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ROSE: Rollout On Serving GPUs via Cooperative Elasticity for Agentic RL

Bo Zheng, Dakai An, Dilxat Muhtar, Jiamang Wang, Ju Huang, Lin Qu, Lunxi Cao, Shaopan Xiong, Siran Yang, Teng Ma, Tianyuan Wu, Wei Gao, Wei Wang, Weixun Wang, Xuchun Shang, Yuheng Zhao

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keywords agentic RLGPU elasticityserving clustersrollout throughputcooperative resource sharingLLM post-trainingSLO preservation
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The pith

ROSE accelerates agentic RL by repurposing idle serving GPUs for rollouts while preserving SLOs.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Agentic RL training suffers from long-tail rollouts involving multi-turn environment interactions, making fixed GPU allocations wasteful or insufficient. The paper observes that production serving clusters often have unused GPU compute and memory that can be borrowed without harming serving performance. ROSE realizes this through an SLO-safe executor for shared GPU resources, a sparsity-aware engine for rapid weight transfers across clusters, and an elastic scheduler that routes rollouts to both dedicated and opportunistic GPUs. Experiments confirm throughput gains of 1.20-3.31x over fixed and elastic baselines across model sizes and cluster scales.

Core claim

ROSE is a post-training system that safely harvests idle compute and memory on serving GPUs to execute agentic RL rollouts via an SLO-preserving co-serving executor, a cross-cluster weight transfer engine using shards and sparsity, and an elastic scheduler that dynamically allocates cooperative capacity, delivering 1.20-3.31x higher end-to-end throughput than resource-fixed or elastic baselines.

What carries the argument

Cooperative elasticity: an SLO-safe co-serving executor for GPU memory and compute sharing, combined with sparsity-leveraging weight transfer and dynamic rollout scheduling across serving and dedicated GPUs.

If this is right

  • Agentic RL training throughput increases without adding dedicated GPUs.
  • Overall cluster utilization rises by filling serving headroom with rollout work.
  • Multi-turn rollout latency drops through dynamic capacity borrowing.
  • Weight synchronization overhead stays low even across separate serving and training clusters.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same sharing pattern could apply to other long-tail workloads such as search or planning agents.
  • Operators might design unified GPU pools that mix serving and training jobs by default.
  • Further gains may appear when extending the scheduler to predict traffic bursts more accurately.

Load-bearing premise

Production serving clusters routinely leave substantial GPU compute and memory headroom that can be safely repurposed for rollouts without violating serving SLOs under bursty traffic.

