This is an ablation, not one of the headline models: it is the same level trained under a different reward, published so the reward-design comparison in the paper can be rerun rather than taken on faith. For the main model at this level see ssurface/cot-dialect-llama3.1-8b-grpo-l5.

Results

	Accuracy
This adapter	70.6%

GSM8K test (n=1317), greedy decoding, single-turn, no exemplars, no self-consistency.

Also evaluated on (out-of-domain, not the headline metric):

Benchmark	n	Accuracy
SVAMP/transfer	300	77.3%

Training data

GSM8K train, re-expressed at level L5 by a teacher model: 6993 examples, median chain length 16 characters inside <think>.

Across the family the median chain runs from 532 characters at L1 to 16 at L5 — a 33x span. An L5 chain looks like this:

18/3*2=12

Training setup

GRPO on top of the merged level-5 SFT model.


Engine	`trl.GRPOTrainer` on stock `transformers`, attention `sdpa`
Reward	`correctness`, `format`
Loss type	dapo
Generations per prompt	8
Batch	16 x 2 accum
Max completion	256 tokens
Learning rate	1e-05
KL coefficient (beta)	0.0
Prompt set	`gsm8k_grpo_balanced_1k.json`
Trained on	`merged_llama8b/l5`
LoRA	r=16, alpha=32
Hardware	1x NVIDIA A100 80GB

Reward components

correctness — +/- the gold solution's step count on an answer match, so harder problems are worth more
format — the response must be one <think>...</think> block then #### <answer>

Engine note. Stock transformers with sdpa attention, not a fused-kernel wrapper. The fused path produced adapters whose lora_B matrices were all zero — mathematically inert despite loading without error. Every adapter in this collection was verified lora_B != 0 before publishing; 13 that failed that check were withheld.

Usage

Solve this using Level 5 (Extreme).
Problem: {your problem}

Stacks on the SFT model, not the raw base. Trained against the merged SFT model, so loading it straight onto meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct will not reproduce the number above.

python

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from peft import PeftModel

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct", torch_dtype="bfloat16", device_map="auto")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(model, "ssurface/cot-dialect-llama3.1-8b-sft-l5")   # 1. SFT for this level
model = model.merge_and_unload()
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(model, "ssurface/cot-dialect-llama3.1-8b-grpo-rerun-l5")   # 2. this adapter
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct")

Limitations

Trained and evaluated on math word problems only.
Accuracy falls with problem difficulty, fastest at the compressed levels.
Single seed unless the repo name says otherwise; differences of a couple of points are within noise (95% half-width ~2.7 pp at n=1317, ~4.4 pp at n=500).
Ablation artefact. It was trained to answer one question about reward design and may be worse than the core model at the same level.

Citation

bibtex

@misc{cot-compression-dialects,
  title  = {Chain-of-Thought Compression Dialects},
  author = {Frolov, Anatolii},
  year   = {2026}
}

ssurface/cot-dialect-llama3.1-8b-grpo-rerun-l5

LLaMA-3.1-8B — L5 dialect (Pure expression) · reward ablation rerun