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Summary

  • Add a structured experiment.json at the scenario results root, with Pydantic models for experiment metadata, tests, runs, status, timing, and metrics.
  • Record standalone runs at submission and completion, preserving each iteration before its mutable state advances. Workload success comes from was_run_successful(); canonical metrics come from metric_observations().
  • Create output for every runner, including dry runs, and finalize it when execution finishes or raises an exception. Replace snapshots atomically; metric extraction and write failures warn without changing benchmark behavior.

Test Plan

  • Automated CI.
  • Manual standalone execution on Linux: ran two AIConfigurator prediction cases with output sequence lengths of 150 and 300. Downloaded the artifacts and inspected them locally. Both cases produced prediction reports, and experiment.json contains two completed tests with one completed run each, UTC start/finish timestamps, and positive durations.

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This PR provides shared output infrastructure and standalone run capture. Slurm run capture, DSE result selection, and single-sbatch support are covered by subsequent PRs. Test.metrics remains empty in this PR; canonical measurements are retained per run.

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The change adds typed experiment output models and experiment.json persistence. Runner paths record statuses, metrics, timestamps, and durations. Standalone jobs convert status and metric observations into run records. Tests and documentation cover the generated output.

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Experiment output reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Output models and persistence
src/cloudai/models/output.py, src/cloudai/output.py, tests/test_output.py
Adds typed experiment, test, run, metric, and status models. ExperimentOutput updates records, derives statuses, calculates durations, creates snapshots, and writes experiment.json through a temporary file. Tests validate persisted records and failure finalization.
Standalone run output conversion
src/cloudai/systems/standalone/standalone_job.py, src/cloudai/systems/standalone/standalone_runner.py, tests/systems/standalone/test_runner.py
Adds standalone job timing fields and converts job status, timestamps, and metric observations into run output records. Tests check serialized run fields and metrics.
Runner lifecycle integration
src/cloudai/_core/base_runner.py, src/cloudai/_core/runner.py, src/cloudai/cli/handlers.py, src/cloudai/systems/slurm/*
Creates output state, captures run snapshots, returns execution success, and finalizes output. Slurm job processing updates output after submission and status retrieval.
Acceptance coverage and reporting documentation
tests/test_acceptance.py, doc/reporting.rst
Documents experiment.json fields, timing, metric extraction, atomic replacement, warning behavior, and dry-run output. Acceptance tests validate experiment metadata and test entries.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 474e9

When workload status checking is disabled, the report can say the experiment completed even though a run and test show failure. A sudden power loss can also leave the latest report missing or stale. These are bounded reporting risks; benchmark execution is not blocked.

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@podkidyshev podkidyshev changed the title Add unified results for completed Slurm scenarios Add experiment output architecture skeleton Sep 14, 2026
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@podkidyshev podkidyshev changed the title Add unified results for standalone scenarios [Reporting] Unified output for standalone scenarios Sep 17, 2026

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In `@doc/reporting.rst`:
- Around line 34-48: Update the “Unified experiment output” documentation to
state that dry runs do produce experiment.json, with completed status and empty
metrics and run data, matching handle_dry_run_and_run and the acceptance test;
leave the exclusions for DSE and single-sbatch execution unchanged.

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- Line 87: Update SingleSbatchRunner.run() to return an explicit cancelled or
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- Around line 78-79: Make the atomic write in the temporary-file replacement
flow durable: import and use os, flush and fsync the temporary file after
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self.output_path as a directory and fsync it after replacement, closing the
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87-87: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Return a non-success result when shutdown interrupts execution.

SingleSbatchRunner.run() returns normally when shutting_down breaks its monitoring loop. Line 87 then returns True. The output lifecycle can record the killed experiment as "completed" without checking its final job status.

Return a cancelled or failed result after shutdown. Alternatively, raise a dedicated cancellation exception.

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In `@src/cloudai/_core/runner.py` at line 87, Update SingleSbatchRunner.run() so
that when shutting_down interrupts the monitoring loop, it returns a non-success
result or raises the established cancellation exception instead of reaching the
unconditional True return. Preserve the successful result for jobs that complete
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In `@tests/test_acceptance.py`:
- Around line 203-205: Update the acceptance test around the experiment timing
assertions to parse the raw experiment JSON and verify that the start, finish,
and duration keys are present, while allowing each value to be null; do not rely
solely on comparisons against the parsed model or model_dump output.

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A few suggestions.

_update_timing — a naive datetime becomes None rather than assumed-UTC, so the timestamp and the derived duration drop silently:

before: start=2026-09-21 10:00:00  finish=2026-09-21 10:05:00
after : start=None  finish=None  duration=None

Latent today since every producer passes aware datetimes, but Run.start/finish accept naive ones and the Slurm PR adds producers. value.replace(tzinfo=utc) or a warning seems safer than a silent drop. Related: finish() runs this against the live experiment while snapshot() works on a copy.

