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Bole Ma

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale

Qiying Yu
Zheng Zhang
Ruofei Zhu
Yufeng Yuan
Xiaochen Zuo
Yu Yue
Weinan Dai
Tiantian Fan

Inference scaling empowers LLMs with unprecedented reasoning ability, with reinforcement learning as the core technique to elicit complex reasoning. However, key technical details of state-of-the-art reasoning LLMs are concealed (such as in OpenAI o1 blog and DeepSeek R1 technical report), thus the community still struggles to reproduce their RL training results. We propose the D ecoupled Clip and D ynamic s A mpling P olicy O ptimization ( DAPO ) algorithm, and fully open-source a state-of-the-art large-scale RL system that achieves 50 points on AIME 2024 using Qwen2. 5-32B base model. Unlike previous works that withhold training details, we introduce four key techniques of our algorithm that make large-scale LLM RL a success. In addition, we open-source our training code, which is built on the verl framework, along with a carefully curated and processed dataset. These components of our open-source system enhance reproducibility and support future research in large-scale LLM RL.

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Model Merging in Pre-training of Large Language Models

Yunshui Li
Yiyuan Ma
Shen Yan
Chaoyi Zhang
Jing Liu
Jianqiao Lu
Ziwen Xu
Mengzhao Chen

Model merging has emerged as a promising technique for enhancing large language models, though its application in large-scale pre-training remains relatively unexplored. In this paper, we present a comprehensive investigation of model merging techniques during the pre-training process. Through extensive experiments with both dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures ranging from millions to over 100 billion parameters, we demonstrate that merging checkpoints trained with constant learning rates not only achieves significant performance improvements but also enables accurate prediction of annealing behavior. These improvements lead to both more efficient model development and significantly lower training costs. Our detailed ablation studies on merging strategies and hyperparameters provide new insights into the underlying mechanisms while uncovering novel applications. Through comprehensive experimental analysis, we offer the open-source community practical pre-training guidelines for effective model merging.

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