presence_penalty result to replace
both “no accuracy change” claims with the measured SciCode change from 40.2 to
39.6, then preserve the existing runaway-output and GPQA Diamond throughput
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measured SciCode change from 40.2 to 39.6, then preserve the existing
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- Around line 103-110: Replace the runtime-interpolated values under the
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Do not report document-isolated attention as a failed ablation.

The commit context says arm B failed to split documents because the chat-rendered blend lacked the expected end-of-document token. It was treated as a repeat of arm A and removed from the tested ablations. Describing document-isolated attention as unsuccessful implies a valid negative result. State that the arm was invalid or excluded instead.

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🟡 Minor · Include the partial-credit category. · README.md:64

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Include the partial-credit category.

Line 64 lists only correct, incorrect, and abstained answers. Line 73 states that about 0.7% of answers were partially correct. Update the methodology text so it matches the reported results.

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Scope: bare /claude review, so a full pass. All 4 changed files (239 additions): README.md, ABLATIONS.md, qwen36-w4a4-qad.rst, and the new eval_configs/omniscience.yaml. No modelopt/ source is touched, so there is nothing to assess for mode/state composition, export compatibility, or GPU performance. This round I verified the docs' claims about examples/megatron_bridge/distill.py against the actual file, and re-checked the new a8e2dab4 correction for consistency across the three prose files.

Since my last pass (at b0decae): both IMPORTANT findings I raised then are resolved — the hallucination-rate denominator is now incorrect / (100 − correct) with the ~0.7% partially-correct remainder explained (README.md:73), and the num_repeats callout now names AA-Omniscience as a second deliberate exception (README.md:276). My earlier suggestions about the section-5 index row and the three-endpoint callout are also addressed. The new findings below come from a8e2dab4, which landed after that review.

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CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 2 · SUGGESTION: 1

IMPORTANT

1. Footnote 3 documents a distill.py flag and a guard that do not exist in this repo (ABLATIONS.md:71). --document_boundaries appears repo-wide only in that footnote — no such add_argument in distill.py, nothing in modelopt/. The sentence "distill.py now uses the tokenizer's EOS and rejects data without it" asserts a landed change in the present tense; distill.py has no EOS resolution or rejection path (its only eos reference is an unrelated "add_eos": True at line 705), and the relevant Megatron knobs are hardcoded off (reset_attention_mask: False / reset_position_ids: False, lines 655-656). This footnote is the load-bearing explanation for why arm B is "A repeated" — and the claimed EOS guard is what would make the silent no-op non-recurring, so shipping the claim without the code is the more consequential half. Line 95 already models the right convention: it cites --sft_in_batch_packing / --moe_aux_loss_coeff and links PR 2873 (both verified present).

2. README.md:393 says per-document attention "did not help"; ABLATIONS.md:75 says it was never tested. A direct contradiction between a summary and the detail page it links to in the same sentence. The README edit was correct when written — arm B was then believed to be the per-document-attention arm — but a8e2dab4 reclassified B as a plain repeat of A, removing the only evidence for the claim. ABLATIONS.md was updated; this line was not. It sits in "Potential further improvements", whose job is telling readers which levers remain worth pulling, so it retires a lever on withdrawn evidence.

SUGGESTION

3. The heading at ABLATIONS.md:48 and its ToC entry (line 6) still promise "document isolation", which the section's own body now says it could not separate. No in-repo link targets that anchor, so a rename is safe.

Assessment

Risk: low. Documentation plus one additive eval config — no library code, no API surface, no checkpoint or state-dict implications, nothing that can regress CI or an existing user workflow. omniscience.yaml tracks its six siblings closely on deployment, sampling, and adapter settings, and the PR description's "no code changes" claim holds (I confirmed distill.py is untouched on this branch).

The scientific content remains the strong part of this PR, and a8e2dab4 makes it stronger: discovering that the --document_boundaries flag silently matched an ID the data never contains, and then reclassifying your own arm B from a result into a null repeat, is exactly the correction that is easiest to quietly leave alone. Combined with the earlier "wrong kernel, not noisy teacher" fix and labelling the original −0.34 a favourable draw, this is a PR that has now twice revised its own conclusions downward on measurement grounds.

Both IMPORTANT findings are a consequence of that good correction being propagated incompletely — the detail page was updated, the summary line and the footnote's forward-looking claim were not. Neither needs new experiments; finding 2 is a one-sentence rescope, and finding 1 is a tense/citation fix once you confirm whether the EOS guard is landing in a follow-up PR. Worth a grep for other survivors of the same reclassification.

Not duplicated here: CodeRabbit's open findings on the announcement's "no accuracy change" phrasing (qwen36-w4a4-qad.rst:118-120, where the ablation table shows SciCode 40.2 to 39.6) and on materializing the judge url/model_id (omniscience.yaml:103-110) — both still worth a look.

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Claude review — docs-only PR, 2 IMPORTANT / 2 SUGGESTION

Scope: full review. 4 changed files (+239/−14), all docs/config; reviewed all four — ABLATIONS.md, README.md, eval_configs/omniscience.yaml, and the announcement RST. Verified the code claims the docs make against examples/megatron_bridge/distill.py and the new YAML against its six sibling eval configs.

Findings: CRITICAL: 0, IMPORTANT: 2, SUGGESTION: 2

Most impactful

1. README.md:393 contradicts the ablation it cites. The new clause says isolating attention per document "did not help", but ABLATIONS.md:75 — added in this same PR — says per-document attention "remains untested" on its own, because arm B never split a window (ABLATIONS.md:71) and arm C confounds it with chat data and the loss mask. The edit also dropped the previous "provisionally" hedge. This lands in Potential further improvements, where a reader decides which lever to spend compute on, so it retires an untested lever on evidence that does not exist.

