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arXiv Machine Learning 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

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

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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.

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