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-license: mit
-datasets:
-- TIGER-Lab/AceCode-87K
 base_model:
 - GSAI-ML/LLaDA-8B-Instruct
+datasets:
+- TIGER-Lab/AceCode-87K
+license: mit
+pipeline_tag: text-generation
+library_name: transformers
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-Post-Training Full models on code task based on LLaDA-8B-Instruct for the paper Principled RL for Diffusion LLMs Emerges from a Sequence-Level Perspective
+# ESPO: Principled RL for Diffusion LLMs Emerges from a Sequence-Level Perspective
+
+This repository contains Post-Training Full models on code tasks based on LLaDA-8B-Instruct for the paper [Principled RL for Diffusion LLMs Emerges from a Sequence-Level Perspective](https://huggingface.co/papers/2512.03759).
+
+ESPO (ELBO-based Sequence-level Policy Optimization) is a principled reinforcement learning framework for Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs). Unlike traditional autoregressive RL methods (e.g., GRPO) that rely on token-level likelihoods, ESPO views the **entire sequence generation as a single action** and leverages the **ELBO** as a tractable proxy for sequence-level likelihood. This design resolves the fundamental mismatch between RL and the non-autoregressive nature of dLLMs.
+
+ESPO introduces:
+- **Sequence-level optimization** for diffusion LLMs via the ELBO objective.
+- **Per-token normalized ratio estimation** and **robust KL regularization** for stable large-scale training.
+- **Consistent gains** across math, coding, and planning benchmarks.
+
+**Project Page**: [https://jingyangou.github.io/ESPO-Demo/](https://jingyangou.github.io/ESPO-Demo/)
+**Code**: [https://github.com/ML-GSAI/ESPO](https://github.com/ML-GSAI/ESPO)
+
+<div style="display: flex; justify-content: center; flex-wrap: wrap;">
+    <img src="https://github.com/ML-GSAI/ESPO/raw/main/fig/sudoku_ablation_1_smoothed-page1.png" style="width: 49%" />
+    <img src="https://github.com/ML-GSAI/ESPO/raw/main/fig/sudoku_kl_ablation_smoothed.png" style="width: 49%" />
+</div>
+
+## Quickstart
+
+We release ESPO-fine-tuned checkpoints built on LLaDA-8B-Instruct. ESPO-Code is released as a full fine-tuned model (no LoRA). ESPO-GSM8K, ESPO-Math, ESPO-Countdown, and ESPO-Sudoku are provided as LoRA adapters, which can be loaded on top of the base LLaDA-8B-Instruct model for lightweight and efficient fine-tuning.
+
+```python
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+from peft import PeftModel
+# Note: 'eval.generate_utils' is part of the original ESPO GitHub repository.
+# You might need to clone the repository (https://github.com/ML-GSAI/ESPO)
+# and add its root directory to your Python path to import `eval.generate_utils`.
+from eval.generate_utils import generate 
+
+base_model_path = 'GSAI-ML/LLaDA-8B-Instruct'
+peft_model_path = 'GSAI-ML/ESPO-Math' # Example: change to ESPO-Code for the full model
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(base_model_path)
+model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+    base_model_path, trust_remote_code=True,torch_dtype="bfloat16", device_map="cuda")
+peft_model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(model, peft_model_path, device_map="cuda")
+prompt = "The point $(0,0)$ is reflected over the vertical line $x=1$.  When its image is then reflected over the line $y=2$, what is the resulting point?
+
+Write your answer in the form $(x, y)$ where $x$ and $y$ are real numbers."
+messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
+input_ids = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
+output_ids = generate(peft_model, input_ids,tokenizer, steps=128,    gen_length=256, temperature=0.9,remasking="low_confidence",)
+output_text = tokenizer.batch_decode(output_ids[:, input_ids.shape[1]:], skip_special_tokens=True)[0]
+print(output_text)
+```
+
+## Citation
+If you find ESPO useful in your research, please consider citing our paper:
+
+```bibtex
+@article{ou2025principledrldiffusionllms,
+      title={Principled RL for Diffusion LLMs Emerges from a Sequence-Level Perspective}, 
+      author={Jingyang Ou and Jiaqi Han and Minkai Xu and Shaoxuan Xu and Jianwen Xie and Stefano Ermon and Yi Wu and Chongxuan Li},
+      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.03759},
+      year={2025},
+}
+```