Parameter	Value
Algorithm	RLOO (REINFORCE Leave-One-Out)
Advantage Baseline	Leave-one-out mean reward over the group
Extra Inference	None
Group Structure	Required
Policy Loss	`reinforce`
KL Coefficient	`0.0`
Epsilon (clip)	`0.02`
Discount Factor (`gamma`)	`1.0`
Divide Advantage by Std	`False`
Filter Zero Advantage Groups	`False`
Rollouts per Problem	`16`

RLOO uses the leave-one-out mean of the other responses in the group as the baseline, trained with a REINFORCE-style policy loss.

Training Hyperparameters

Parameter	Value
Base Model	`Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B`
Learning Rate	`1e-06`
LR Scheduler	`cosine`
Warmup Steps	`25`
Max Training Steps	`1500`
Micro Batch Size	`4`
Gradient Accumulation	`64`
Effective Batch Size	`256`
Sequence Length	`8192`
Gradient Clipping	`0.3`
Weight Decay	`0.01`
Optimizer	`adamw_torch`
Precision	`bf16`
DeepSpeed	ZeRO Stage 3

Evaluation Results

Pass@k on math reasoning benchmarks (N=32 samples per problem, temperature=1.0):

Dataset	pass@1	pass@2	pass@4	pass@8	pass@16	pass@32
GSM8K (test)	80.72	87.23	91.39	94.06	95.75	96.66
MATH-500	69.94	78.31	84.41	88.71	91.69	93.80
Overall	77.76	84.78	89.47	92.59	94.63	95.88

GSM8K test: 1319 problems · MATH-500: 500 problems · Overall: 1819 problems (overall weighted by problem count).

Training Curves

W&B Run

Full training logs: https://wandb.ai/jaygala24-team/rl-post-training/runs/qwen3_1.7b_rloo_no_kl_3a1f_4xh100_236659_finetune_68063672

Usage

Transformers

python

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("jaygala24/Qwen3-1.7B-RLOO-math-reasoning", revision="step-0200")  # optional branch, e.g. "step-0400"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("jaygala24/Qwen3-1.7B-RLOO-math-reasoning", revision="step-0200")

prompt = "Please reason step by step, and put your final answer within \\boxed{}.\n\nWhat is the sum of 123 and 456?"
inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=4096, temperature=0.7)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

vLLM

python

from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams

llm = LLM(model="jaygala24/Qwen3-1.7B-RLOO-math-reasoning", revision="step-0200")  # optional branch, e.g. "step-0400"
sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.7, max_tokens=4096)

prompt = "Please reason step by step, and put your final answer within \boxed{}.

What is the sum of 123 and 456?"
outputs = llm.generate([prompt], sampling_params)
print(outputs[0].outputs[0].text)

jaygala24/Qwen3-1.7B-RLOO-math-reasoning

Qwen3-1.7B-RLOO-math-reasoning

Training Details

Datasets

RL Algorithm