Aggregate Metrics

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After rollout collection, NeMo Gym computes aggregate metrics for each agent by calling the /aggregate_metrics endpoint on the agent server. The results are written to a single _aggregate_metrics.json file.


How It Works

  1. Rollouts complete — gym eval run --no-serve gathers verify responses (reward + custom fields) for every task/rollout pair.
  2. Group by agent — responses are partitioned by agent name.
  3. Call /aggregate_metrics — for each agent, the stripped verify responses are POSTed to the agent’s /aggregate_metrics endpoint.
  4. Compute stats — per-task and overall statistics (mean, max, min, median, std) are computed for every numeric field. If the resources server overrides compute_metrics() or get_key_metrics(), those are called to add additional metrics.
  5. Write results — all per-agent metrics are written to <output>_aggregate_metrics.json.

Output Format

The output file is a JSON array with one entry per agent:

[
{
"agent_ref": {"name": "my_agent"},
"agent_metrics": {
"mean/reward": 0.75,
"max/reward": 1.0,
"min/reward": 0.0,
"median/reward": 1.0,
"std/reward": 0.433
},
"key_metrics": {
"mean/reward": 0.75
},
"group_level_metrics": [
{"mean/reward": 1.0, "sample": {"...": "..."}},
{"mean/reward": 0.5, "sample": {"...": "..."}}
]
}
]
FieldDescription
agent_refAgent identity ({"name": "..."})
agent_metricsOverall stats across all rollouts, plus any custom metrics from compute_metrics()
key_metricsHeadline numbers (default: all mean/* entries from agent_metrics)
group_level_metricsPer-task breakdown — one entry per task with stats across that task’s rollouts

Custom Metrics

Override two hooks on your resources server to add custom metrics.

compute_metrics(tasks)

Receives all verify responses grouped by task. Use this for metrics that need the full dataset — pass@k, confidence intervals, cross-task statistics.

get_key_metrics(agent_metrics)

Selects headline numbers from the final agent_metrics dict. Default returns all mean/* entries.

Example: pass@k

from nemo_gym.base_resources_server import (
BaseVerifyRequest,
BaseVerifyResponse,
SimpleResourcesServer,
)
class MathServer(SimpleResourcesServer):
async def verify(self, body: BaseVerifyRequest) -> BaseVerifyResponse:
# ... verification logic ...
pass
def compute_metrics(self, tasks):
n_tasks = len(tasks)
# pass@k: fraction of tasks where at least one rollout got reward=1
pass_at_k = sum(
1 for rollouts in tasks if any(r["reward"] >= 1.0 for r in rollouts)
) / n_tasks
# pass@1 (average of per-task mean rewards)
pass_at_1 = sum(
sum(r["reward"] for r in rollouts) / len(rollouts)
for rollouts in tasks
) / n_tasks
return {"pass@k": pass_at_k, "pass@1": pass_at_1}
def get_key_metrics(self, agent_metrics):
return {
k: agent_metrics[k]
for k in ("pass@k", "pass@1")
if k in agent_metrics
}

Given 3 tasks with 4 rollouts each (task 0: all correct, task 1: all wrong, task 2: half correct), this produces:

[
{
"agent_ref": {"name": "math_simple_agent"},
"agent_metrics": {
"mean/reward": 0.5,
"max/reward": 1.0,
"min/reward": 0.0,
"median/reward": 0.5,
"std/reward": 0.522,
"pass@k": 0.667,
"pass@1": 0.5
},
"key_metrics": {
"pass@k": 0.667,
"pass@1": 0.5
},
"group_level_metrics": [
{
"mean/reward": 1.0,
"max/reward": 1.0,
"min/reward": 1.0,
"median/reward": 1.0,
"std/reward": 0.0
},
{
"mean/reward": 0.0,
"max/reward": 0.0,
"min/reward": 0.0,
"median/reward": 0.0,
"std/reward": 0.0
},
{
"mean/reward": 0.5,
"max/reward": 1.0,
"min/reward": 0.0,
"median/reward": 0.5,
"std/reward": 0.577
}
]
}
]