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Type of change: documentation (agent skill) + a bug fix in the GDPVal SIF builder script

Realigns the evaluation skill's four benchmark recipes, config templates and the
GDPVal SIF builder with the canonical configs in
nvidia-eval-factory-benchmarking (dl/JoC/competitive_evaluation/…) at main =
92b5474 (2026-09-17). The skill had drifted on all four benchmarks.

GDPVal — upstream is now GDPVal-AA-V2, a different measurement from what the skill described

  • Metric key moved. Upstream certifies on the final-stage-scoped
    comparison/stage_1/normalized_elo. The flat comparison/normalized_elo is
    emitted only when that stage is exactly complete, so a few lost rollouts blank it
    while the real number sits in the stage key. The skill told you to read the flat key
    and treat its absence as a failed run.
  • Reference ladder is 12 models (ELO 274–1468; anchors read off the AA board
    2026-09-09/11), with human_gold and gptoss_20b deliberately disabled. Anchors are
    held fixed by the Bradley-Terry fit, so a stale anchor shifts every candidate score.
  • Two-stage fit (45 tasks vs all refs → 220 vs the 4 nearest) with
    partial_completion gates and retry_inprocess. Without those gates a single
    unresolved rollout forfeits stage 2 after stage 1 has already been paid for.
  • Judge is a sampled 3-member panel with per-member create_params_overrides; the
    docs said "Gemini 3.1 Pro" as the judge.
  • Gym pin → df3e201d, SIF → python-3.13.gdpval.gym-80e4fc.sif, and the pin now
    requires Python ≥ 3.13.14. Added a section on why those three move as one unit: wrong
    Python fails loudly, wrong SIF degrades deliverables silently.

scripts/gdpval-sif.sh was broken by that pin (the one functional fix here)

The v2 gdpval.def declares a %files section (419-package pin list, apt closure,
arm64 exclusions, sandbox verifier). Apptainer resolves %files sources against the
build's CWD, so the previous "download one file and build it" path could not work.
The script now stages the def plus every source named in its %files block into a
temp dir and builds from inside it — the list is parsed from the def, not hardcoded,
so a def that adds a file keeps working.

MRCR

  • Canonical parallelism is 512, deliberately above total server capacity so 1M-token
    requests queue at the endpoint. That invalidates the skill's
    --max-num-seqs = ceil(parallelism / num_instances / DP) rule, which was a coincidence
    at 256 and is wrong at 512.
  • limit_samples now reaches the gym via a gated ++limit, so MRCR does have a
    sample-limited canary — the exact opposite of GDPVal. Added the gate to the template.
  • 128K is now its own upstream benchmark on the condensed
    benchmark:/prepare_args/run_args schema.

Terminal-Bench 2.1 / SWE-bench Verified

  • http_pairs_dump is first in the interceptor chain for both (docs said last for TB2.1).
  • Sandbox region comes from HARBOR_ECS_REGION, but the ECR coupling differs: TB2.1's repo
    name tracks the region (harbor-<region>), SWE-bench's is pinned to
    us-west-2/harbor-swebench regardless. Called out explicitly since it is easy to get backwards.
  • Interceptor lists replace wholesale on merge — a leaf adding one entry must restate the chain.
  • Dropped a stale "MiniMax-M2.7 uses concurrency 20" note; that config is gone, and the
    clu track that exists now runs repeats: 3 / concurrency: 10 and is not AA-comparable.

Usage

No API change. Regenerating a config from the skill now yields the aligned values, e.g.:

# recipes/examples/gym/example_gdpval.yaml
evaluation:
  env_vars:
    GDPVAL_CONTAINER_PATH: lit:/gdpval/sif/python-3.13.gdpval.gym-80e4fc.sif
    NEMO_GYM_MAX_ROLLOUT_ATTEMPTS: lit:3
  tasks:
    - name: nemo_gym
      nemo_evaluator_config:
        config:
          params:
            extra:
              nemo_gym:
                allow_limit_samples: false                 # limit_samples is inert on this path
                install_on_the_fly:
                  commit: df3e201d942f6397def1ec8c10037d29115fcbbd

Testing

  • pytest plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/tests/test_nel_gdpval.py — passes (launcher pin unchanged).
  • pre-commit run --files <changed> — passes (yamlfmt, markdownlint, license, symlink sync).
  • gdpval-sif.sh smoke-tested end to end against the real df3e201d def with a stub
    apptainer: verified it fetches the def, parses the %files block, stages all four
    sources, invokes the build with CWD inside the staging dir, publishes atomically, and
    cleans up. Also exercised --check (present / wrong-name) and the reuse path.
  • All three example configs re-validated as parseable YAML, and the edited keys
    (allow_limit_samples, gym pin, SIF path, MRCR parallelism/limit_samples gate,
    TB2.1 sandbox + MLflow tags) re-read back from the parsed docs.
  • Upstream values were read from a fresh clone of the eval-factory repo at 92b5474; the
    gdpval.def %files claim was confirmed against raw.githubusercontent.com at the pinned SHA.

Not run: an actual GDPVal/MRCR/TB/SWE evaluation. These are skill docs and templates; the
numbers quoted are upstream's own recorded sign-off values, not new measurements.

