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About this paper
Qingfeng He, Zhui Zhu, Shangzhan Li, Yaojian Chen, Haojun Sun, Xu Chen, Leshan Li, Yifei Shen and 10 more
ForgeTrain presents a harness-driven method for generating complete, scenario-specific large-model training frameworks from a trusted reference implementation. Across seven model–hardware configurations, the generated systems improved MFU by 4.7%–33.2% relative to Megatron-LM, MindSpeed, or PyTorch baselines while maintaining close training loss and downstream quality through staged correctness checks.
Key insights
- Scenario-specific generation can remove runtime generality costs by hard-coding model, hardware, sequence-length, batch, and parallelism choices that reusable frameworks must keep configurable.
- The Harness separates candidate code from evaluation logic and reference artifacts, making it harder to weaken tests or manipulate workloads and preserving a monotonic optimization trajectory through rollback.
- Long-horizon training and downstream evaluation are necessary complements to operator-level checks; without quality constraints, the agent pursued faster but invalid changes such as BF16 optimizer precision.
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