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Daniel Han
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Fix CPOTrainer crash with multimodal processors (Gemma 4) (#6522)
* Fix CPOTrainer crash with multimodal processors

CPOTrainer shares build_tokenized_answer/tokenize_row and __init__ with
ORPOTrainer, but the ORPO replacement functions that route tokenization
through the underlying text tokenizer and resolve pad_token_id were only
registered for orpo_trainer. With a multimodal processing class (e.g.
Gemma4Processor) the positional self.processing_class(prompt, ...) call binds
prompt to images=, leaving text=None and raising
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable.

Register the existing orpo_trainer_text_tokenizer and
orpo_trainer_processor_pad_token under cpo_trainer as well so CPO/SimPO
fine-tuning of multimodal models works. No change for plain tokenizers.

* Add CPO processor tokenizer regression test

Static, CPU-only checks that cpo_trainer registers the same
orpo_trainer_text_tokenizer and orpo_trainer_processor_pad_token rewriters as
orpo_trainer, and that the rewriter drops the broken positional
self.processing_class(prompt, ...) call. Guards against issue #4952 regressing.

* Format CPO test assert for ruff line length (pre-commit)

* Bind CPO __init__ pad/eos token reads to underlying tokenizer

TRL 0.28+ CPOTrainer.__init__ reads bare processing_class.pad_token and
processing_class.eos_token before pad_token_id, which raises AttributeError
for multimodal processors (e.g. Gemma) where those live on .tokenizer.
Extend orpo_trainer_processor_pad_token to route that block through the
underlying tokenizer, and add a regression test.

* Tighten code comments (no logic change)

* Make CPO/ORPO rewriters reach the trainer on TRL 1.x

TRL 1.x moved CPOTrainer and ORPOTrainer out of trl.trainer into
trl.experimental.<algo> and dropped the trl.trainer.<algo>_trainer shim that
older TRL (0.26 - 0.28) kept. patch_trl_rl_trainers() discovers trainers via
dir(trl.trainer), so on TRL 1.x cpo_trainer and orpo_trainer are never found and
the multimodal-processor tokenization fix (#4952) silently stops applying, even
though the rewriters themselves still match the source.

Re-expose experimental-only trainers that Unsloth has rewriters for (RL_FUNCTIONS
keys) under trl.trainer before discovery, so the existing patch machinery and its
thin-wrapper resolution work unchanged. The alias is a no-op on older TRL where
trl.trainer.<algo>_trainer already exists.

Also rebind the patched Trainer/Config into every already-imported trl.* module
that holds the original class so the fix is visible at the experimental import
site (from trl.experimental.cpo import CPOTrainer), not only via trl.trainer.

Verified on transformers 4.57.6 + trl 0.22.2, transformers 4.57.6 + trl 0.27.1,
and transformers 5.12.1 + trl 1.6.0: CPOTrainer with a multimodal processor
tokenizes through the underlying text tokenizer with no crash on all three, and
the SFT/GRPO/DPO patch paths are unchanged.

* Format for ruff (pre-commit)

* Simplify CPO fix to mirror ORPO registrations (#4952)

Register the existing ORPO row-tokenizer/pad-token rewriters for cpo_trainer.
Under the trl<=0.24.0 pin CPOTrainer lives in trl.trainer.cpo_trainer (found by
dir(trl.trainer)), shares ORPO's build_tokenized_answer and uses
processing_class.pad_token_id, so the two registrations are sufficient.

Drop the trl 1.x experimental aliasing/rebind machinery in rl.py and the
bare-pad_token rewriter: trl 1.x (CPO in trl.experimental) and the bare
pad_token pattern (trl>=0.28) are not installable under the pin.

* CPO: route bare pad_token/eos_token default through inner tokenizer

TRL 1.x CPO/ORPO __init__ (the trl.experimental source unsloth resolves on TRL
0.26+) defaults processing_class.pad_token from processing_class.eos_token
before tokenizing. Multimodal processors (Gemma3/Gemma4 Processor) expose those
attributes on .tokenizer, not on the processor, so that bare access raises
AttributeError during __init__ even with the pad_token_id fallback registered.

Extend orpo_trainer_processor_pad_token to rewrite that defaulting block to run
on the inner tokenizer. The pinned TRL range (<=0.24.0) has no such block, so
the regex is a no-op there and only the existing pad_token_id fallback applies.

Verified the rewrite against the real trl 1.6.0 experimental CPOTrainer.__init__
(bare access removed, result compiles, a processor without pad_token no longer
raises) and added offline regression tests for both the rewrite and its no-op.

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Co-authored-by: Daniel Han <michaelhan2050@gmail.com>
2026-06-23 06:29:22 -07:00