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Additional Information

Upstream source of truth for each benchmark, for reviewers who want to diff:
configs/benchmarks/{gdpval-aa-v2,gym/gdpval,mrcr,mrcr-128k,terminal-bench-2.1,swe-bench-verified}/
plus configs/shared/nel_next_containers.yaml, in
dl/JoC/competitive_evaluation/nvidia-eval-factory-benchmarking.

One judgement call worth a reviewer's eye: the upstream SWE-bench manifest.yaml lists its
metric key as mean/reward, but the certificates for the harbor path record pass@1
(e.g. 0.516). I kept pass@1 as what to report for a nel-next run and documented
mean/reward as the Gym/direct-path key. If you know which one the leaderboard actually
reads, that note should be tightened.

The companion change to the internal ModelOpt repo's own eval configs is tracked separately.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for GDPVal-AA v2, including comparison-mode evaluation, multi-stage scoring, judge configuration, and version-matched runtime artifacts.
    • Added region-aware Harbor deployment settings and expanded credentials/configuration options.
    • Added improved model-traffic capture, observability, replay, and MLflow metadata options.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified GDPVal, MRCR, SWE-bench, and Terminal-Bench benchmark configurations, metrics, manifests, concurrency, and sample-limit behavior.
    • Documented separate 1M and 128K MRCR benchmarks and updated canonical runtime and deployment requirements.

…nfigs

Aligns the evaluation skill's four benchmark recipes, config templates and the
GDPVal SIF builder with nvidia-eval-factory-benchmarking `main` (92b5474).

GDPVal is now GDPVal-AA v2 upstream, which is a different measurement:
- metric key is the final-stage-scoped `comparison/stage_1/normalized_elo`; the
  flat key is emitted only on an exactly-complete final stage
- 12-model reference ladder (human_gold and gptoss_20b deliberately disabled),
  two-stage fit (45 -> 220 tasks) with partial_completion gates
- judge is a sampled 3-member panel, not a single model
- Gym pin df3e201d, SIF python-3.13.gdpval.gym-80e4fc.sif, Python >= 3.13.14

Fixes `gdpval-sif.sh` for that pin: the v2 `gdpval.def` declares a `%files`
section whose sources apptainer resolves against the build CWD, so the def can
no longer be built on its own. The script now stages the def plus every source
named in its `%files` block and builds from inside that directory.

MRCR: canonical `parallelism` is 512, deliberately above server capacity, which
invalidates the old `ceil(parallelism / num_instances / DP)` rule for
`--max-num-seqs`; `limit_samples` now reaches the gym via a gated `++limit`.

Terminal-Bench 2.1 / SWE-bench Verified: `http_pairs_dump` is first in the
interceptor chain for both; sandbox region comes from `HARBOR_ECS_REGION`, whose
default and ECR coupling differ between the two.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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The changes update GDPVal-AA v2 and MRCR evaluation guidance, GDPVal SIF construction, Harbor region and interception settings, MLflow metadata, and benchmark metric reporting.

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Evaluation benchmark and deployment guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
GDPVal-AA v2 runtime and scoring
plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/{SKILL.md,recipes/env.example}, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/gym/example_gdpval.yaml, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/tasks/gym/gdpval.md, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/references/gym-gdpval.md, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/scripts/gdpval-sif.sh
GDPVal guidance now uses the GDPVal-AA v2 Gym, Python 3.13, versioned SIF, comparison judges, multistage ELO metrics, and updated environment settings. The SIF script stages and validates all definition-file sources before building.
MRCR benchmark execution guidance
plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/SKILL.md, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/gym/example_mrcr.yaml, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/tasks/gym/mrcr.md
MRCR guidance separates the 1M and 128K manifests, documents client and server capacity separately, forwards optional sample limits to Gym, and enables model-call capture.
Harbor regions, interception, and reporting
plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/example_eval_next.yaml, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/tasks/aa_next/*, plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/references/nel-next.md
Harbor configuration now derives regions and repository settings from environment values, defines interceptor ordering and replacement behavior, enables service-level request capture, expands MLflow tags, and distinguishes benchmark backends and metric keys.

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Using the documented nondefault GDPVal SIF name can cause evaluation code to run without its intended sandbox. Align the mounted filename with the override before merging.

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Make GDPVAL_SIF_NAME control the mounted SIF path.

When an operator sets the documented non-canonical GDPVAL_SIF_NAME, gdpval-sif.sh --check validates that file, but GDPVAL_CONTAINER_PATH still names the canonical file. NEL validates only the mounted directory, so submission can pass while Stirrup cannot find the SIF and silently runs code execution without the sandbox.

Resolve GDPVAL_CONTAINER_PATH from GDPVAL_SIF_NAME with the same canonical default, or remove the unsupported override from recipes/env.example.

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In `@plugins/modelopt/skills/evaluation/recipes/examples/gym/example_gdpval.yaml`
at line 148, Update the GDPVAL_CONTAINER_PATH configuration to derive the
mounted SIF filename from GDPVAL_SIF_NAME while retaining the canonical filename
as the default, or remove GDPVAL_SIF_NAME from the documented environment
example if the override is unsupported.

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