# Bad Influence story: Nebius reports up to 4.9x faster RL training steps from auto-tuner

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-10 09:08. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/811cbd4c-002a-41af-bd9d-bd66cede94f0

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Latest update (11-10 09:08): Nebius reports up to 5x faster RL training steps with an auto-tuner

Overview: Nebius reports an internal auto-tuner that optimizes training, inference, and environment execution in the reinforcement learning loop, with steps 1.42x to 4.93x faster across eight tested jobs, a median of about 3.5x. The results come from 210 runs on NVIDIA B300 GPUs covering four dense and MoE models on math and agentic coding workloads.

The gains are uneven across the loop. The author quotes Nebius saying that nearly doubling inference throughput did not shorten the RL step, because sandbox execution absorbed the gain.

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1. 11-10 09:08 · Santiago · [Nebius reports up to 5x faster RL training steps with an auto-tuner](https://badinfluence.news/items/wtx7f2ijkr6675izvu8wyxhyd)
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