Breaking the Tokenizer Barrier: On-Policy Distillation across Model Families
Paper • 2606.09456 • Published
Error code: StreamingRowsError
Exception: CastError
Message: Couldn't cast
assets: list<item: struct<file_count: int64, repo_id: string, revision: string, role: string, total_bytes: i (... 6 chars omitted)
child 0, item: struct<file_count: int64, repo_id: string, revision: string, role: string, total_bytes: int64>
child 0, file_count: int64
child 1, repo_id: string
child 2, revision: string
child 3, role: string
child 4, total_bytes: int64
elapsed_seconds: double
gpu_used: bool
hashed_files_verified: int64
manifest: string
platform: string
profile: string
python: string
recorded_unix: int64
schema_version: int64
stage: string
status: string
total_bytes: int64
weights_hashed: bool
upstream_repo: string
upstream_commit: string
to
{'assets': List({'file_count': Value('int64'), 'files': List({'bytes': Value('int64'), 'path': Value('string'), 'sha256': Value('string')}), 'local_dir': Value('string'), 'repo_id': Value('string'), 'revision': Value('string'), 'role': Value('string'), 'total_bytes': Value('int64'), 'upstream_repo_id': Value('string'), 'upstream_revision': Value('string'), 'weights_hashed': Value('bool')}), 'schema_version': Value('int64'), 'total_bytes': Value('int64'), 'upstream_commit': Value('string'), 'upstream_repo': Value('string'), 'weights_hashed': Value('bool')}
because column names don't match
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 147, in get_rows_or_raise
return get_rows(
dataset=dataset,
...<4 lines>...
column_names=column_names,
)
File "/src/libs/libcommon/src/libcommon/utils.py", line 272, in decorator
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 127, in get_rows
rows_plus_one = list(itertools.islice(safe_iter(ds, dataset=dataset), rows_max_number + 1))
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/utils.py", line 483, in safe_iter
yield from ds.decode(False) if ds.features else ds
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2951, in __iter__
for key, example in ex_iterable:
^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2461, in __iter__
for key, pa_table in self._iter_arrow():
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2486, in _iter_arrow
for key, pa_table in self.ex_iterable._iter_arrow():
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 547, in _iter_arrow
for key, pa_table in iterator:
^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 430, in _iter_arrow
for key, pa_table in self.generate_tables_fn(**gen_kwags):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 343, in _generate_tables
self._cast_table(pa_table, json_field_paths=json_field_paths),
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 132, in _cast_table
pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self.info.features.arrow_schema)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2378, in table_cast
return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.14/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2306, in cast_table_to_schema
raise CastError(
...<3 lines>...
)
datasets.table.CastError: Couldn't cast
assets: list<item: struct<file_count: int64, repo_id: string, revision: string, role: string, total_bytes: i (... 6 chars omitted)
child 0, item: struct<file_count: int64, repo_id: string, revision: string, role: string, total_bytes: int64>
child 0, file_count: int64
child 1, repo_id: string
child 2, revision: string
child 3, role: string
child 4, total_bytes: int64
elapsed_seconds: double
gpu_used: bool
hashed_files_verified: int64
manifest: string
platform: string
profile: string
python: string
recorded_unix: int64
schema_version: int64
stage: string
status: string
total_bytes: int64
weights_hashed: bool
upstream_repo: string
upstream_commit: string
to
{'assets': List({'file_count': Value('int64'), 'files': List({'bytes': Value('int64'), 'path': Value('string'), 'sha256': Value('string')}), 'local_dir': Value('string'), 'repo_id': Value('string'), 'revision': Value('string'), 'role': Value('string'), 'total_bytes': Value('int64'), 'upstream_repo_id': Value('string'), 'upstream_revision': Value('string'), 'weights_hashed': Value('bool')}), 'schema_version': Value('int64'), 'total_bytes': Value('int64'), 'upstream_commit': Value('string'), 'upstream_repo': Value('string'), 'weights_hashed': Value('bool')}
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Generated by the Modal packaging step. Do not edit files here by hand: every file
is covered by SHA256SUMS and the Hub commit is the release identifier.
Paper under qualification: arXiv:2606.09456, teacher Qwen/Qwen3-8B -> student
Llama-3.1-8B-SFT (Appendix A, Table 4). Nothing in this payload is evidence
about that paper's results.
| file | role |
|---|---|
runtime.tar.gz |
the runtime itself (venv + base interpreter + pinned source) |
models.tar |
the paper pair (~32 GB), extracted into shared storage by stage_models.sh |
stage_models.sh |
verify + extract the weights into $DPCA_CACHE_ROOT, then re-verify against the manifest |
python-b200-dpca.sh |
entry point; sets PYTHONPATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, cache roots |
install.sh |
verify, unpack the runtime into /, run the smoke gate |
smoke.py |
first gate: does this runtime see a Blackwell GPU |
gates.py |
full gate code; identical file runs on Modal and on the node |
pins.py |
every pinned version/commit this payload was built from |
stage_assets.py |
stages the paper pair into shared storage, pinned by revision |
assets-manifest.json |
per-file repo/revision/size/sha256 manifest written by stage_assets.py stage; stage_models.sh copies it into the cache and re-verifies every weight against it |
assets-qualification.json |
the assets gate receipt: what the gate observed on Modal |
manifest.json |
what was packaged, from which image, with which profile |
packages.json |
full pip-style inventory of the venv |
SHA256SUMS |
checksums for every payload file |
nvidia-smi, python3 --version, proxy reachability);SHA256SUMS;bash install.sh;DPCA_CACHE_ROOT=/workspace/storage-shared/... bash stage_models.sh (weights land in
shared storage, never in /);bash python-b200-dpca.sh gates.py cpu;bash python-b200-dpca.sh gates.py cuda;bash python-b200-dpca.sh gates.py dpca_gpu;DPCA_CACHE_ROOT=... bash python-b200-dpca.sh gates.py assets.Steps 1-8 are engineering qualification. They say nothing about scientific results, and the canary receipt says the same about itself.