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Plumbline: When the Loss Lies, Validating LLM Training Correctly
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摘要
Correctness is a prerequisite for training large language models (LLMs) at scale, yet it is hard to ensure: a fault can sit in any part of a run, and how it shows differs across frameworks and the libraries they depend on. Some failures are loud and some are silent, and both take time to detect and trace. A single fault can waste a long run: the run crashes late, or the model scores lower only at the final evaluation. We present Plumbline, a correctness validation system for LLM training, used in production at Amazon. Plumbline checks each part of the training lifecycle, from the data a run trains on to the model it serves, down to the new layers each model brings and up to whole runs. Its diagnosis reuses these checks to trace failures to their root causes. Both rest on a systematic correctness methodology designed to carry across models and frameworks. Plumbline supports two agentic use cases: Day-0 onboarding, which validates the training of a newly released model before teams rely on it, and root-cause tracing of training failures. Across 3 frameworks and 5 models, it found 61 problems, 32 of them silent. Of these, 42 are fixed or reported upstream, 8 of them first raised by us. We further group the 61 into seven failure patterns that show where training breaks, and report how problems recur across frameworks and models.
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Plumbline: When the Loss Lies, Validating LLM Training Correctly
Correctness is a prerequisite for training large language models (LLMs) at scale, yet it is hard to ensure: a fault can sit in any part of a run, and how it shows differs across frameworks and the libraries they depend on. Some failures are loud and some are silent, and both take time to detect and trace. A single fault can waste a long run: the run crashes late, or the model scores lower only at the final evaluation. We present Plumbline, a correctness validation system for LLM training, used in production at Amazon. Plumbline checks each part of the training lifecycle, from the data a run trains on to the model it serves, down to the new layers each model brings and up to whole runs. Its diagnosis reuses these checks to trace failures to their root causes. Both rest on a systematic correctness methodology designed to carry across models and frameworks. Plumbline supports two agentic use cases: Day-0 onboarding, which validates the training of a newly released model before teams rely on it, and root-cause tracing of training failures. Across 3 frameworks and 5 models, it found 61 problems, 32 of them silent. Of these, 42 are fixed or reported upstream, 8 of them first raised by us. We further group the 61 into seven failure patterns that show where training breaks, and report how problems recur across frameworks and models.
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