littlelearner-0.6b-grpo-math-expert
0.617B K-5-bounded chat model post-trained with GRPO on top of SFT.
Part of the LittleLearner scale-up study (pedagogically-controlled knowledge exposure): Qwen3 dense LMs trained on a corpus filtered to U.S. K-5 material (bounded) vs an unfiltered FineWeb-Edu corpus (unbounded), to measure what an interpretable knowledge boundary costs and grants.
Note: This checkpoint was post-trained with GRPO on mathematical reasoning tasks to probe achievable performance on MathCAMPS. As a result, its behavior is specialized toward mathematical reasoning and may not preserve general-purpose chat capabilities; responses may also exhibit a tendency toward math-oriented reasoning or output.
Model
- Architecture: Qwen3 dense (
Qwen3ForCausalLM). - Size: 0.617B params, hidden 1536, 20 layers, 12 query / 6 KV heads, FFN 4096. Context: 4096.
- Tokenizer: custom 64k byte-level BPE with per-digit splitting (ChatML special tokens).
- Pretraining: 88B tokens on K-5 LittleCurriculum (FineWeb-Edu filtered to U.S. grades K-5). WSD schedule, sharded Muon, MXFP8, Megatron-Core on 8xB200.
- SFT: supervised fine-tuned on K-5 chat data (lr 1e-5, 3 epochs) from a cooloff-SFT-primed base.
- RL (GRPO): segmented policy re-banding on a strictly K-5 verifiable-answer pool (Gemini-generated K-5 word problems + K-5-filtered GSM8K): 3 segments at rollout/training temperature 1.0, then 2 more at temperature 1.5 (the bounded-corpus, 0.6B-scale unlock temperature).
Evaluation
MathCAMPS:
- K-5 pass@64 61.1 / pass@1 36.8
- beyond-K-5 pass@64 18.5 / pass@1 6.4
Usage
# transformers (chat)
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
repo = "manueldeprada/littlelearner-0.6b-bounded-grpo"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(repo, dtype="bfloat16", device_map="cuda")
msgs = [{"role": "user", "content": "Liam has 3 apples and buys 4 more. How many apples does he have?"}]
ids = tok.apply_chat_template(msgs, add_generation_prompt=True, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
out = model.generate(ids)
print(tok.decode(out[0, ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True))
# vLLM
from vllm import LLM
repo = "manueldeprada/littlelearner-0.6b-bounded-grpo"
llm = LLM(repo)
msgs = [{"role": "user", "content": "Liam has 3 apples and buys 4 more. How many apples does he have?"}]
print(llm.chat(msgs)[0].outputs[0].text)