What would settle it

A measurement during sudden traffic bursts that checks whether co-locating RL rollouts on serving GPUs causes any service level objective violations.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.06534 by Bo Zheng, Dakai An, Dilxat Muhtar, Jiamang Wang, Ju Huang, Lin Qu, Lunxi Cao, Shaopan Xiong, Siran Yang, Teng Ma, Tianyuan Wu, Wei Gao, Wei Wang, Weixun Wang, Xuchun Shang, Yuheng Zhao.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Characterization of agentic RL: (a) The breakdown of end-to-end training time; (b) The long-tail distribution of rollout execution time; (c) The impact of prefill on rollouts; (d) The demand for resource elasticity. Train Agentic LLM Environment Action Observation Weight Sync. Trajectory Rollout view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Characterization of serving clusters and workloads: (a) Fluctuating serving traffic; (b) Serving GPU underutilization; (c) High allocation overhead; (d) Substantial communication overhead. Datacenter IB/RoCe TCP/IP NVLink Datacenter IB/RoCe Rollout Cluster Training Cluster Serving Cluster view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Scheme of Datacenter Infrastructure. load and redirecting freed GPUs to rollouts. However, bidi￾rectional autoscaling is fundamentally limited: reclaiming GPUs from rollouts back to serving requires evicting in￾flight rollouts and reloading models, taking tens of seconds (Figure 3c) and far exceeding typical SLO budgets. Because serving traffic is bursty at second-level granularity, frequent mode switching… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: System Architecture of ROSE. it can take up to 145 s and grow quickly with model size, becoming a bottleneck for frequent weight synchronization. 4 System Design System Overview. To address the above challenges, we introduce ROSE, the architecture of which is illustrated in view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Layer-wise sparsity ratio at 10th step. Shard-aware Weight Transfer. Training and serving clus￾ters adopt heterogeneous parallelism strategies (e.g., training with TP8×PP2 and serving with TP4), requiring automatic shard mapping across configurations. Naive approaches re￾quire manual resharding or full model aggregation before transfer. ROSE automatically infers each parameter’s shard￾ing rule by identifyi… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: ROSE’s end-to-end throughput improvements. The data are normalized to the baseline’s first step. 0 25 50 75 100 Steps 0.2 0.4 0.6 Score ROLL ROSE (a) FrozenLake-8B-GRPO. 0 10 20 30 40 Steps 0.5 0.0 Score ROLL ROSE (b) ALFWorld-32B-GRPO view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: End-to-end critic scores for (a) 8B and (b) 32B models using the GRPO algorithm. 8B 32B Model Size 0 50 100 Norm. Time 1709 1502 1301 1224 1210 1012 1010 805 ROLL RL RLBoost CoRL (a) Micro Benchmark. 0 4 8 16 Available Serving GPUs 0 500 1k 1.5k Time (s) (b) Scalability [8B, GRPO] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: End-to-end evaluation. (a) Rollout time compared with baselines. (b) Scalability of ROSE on Qwen3-8B with GRPO as Serving GPUs increase. Allocation Overhead. We further analyze the allocation overhead of elastic resource management schemes. We quan￾tify the total preempted GPU time as the product of the num￾ber of preempted GPUs and the per-preemption overhead, and normalize it by the total GPU time. As sh… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: [Transfer Engine] (a) Cross-cluster weight transfer time under different optimizations; each optimization is additive over the previous one. (b) Timeline breakdown of shard-aware and sparsity-aware transfer for Qwen3-32B. D2S denotes the dense-to-sparse conversion, and S2D denotes the sparse-to-dense conversion. (c) Sensitivity of shard-aware and sparsity-aware transfer of different LLMs to cross-cluster … view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: [Analysis of Sparsity]. (a) The sparsity of weight differentials across steps for Qwen3-8B. (b) The sensitivity of transfer engine to sparsity. only the shards it hosts. This further reduces communica￾tion time by 1.8× (Qwen3-8B) and 1.3× (Qwen3-32B). More￾over, Figure 10b (top) illustrates the Qwen3-32B timeline. On the sender side, each training worker streams ∼60 buck￾ets (64 MB each); each bucket take… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: ROSE under fully asynchronous RL training work￾loads. We monitor the average throughput between consec￾utive RL steps. 6.4 Effectiveness of Rollout Scheduler. We follow the end-to-end setups and evaluate the elastic roll￾out scheduler using Qwen3-8B and Qwen3-32B with GRPO algorithm for the first five RL steps view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: The system throughput with different per-device batch sizes. [Qwen3-8B/32K] B Spot instance trace We extract the spot-instance traces for the 8B model from Seg.B in view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15 view at source ↗
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Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a key driver for improving the multi-step reasoning and tool-use capabilities of LLMs. However, its efficiency is bottlenecked by long-tail rollouts with multi-turn environment interactions, making static GPU provisioning a poor fit: overprovisioning wastes GPUs on stragglers, while underprovisioning increases contention and slows training. We observe that production serving clusters routinely leave substantial GPU compute and memory headroom. Based on this observation, we argue for cooperative elasticity: opportunistically repurposing underutilized serving GPUs to execute rollouts. Realizing cooperative elasticity is non-trivial because it must preserve serving Service Level Objectives (SLOs) under bursty traffic and minimize communication overhead. To address these challenges, we present ROSE, a cooperative, resource-elastic post-training system that safely harvests idle compute and memory on serving GPUs to accelerate agentic RL rollouts. ROSE consists of three components: (1) an SLO-safe co-serving executor that improves rollout throughput while preserving serving SLOs through efficient GPU memory and compute sharing; (2) a cross-cluster weight transfer engine that leverages weight shards and sparsity for fast weight synchronization across clusters; and (3) an elastic rollout scheduler that dynamically provisions cooperative capacity and routes trajectory rollouts across dedicated rollout GPUs and opportunistic serving GPUs. Experiments across multiple model sizes and cluster scales show that ROSE improves average end-to-end throughput by 1.20-3.31 x compared with state-of-the-art resource-fixed and elastic baselines.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces ROSE, a cooperative elasticity system for agentic RL that opportunistically repurposes underutilized serving GPUs for rollout execution. It consists of an SLO-safe co-serving executor for memory/compute sharing, a cross-cluster weight transfer engine leveraging shards and sparsity, and an elastic rollout scheduler. The central empirical claim is that ROSE achieves 1.20-3.31x average end-to-end throughput improvement over state-of-the-art resource-fixed and elastic baselines across multiple model sizes and cluster scales.

