New Async Trainer in TRL Boosts GRPO Speed by 2-4x
_lewtun · x · 2026-08-13
Lewwtun from Hugging Face recommends switching to the new async trainer if you are using GRPO in TRL. According to their benchmarks, the new method delivers approximately a 2-4x speedup.
Related event: Hugging Face TRL Introduces AsyncGRPOTrainer for 2-4x Faster RL(3 posts)→
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