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[recipe, data] feat: TransferQueue - Support managing multiple data partitions for Train/Val/Test in controller

Open LLLLxmmm opened this issue 1 week ago • 2 comments

Support managing multiple data partitions for Train/Val/Test in controller

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LLLLxmmm avatar Nov 18 '25 02:11 LLLLxmmm

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Summary of changes

  1. Data partition capability is available in PR#98. Now we can define logical data partitions to manage the train/val/test datasets.
  2. We make storage backends pluggable in PR#66. You can try to integrate your own storage backend within TransferQueue interface.
  3. TransferQueueController is greatly simplified. We disentangle the data retrieval logic from TransferQueueController PR#101. Now you can implement your own Sampler to control how to consume the data.
  4. The initialization of TransferQueue is optimized.
  5. TransferQueue can be installed through pypi: pip install TransferQueue
  6. Add CI for TransferQueue.
  7. Update docs.

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https://github.com/volcengine/verl/pull/3649

0oshowero0 avatar Nov 18 '25 03:11 0oshowero0