feat: LoRA self-reference RL — use policy trainer as KL reference#299
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feat: LoRA self-reference RL — use policy trainer as KL reference#299
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When training with LoRA, the base model (without adapter) can serve as the KL divergence reference model. This eliminates the need for a separate FORWARD_ONLY reference trainer job, halving reference GPU cost. Changes: - Add BaseReferenceClient: lightweight forward-only wrapper for base model logprobs, sharing the policy client's service session - Add ReconnectableClient.create_base_reference(): creates a base-only model handle (base-<hex>) on the same LORA_TRAINER, with LoRA adapters disabled for forward passes - Store _svc on ReconnectableClient so the service session can be reused for both policy and reference model handles - New cookbook example: training/examples/rl/lora_self_ref/ demonstrating GRPO with LoRA where no separate reference training shape is needed Depends on SDK changes: - tinker CreateModelRequest.base_only field - FiretitanServiceClient.create_base_training_client() method Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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When training with LoRA, the base model (without adapter) can serve as the KL divergence reference model. This eliminates the need for a separate FORWARD_ONLY reference trainer job, halving reference GPU cost.
Changes:
Depends on SDK changes: