[!NOTE]
For full information, go check out the Tmax paper here.
TMax 2B
TMax 2B is a model trained using DPPO on top of Qwen 3.5 2B for use as a terminal-agent.
It achieves roughly 4% on Terminal Bench 2.0 after 100 steps of RL training.
For details on evaluation methodology please check our paper. In general, we used a podman (docker) backend with default timeouts and custom harness similar to mini-swe-agent.
For the 'daytona' runs, we used the daytona backend.
For Lite/2.1, we show mean and standard error over 3 runs. For daytona, we show it over 5 runs.
Total training steps: 500 steps (this checkpoint is from 200 steps of training, which performed best on TBLite)
Sampling Temperature: 1.0
KL Beta: 0.0
Loss fn: DPPO
Divergence: binary TV
TV threshold: 0.1
Advantage normalization: centered (no division by stdev)
FP32 LM head: true
For more details on training, please see our codebase.
License
This model is licensed under Apache 2.0. It is intended for research and educational use in accordance with Ai2's Responsible Use Guidelines.
Citation
If you use our model or data, please cite our paper:
@misc{ivison2026tmaxsimplerecipeterminal,
title={Tmax: A simple recipe for terminal agents},
author={Hamish Ivison and Junjie Oscar Yin and Rulin Shao and Teng Xiao and Nathan Lambert and Hannaneh Hajishirzi},
year={2026},
eprint={2606.23321},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23321},
}