arcee-ai/NeMo-RL v1.1.0-rc0

v1.1.0-rc0

Repository: arcee-ai/NeMo-RL

Tag: v1.1.0-rc0

Published: 2025-10-15T03:23:51Z

Prerelease: yes

Release notes: Since v1.0.1:

Breaking Changes:

• Megatron removed - no need for the megatron_cfg block anymore.
• Legacy environments removed
• Legacy eval harness removed
• Dataset options other than dataset.shuffle have been removed.
• "Max rollout turns" config option has been removed - implement this in your verifiers environments.

Changelog:

• Added grpo.interleave_rolluts. Set it to true to run one step off-policy (consider enabling importance sampling to compensate) and generate the next step's rollouts while you train on the current step's data.
• Added checkpointing.hf_checkpoint. Set it to true to checkpoint directly to HF (slower than DCP).
• Added new training path: examples/run_sft.py. See examples/configs/sft/afm_pocket_sft.yaml for full configuration.
• Added support for Muon via dion. To use it, specify dion.MuonReference as your optimizer, and specify policy.optimizer.scalar_optim as adamw for non-applicable parameters.
• Rename project to "RLKit".
• Removed DPO training path.
• Legacy evaluation and rollout-generation system removed.
• Fixed a bug where train/approx_entropy would be include entropy from masked-off tokens with no generation logprobs, causing NaNs to appear.
• Fixed crash affecting sequence packing when responses are truncated.
• Trust vLLM's tokenization over HuggingFace's, avoiding some off-policy training.
• Required HF checkpointing on systems where DCP checkpointing would fail due to PCIe comms issues.