README.md

---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
tags:
- mathematics
- reasoning
- chain-of-thought
- structured-cot
- tag-cot
- nested-reasoning
- qwen
- lora
- peft
- amd
- mi300x
- rocm
datasets:
- Xerv-AI/GRAD
widget:
- text: Prove that for any prime p > 3, p² − 1 is divisible by 24.
  example_title: Classic number theory proof
- text: Solve the equation x³ + 6x² - 11x - 6 = 0 for real roots.
  example_title: Cubic polynomial factoring
- text: Show that the sum of the first n odd numbers is n².
  example_title: Induction-friendly identity
base_model:
- Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---

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# **ReasonBorn-Qwen-3B**  
**Structured Nested Tag-CoT Reasoning Model**  
*(GRAD-only fine-tune – March 2026)*

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## Model Details

- **Base model**: [Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct)
- **Fine-tuning method**: LoRA (PEFT)
- **LoRA rank (r)**: 16
- **LoRA alpha**: 32
- **Target modules**: q_proj, k_proj, v_proj, o_proj, gate_proj, up_proj, down_proj
- **LoRA dropout**: 0.04
- **Trainable parameters**: ~0.59% of total (≈18.35M params)
- **Training precision**: bfloat16
- **Optimizer**: adamw_torch
- **Learning rate**: 1.8e-4 (cosine schedule + 6% warmup)
- **Epochs**: 3
- **Effective batch size**: 24 (per_device=4 × accum=6)
- **Gradient checkpointing**: enabled (non-reentrant)
- **Context length used**: 3072 tokens
- **Hardware**: AMD Instinct MI300X (192 GB HBM3) – ROCm
- **Training dataset**: Xerv-AI/GRAD (full train split, graduate-level math & proofs)
- **Training date**: March 2026
- **Upload date**: March 2026

## Intended Use

This is a **specialized 3B reasoning model** fine-tuned to **produce extremely consistent nested structured Chain-of-Thought output** using the following rigid tag format:

```xml
<plan> … high-level decomposition … </plan>
<reasoning>
  <step index="1"> … </step>
  <step index="2"> … <verify>optional verification</verify> … </step>
  …
</reasoning>
<conclusion>\boxed{final answer}</conclusion>
```

It is designed for:

- Mathematical proof generation
- Step-by-step scientific reasoning
- Competition-style problem solving (AMC, AIME, IMO shortlist level)
- Educational tools that require verifiable, auditable reasoning traces
- Agents / tool-use pipelines that parse structured reasoning

## Prompting Recommendation

**Strongly recommended inference prompt** (copy-paste this):

```text
<|im_start|>system
You are ReasonBorn – rigorous scientific & mathematical reasoner.
Respond **only** using this exact nested structure:
<plan>…</plan>
<reasoning> containing multiple <step index="…"> tags (with optional <verify> sub-tags)
<conclusion>\boxed{…}</conclusion>
Never write text outside the tags. Never skip tags.
<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{question}
<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
```

Lower temperature (0.1–0.25) + top_p ≈ 0.90–0.95 usually gives the cleanest structure.


