# verl **Repository Path**: gapyanpeng/verl ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: verl - **Description**: https://github.com/volcengine/verl.git - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: Apache-2.0 - **Default Branch**: main - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2025-02-02 - **Last Updated**: 2025-02-02 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README

veRL: Volcano Engine Reinforcement Learning for LLM

veRL is a flexible, efficient and production-ready RL training library for large language models (LLMs). veRL is the open-source version of **[HybridFlow: A Flexible and Efficient RLHF Framework](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19256v2)** paper. veRL is flexible and easy to use with: - **Easy extension of diverse RL algorithms**: The Hybrid programming model combines the strengths of single-controller and multi-controller paradigms to enable flexible representation and efficient execution of complex Post-Training dataflows. Allowing users to build RL dataflows in a few lines of code. - **Seamless integration of existing LLM infra with modular APIs**: Decouples computation and data dependencies, enabling seamless integration with existing LLM frameworks, such as PyTorch FSDP, Megatron-LM and vLLM. Moreover, users can easily extend to other LLM training and inference frameworks. - **Flexible device mapping**: Supports various placement of models onto different sets of GPUs for efficient resource utilization and scalability across different cluster sizes. - Readily integration with popular HuggingFace models veRL is fast with: - **State-of-the-art throughput**: By seamlessly integrating existing SOTA LLM training and inference frameworks, veRL achieves high generation and training throughput. - **Efficient actor model resharding with 3D-HybridEngine**: Eliminates memory redundancy and significantly reduces communication overhead during transitions between training and generation phases.

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## News - [2025/1] [Doubao-1.5-pro](https://team.doubao.com/zh/special/doubao_1_5_pro) is released with SOTA-level performance on LLM & VLM. The RL scaling preview model is trained using veRL, reaching OpenAI O1-level performance on math benchmarks (70.0 pass@1 on AIME). - [2024/12] The team presented Post-training LLMs: From Algorithms to Infrastructure at NeurIPS 2024. [Slides](https://github.com/eric-haibin-lin/verl-data/tree/neurips) and [video](https://neurips.cc/Expo/Conferences/2024/workshop/100677) available. - [2024/10] veRL is presented at Ray Summit. [Youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrhMcXkXvJU&list=PLzTswPQNepXntmT8jr9WaNfqQ60QwW7-U&index=37) available. - [2024/08] HybridFlow (verl) is accepted to EuroSys 2025. ## Key Features - **FSDP** and **Megatron-LM** for training. - **vLLM** and **TGI** for rollout generation, **SGLang** support coming soon. - huggingface models support - Supervised fine-tuning - Reinforcement learning from human feedback with [PPO](https://github.com/volcengine/verl/tree/main/examples/ppo_trainer) and [GRPO](https://github.com/volcengine/verl/tree/main/examples/grpo_trainer) - Support model-based reward and function-based reward (verifiable reward) - flash-attention integration, sequence packing, and long context support via DeepSpeed Ulysses - scales up to 70B models and hundreds of GPUs - experiment tracking with wandb and mlflow ## Upcoming Features - Reward model training - DPO training ## Getting Started Checkout this [Jupyter Notebook](https://github.com/volcengine/verl/tree/main/examples/ppo_trainer/verl_getting_started.ipynb) to get started with PPO training with a single 24GB L4 GPU (**FREE** GPU quota provided by [Lighting Studio](https://lightning.ai/hlin-verl/studios/verl-getting-started))! **Quickstart:** - [Installation](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/start/install.html) - [Quickstart](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/start/quickstart.html) **Running a PPO example step-by-step:** - Data and Reward Preparation - [Prepare Data (Parquet) for Post-Training](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/preparation/prepare_data.html) - [Implement Reward Function for Dataset](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/preparation/reward_function.html) - Understanding the PPO Example - [PPO Example Architecture](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/ppo_code_architecture.html) - [Config Explanation](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/config.html) - [Run GSM8K Example](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/gsm8k_example.html) **Reproducible algorithm baselines:** - [PPO](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/experiment/ppo.html) **For code explanation and advance usage (extension):** - PPO Trainer and Workers - [PPO Ray Trainer](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/workers/ray_trainer.html) - [PyTorch FSDP Backend](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/workers/fsdp_workers.html) - [Megatron-LM Backend](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html) - Advance Usage and Extension - [Ray API design tutorial](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advance/placement.html) - [Extend to Other RL(HF) algorithms](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advance/dpo_extension.html) - [Add Models with the FSDP Backend](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advance/fsdp_extension.html) - [Add Models with the Megatron-LM Backend](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advance/megatron_extension.html) - [Deployment using Separate GPU Resources](https://github.com/volcengine/verl/tree/main/examples/split_placement) ## Performance Tuning Guide The performance is essential for on-policy RL algorithm. We write a detailed performance tuning guide to allow people tune the performance. See [here](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/perf/perf_tuning.html) for more details. ## Contribution Guide Contributions from the community are welcome! ### Code formatting We use yapf (Google style) to enforce strict code formatting when reviewing PRs. To reformat you code locally, make sure you installed **latest** `yapf` ```bash pip3 install yapf --upgrade ``` Then, make sure you are at top level of verl repo and run ```bash bash scripts/format.sh ``` ## Citation and acknowledgement If you find the project helpful, please cite: - [HybridFlow: A Flexible and Efficient RLHF Framework](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.19256v2) - [A Framework for Training Large Language Models for Code Generation via Proximal Policy Optimization](https://i.cs.hku.hk/~cwu/papers/gmsheng-NL2Code24.pdf) ```tex @article{sheng2024hybridflow, title = {HybridFlow: A Flexible and Efficient RLHF Framework}, author = {Guangming Sheng and Chi Zhang and Zilingfeng Ye and Xibin Wu and Wang Zhang and Ru Zhang and Yanghua Peng and Haibin Lin and Chuan Wu}, year = {2024}, journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv: 2409.19256} } ``` verl is inspired by the design of Nemo-Aligner, Deepspeed-chat and OpenRLHF. The project is adopted and supported by Anyscale, Bytedance, LMSys.org, Shanghai AI Lab, Tsinghua University, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UIUC, and University of Hong Kong. ## Awesome work using veRL - [Enhancing Multi-Step Reasoning Abilities of Language Models through Direct Q-Function Optimization](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09302) - [Flaming-hot Initiation with Regular Execution Sampling for Large Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21236) - [Process Reinforcement Through Implicit Rewards](https://github.com/PRIME-RL/PRIME/) - [TinyZero](https://github.com/Jiayi-Pan/TinyZero): a reproduction of DeepSeek R1 Zero recipe for reasoning tasks - [RAGEN](https://github.com/ZihanWang314/ragen): a general-purpose reasoning agent training framework We are HIRING! Send us an [email](mailto:haibin.lin@bytedance.com) if you are interested in internship/FTE opportunities in MLSys/LLM reasoning/multimodal alignment.