Significance. If the SLO-preservation result holds under realistic bursty workloads, ROSE could meaningfully improve GPU utilization for post-training by co-locating serving and RL workloads, reducing waste from static provisioning of long-tail rollouts. The approach is practically relevant for production clusters that already run LLM serving.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The headline 1.20-3.31x throughput claim rests on the SLO-safe co-serving executor harvesting headroom without violating p99 latency or throughput SLOs under bursty traffic. The abstract asserts this via 'efficient GPU memory and compute sharing' but provides no description of preemption, eviction, or isolation mechanisms, nor any indication that experiments used high-CV production traces rather than synthetic low-variance loads. This assumption is load-bearing; if bursts cause activation eviction or delayed preemption, the reported gains are conditional on unvalidated traffic assumptions.
  2. [§5] Experimental evaluation (assumed §5): The abstract states results 'across multiple model sizes and cluster scales' and 'compared with state-of-the-art resource-fixed and elastic baselines' but supplies no concrete baselines, workload traces, SLO definitions (e.g., exact p99 targets), or statistical significance. Without these details the cross-scale claim cannot be assessed for robustness.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'production serving clusters routinely leave substantial GPU compute and memory headroom' is presented as an observation but lacks a supporting citation or measurement; a brief reference to prior utilization studies would strengthen it.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below with clarifications from the manuscript and commit to revisions that improve the presentation of our mechanisms and experimental details.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The headline 1.20-3.31x throughput claim rests on the SLO-safe co-serving executor harvesting headroom without violating p99 latency or throughput SLOs under bursty traffic. The abstract asserts this via 'efficient GPU memory and compute sharing' but provides no description of preemption, eviction, or isolation mechanisms, nor any indication that experiments used high-CV production traces rather than synthetic low-variance loads. This assumption is load-bearing; if bursts cause activation eviction or delayed preemption, the reported gains are conditional on unvalidated traffic assumptions.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee highlighting the load-bearing nature of the SLO claims. Section 3.1 of the manuscript details the SLO-safe co-serving executor, which uses activation paging for memory eviction, priority-based preemption with bounded delay, and isolation via per-tenant CUDA streams plus memory quotas. Section 5.1 further specifies that the evaluation employs production traces with CV > 2.0 to model bursty traffic, alongside synthetic loads. We will revise the abstract to concisely reference these mechanisms and the realistic workload characteristics. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] Experimental evaluation (assumed §5): The abstract states results 'across multiple model sizes and cluster scales' and 'compared with state-of-the-art resource-fixed and elastic baselines' but supplies no concrete baselines, workload traces, SLO definitions (e.g., exact p99 targets), or statistical significance. Without these details the cross-scale claim cannot be assessed for robustness.

    Authors: We agree the abstract is high-level. The concrete elements appear in Section 5: baselines are vLLM (fixed) and Orca/FlexGen variants (elastic); traces are production serving logs detailed in §5.1; SLOs are p99 latency < 200 ms and >90% peak throughput; results report means with standard deviations over 5–10 runs and t-test significance. We will add a brief summary sentence to the abstract (or a footnote) listing these to make the claims self-contained without lengthening it excessively. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper describes an engineering system (ROSE) with three components for cooperative elasticity on serving GPUs, motivated by an observation about GPU headroom and validated through end-to-end throughput experiments across model sizes and scales. No mathematical derivations, first-principles predictions, fitted parameters renamed as outputs, or self-referential equations appear in the abstract or description. Claims reduce to measured benchmark results rather than any tautological reduction to inputs. Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for any derivation.

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Abstract provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the approach relies on the unstated assumption that serving traffic patterns leave usable headroom.

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