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author Ling Team
Hu, Bin
Chen, Cai
Zhao, Deng
Liu, Ding
Jin, Dingnan
Zhu, Feng
Dai, Hao
Luan, Hongzhi
Guo, Jia
Liu, Jiaming
Wu, Jiewei
Mei, Jun
Zhou, Jun
Zhao, Junbo
Xiong, Junwu
Zhang, Kaihong
Xu, Kuan
Liang, Lei
Jiang, Liang
Fu, Liangcheng
Zheng, Longfei
Gao, Qiang
Cui, Qing
Wan, Quan
Zheng, Shaomian
Li, Shuaicheng
Yang, Tongkai
Ren, Wang
Yan, Xiaodong
Wan, Xiaopei
Feng, Xiaoyun
Zhao, Xin
Yang, Xinxing
Kong, Xinyu
Yang, Xuemin
Li, Yang
Wu, Yingting
Liu, Yongkang
Xu, Zhankai
Zhang, Zhenduo
Zhou, Zhenglei
Huang, Zhenyu
Zhang, Zhiqiang
Wang, Zihao
Wen, Zujie
author_facet Ling Team
Hu, Bin
Chen, Cai
Zhao, Deng
Liu, Ding
Jin, Dingnan
Zhu, Feng
Dai, Hao
Luan, Hongzhi
Guo, Jia
Liu, Jiaming
Wu, Jiewei
Mei, Jun
Zhou, Jun
Zhao, Junbo
Xiong, Junwu
Zhang, Kaihong
Xu, Kuan
Liang, Lei
Jiang, Liang
Fu, Liangcheng
Zheng, Longfei
Gao, Qiang
Cui, Qing
Wan, Quan
Zheng, Shaomian
Li, Shuaicheng
Yang, Tongkai
Ren, Wang
Yan, Xiaodong
Wan, Xiaopei
Feng, Xiaoyun
Zhao, Xin
Yang, Xinxing
Kong, Xinyu
Yang, Xuemin
Li, Yang
Wu, Yingting
Liu, Yongkang
Xu, Zhankai
Zhang, Zhenduo
Zhou, Zhenglei
Huang, Zhenyu
Zhang, Zhiqiang
Wang, Zihao
Wen, Zujie
contents We present Ring-lite, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)-based large language model optimized via reinforcement learning (RL) to achieve efficient and robust reasoning capabilities. Built upon the publicly available Ling-lite model, a 16.8 billion parameter model with 2.75 billion activated parameters, our approach matches the performance of state-of-the-art (SOTA) small-scale reasoning models on challenging benchmarks (e.g., AIME, LiveCodeBench, GPQA-Diamond) while activating only one-third of the parameters required by comparable models. To accomplish this, we introduce a joint training pipeline integrating distillation with RL, revealing undocumented challenges in MoE RL training. First, we identify optimization instability during RL training, and we propose Constrained Contextual Computation Policy Optimization(C3PO), a novel approach that enhances training stability and improves computational throughput via algorithm-system co-design methodology. Second, we empirically demonstrate that selecting distillation checkpoints based on entropy loss for RL training, rather than validation metrics, yields superior performance-efficiency trade-offs in subsequent RL training. Finally, we develop a two-stage training paradigm to harmonize multi-domain data integration, addressing domain conflicts that arise in training with mixed dataset. We will release the model, dataset, and code.
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spellingShingle Ring-lite: Scalable Reasoning via C3PO-Stabilized Reinforcement Learning for LLMs
Ling Team
Hu, Bin
Chen, Cai
Zhao, Deng
Liu, Ding
Jin, Dingnan
Zhu, Feng
Dai, Hao
Luan, Hongzhi
Guo, Jia
Liu, Jiaming
Wu, Jiewei
Mei, Jun
Zhou, Jun
Zhao, Junbo
Xiong, Junwu
Zhang, Kaihong
Xu, Kuan
Liang, Lei
Jiang, Liang
Fu, Liangcheng
Zheng, Longfei
Gao, Qiang
Cui, Qing
Wan, Quan
Zheng, Shaomian
Li, Shuaicheng
Yang, Tongkai
Ren, Wang
Yan, Xiaodong
Wan, Xiaopei
Feng, Xiaoyun
Zhao, Xin
Yang, Xinxing
Kong, Xinyu
Yang, Xuemin
Li, Yang
Wu, Yingting
Liu, Yongkang
Xu, Zhankai
Zhang, Zhenduo
Zhou, Zhenglei
Huang, Zhenyu
Zhang, Zhiqiang
Wang, Zihao
Wen, Zujie
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
We present Ring-lite, a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)-based large language model optimized via reinforcement learning (RL) to achieve efficient and robust reasoning capabilities. Built upon the publicly available Ling-lite model, a 16.8 billion parameter model with 2.75 billion activated parameters, our approach matches the performance of state-of-the-art (SOTA) small-scale reasoning models on challenging benchmarks (e.g., AIME, LiveCodeBench, GPQA-Diamond) while activating only one-third of the parameters required by comparable models. To accomplish this, we introduce a joint training pipeline integrating distillation with RL, revealing undocumented challenges in MoE RL training. First, we identify optimization instability during RL training, and we propose Constrained Contextual Computation Policy Optimization(C3PO), a novel approach that enhances training stability and improves computational throughput via algorithm-system co-design methodology. Second, we empirically demonstrate that selecting distillation checkpoints based on entropy loss for RL training, rather than validation metrics, yields superior performance-efficiency trade-offs in subsequent RL training. Finally, we develop a two-stage training paradigm to harmonize multi-domain data integration, addressing domain conflicts that arise in training with mixed dataset. We will release the model, dataset, and code.
title Ring-lite: Scalable Reasoning via C3PO-Stabilized Reinforcement Learning for LLMs
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14731