HOW KIMI K2 ACHIEVES EFFICIENT RL PARAMETER UPDATES

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The team that released the Kimi K2 model achieved RL parameter updates for 1T parameter models in approximately 20 seconds. This post looks at how the team significantly optimized a key efficiency bottleneck in RL end-to-end training time. The team encountered many challenges along the way to implementing efficient parameter updates - the post shares some of the problems and solutions to those problems.