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What does this PR do?

Type of change: new example, new tests, and bug fix.

Extends the Qwen 3.5 0.8B pruning workflow with an opt-in VLM campaign and guided setup from model selection through VLM evaluation.

  • The maintained campaign searches FFN intermediate width with a conservative whole-model target.
  • The campaign and bounded student-versus-teacher comparison remain independent while sharing one pinned VLM evaluation profile.
  • Guided setup generates, validates, and runs the VLM flow while reusing the text campaign's execution, scheduling, checkpoint, and post-MIP foundations.
  • Model-specific defaults remain configuration-driven for later Qwen 3.5 sizes.

A follow-up will evaluate additional pruning axes at 5–15% whole-model pruning, longer distillation, and a wider low-cost candidate screen before full evaluation of finalists.

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Focused unit tests cover campaign composition, guided setup, checkpoint-aware VLM evaluation resume, student-versus-teacher comparison, and checkpoint handoff. Repository hooks passed.

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  • New Features

    • Added guided setup support for text and multimodal VLM campaigns.
    • Added Qwen 3.5 0.8B VLM campaign and quality-comparison configurations.
    • Added end-to-end VLM quality evaluation with RealWorldQA and MMMU comparisons.
    • Added resumable evaluations with validated saved results.
    • Added modality-specific post-processing, image serving, distillation, and throughput selection.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved checkpoint and local evaluation installation validation.
    • Enabled direct CPU execution while preserving launched distributed workflows.
  • Documentation

    • Expanded setup and campaign guides with multimodal workflows and configuration guidance.

Share one pinned final-evaluation contract between an FFN-only campaign and a bounded regression, with resumable student-teacher measurements.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
Keep the bounded quality regression independent from the larger campaign while composing both from one pinned evaluator specification.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Rausch <jrausch@nvidia.com>
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The PR adds modality-specific Qwen 3.5 VLM campaign setup, resumable evaluation, repeated end-to-end quality evaluation, checkpoint provenance checks, and pipeline execution updates. It also adds configurations, documentation, and tests for these flows.

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Puzzletron VLM workflows

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Modality-aware campaign setup
examples/puzzletron/configs/families/qwen3_5/..., puzzletron_setup/..., examples/puzzletron/docs/..., tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_setup_v2_*.py
Setup defaults and generated bundles now distinguish text and multimodal routes. Qwen VLM campaigns add image serving, distillation, and end-to-end quality evaluation.
Resumable VLM evaluation and full evaluation
examples/puzzletron/evaluation/checkpoint.py, examples/puzzletron/evaluation/vlm/*, examples/puzzletron/run_post_mip_node.py, tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/evaluation/*, tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_post_mip_runner.py
VLM evaluation validates local processor assets, resumes matching completed repetitions, supports the e2e-full-eval suite, and averages two result runs into a summary artifact.
Pipeline execution and scoring-parent handling
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/stages/pipeline.py, modelopt/torch/puzzletron/post_mip/filters.py, tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_scoring_parent.py, tests/unit/torch/puzzletron/test_sparse_runtime_stats.py
Library stages now use conditional distributed setup. MIP resolves the scoring-parent checkpoint before coverage validation. Loss and filter handling use validated values and renamed accumulators.

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This PR adds an opt-in VLM pruning campaign and related guided setup and evaluation configuration without any supplied actionable merge-blocking risk; it is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

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  participant SetupWizard
  participant RecommendedFlow
  participant VLMEvaluator
  participant CompletedRunRecord
  SetupWizard->>RecommendedFlow: pass text or multimodal modality
  RecommendedFlow->>VLMEvaluator: configure post-MIP quality evaluation
  VLMEvaluator->>CompletedRunRecord: load matching completion
  alt no valid completion
    VLMEvaluator->>VLMEvaluator: run evaluation repetition
    VLMEvaluator->>CompletedRunRecord: persist result atomically
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