RAGEN ranks 3rd hardest in FrontierCS 2: lift a 0.5B model with 0.5 A100 hour

wzenus · x · 2026-10-30

RAGEN is ranked the 3rd hardest task in FrontierCS 2, built from code the author hand-wrote in January 2025, before coding agents took off. He notes the bar is admittedly high: improving a 0.5B model's performance via RL with just 0.5 A100 GPU hours, coding time included.

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