The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs research paper by Meta, 2025
Meta · Training and scaling · Oct 15, 2025 · 112 citations · 34 upvotes · unverified
What it shows
A systematic study defines a framework for analyzing and predicting reinforcement learning scaling in large language models, identifying key design choices that affect compute efficiency and proposing a best-practice recipe.
By Devvrit Khatri, Lovish Madaan, Rishabh Tiwari and 6 more · arXiv 2510.13786 · PDF
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About this paper
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- arXiv.org
- Citations
- 112, 13 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 34 · Hugging Face
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