diff --git a/neurons/validator.py b/neurons/validator.py
index b8f5c4600..89eda1473 100644
--- a/neurons/validator.py
+++ b/neurons/validator.py
@@ -31,15 +31,13 @@ def init_process_logging(name: str):
     try:
         # Add process-specific handlers
         logger.add(
-            f"{name}_{os.getpid()}.log",
+            f"{name}.log",
             rotation="100 MB",
             retention="10 days",
             level="DEBUG",
             enqueue=True,  # Use queue for thread-safe logging
         )
-        logger.add(
-            f"{name}_err_{os.getpid()}.log", rotation="100 MB", retention="10 days", level="WARNING", enqueue=True
-        )
+        logger.add(f"{name}_err.log", rotation="100 MB", retention="10 days", level="WARNING", enqueue=True)
         logger.add(sys.stderr, level=settings.shared_settings.LOG_LEVEL, enqueue=True)
     except Exception as e:
         print(f"Failed to initialize logging for process {os.getpid()}: {e}")
diff --git a/prompting/rewards/exact_match.py b/prompting/rewards/exact_match.py
index 250df786e..c991f3963 100644
--- a/prompting/rewards/exact_match.py
+++ b/prompting/rewards/exact_match.py
@@ -6,10 +6,11 @@
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 from loguru import logger
 from openai.types.chat import ChatCompletionChunk
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerBase
 
 from prompting.rewards.reward import BaseRewardModel, BatchRewardOutput
 from prompting.tasks.base_task import BaseTextTask
-from shared import constants, settings
+from shared import settings
 from shared.dendrite import DendriteResponseEvent
 from shared.docker_utils import get_logits
 
@@ -61,9 +62,17 @@ async def reward(  # noqa: C901
 
         # If max_tokens are not provided, always check for eos.
         model = task.llm_model_id
-        max_tokens = sampling_parameters.get("max_tokens", 2048)
-        eos_token = constants.SPECIAL_TOKENS.get(model, {}).get("eos_token")
-        bos_token = constants.SPECIAL_TOKENS.get(model, {}).get("bos_token")
+        max_tokens = await self.get_max_tokens(sampling_parameters, default=2048)
+
+        try:
+            tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizerBase = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model, use_fast=True)
+            eos_token = tokenizer.eos_token
+            bos_token = tokenizer.bos_token
+        except BaseException as exc:
+            logger.error(f"Cannot get {model} tokenizer: {exc}. EOS token check is disabled")
+            eos_token = None
+            bos_token = None
+
         special_tokens = set([bos_token, eos_token])
         timing_verified: list[list[float]] = []
         rewards: list[float] = []
@@ -106,13 +115,19 @@ async def reward(  # noqa: C901
                     to_complete = "".join(chunks[:check_idx])
                     if to_complete:
                         messages.extend([{"role": "assistant", "content": to_complete}])
-                    response = await get_logits(
+                    response: dict[str, Any] | None = await get_logits(
                         model=task.llm_model_id,
                         messages=messages,
                         top_logprobs=TOP_LOGPROBS,
                         sampling_params=sampling_parameters,
                         continue_last_message=len(to_complete) > 0,
                     )
+                    if response is None:
+                        # Unexpected error on validator side, do no set penalty.
+                        penalty = 0.0
+                        logger.error(f"Cannot get logprobs for model {task.llm_model_id}")
+                        raise ValueError(f"Cannot get logprobs for model {task.llm_model_id} and {messages}")
+
                     verification_logits = response[0]
                     if check_idx < eos_idx:
                         if chunks[check_idx] in special_tokens:
@@ -204,6 +219,18 @@ async def reward(  # noqa: C901
         logger.debug(f"Logits rewards: {reward_output.model_dump()}")
         return reward_output
 
+    @classmethod
+    async def get_max_tokens(cls, sampling_params: dict[str, Any], default: int = 2048) -> int:
+        # vLLM / HF request.
+        max_tokens = sampling_params.get("max_tokens")
+        if max_tokens is None:
+            # Deprecated request.
+            max_tokens = sampling_params.get("max_new_tokens")
+        if max_tokens is None:
+            # OpenAI request.
+            max_tokens = sampling_params.get("max_completion_tokens", default)
+        return max_tokens
+
     @staticmethod
     def sample_verification_indices(completion_length: int) -> list[int]:
         """Sample random indices for verification, always add 0 and eos_token index."""
diff --git a/prompting/rewards/MSRv2_reward.py b/prompting/rewards/msrv2_reward.py
similarity index 98%
rename from prompting/rewards/MSRv2_reward.py
rename to prompting/rewards/msrv2_reward.py
index edc13a04c..400d9a5d9 100644
--- a/prompting/rewards/MSRv2_reward.py
+++ b/prompting/rewards/msrv2_reward.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from shared.uids import get_uids
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
-    from prompting.tasks.MSRv2_task import MSRv2Task
+    from prompting.tasks.msrv2_task import MSRv2Task
 
