areal-project

    areal-project/AReaL

    The RL Bridge for LLM-based Agent Applications. Made Simple & Flexible.

    ai-agents
    llm
    agent
    llm-agent
    llm-reasoning
    machine-learning-systems
    mlsys
    Python
    Apache-2.0
    5.9K stars
    638 forks
    5.9K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 26, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 62 days ago, with 112 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #19 in the weekly ranking the week of Mar 8, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Implements a fully asynchronous reinforcement learning system for training large reasoning and agentic language models.
    • Enables stable, scalable, and industry-leading speed RL training with seamless customization for agentic and online RL workflows.
    • Use for developing and training advanced AI agents that require asynchronous multi-turn reasoning and tool integration.
    • Use for scalable reinforcement learning research on large language models with support for diverse RL algorithms and hardware backends.
    • Use for deploying and fine-tuning vision-language models and customer service agents with state-of-the-art RLHF reward modeling.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

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    • README: present
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    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    AReaL is an open-source fully asynchronous reinforcement learning training system for large reasoning and agentic models, developed by members from Tsinghua IIIS and the AReaL Team at Ant Group. Built upon the open-source project ReaLHF, we are fully committed to open-source principles by providing the training details, data, and infrastructure required to reproduce our results, along with the models themselves. AReaL aims to help everyone build their own AI agents easily and affordably. Our team loves milk tea because it's delicious, customizable, and affordable—we hope you enjoy our project just as much as you'd enjoy real milk tea. Cheers!

    [2026/03/02] We provide a complete example to train your own 🦞 OpenClaw agent by simply replacing the base_url and api_key with AReaL's RL service - no complicated dependencies, no code changes, works with any agentic runtime!

    [2026/02/06] We are delighted to introduce AReaL-SEA, a self-evolving data synthesis engine. Combined with RL training on AReaL, the 235B MoE model surpasses GPT 5 and achieves comparable performance with Gemini 3.0 Pro on $\tau^2$-bench! Check out the paper, model, data, and code.

    Excerpt from the areal-project/AReaL README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    638+71

    Open issues

    145+39

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