2. ABLATIONS.md:71 describes distill.py behaviour that is not in the tree. "distill.py now uses the tokenizer's EOS and rejects data without it" — the file has no EOS boundary logic and no such validation (the only two EOS hits are eod_mask_loss: False at :657 and add_eos: True in the unrelated --sft_dataset_root path at :705). --document_boundaries does not exist anywhere in the repo outside this footnote, and distill.py is untouched by this PR. Reads as a shipped guardrail against exactly the failure that invalidated arm B; worth saying where the flag actually lives.

Both are self-consistency problems rather than wrong measurements — the numbers, the kernel correction, and the Omniscience methodology all hold up, and the correction of #2835's "noisy teacher" to "wrong kernel" is well evidenced.

Suggestions (non-blocking)

• omniscience.yaml:75 — request_timeout: 14400 equals the full walltime, so max_retries: 10 cannot fire on a stall (cf. aa_lcr.yaml's 3600 vs 2 h). Plausibly why "the slowest QAD checkpoint needed a second 4 h job".
• README.md:73 — the ± here is a seed-correlated within-run spread, not the run-to-run ± sem used elsewhere on the page; one clause would stop readers comparing them directly.

Risk

Low. Docs and one additive eval config; no source, API, mode-registration or export paths touched, so nothing can regress for existing users. The new YAML matches its siblings structurally (defaults, deployment command, adapter config, judge wiring), and num_repeats: 10 is correctly documented as a deliberate exception alongside GPQA's 16. The two IMPORTANT items are worth a fix before merge because the tutorial's whole value is that a reader can trust its claims about what was and was not tested — the fixes are a sentence each.

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Claude review — docs-only PR, full scope reviewed

Scope: bare /claude review, so a full pass. All 4 changed files (+239/−14): ABLATIONS.md, README.md, eval_configs/omniscience.yaml, and the announcement RST. No modelopt/ source is touched, so there is nothing to assess for mode/state composition, export compatibility, or GPU performance. This round I verified footnote 3's forward-looking distill.py claim against #2912's actual diff, diffed the new YAML against all six siblings, re-derived the Omniscience table arithmetic, and checked every internal anchor in ABLATIONS.md against its headings.

Findings: CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 0 · SUGGESTION: 4

Both previous IMPORTANT findings are resolved

• README.md:393 no longer claims per-document attention "did not help" — it now reads "isolating attention per document is still untested on its own", matching ABLATIONS.md:75. The contradiction is gone.
• ABLATIONS.md:71 now attributes the EOS fix to #2912 rather than asserting it as landed in this tree. I checked that PR's diff directly and the claim holds: it adds the --document_boundaries argument, resolves the boundary from tokenizer.eos_token_id, and raises "--document_boundaries needs a student tokenizer with an EOS token." plus a check that the first document actually ends with it. The footnote's "now uses the tokenizer's EOS and rejects data without it" is accurate for #2912.

Earlier rounds' items are also still fixed: the hallucination denominator (incorrect / (100 − correct)), the num_repeats exception callout, the section-5 index row, and the three-endpoint callout.

Suggestions (non-blocking)

1. README.md:64 — prose names three judge grades; the note at :73 reveals a fourth (~0.7% partially correct). Naming it up front makes the (100 − correct) denominator self-evident instead of surprising.
2. qwen36-w4a4-qad.rst:126-149 — the announcement's table drops the Incorrect column the tutorial keeps, so an external reader cannot verify the index or the hallucination rate, and the naive reconstruction (33.0 / 40.0 / 49.2) disagrees with the real values (32.3 / 39.3 / 48.5). This is the announcement's headline new claim and it has no footnote explaining the remainder.
3. omniscience.yaml:75 — request_timeout: 14400 equals the full walltime, so max_retries: 10 cannot fire on a stall. Every sibling leaves headroom (3600 vs 1.5-4 h). Plausibly the cause of "the slowest QAD checkpoint needed a second 4 h job".
4. ABLATIONS.md:48-50 — the heading and lead-in still frame a three-way separation that footnote 3 then reveals was only two-way. The conclusion bullets get this right; the framing is the stale part.

Assessment

Risk: low. Documentation plus one additive eval config — no library code, no public API, no mode registration, no modelopt_state or export implications, nothing that can regress CI or an existing user workflow. omniscience.yaml tracks its siblings closely; a direct diff against gpqa.yaml shows the only structural departures are the judge wiring, the INFERENCE_API_KEY plumbing, num_repeats: 10, the timeout, and ++parse_reasoning=False — each carrying a comment explaining why. All five internal anchors in ABLATIONS.md and the README cross-link resolve to real headings.

The scientific content is the strong part of this PR and it has now held up across three rounds of correction. Replacing #2835's "noisy teacher" with a measured "wrong kernel", quantifying it (11% of tokens off by >1% of layer max), correctly re-scoping which arms are affected, then reclassifying your own arm B from a result into a null repeat after finding the flag matched an ID the data never contains — and labelling the original −0.34 a favourable draw rather than defending it — is the opposite of the failure mode docs PRs usually have. The three IMPORTANT findings raised across earlier rounds have all been fixed at the source rather than papered over.

What remains is four presentational items, all one or two sentences each, none affecting a measurement. Nothing blocks merge.

Not duplicated here: CodeRabbit's open findings on the announcement's "no accuracy change" phrasing (qwen36-w4a4-qad.rst:118-120) and on materializing the judge url/model_id (omniscience.yaml:103-110).

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