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RollArt: Scaling Agentic RL Training via Disaggregated Infrastructure

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2025-12-30 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform autonomous decision-making and long-term planning. Unlike standard LLM post-training, agentic RL workloads are highly heterogeneous, combining compute-intensive prefill phases, bandwidth-bound decoding, and stateful, CPU-heavy environment simulations. We argue that efficient agentic RL training requires disaggregated infrastructure to leverage specialized, best-fit hardware. However, naive disaggregation introduces substantial synchronization overhead and resource underutilization due to the complex dependencies between stages. We present RollArc, a distributed system designed to maximize throughput for multi-task agentic RL on disaggregated infrastructure. RollArc is built on three core principles: (1) hardware-affinity workload mapping, which routes compute-bound and bandwidth-bound tasks to bestfit GPU devices, (2) fine-grained asynchrony, which manages execution at the trajectory level to mitigate resource bubbles, and (3) statefulness-aware computation, which offloads stateless components (e.g., reward models) to serverless infrastructure for elastic scaling. Our results demonstrate that RollArc effectively improves training throughput and achieves 1.35-2.05×\times end-to-end training time reduction compared to monolithic and synchronous baselines. We also evaluate RollArc by training a hundreds-of-billions-parameter MoE model for Qoder product on an Alibaba cluster with more than 3,000 GPUs, further demonstrating RollArc scalability and robustness. The code is available at https://github.com/alibaba/ROLL.

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@article{arxiv.2512.22560,
  title  = {RollArt: Scaling Agentic RL Training via Disaggregated Infrastructure},
  author = {Wei Gao and Yuheng Zhao and Tianyuan Wu and Shaopan Xiong and Weixun Wang and Dakai An and Lunxi Cao and Dilxat Muhtar and Zichen Liu and Haizhou Zhao and Ju Huang and Siran Yang and Yongbin Li and Wenbo Su and Jiamang Wang and Lin Qu and Bo Zheng and Wei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22560},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

17 pages, 17 figures

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