Add provenance to artifacts, not runs (#553)

* feat: copy provenance from source model when forking checkpoints

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: add required provenance field to WandbDeploymentConfig

Includes provenance array in W&B artifact metadata when deploying.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat: write provenance to W&B artifact metadata instead of run config

Moves record_provenance to update the latest artifact version's metadata
and calls it after training completes (so the new artifact exists).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: fix test_provenance to work with artifact-based provenance

Use list syntax for gather_trajectory_groups and add retry for
transient server timeouts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor: rename provenance metadata key to wandb.provenance

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: arcticfly

src/art/local/backend.py

@@ -460,11 +460,6 @@ async def train(  # type: ignore[override]
         """
         groups_list = list(trajectory_groups)
 
-        # Record provenance in W&B
-        wandb_run = model._get_wandb_run()
-        if wandb_run is not None:
-            record_provenance(wandb_run, "local-rl")
-
         # Build config objects from explicit kwargs
         config = TrainConfig(learning_rate=learning_rate, beta=beta)
         dev_config: dev.TrainConfig = {
@@ -521,6 +516,11 @@ async def train(  # type: ignore[override]
             if not os.path.exists(checkpoint_path):
                 checkpoint_path = None
 
+        # Record provenance on the latest W&B artifact
+        wandb_run = model._get_wandb_run()
+        if wandb_run is not None:
+            record_provenance(wandb_run, "local-rl")
+
         return LocalTrainResult(
             step=step,
             metrics=avg_metrics,

src/art/serverless/backend.py

@@ -210,11 +210,6 @@ async def train(  # type: ignore[override]
         """
         groups_list = list(trajectory_groups)
 
-        # Record provenance in W&B
-        wandb_run = model._get_wandb_run()
-        if wandb_run is not None:
-            record_provenance(wandb_run, "serverless-rl")
-
         # Build config objects from explicit kwargs
         config = TrainConfig(learning_rate=learning_rate, beta=beta)
         dev_config: dev.TrainConfig = {
@@ -260,6 +255,11 @@ async def train(  # type: ignore[override]
         if model.entity is not None:
             artifact_name = f"{model.entity}/{model.project}/{model.name}:step{step}"
 
+        # Record provenance on the latest W&B artifact
+        wandb_run = model._get_wandb_run()
+        if wandb_run is not None:
+            record_provenance(wandb_run, "serverless-rl")
+
         return ServerlessTrainResult(
             step=step,
             metrics=avg_metrics,
@@ -645,6 +645,20 @@ async def _experimental_fork_checkpoint(
         run.log_artifact(dest_artifact, aliases=aliases)
         run.finish()
 
+        # Copy provenance from the source model's W&B run to the destination model
+        api = wandb.Api(api_key=self._client.api_key)  # ty:ignore[possibly-missing-attribute]
+        try:
+            source_run = api.run(f"{model.entity}/{from_project}/{from_model}")
+            source_provenance = source_run.config.get("wandb.provenance")
+            if source_provenance is not None:
+                dest_run = model._get_wandb_run()
+                if dest_run is not None:
+                    dest_run.config.update(
+                        {"wandb.provenance": list(source_provenance)}
+                    )
+        except Exception:
+            pass  # Source run may not exist (e.g., S3-only models)
+
         if verbose:
             print(
                 f"Successfully forked checkpoint from {from_model} "

src/art/utils/deployment/common.py

@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ async def deploy_model(
             model=model,
             checkpoint_path=checkpoint_path,
             step=step,
+            config=config,
             verbose=verbose,
         )
         return DeploymentResult(inference_model_name=inference_name)

src/art/utils/deployment/wandb.py

@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ class WandbDeploymentConfig(DeploymentConfig):
     - Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct
     """
 
-    pass
+    provenance: list[str]
+    """The training provenance history for this model (e.g. ["local-rl", "serverless-rl"])."""
 
 
 WANDB_SUPPORTED_BASE_MODELS = [
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ def deploy_wandb(
     model: "TrainableModel",
     checkpoint_path: str,
     step: int,
+    config: "WandbDeploymentConfig | None" = None,
     verbose: bool = False,
 ) -> str:
     """Deploy a model to W&B by uploading a LoRA artifact.
@@ -44,6 +46,7 @@ def deploy_wandb(
         model: The TrainableModel to deploy.
         checkpoint_path: Local path to the checkpoint directory.
         step: The step number of the checkpoint.
+        config: Optional WandbDeploymentConfig with provenance metadata.
         verbose: Whether to print verbose output.
 
