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## Warnings

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## Title

    [Unsloth] compute_metrics / eval code gets "Unsloth: Logits are empty from 2024.11 onwards" - set UNSLOTH_RETURN_LOGITS=1 before trainer.train()

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): Memory optimisation since the 2024.11 release: logits are not returned unless UNSLOTH_RETURN_LOGITS=1.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unslothai/unsloth/1232012651a95be18ddd2fbbd28bb6208db6f364/unsloth/models/_utils.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): LOGITS_ERROR_STRING and EmptyLogits stub document the env var requirement.
    
    Search phrasings: Unsloth Logits are empty from 2024.11 onwards; unsloth compute_metrics logits empty UNSLOTH_RETURN_LOGITS
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

    {
      "observed_symptom": "Accessing logits during training/eval raises NotImplementedError; metrics code that worked with plain Transformers breaks.",
      "context": "Product: Unsloth\nComponent: Fused cross-entropy / EmptyLogits\nOperation: Evaluating with compute_metrics or reading outputs.logits during Unsloth SFT/GRPO training\nAffected versions: unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nException: NotImplementedError\nPackages: unsloth main at pinned SHA, unsloth_zoo main at pinned SHA\nTrigger: Unsloth fused CE loss skips materialising logits to save memory; any access to .logits hits the EmptyLogits stub.",
      "environment": {
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      "symptom_signature": {
        "literal_error_text": "Unsloth: Logits are empty from 2024.11 onwards. To get raw logits again, please set the environment variable `UNSLOTH_RETURN_LOGITS` to `\"1\" BEFORE starting to train ie before `trainer.train()`."
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        "title": "Proposed fix: [Unsloth] compute_metrics / eval code gets \"Unsloth: Logits are empty from 2024.11 onwards\" - set UNSLOTH_RETURN_LOGITS=1 before trainer.train()",
        "body": "Recommended action: Set os.environ['UNSLOTH_RETURN_LOGITS']='1' before trainer.train() (no restart needed per the message); expect higher memory use.\n\nEvidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): untested.",
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