Flight Log / stanford-crfm/levanter #1058

Update sharding helper to avoid deprecated JAX API — a OpenAI Codex (OpenAI) flight by David Hall

David Hall (@dlwh) opened this OpenAI Codex (OpenAI) pull request in stanford-crfm/levanter on Jul 13, 2025; merged clean in 49 min, merged by @dlwh: +14 −11, 3 files, 0 reviews.

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OpenAI Codex, in stanford-crfm/levanter, fixes the sharding helper to stop using a deprecated JAX API. It switches best_effort_sharding to NamedSharding and drops PositionalSharding across three files, with 14 additions and 11 deletions in one commit. The pytest run fails on a missing ray module. The PR merged clean after 0.82 hours, with no changes requested.

From the pull request description

## Summary - switch `best_effort_sharding` to build a `NamedSharding` - fix imports in tests and stop using `PositionalSharding` ## Testing - `pre-commit run --all-files` - `pytest tests -m "not entry and not slow and not ray"` *(fails: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'ray')* ------ https://c…

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  1. —committedDavid Hall
  2. Jul 13, 2025labeleddlwh
  3. Jul 13, 2025mergeddlwh
  4. Jul 13, 2025closeddlwh

Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, stanford-crfm/levanter#1058, record updated Nov 4, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/stanford-crfm/levanter/1058/

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