## Training Script

```
import os
import gc
import re
import time
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed

import torch
from huggingface_hub import login, HfApi
from datasets import load_dataset, Dataset
from transformers import (
    AutoModelForCausalLM,
    AutoTokenizer,
    TrainingArguments,
    Trainer,
    DataCollatorForLanguageModeling,
)
from peft import LoraConfig, get_peft_model

os.environ["TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM"] = "false"

MODEL_ID   = "Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B"
REPO_NAME  = "rb-qwen3b-16ds-lora"
SAVE_DIR   = "./rb-qwen-16ds-lora-final"

MAX_CTX    = 512
EPOCHS     = 1.15
LR         = 2.5e-4
LORA_R     = 16
LORA_ALPHA = 32
BATCH_SIZE = 48
GRAD_ACCUM = 2
WORKERS    = 12

DATA_MIX = {
    "NuminaMath":     {"path": "AI-MO/NuminaMath-CoT",                                                        "max_samples": 60000, "split": "train"},
    "OrcaMath":       {"path": "microsoft/orca-math-word-problems-200k",                                      "max_samples": 60000, "split": "train"},
    "UltraMath-Conv": {"path": "openbmb/UltraData-Math", "config": "UltraData-Math-L3-Conversation-Synthetic","max_samples": 50000, "split": "train"},
    "GSM8K":          {"path": "openai/gsm8k",           "config": "main",                                    "max_samples": 7473,  "split": "train"},
    "AI2_ARC":        {"path": "allenai/ai2_arc",        "config": "ARC-Challenge",                           "max_samples": 7500,  "split": "train"},
    "SciQ":           {"path": "sciq",                                                                        "max_samples": 11679, "split": "train"},
    "OpenBookQA":     {"path": "openbookqa",                                                                  "max_samples": 4957,  "split": "train"},
    "GPQA":           {"path": "Idavidrein/gpqa",        "config": "gpqa_diamond",                            "max_samples": 198,   "split": "train"},
    "ChemistryQA":    {"path": "avaliev/ChemistryQA",                                                         "max_samples": 4000,  "split": "train"},
    "HLE":            {"path": "cais/hle",                                                                    "max_samples": 2700,  "split": "test"},
    "GRAD":           {"path": "Xerv-AI/GRAD",                                                                "max_samples": 1933,  "split": "train"},
}

def format_example(ex):
    try:
        q = str(ex.get("question") or ex.get("problem") or ex.get("prompt") or "").strip()
        s = str(ex.get("answer")   or ex.get("solution") or ex.get("response") or "").strip()
        if len(q) < 5 or len(s) < 5:
            return None
        boxed     = re.search(r'\\boxed\{(.*?)\}', s, re.DOTALL)
        ans       = boxed.group(1).strip() if boxed else s[:80]
        reasoning = re.sub(r'\\boxed\{.*?\}', '', s, flags=re.DOTALL).strip()
        steps     = [l.strip() for l in reasoning.split('\n') if len(l.strip()) > 8][:5]
        xml = "<plan>Decompose→reason→verify→conclude.</plan>\n<reasoning>\n"
        for i, step in enumerate(steps, 1):
            v = "<verify>ok</verify>" if i == len(steps) else ""
            xml += f'<step index="{i}">{step}{v}</step>\n'
        xml += f"</reasoning>\n<conclusion>\\boxed{{{ans}}}</conclusion>"
        sys_p = "You are ReasonBorn. Output only: <plan>,<reasoning><step>...</step></reasoning>,<conclusion>\\boxed{}."
        return {"text": (
            f"<|im_start|>system\n{sys_p}<|im_end|>\n"
            f"<|im_start|>user\n{q}<|im_end|>\n"
            f"<|im_start|>assistant\n{xml}<|im_end|>"
        )}
    except Exception:
        return None

def load_one(name, cfg):
    examples = []
    kwargs   = {"split": cfg["split"], "trust_remote_code": True}
    if "config" in cfg:
        kwargs["name"] = cfg["config"]
    try:
        ds = load_dataset(cfg["path"], **kwargs)
        if len(ds) > cfg["max_samples"]:
            ds = ds.select(range(cfg["max_samples"]))
        for ex in ds:
            r = format_example(ex)
            if r:
                examples.append(r)
        return name, examples, "ok"
    except Exception:
        pass
    try:
        ds = load_dataset(cfg["path"], streaming=True, **kwargs)
        for ex in ds:
            if len(examples) >= cfg["max_samples"]:
                break
            r = format_example(ex)
            if r:
                examples.append(r)
        return name, examples, "stream"
    except Exception:
        return name, [], "failed"

login()  

all_ex = []
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=6) as pool:
    futs = {pool.submit(load_one, n, c): n for n, c in DATA_MIX.items()}
    for fut in as_completed(futs):
        n, exs, status = fut.result()
        all_ex.extend(exs)

train_ds = Dataset.from_list(all_ex).shuffle(seed=42)
del all_ex
gc.collect()

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID, trust_remote_code=True)
tokenizer.pad_token    = tokenizer.eos_token
tokenizer.padding_side = "right"

tokenized = train_ds.map(
    lambda b: tokenizer(b["text"], truncation=True, max_length=MAX_CTX, padding=False),
    batched=True, batch_size=4000, num_proc=16,
    remove_columns=["text"],
)
tokenized = tokenized.filter(lambda x: len(x["input_ids"]) >= 8, num_proc=16)

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    MODEL_ID,
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
    low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    attn_implementation="eager",
)
model = model.to("cuda")
torch.cuda.synchronize()

model.gradient_checkpointing_enable(gradient_checkpointing_kwargs={"use_reentrant": False})
model.enable_input_require_grads()

model = get_peft_model(model, LoraConfig(
    r=LORA_R,
    lora_alpha=LORA_ALPHA,
    target_modules=["q_proj","k_proj","v_proj","o_proj","gate_proj","up_proj","down_proj"],
    lora_dropout=0.05,
    bias="none",
    task_type="CAUSAL_LM",
))

collator = DataCollatorForLanguageModeling(tokenizer=tokenizer, mlm=False)

args = TrainingArguments(
    output_dir                  = "./chk",
    num_train_epochs            = EPOCHS,
    per_device_train_batch_size = BATCH_SIZE,
    gradient_accumulation_steps = GRAD_ACCUM,
    gradient_checkpointing      = True,
    optim                       = "adamw_torch_fused",
    learning_rate               = LR,
    bf16                        = True,
    fp16                        = False,
    logging_steps               = 25,
    save_strategy               = "steps",
    save_steps                  = 500,
    save_total_limit            = 2,
    warmup_ratio                = 0.05,
    lr_scheduler_type           = "cosine",
    weight_decay                = 0.01,
    max_grad_norm               = 0.5,
    dataloader_num_workers      = WORKERS,
    dataloader_pin_memory       = True,
    dataloader_prefetch_factor  = 4,
    report_to                   = "none",
    remove_unused_columns       = True,
)

trainer = Trainer(
    model=model,
    args=args,
    train_dataset=tokenized,
    data_collator=collator,
)

trainer.train()

os.makedirs(SAVE_DIR, exist_ok=True)
trainer.save_model(SAVE_DIR)
tokenizer.save_pretrained(SAVE_DIR)
```


