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A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Unified Multimodal Models

U(you)·ni(need)·RL for unified multimodal intelligence

News 🚀

• [2026-10] UniRL v0.2.0 released — 12 new model packages, SFT / agentic / async training modes, and SGLang 0.5.19 + vLLM-Omni 0.28 rollout stacks (release notes).
• [2026-06] DRPO released — "Rethinking the Divergence Regularization in LLM RL" (arXiv).
• [2026-06] Flow-DPPO released — "FlowDPPO: Divergence Proximal Policy Optimization for Flow Matching Models" (arXiv).
• [2026-06] CPPO released — "Beyond Uniform Token-Level Trust Region in LLM Reinforcement Learning" (arXiv).

About 💡

UniRL applies one RL post-training loop — generate samples, score them, compute advantages, update the policy, and sync weights back to rollout workers — across multimodal model families.

UniRL is a layered, composable system. Each training entrypoint loads a Hydra example config and creates the matching domain trainer. RL trainers coordinate generation, scoring, and updates across pluggable rollout engines, algorithms, model bundles, reward services, and the shared distributed runtime: Ray DevicePool, FSDP, Transfer Queue (TQ), and LoRA/full-weight sync. SFT consumes supervised manifests, while the async AR and diffusion entrypoints overlap rollout with training on separate GPU slabs. See examples/README.md for all entrypoints and unirl/README.md for the runtime loop, deployment modes, and module map.

Team-Proposed Algorithms 🌟

🌟 These algorithms are proposed by our team — the highlight of UniRL. Each algorithm's folder holds a step-by-step tutorial and a runnable example recipe. We highly recommend trying them in our framework!

UniRL also wires in standard reference algorithms — (LLM's)GRPO, DiffusionNFT, DanceGRPO, and MixGRPO — in unirl/algorithms/.

Model Support 🎨

Model and algorithm support are two independent dimensions that compose within a domain: any diffusion algorithm (see above) runs on a diffusion model, AR algorithms on AR models — so UniRL covers many more model × algorithm combinations than the shipped example recipes alone. The table below is the model dimension: each row links one runnable recipe. Full matrix — package, every recipe, rollout engine, and restriction per model — in unirl/models/README.md.

✅ runnable end-to-end with the linked recipe (a qualifier names the only rollout engine that has a recipe) · 🧩 bundle-only (no pipeline of its own; runs under another package's pipeline) · 🧪 SFT-only (no rollout path) · 🔗 composed from other rows. SFT, async, agentic, and scorer-service requirements per model are in the full matrix.

Training Modes 🧩

Each entrypoint has one built-in default, used when --config-name is omitted.

See examples/README.md for the full launch guide, naming schema, and how to add a recipe.

Agentic Workflows 🤖

train_agentic extends the AR path with multi-turn tool use. Each turn is a Sample in a lineage; terminal answers are scored by a reward service, and training waits at a colocated rollout barrier.

AgenticTrainer synchronizes current training weights before every rollout, dispatches sibling trajectories concurrently, and waits for complete GRPO groups before scoring and training. Each successful trajectory receives one group-normalized advantage, which is applied to every generated assistant turn. Failed trajectories are excluded from the update.

See the agent environment guide for the environment, tool, and trajectory contracts.

Getting Started ⚡

Install dependencies first — see INSTALL.md.

# compose-check, then launch a single-node example
python -m unirl.train_diffusion --config-name=diffusion/sd3/sd3_trainside --cfg job --resolve
bash examples/run_experiment_single_node.sh diffusion/sd3/sd3_trainside

Full launch guide — multi-node, every entrypoint, mooncake.

Roadmap 🗺️

We are actively expanding model and algorithm coverage. Near-term directions:

• Broaden algorithm coverage for the newer model families — FLUX.2-Klein, HunyuanVideo 1.0 / 1.5, and Bagel.
• Extend the team-proposed algorithms (Flow-DPPO, DRPO) to more model families.
• Broaden reward backends and rollout-engine coverage across domains.

Want a model or algorithm prioritized? Open a feature request to discuss.

Contributing 🤝

Contributions and questions are welcome. Before opening a pull request, read the repository conventions in AGENTS.md, run the pre-PR checks for the files you touched, and fill in the pull request template. Use the issue forms for a bug report or feature request. WeChat is fine for chat; bugs still belong on GitHub so they stay searchable.

Acknowledgement 🙏

UniRL builds on ideas and infrastructure from the open-source RL and inference ecosystem. We especially thank vLLM, SGLang, slime, and verl.

Citation 📚

If you find UniRL helpful, please cite:

@misc{unirl_github,
  title        = {{UniRL: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Unified Multimodal Models}},
  author       = {Haonan Wang and Linyu Wu and Qian Qiu and Lewei Jin and Bowen Ping and Jianghai Chen and Yiheng Du and Guangxin He and Yu Shi and Yongguang Lin and Zhuoxin Zhou and Zhanchao Zhou and Keming Wu and Rizhen Hu and Xuefei Ning and Lvfang Tao and Feiyu Hu and Xiangyan Liu and Siqi Kou and Jiarui Yao and Xiangxin Zhou and Liefeng Bo and Wenxi Zhu and Tianyu Pang},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/UniRL}},
  urldate      = {2026-06-05}
}

If you use DRPO, please also cite:

@article{yao2026rethinking,
  title={Rethinking the Divergence Regularization in LLM RL},
  author={Yao, Jiarui and Zhou, Xiangxin and Qi, Penghui and Lee, Wee Sun and Bo, Liefeng and Pang, Tianyu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.09821},
  year={2026}
}

If you use Flow-DPPO, please also cite:

@article{ping2026flow,
  title={Flow-DPPO: Divergence Proximal Policy Optimization for Flow Matching Models},
  author={Ping, Bowen and Zhou, Xiangxin and Qi, Penghui and Luo, Minnan and Bo, Liefeng and Pang, Tianyu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.11025},
  year={2026}
}

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