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Reasoning from scratch, round number 6! An introduction (and implementation) of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and Gr…
Reasoning from scratch, round number 6! An introduction (and implementation) of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). 00:00 Introduction
Reasoning from scratch, round number 6! An introduction (and implementation) of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) and Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). 00:00 Introduction 01:54 What makes a reasoning model different? 04:25 Reasoning traces and model capability 08:29 Accuracy and format rewards 11:34 Aha moments and DeepSeek-R1 training 14:41 Reasoning effort and answer length 18:38 RLHF and RLVR 23:04 GRPO vs. PPO 26:40 GRPO explained with a cooking analogy 31:43 The KL term and simplified GRPO 35:04 Loading the pretrained model 36:07 Loading the MATH training data 39:26 Sampling model responses 46:30 Computing verifiable rewards 49:55 Computing advantages 51:54 Token and sequence log probabilities 55:29 Implementing sequence log probabilities 57:37 Fixing the inference-mode error 1:02:24 Computing the GRPO loss 1:04:37 Putting the GRPO step together 1:09:19 The GRPO training loop 1:12:57 Training settings, logging, and checkpoints 1:17:24 Running training and inspecting outputs 1:19:28 Loading and evaluating checkpoints 1:22:33 MATH-500 results and training stability 1:24:05 Memory requirements and next steps Media
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Source: Sebastian Raschka (X) | 2026-10-03