arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

Molt: A Scalable PyTorch-Native Training Framework for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 21653v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning research is constant algorithm modification, new estimators, new pipeline stages, new rollout schemes, and in mainstream frameworks each change threads through layers of trainer, distributed backend, and rollout glue: the cost lands on the researcher at every iteration.

By Jian Hu, Huiying Li, Hao Zhang, Binfeng Xu, Yifan Zhang, Shaokun Zhang, Hemil Desai, Michael Demoret, Pavlo Molchanov, Jan Kautz, Yi Dong
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Tevatron Meets Megatron: Expert-Parallel LLM Reranker Training on an Academic Budget

arXiv:2608. 00916v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern reranking recipes---billion-scale cross-encoders, mixture-of-experts (MoE) backbones, and distillation against strong teachers---have outpaced the training infrastructure available to most academic groups.

By Zhichao Xu, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang, Luyu Gao, Wenqian Ye, Yu Wang, Jamie Callan, Jimmy Lin
arXiv AI
Jun 10

Piper: A Programmable Distributed Training System

arXiv:2606. 11169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale model training increasingly relies on composing multiple parallelism strategies, such as data, pipeline, and expert parallelism, together with memory-saving optimizations like ZeRO.

By Megan Frisella, Shubham Tiwari, Andy Ruan, Yi Pan, Parker Gustafson, Mat Jacob, Gilbert Bernstein, Stephanie Wang