AstraFlow decouples RL components into autonomous dataflow services to natively support multi-policy agentic LLM training, elastic scaling, and cross-region execution with 2.7x speedup on math, code, search, and AgentBench workloads.
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OpenRLHF: An Easy-to-use, Scalable and High-performance RLHF Framework
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Large Language Models (LLMs) fine-tuned via Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) significantly improve the alignment of human-AI values, further raising the upper bound of AI capabilities, particularly in reasoning-intensive, long-context Chain-of-Thought (CoT) tasks. However, existing frameworks commonly face challenges such as inference bottlenecks and complexity barriers, which restrict their accessibility to newcomers. To bridge this gap, we introduce \textbf{OpenRLHF}, a user-friendly, scalable, and easy-to-learn open-source RLHF framework built upon Ray, vLLM, DeepSpeed, and HuggingFace Transformers, featuring a simplified design, clear code structure, and comprehensive documentation to facilitate entry for researchers and practitioners. Experimental results show that OpenRLHF achieves superior training efficiency, with speedups ranging from 1.22x to 1.68x across different model sizes, compared to state-of-the-art frameworks. Additionally, it requires significantly fewer lines of code for implementation. OpenRLHF is publicly available at https://github.com/OpenRLHF/OpenRLHF, and has already been adopted by leading institutions to accelerate RLHF research and learning.
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Explaining and Breaking the Safety-Helpfulness Ceiling via Preference Dimensional Expansion
MORA breaks the safety-helpfulness ceiling in LLMs by pre-sampling single-reward prompts and rewriting them to incorporate multi-dimensional intents, delivering 5-12.4% gains in sequential alignment and 4.6% overall improvement in simultaneous alignment.