arXiv Machine Learning

DORA: A Scalable Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning System for Language Model Training

arXiv:2604. 26256v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a critical paradigm for LLM post-training, yet the rollout phase -- accounting for 50--80% of total step time -- is bottlenecked by skewed generation: long-tailed trajectories indispensable for model performance block the entire training pipeline.

arXiv AI
Jun 24

Accelerating Disaggregated RL for Visual Generative LLMs with Diffusion-Based Parallelism and Trainer-Assisted Generation

arXiv:2606. 24369v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant post-training paradigm, driving the emergence of high-performance RL systems such as veRL for autoregressive large language models (LLMs).

By Sijie Wang, Zhengyu Qing, Zhiqiang Tan, Yiming Yin, Yeqing Zhang, Yaoyuan Wang, Qiang Wang, Xiaowen Chu, Shaohuai Shi
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Synthesize and Reward -- Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Tool Use in Live Environments

arXiv:2606. 03892v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Training LLMs to orchestrate multi-step tool calls is held back by three coupled obstacles: realistic stateful execution environments are costly to build, synthetic training queries are often detached from the server's actual state (so the generated tool calls fail to execute), and recall-based RL rewards incentivize verbose tool-calling patterns.

By Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Asim Munawar, Kinjal Basu, Maxwell Crouse, Chulaka Gunasekara, Suneet Katrekar, Pavan Kapanipathi
arXiv AI
Sep 7

RL-VLA$^3$: A Flexible and Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning Framework for VLA Training

RL-VLA$^3$ is a fully asynchronous distributed reinforcement learning framework designed for Vision‑Language‑Action (VLA) model training. It allows fine‑grained asynchronous interaction between simulation, inference, and training via dynamic batching schedulers and flexible environment sharding, addressing the variable, resource‑intensive latencies of physical simulators. Experiments across multiple simulation backends, VLA architectures, and RL algorithms show throughput gains of up to 85.2% over synchronous baselines while preserving sample efficiency, and the system scales from 8 to 256 GPUs.

By Haoran Sun, Yongjian Guo, Zhong Guan, Shuai Di, Xiaodong Bai, Jing Long, Tianyun Zhao, Mingxi Luo, Hongke Zhao, Likang Wu, Xiaotie Deng, Xu Chu, Xi Xiao, Sheng Wen, Yicheng Gong, Junwu Xiong
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

AsyncFlow: An Asynchronous Streaming RL Framework for Efficient LLM Post-Training

AsyncFlow is an asynchronous streaming reinforcement learning framework designed to improve the post‑training phase of large language models. It introduces a distributed data storage and transfer module that enables panoramic data management and fine‑grained scheduling, allowing automated pipeline overlapping and dynamic load balancing. The framework also employs an asynchronous producer‑consumer workflow to reduce computational idleness by deferring parameter updates within staleness thresholds, and it is architecturally decoupled from training and inference engines, providing modular, customizable user interfaces. Experiments show an average throughput improvement of 1.59× over the state‑of‑the‑art baseline.

By Zhenyu Han, Ansheng You, Haibo Wang, Kui Luo, Guang Yang, Wenqi Shi, Menglong Chen, Sicheng Zhang, Zeshun Lan, Chunshi Deng, Huazhong Ji, Wenjie Liu, Yu Huang, Yixiang Zhang, Chenyi Pan, Jing Wang, Xin Huang, Chunsheng Li, Jianping Wu
arXiv AI
Aug 18

ClawGym II: Exploring Black-Box RL on Agent Harness

arXiv:2608. 16798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent harnesses have substantially improved performance on long-horizon tasks by coordinating agent interactions with the environment.

By Huatong Song, Fei Bai, Ming Yang, Renyuan Li, Jia Deng, Jujie He, Zhange Zhang, Daixuan Cheng, Yan Xing, Qi Yun, Xuxing Chen, Danyang Li, Feng Chang, Chuan Hao, Ran Tao, Jian Yang, Bryan Dai, Wayne Xin Zhao, Mingjie Tang, Ji-Rong Wen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 10

AsyncWebRL: Efficient Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Visual Web Agents

arXiv:2606. 05597v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training vision-language web agents with multi-step RL is compute-intensive, with two dominant forms of inefficiency: idle GPUs in synchronous RL, and trajectories that use more steps and tokens than necessary.

By Hao Bai, Rui Yang, Chenlu Ye, Spencer Whitehead, Aviral Kumar, Tong Zhang