feat: Add dedicated merged mode to Megatron backend#636
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Summary
This adds dedicated
mergedmode to the Megatron backend.In dedicated merged mode, ART now keeps vLLM running on the inference GPU, trains Megatron on the trainer GPU, and updates inference weights in place through vLLM's native weight transfer APIs. This allows the training of models which do not have LoRA support on vLLM as well as enabling faster inference when used in LocalBackend
What this enables
rollout_weights_mode="merged"Implementation
Validation
tests/unit/test_megatron_dedicated.py01Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507mergedmode completed two real train steps and advanced the served model from@0to@2Notes