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Periodic Asynchrony: An On-Policy Approach for Accelerating LLM Reinforcement Learning

Jian Lu · Nov 24, 2025 · Citations: 0

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Abstract

Since the introduction of the GRPO algorithm, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing attention for LLM post-training, yet training efficiency remains a critical challenge. In mainstream RL frameworks, inference and training are co-located on the same devices, and their synchronous execution prevents concurrent inference and training. In this work, we revisit the strategy of separating inference and training deployment, and propose a periodically asynchronous framework that transforms synchronous RL training into an asynchronous producer-consumer pipeline. Unlike existing asynchronous approaches that introduce off-policy bias, our design is provably equivalent to its synchronous counterpart, preserving strict on-policy correctness without any algorithmic modifications. We further introduce a unified tri-model architecture and a shared-prompt attention mechanism to support efficient asynchronous execution and reduce redundant computation. Experiments on NPU platforms demonstrate a three- to five-fold improvement in end-to-end training throughput over mainstream RL frameworks, while maintaining fully comparable accuracy, indicating its potential for widespread application.

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"Since the introduction of the GRPO algorithm, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing attention for LLM post-training, yet training efficiency remains a critical challenge."

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"Since the introduction of the GRPO algorithm, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing attention for LLM post-training, yet training efficiency remains a critical challenge."

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"Since the introduction of the GRPO algorithm, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing attention for LLM post-training, yet training efficiency remains a critical challenge."

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"Since the introduction of the GRPO algorithm, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing attention for LLM post-training, yet training efficiency remains a critical challenge."

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"Experiments on NPU platforms demonstrate a three- to five-fold improvement in end-to-end training throughput over mainstream RL frameworks, while maintaining fully comparable accuracy, indicating its potential for widespread application."

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"Since the introduction of the GRPO algorithm, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing attention for LLM post-training, yet training efficiency remains a critical challenge."

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Research Brief

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Since the introduction of the GRPO algorithm, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing attention for LLM post-training, yet training efficiency remains a critical challenge.

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Key Takeaways

  • Since the introduction of the GRPO algorithm, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing attention for LLM post-training, yet training efficiency remains a critical challenge.
  • In mainstream RL frameworks, inference and training are co-located on the same devices, and their synchronous execution prevents concurrent inference and training.
  • In this work, we revisit the strategy of separating inference and training deployment, and propose a periodically asynchronous framework that transforms synchronous RL training into an asynchronous producer-consumer pipeline.

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