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vime × RL-Kernel × AMD: Bitwise Train–Rollout Consistency on ROCm
vLLM · RL-Kernel Team, vime Team, and AMD Team · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- vime and RL-Kernel achieve bitwise identical logprobs between training and rollout on AMD MI300X GPUs across 200 consecutive steps.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building reinforcement learning pipelines on AMD hardware who need reproducible, numerically consistent model training and inference.
- Watch out
- Currently validated only on Qwen3-8B dense models; extension to MoE and multimodal models and other AMD architectures remains future work.
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- kernel
- token
- vllm
- grpo
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