     Returns:
@@ -74,10 +77,13 @@ def deploy_wandb(
         settings=wandb.Settings(api_key=os.environ["WANDB_API_KEY"]),
     )
     try:
+        metadata: dict[str, object] = {"wandb.base_model": model.base_model}
+        if config is not None:
+            metadata["wandb.provenance"] = config.provenance
         artifact = wandb.Artifact(
             model.name,
             type="lora",
-            metadata={"wandb.base_model": model.base_model},
+            metadata=metadata,
             storage_region="coreweave-us",
         )
         artifact.add_dir(checkpoint_path)

src/art/utils/record_provenance.py

@@ -7,11 +7,22 @@
 
 
 def record_provenance(run: wandb.Run, provenance: str) -> None:
-    """Record provenance in run metadata, ensuring it's the last value in the array."""
-    if "provenance" in run.config:
-        existing = list(run.config["provenance"])
+    """Record provenance on the latest artifact version's metadata."""
+    import wandb as wandb_module
+
+    api = wandb_module.Api()
+    artifact_path = f"{run.entity}/{run.project}/{run.name}:latest"
+    try:
+        artifact = api.artifact(artifact_path, type="lora")
+    except wandb_module.errors.CommError:
+        return  # No artifact exists yet
+
+    existing = artifact.metadata.get("wandb.provenance")
+    if existing is not None:
+        existing = list(existing)
         if existing[-1] != provenance:
             existing.append(provenance)
-        run.config.update({"provenance": existing})
+        artifact.metadata["wandb.provenance"] = existing
     else:
-        run.config.update({"provenance": [provenance]})
+        artifact.metadata["wandb.provenance"] = [provenance]
+    artifact.save()

tests/integration/test_provenance.py

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-"""Integration test: verify provenance tracking in W&B run config via ServerlessBackend."""
+"""Integration test: verify provenance tracking on W&B artifact metadata via ServerlessBackend."""
 
 import asyncio
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
+import wandb
 
 import art
 from art.serverless.backend import ServerlessBackend
@@ -36,8 +37,13 @@ async def simple_rollout(model: art.TrainableModel) -> art.Trajectory:
     return traj
 
 
-async def make_group(model: art.TrainableModel) -> art.TrajectoryGroup:
-    return art.TrajectoryGroup(simple_rollout(model) for _ in range(4))
+def get_latest_artifact_provenance(
+    entity: str, project: str, name: str
+) -> list[str] | None:
+    """Fetch provenance from the latest W&B artifact's metadata."""
+    api = wandb.Api()
+    artifact = api.artifact(f"{entity}/{project}/{name}:latest", type="lora")
+    return artifact.metadata.get("wandb.provenance")
 
 
 async def main() -> None:
@@ -49,25 +55,35 @@ async def main() -> None:
         base_model="OpenPipe/Qwen3-14B-Instruct",
     )
     await model.register(backend)
+    assert model.entity is not None
 
-    # --- Step 1: first training call ---
-    groups = await art.gather_trajectory_groups(make_group(model) for _ in range(1))
-    result = await backend.train(model, groups)
-    await model.log(groups, metrics=result.metrics, step=result.step, split="train")
-
-    # Check provenance after first train call
-    run = model._get_wandb_run()
-    assert run is not None, "W&B run should exist"
-    provenance = run.config.get("provenance")
+    # --- Step 1: first training call (retry on transient server errors) ---
+    for attempt in range(3):
+        groups = await art.gather_trajectory_groups(
+            [art.TrajectoryGroup(simple_rollout(model) for _ in range(4))]  # ty: ignore[invalid-argument-type]
+        )
+        try:
+            result = await backend.train(model, groups)
+            await model.log(
+                groups, metrics=result.metrics, step=result.step, split="train"
+            )
+            break
+        except RuntimeError as e:
+            print(f"Step 1 attempt {attempt + 1} failed: {e}")
+            if attempt == 2:
+                raise
+
+    # Check provenance on the latest artifact after first train call
+    provenance = get_latest_artifact_provenance(model.entity, model.project, model.name)
     print(f"After step 1: provenance = {provenance}")
     assert provenance == ["serverless-rl"], (
         f"Expected ['serverless-rl'], got {provenance}"
     )
 
     # --- Step 2: second training call (same technique, should NOT duplicate) ---
-    # Provenance is recorded at the start of train(), before the remote call,
-    # so we can verify deduplication even if the server-side training fails.
-    groups2 = await art.gather_trajectory_groups(make_group(model) for _ in range(1))
+    groups2 = await art.gather_trajectory_groups(
+        [art.TrajectoryGroup(simple_rollout(model) for _ in range(4))]  # ty: ignore[invalid-argument-type]
+    )
     try:
         result2 = await backend.train(model, groups2)
         await model.log(
@@ -76,7 +92,7 @@ async def main() -> None:
     except RuntimeError as e:
         print(f"Step 2 training failed (transient server error, OK for this test): {e}")
 
-    provenance = run.config.get("provenance")
+    provenance = get_latest_artifact_provenance(model.entity, model.project, model.name)
     print(f"After step 2: provenance = {provenance}")
     assert provenance == ["serverless-rl"], (
         f"Expected ['serverless-rl'] (no duplicate), got {provenance}"