Why RAGEN is so hard: lifting a 0.5B model's RL perf in 0.5 A100 GPU hours

wzenus · x · 2026-10-30

Follow-up on why the RAGEN task is hard: the bar is lifting a 0.5B model's performance in RL using just 0.5 A100 GPU hours, including coding time — a pretty high bar, the author notes, but still fun to see benchmarked.

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