 shared_settings = settings.shared_settings
 
diff --git a/prompting/rewards/scoring.py b/prompting/rewards/scoring.py
index ee7bcef97..fa7126715 100644
--- a/prompting/rewards/scoring.py
+++ b/prompting/rewards/scoring.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 from prompting.rewards.scoring_config import ScoringConfig
 from prompting.tasks.base_task import BaseTextTask
-from prompting.tasks.MSRv2_task import MSRv2Task
+from prompting.tasks.msrv2_task import MSRv2Task
 from prompting.tasks.task_registry import TaskRegistry
 from shared.base import DatasetEntry
 from shared.dendrite import DendriteResponseEvent
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ async def run_step(self) -> RewardLoggingEvent:
             await scoring_config.task.make_reference(
                 dataset_entry=scoring_config.dataset_entry,
             )
-            logger.info(f"Reference: {scoring_config.task.reference}")
 
         # and there we then calculate the reward
         reward_pipeline = TaskRegistry.get_task_reward(scoring_config.task)
diff --git a/prompting/tasks/base_task.py b/prompting/tasks/base_task.py
index eae68aadd..0d43ebc0f 100644
--- a/prompting/tasks/base_task.py
+++ b/prompting/tasks/base_task.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ def task_messages(self) -> list[str] | list[dict]:
     @model_validator(mode="after")
     def get_model_id_and_seed(self) -> "BaseTextTask":
         if self.llm_model:
-            self.llm_model_id = self.llm_model.llm_model_id if self.llm_model else None
+            self.llm_model_id = self.llm_model
         return self
 
     async def make_query(self, dataset_entry: DatasetEntry, **kwargs) -> str:
diff --git a/prompting/tasks/MSRv2_task.py b/prompting/tasks/msrv2_task.py
similarity index 98%
rename from prompting/tasks/MSRv2_task.py
rename to prompting/tasks/msrv2_task.py
index 2fcb753d8..e6ccf08a8 100644
--- a/prompting/tasks/MSRv2_task.py
+++ b/prompting/tasks/msrv2_task.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from loguru import logger
 
 from prompting.datasets.random_website import DDGDatasetEntry
-from prompting.rewards.MSRv2_reward import MSRv2RewardModel
+from prompting.rewards.msrv2_reward import MSRv2RewardModel
 from prompting.rewards.reward import BaseRewardConfig, BaseRewardModel
 from prompting.tasks.multi_step_reasoning import MultiStepReasoningTask
 from shared.base import Context
diff --git a/prompting/tasks/task_registry.py b/prompting/tasks/task_registry.py
index 15b4dcd95..9c10e412a 100644
--- a/prompting/tasks/task_registry.py
+++ b/prompting/tasks/task_registry.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 from prompting.rewards.reward import BaseRewardConfig
 from prompting.tasks.base_task import BaseTextTask
 from prompting.tasks.inference import InferenceRewardConfig, InferenceTask
-from prompting.tasks.MSRv2_task import MSRv2RewardConfig, MSRv2Task
+from prompting.tasks.msrv2_task import MSRv2RewardConfig, MSRv2Task
 from prompting.tasks.web_retrieval import WebRetrievalRewardConfig, WebRetrievalTask
 from shared.base import BaseDataset
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e6c2e0fd2..4d25ce69e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "prompting"
-version = "2.19.5"
+version = "2.19.6"
 description = "Subnetwork 1 runs on Bittensor and is maintained by Macrocosmos. It's an effort to create decentralised AI"
 authors = ["Kalei Brady, Dmytro Bobrenko, Felix Quinque, Steffen Cruz, Richard Wardle"]
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/shared/constants.py b/shared/constants.py
index e49891e1f..5abdc7396 100644
--- a/shared/constants.py
+++ b/shared/constants.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
 WHITELISTED_VALIDATORS_UIDS = [5, 518, 674, 966, 502, 520, 993, 24]  # OTF  # WildSageLabs  # Rizzo  # Macrocosmos
 
 DOCKER_BASE_URL = "http://localhost:8000"
-
-SPECIAL_TOKENS = {"mrfakename/mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-2503-hf": {"bos_token": "<s>", "eos_token": "</s>"}}
diff --git a/shared/docker_utils.py b/shared/docker_utils.py
index fb9774228..4554bb846 100644
--- a/shared/docker_utils.py
+++ b/shared/docker_utils.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from typing import Any
+
 import requests
 from loguru import logger
 
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ async def get_logits(
     seed: int = None,
     continue_last_message: bool = False,
     top_logprobs: int = 10,
-):
+) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
     url = f"{constants.DOCKER_BASE_URL}/v1/chat/generate_logits"
     headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}
     payload = {
@@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ async def get_logits(
         return json_response
     except requests.exceptions.JSONDecodeError:
         logger.error(f"Error generating logits. Status: {response.status_code}, Body: {response.text}")
-        return ""
+        return None
 
 
 def get_embeddings(inputs):