## Performance Notes (March 2026 observations)

After only 3 epochs on GRAD:

✅ Very strong format adherence when strongly prompted  
✅ Good proof structure and logical flow on number theory, algebra, basic inequalities  
✅ Often includes verification steps (especially on last step)  
⚠️ Format can still degrade on very long / multi-part questions without strong system prompt  
⚠️ Generalization to non-math domains is limited (this is a math-first fine-tune)  
⚠️ Weaker zero-shot format obedience compared to multi-dataset versions

## Training Hyperparameters Summary

| Parameter                     | Value              |
|-------------------------------|--------------------|
| Epochs                        | 3                  |
| Per-device batch size         | 4                  |
| Gradient accumulation steps   | 6                  |
| Global batch size             | 24                 |
| Learning rate                 | 1.8 × 10⁻⁴        |
| LR scheduler                  | cosine             |
| Warmup ratio                  | 0.06               |
| Weight decay                  | 0.015              |
| Max grad norm                 | 0.8                |
| Optimizer                     | adamw_torch        |
| Mixed precision               | bf16               |
| Gradient checkpointing        | Yes                |

## VRAM Usage (MI300X 192 GB)

| Stage                        | Approx. Reserved VRAM | Utilization |
|------------------------------|------------------------|-------------|
| After model load             | ~7–12 GiB             | ~4–6%       |
| After LoRA injection         | ~8–15 GiB             | ~5–8%       |
| Peak during training         | ~140–175 GiB          | ~73–91%     |
| After training (inference)   | ~40–60 GiB            | ~21–31%     |

## How to Use (minimal example)

```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from peft import PeftModel

base_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    "Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct",
    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, 
    device_map="auto"
)
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base_model, "Xerv-AI/ReasonBorn-Qwen-3B")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Xerv-AI/ReasonBorn-Qwen-3B")

prompt = """<|im_start|>system
You are ReasonBorn. Use <plan>, <reasoning> with <step> & <verify>, <conclusion> strictly.
<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Prove that √2 is irrational.
<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
"""

inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
output = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=1200, temperature=0.2, top_p=0.92)
print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
```

## Acknowledgments

- Qwen team for the excellent base model
- Xerv-AI for releasing GRAD – one of the cleanest graduate-level math reasoning datasets available in 2026
- Hugging Face for the ecosystem
- AMD ROCm team for making MI300X training possible

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**Xerv-AI / ReasonBorn-Qwen-3B**  
First step toward verifiable, tagged, auditable AI mathematical reasoning.  
Trained in Kolkata, March 2026.