Add RL Method Tracker v1.0 data

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+---
+license: cc-by-4.0
+pretty_name: RL Method Tracker
+language:
+- en
+size_categories:
+- 1K<n<10K
+tags:
+- reinforcement-learning
+- llm
+- post-training
+- rlhf
+- open-source-software
+- mining-software-repositories
+configs:
+- config_name: papers
+  data_files: papers.parquet
+  default: true
+- config_name: methods
+  data_files: methods.parquet
+- config_name: landings
+  data_files: landings.parquet
+- config_name: proposals
+  data_files: proposals.parquet
+---
+
+# RL Method Tracker
+
+Which RL post-training methods for language models reached seven open-source training frameworks (verl, TRL, OpenRLHF, NeMo-RL, ROLL, slime, AReaL), when they landed, and how each framework offers them.
+Of 1,598 arXiv papers from January 2025 to June 2026 that propose a general RL training method, 37 reached the main branch of at least one framework.
+
+- Paper: [From RL Papers to Framework Code: Inclusion and Review in Seven Open-Source Training Frameworks](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28027)
+- Project page with search: https://pth2002.github.io/rl-method-tracker/
+- Code and the full data release: https://github.com/pth2002/rl-method-tracker
+- Archived release: [doi:10.5281/zenodo.23495744](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23495744)
+
+This is the frozen v1.0 data behind the report, with framework histories up to the 2026-10-18 snapshot.
+The GitHub repository refreshes the framework histories every week.
+
+## Load
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+
+papers = load_dataset("Purdy0228/rl-method-tracker", "papers", split="train")
+methods = load_dataset("Purdy0228/rl-method-tracker", "methods", split="train")
+```
+
+## Subsets
+
+| Subset | Rows | One row per |
+|---|---|---|
+| `papers` | 6,939 | screened arXiv paper on RL for language models |
+| `methods` | 65 | method in the catalog, with its first landing in each framework |
+| `landings` | 101 | first commit that put a method on a framework's main branch |
+| `proposals` | 48 | public proposal for a general method that no framework included |
+
+### papers
+
+- `arxiv`, `title`, `month`: arXiv id, title and month of the first version.
+- `label`: what the paper contributes. `rl_method`, `rl_application`, `analysis`, `systems`, `distillation`, `preference_offline` or `other`.
+- `scope`: for RL methods, `general` when the method is the paper's main contribution and `embedded` when it sits inside a paper about a task, domain, agent or application.
+- `component`: the part of training the method changes, such as `advantage`, `clipping`, `sampling` or `entropy`.
+- `label_confidence`: `high`, `medium` or `low`.
+- `is_model_report`: the paper is the technical report of a model.
+- `general_method`: the paper counts toward the 1,598 general methods.
+- `included`: the paper's method reached the main branch of at least one framework.
+- `methods`: catalog ids of the included methods the paper introduces.
+- `n_frameworks_ever`, `n_frameworks_at_snapshot`: frameworks that ever included the method, and those that still include it at the snapshot.
+
+### methods
+
+- `id`, `name`, `family`, `arxiv`, `source_date`: the method and its first public source.
+- `n_fw_ever`, `n_fw_head`, `n_default`: frameworks that ever included it, that include it at the snapshot, and that turn it on by default.
+- `first_adoption`, `first_lag_days`, `first_lag_is_upper_bound`: date of the first landing in any framework and the days from the source to it. The lag is an upper bound when that first landing arrived with a repository's initial commit or a bulk release.
+- `n_self_contributed`: frameworks whose landing commit came from an author of the paper.
+- `<framework>_first`: date of the first landing in that framework.
+- `<framework>_head`: tier at the snapshot. `default` is on in a run that keeps every setting. `conditional_default` is on once a related feature is enabled. `core` is a selectable algorithm in the main code path. `option` is a switch that modifies the main algorithm. `experimental` and `recipe` sit outside the main path.
+
+### landings
+
+- `method`, `framework`, `date`, `pr`, `tier`: the landing and the pull request that made it.
+- `first_in_any`: this framework was the first to include the method.
+- `form`: how the method changes training, as `coefficient`, `term` or `pipeline`.
+- `commit_author_relation`: whether the landing commit came from an author of the paper.
+- `prior_request`: an issue or pull request asked for the method before it landed.
+- `pr_author`, `merged_by`, `author_prior_merger`, `self_merged`, `human_reviewers`: who proposed and merged the pull request. A prior merger had merged a pull request in the framework before.
+- `days_open`, `core_lines`, `files`, `lines`, `tests`, `docs`, `deps`, `new_files`: size and contents of the change.
+
+### proposals
+
+- `arxiv`, `method`, `framework`, `type`, `number`: the proposal, as a pull request (`pr`) or a request in an issue or discussion (`request`).
+- `outcome`: `open_no_reply`, `open_engaged`, `declined`, `redirected`, `stale_cleanup`, `closed_inactive`, `closed_no_comment` or `withdrawn`.
+- `reasons`: concerns the maintainers stated, such as `demand`, `surface`, `placement` or `evidence`.
+- `quote`: one short quote from the thread as evidence for the code.
+
+Thread texts stay on GitHub. The labelling rules and coding guides are in the [repository](https://github.com/pth2002/rl-method-tracker).
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{pan2026rlframeworks,
+  title         = {From {RL} Papers to Framework Code: Inclusion and Review in Seven Open-Source Training Frameworks},
+  author        = {Pan, Taiheng},
+  year          = {2026},
+  eprint        = {2610.28027},
+  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
+  primaryClass  = {cs.LG},
+  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2610.28027},
+  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28027}
+}
+```
+
+## License
+
+CC BY 4.0. arXiv titles come from arXiv metadata.

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