ReMax

ReMax is a lightweight policy-gradient method that uses a single greedy-decoded baseline response per prompt to reduce variance without a critic.

Reference: ReMax: A Simple, Effective, and Efficient Reinforcement Learning Method for Aligning Large Language Models.

Canonical Scripts

Script	Infer	Train	Platform
run_qwen3_8b_fsdp.sh	vLLM	FSDP	NVIDIA
run_qwen2.5_math_7b_fsdp_sync.sh	vLLM	FSDP+Sync	NVIDIA

Override any argument via env vars at the top of the script.

Key Flags

• algorithm.adv_estimator=remax
• actor_rollout_ref.actor.use_kl_loss=False and algorithm.use_kl_in_reward=True