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Qwen3.5 4B arithmetic task performance analyzed with SFT and Grpo

A study explored the effectiveness of Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Proximal Policy Optimization (Grpo) on the Qwen3.5 4B model for arithmetic tasks. The results indicated that SFT led to improved test accuracy, while three separate reward-based tuning runs using Grpo performed below the SFT validation baseline. AI

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Qwen3.5 4B arithmetic task performance analyzed with SFT and Grpo

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  1. Medium — fine-tuning tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Romene ·

    SFT and GRPO on Qwen3.5-4B: Results From an Arithmetic Task

    <div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/@romene3022/sft-and-grpo-on-qwen3-5-4b-results-from-an-arithmetic-task-16879ac0a6dd?source=rss------fine_tuning-5"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/0*lvrZJ3R7Yb5zk_Ak" width="…