Dry run vs real run — a dry run writes status: "completed" with every test completed and runs: []. Since SlurmRunner has no get_run_output yet, a real Slurm run produces the same shape. A mode field would make the artifact self-describing; doc/reporting.rst mentions dry runs but the JSON carries no marker.

finally: finish_output(successful) — the mixed DSE/non-DSE return 1 marks the experiment "failed" though nothing ran. And handle_non_dse_job returns success now, but that branch still returns 0, so the CLI can exit 0 while experiment.json says failed. Intentional for compatibility?

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A few suggestions.

_update_timing — a naive datetime becomes None rather than assumed-UTC, so the timestamp and the derived duration drop silently:

before: start=2026-09-21 10:00:00  finish=2026-09-21 10:05:00
after : start=None  finish=None  duration=None

Latent today since every producer passes aware datetimes, but Run.start/finish accept naive ones and the Slurm PR adds producers. value.replace(tzinfo=utc) or a warning seems safer than a silent drop. Related: finish() runs this against the live experiment while snapshot() works on a copy.

Dry run vs real run — a dry run writes status: "completed" with every test completed and runs: []. Since SlurmRunner has no get_run_output yet, a real Slurm run produces the same shape. A mode field would make the artifact self-describing; doc/reporting.rst mentions dry runs but the JSON carries no marker.

finally: finish_output(successful) — the mixed DSE/non-DSE return 1 marks the experiment "failed" though nothing ran. And handle_non_dse_job returns success now, but that branch still returns 0, so the CLI can exit 0 while experiment.json says failed. Intentional for compatibility?

  1. timezone issue - it's rather hypothetical. later PRs produce explicit TZ-aware datetime objects. In other words, there's no producer of these DT objects that can provide unaware DT
  2. dry-run vs real run for Slurm - addressed in the next PRs in the stack. this PR focuses on overall feature and Standalone mode
  3. mixing DSE/non-DSE is prohibited by design. It's an actuall error despite CLI returns 0. So failed is absolutely correct. CLI can be fixed but it's out of scope here. Related features will need some touch of handlers code - perhaps I'll address it there

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@blugassi please take a look as well (notice that it's a stack, support for slurm is in the 2nd pr)

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Status: 🟡 1 Medium finding confirmed at 474e909d021c38861c590e5c5d2c74d4635dadcb. The source-only Ultra assessment ended degraded: its final claim corrections did not receive a complete fresh whole-review assessment. The published finding remains independently confirmed from the exact source and discussion.

Walkthrough and change map

This PR adds canonical experiment.json output and records standalone iterations before their mutable state advances. The CLI writes an initial snapshot and finalizes it after execution; failed-run report packaging happens earlier.

Area Change Reviewed interaction
models/output.py, output.py Typed experiment/test/run data, independent snapshots, atomic replacement and finalization Terminal experiment status and timing
_core/base_runner.py, standalone runner Submission/completion capture, workload status, per-run metrics Failure outcome passed back to the CLI
cli/handlers.py Initial output and finally finalization Ordering against report generation and tarball creation
Reporting docs and tests Output contract and iteration preservation Final output distributed with failure artifacts

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Failed-run archives contain an unfinished experiment snapshot · 🟡 Medium

For a non-DSE standalone workload failure, Runner.run() returns False. handle_non_dse_job() generates reports before returning that result to its caller. The enabled-by-default TarballReporter then copies the results directory into the failure .tgz. Only afterward does this PR's finally call finish_output(False).

Consequently, the local experiment.json becomes failed with a finish timestamp, while the already-created failure archive retains status: "running", finish: null and a nonfinal duration. Consumers of the downloadable failure bundle receive an unfinished canonical result for an execution that has already ended.

Fix: finalize the experiment's execution outcome before generating reports that package the results directory, while preserving exceptional-exit cleanup and warning-only output writes. Add an integration check that inspects the JSON inside a failed standalone run's .tgz.

Prior-review discussion

The finding above concerns when the canonical snapshot is copied into a failure archive; no existing issue, inline comment or review in the checked discussion reports that packaging-order defect.

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  1. Workload failure becomes False in Runner.run().
  2. Report generation precedes return of the execution outcome.
  3. tarball is enabled by default and the reporter adds the results directory to a .tgz.
  4. Finalization occurs only in the caller's finally; finish() sets terminal experiment state and writes the replacement snapshot.

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🟡 Minor · Propagate workload failure to experiment finalization when status… · base_runner.py:120-127

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Propagate workload failure to experiment finalization when status checking is disabled.

job_status_check = false is a supported scenario option. In this mode, monitor_jobs() records a failed was_run_successful() result but still counts the job as successful. Runner.run() then returns True because no JobFailureError was raised. The CLI passes that value to finish_output(), so experiment.json can report completed while its run and test report failure.

Keep the non-aborting behavior of the option, but propagate the recorded workload failure to Runner.run() and CLI finalization. The correction belongs in the BaseRunner status aggregation and Runner.run() return path, not in the serialized run status.

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Update BaseRunner status aggregation in monitor_jobs and the Runner.run return
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