arXiv AI

Training-Inference Kernel Contracts: Bounding Divergence in Post-Training and Deployment

arXiv:2606. 07581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A modern post-training pipeline often writes one symbol for its policy, pi_theta, while evaluating it through two different programs: a training kernel optimized for autograd and an inference kernel optimized for low-precision, fused, dynamically batched serving.

arXiv AI
Jul 29

Bridging Compute- and Data-Optimal Pretraining

arXiv:2607. 25271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Classical compute-optimal scaling laws assume an unbounded supply of fresh pretraining data, yet pretraining is increasingly entering a regime in which compute grows faster than the availability of high-quality data.

By Tian Qin, Kimia Hamidieh, David Alvarez-Melis
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Breaking Entropy Bounds: Accelerating RL Training via MTP with Rejection Sampling

arXiv:2606. 12370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key component in modern large language models, yet the rollout stage remains the key bottleneck in RL training pipelines.

By Yucheng Li, Huiqiang Jiang, Yang Xu, Jianxin Yang, Yi Zhang, Yizhong Cao, Yuhao Shen, Fan Zhou, Rui Men, Jianwei Zhang, An Yang, Bowen Yu, Bo Zheng, Fei Huang, Junyang Lin, Dayiheng Liu, Jingren Zhou
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 10

Breaking Entropy Bounds: Accelerating RL Training via MTP with Rejection Sampling

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key component in modern large language models, yet the rollout stage remains the key bottleneck in RL training pipelines. Although Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) offers a natural solution to accelerate rollouts through speculative decoding, many studies have observed that MTP acceptance rates degrade significantly during RL training, leading to limited speedup performance.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 28

Bridging Compute- and Data-Optimal Pretraining

Classical compute-optimal scaling laws assume an unbounded supply of fresh pretraining data, yet pretraining is increasingly entering a regime in which compute grows faster than the availability of high-quality data. We propose Compute-Data (CD) scaling laws, a unified framework that bridges compute-optimal scaling, where data scales freely with compute, and data-optimal scaling, where the corpus is fixed while compute can grow without bound.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 6

Turning Off-Policy Tokens On-Policy: A Plug-in Approach for Improving LLM Alignment

Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training for large language models (LLMs) follows a efficient paradigm of "rollout then update", which inevitably results in off-policy training data. To resolve this, Importance sampling (IS) is proposed, while the token-level ratios compound over long sequences, causing severe variance exploded.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 21

Stale but Stable: Staleness-Adaptive Trust Regions for Stabilizing Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning

Asynchronous reinforcement learning improves throughput by decoupling rollout generation from optimization, but staleness is an inevitable byproduct compounded by policy lag, engine delays, and mixture-of-experts routing. From a trust-region perspective, this mismatch is critical: training-inference divergence governs approximation error in finite-horizon bounds, whereas PPO clipping only gates sampled outward updates, acting as a sampled surrogate rather than a full-policy constraint.