RT by @huggingface: If you're using GRPO in TRL, you should really switch to the new async trainer…
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TL;DR - Hugging Face recommends TRL users switch GRPO workloads to its new asynchronous trainer, reporting roughly 2–4× faster performance in internal benchmarks.
- The update targets Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) training in TRL.
- Asynchronous execution is presented as the source of improved training throughput.
- The post does not provide benchmark methodology, hardware, or workload details.
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RT by @huggingface: If you're using GRPO in TRL, you should really switch to the new async trainer…
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TL;DR - Hugging Face recommends TRL users switch GRPO workloads to its new asynchronous trainer, reporting roughly 2–4× faster performance in internal benchmarks.
- The update targets Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) training in TRL.
- Asynchronous execution is presented as the source of improved training throughput.
- The post does not provide benchmark methodology, hardware, or workload details.