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Summary

  • Add declarative DSE constraints that can be configured directly in test or scenario TOMLs.
  • Support named expressions and reusable variable aliases for values from cmd_args, extra_env_vars, system, and test_run.
  • Evaluate declarative constraints before workload-specific constraint_check() and before submitting a job.
  • Use restricted AST-based expression evaluation without eval().
  • Preserve existing workload-specific constraint behavior.
  • Report a clear error and avoid Slurm submission when all single-sbatch DSE candidates are rejected

Example:

[dse_constraints.variables]
tp = "cmd_args.trainer.strategy.tensor_model_parallel_size"
gpus_per_node = "system.gpus_per_node"

[dse_constraints.expressions]
tp_fits_node = "tp <= gpus_per_node"

Test Plan

End-to-end DSE validation

Used the existing two-node NCCL AllGather DSE workload:

  • Test: conf/devops/verification/test/dse_nccl_test_all_gather.toml
  • Scenario: conf/devops/verification/test_scenario/dse_nccl_test.toml
  • Workload: all_gather_perf_mpi

Temporarily configured a four-step grid:

iters = [10, 20]
warmup_iters = [5, 50]

Added the following declarative constraint:

[dse_constraints.variables]
iters = "cmd_args.iters"
warmup_iters = "cmd_args.warmup_iters"

[dse_constraints.expressions]
warmup_not_longer_than_measurement = "warmup_iters <= iters"

This produced two valid and two invalid configurations.

Verified that:

  • The two valid configurations submitted Slurm jobs and completed successfully.
  • The two invalid configurations were rejected before Slurm submission.
  • CloudAI logged the named rejection:
DSE constraint 'warmup_not_longer_than_measurement' rejected the configuration:
warmup_iters <= iters
  • Only step directories 1 and 3 were created.
  • trajectory.csv contained only the two executed configurations.
  • NCCL reported average bus bandwidth values of 119.879 GB/s and 120.098 GB/s.
  • DSE, scenario, and NCCL comparison reports were generated successfully.

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This change adds named Boolean constraints to DSE test definitions. It validates and evaluates constraints against test context, applies them during DSE run generation and CloudAIGym steps before cache lookup, and documents the expression syntax.

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Declarative DSE constraints

Layer / File(s) Summary
Constraint expression model
src/cloudai/models/dse_constraint.py, src/cloudai/core.py, tests/test_dse_constraint.py
Adds public constraint types and validates and evaluates named expressions. Tests cover supported syntax, invalid inputs, evaluation errors, and first-failure reporting.
Test definition and DSE integration
src/cloudai/models/scenario.py, src/cloudai/models/workload.py, src/cloudai/systems/slurm/single_sbatch_runner.py, tests/test_dse_constraint.py, tests/test_test_scenario.py, tests/test_single_sbatch_runner.py, doc/USER_GUIDE.rst
Adds declarative constraints to scenario and test models. Test definitions evaluate them before the workload constraint hook, and the Slurm runner filters generated runs. Tests cover configuration loading and DSE filtering. The guide documents constraint configuration and evaluation order.
CloudAIGym cache ordering
src/cloudai/configurator/cloudai_gym.py, tests/test_cloudaigym.py
Checks constraints before trajectory-cache lookup. A rejected action returns the constraint-failure result without reusing a cached trajectory or running the workload.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bce63

Scalar configurations that violate a declared constraint may still reach Slurm, while DSE-grid and CloudAIGym paths are checked. Add the scalar-run guard or account for this limitation before relying on constraints for those runs.

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@saivishal1999 saivishal1999 changed the title Add declarative DSE constraints Add declarative constraint checks Oct 7, 2026

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🟡 Minor · Apply declarative constraints to scalar runs before submission. · single_sbatch_runner.py:140

src/cloudai/systems/slurm/single_sbatch_runner.py:140
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Apply declarative constraints to scalar runs before submission.

When cmd_args and extra_env_vars contain only scalar values, is_dse_job is false. all_trs then yields the run without calling check_constraints, and gen_sbatch_content passes it to on_job_submit. This bypasses the documented requirement that dse_constraints reject invalid configurations before execution.

Add the check in the non-DSE branch. This preserves the existing output-path assignment and workload-specific constraint_check behavior.

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             else:
+                if not tr.test.check_constraints(tr, self.system):
+                    continue
                 tr.output_path = self.get_job_output_path(tr)
                 yield tr
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Comment thread src/cloudai/models/workload.py Outdated
Comment on lines +174 to +184
"cmd_args": tr.test.cmd_args.model_dump(mode="python"),
"extra_env_vars": tr.test.extra_env_vars,
"system": system.model_dump(mode="python") if system is not None else {},
"test_run": {
"name": tr.name,
"num_nodes": tr.num_nodes,
"nodes": tr.nodes,
"iterations": tr.iterations,
"current_iteration": tr.current_iteration,
"step": tr.step,
"time_limit": tr.time_limit,

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  1. a person should be able to use entire test definition. e.g. vllm and sglang declare additional parent TDef properties besides cmd_args
  2. also this structure doesn't correspond to a certain cloudai structure (TestRun, TestDefinition) but establishes its own model. I'd really like to see it reuses an existing one without hardcoded list of key (so that it's always up-to-date with our features)

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Custom agents may extend the ``BaseAgentConfig`` and offer more parameters to configure.

Declarative DSE constraints

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I'm still not sure DSE term should be used in the public repo, I remember got questioned about it by our product manager (with no follow ups though)

Safer to call it sweep constraints

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models is for models :) I think we should move it into src/cloudai/configurator as it's sweeping-related

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saivishal1999 force-pushed the spothula/declarative-dse-constraints branch from 51fdfce to 7aac546 Compare October 8, 2026 19:47
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